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The Celts, those ancient invaders from the continent who managed to survive the Roman occupation and resist the Latin tongue, contributed one word-- whiskey -- having legal significance but were driven, along with their reverse-order speech, into the nooks and corners of the British Isles and France by the fierce Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, wielding their broadswords and brutish monosyllables.
Norse culture peaked 1,500 years ago when the Vikings-- über capitalists--pillaged the British Isles.
Hit hard by Hurricaine Iniki, this lavish resort finally reopened, retaining its informal feel, its fine golf courses, its lagoons with exotic animals on the isles, and some of the best hotel pools and swimming beaches in Hawaii.
Another world unto itself, the exhilarating chaos of Naples commands its magnificent bay, the visible isles of Ischia and Capri, and the ruins of Pompeii in the shadow of Vesuvius, its still active volcano.
Although it is strictly a part of the Spanish archipelago known as the Islas Pitiusas, or pine-covered isles, Ibiza in fact displays many of the characteristics of the Islas Baleares, or Balearic Islands, of neighbouring Mallorca and Menorca, with which it is commonly grouped.