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Colette Durruti
Colette Durruti Morin (1931–2025) was a Spanish-French businesswoman and activist. The daughter of the Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti and the French anarchist Émilienne Morin, she grew up in poverty and constantly moving. After her father was killed in action in the Spanish Civil War, her mother took her to France, where she lived for the rest of her life. She involved herself in campaigns to preserve the historical memory of her father and later moved to Brittany. There she ran a dairy business, raised her family and provided primary sources about her father to historians until she retired to Northern Catalonia. Biography Colette Durruti Morin was born in Barcelona, on 4 December 1931, the daughter of the Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti and French anarchist Émilienne Morin. Her family lived in poverty at the time of her birth, with her father having to charge a former employer an indemnity to buy her essential items. When Durruti was only two months old, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittany
Brittany ( ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duchy of Brittany, duchy before being Union of Brittany and France, united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a provinces of France, province governed as a separate nation under the crown. Brittany is the traditional homeland of the Breton people and is one of the six Celtic nations, retaining Culture of Brittany, a distinct cultural identity that reflects History of Brittany, its history. Brittany has also been referred to as Little Britain (as opposed to Great Britain, with which it shares an etymology). It is bordered by the English Channel to the north, Normandy to the northeast, eastern Pays de la Loire to the southeast, the Bay of Biscay to the south, and the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its land area is 34,023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
