Comments on: Catalan historical revisionism http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/13/catalan-historical-revisionism/ anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the fretting nun Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:25:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: boynamedsue http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/13/catalan-historical-revisionism/#comment-130432 boynamedsue Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:57:16 +0000 http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/13/catalan-historical-revisionism/#comment-130432 This reminds me of a man who once told me, straight-faced, that "Camp Bell", of Campbell's soup fame, was a native of Reus. Capdevila's quite convincing on the Valencian origin of the Spanish word for gunpowder though. And to his credit, he just about stops short of claiming the substance itself was a catalan invention. This reminds me of a man who once told me, straight-faced, that “Camp Bell”, of Campbell’s soup fame, was a native of Reus.

Capdevila’s quite convincing on the Valencian origin of the Spanish word for gunpowder though. And to his credit, he just about stops short of claiming the substance itself was a catalan invention.

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