Only about 10 percent of Bilbaoans speak Euskara, as compared with 35 to 40 percent of the inhabitants of Donostia. Such a contradiction is at the very core of both the difficulties and the dynamism of the Basque Country.

The king, however, refused to do this; but as he was rather sorry for the tortoise, he said he would present him with a magic foo-foo tree, which would the tortoise and his family with food, […] Every day it dropped foo-foo and soup on the ground.

Advocacy means influencing Policy in favour of the poor and powerless. This otherwise, means a misfavour to the power holders.

Five of the ten males arrive at their maturity some days before the other five, as may be seen by opening the corol before it naturally expands itself.