Corsicans
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Oct 30, 2026
Alban Le DucGUEST
The Aspereto base is very well known in Corsica because it used to be the French Navy SEALs base.
Alban Le DucGUEST
So all the Corsicans know the base, and for them, that's the base where everything is happening, and you got everything you need, and the French armed forces are there, and they got the hospital, they got the ambulance, they got everybody.
Alban Le DucGUEST
But in fact, this base has been left over for like five to seven years.
Alban Le DucGUEST
So they have almost nothing there.
Katherine GoshenHOST
According to Lawson, though they do share their gender and love of blood and or the organs of babes and children with the other two previously mentioned demons who are related to Lilith, Strigists, instead of being demons, are living human women capable of transforming themselves into birds of prey or other such animals.
Katherine GoshenHOST
The belief in Strigus originated in Italy and came to be shared among multiple cultures, including the Greeks, Albanians, and Corsicans.
Katherine GoshenHOST
The mythology of the Strix dates back to at least the end of the 4th century, according to Dr. Samuel Grant Oliphant, a classics scholar and professor active from the late 19th and into the early 20th century.
Katherine GoshenHOST
According to Dr. Oliphant, a story on the Strix's origin was told by the Greek writer Beos in his last work, Ornithogonia, which dates from the late classical or early Hellenistic period, and which means the birth or origin of birds.
Katherine GoshenHOST
According to Lawson, though they do share their gender and love of blood and or the organs of babes and children with the other two previously mentioned demons who are related to Lilith, Strigists, instead of being demons, are living human women capable of transforming themselves into birds of prey or other such animals.
Katherine GoshenHOST
The belief in Strigus originated in Italy and came to be shared among multiple cultures, including the Greeks, Albanians, and Corsicans.
Katherine GoshenHOST
The mythology of the Strix dates back to at least the end of the 4th century, according to Dr. Samuel Grant Oliphant, a classics scholar and professor active from the late 19th and into the early 20th century.
Katherine GoshenHOST
According to Dr. Oliphant, a story on the Strix's origin was told by the Greek writer Beos in his last work, Ornithogonia, which dates from the late classical or early Hellenistic period, and which means the birth or origin of birds.
Brad CartnerHOST
Now, the CIA protected them.
Brad CartnerHOST
In exchange, the Corsicans used their muscle to break communist strikes and keep the docks under control.
Brad CartnerHOST
It wasn't about fighting communism anymore.
Brad CartnerHOST
It was about using organized crime as a tool.
Amelia FarrarVOICE_ACTOR
Every Bonapartist soldier deserves to die.
Amelia FarrarVOICE_ACTOR
After all, who are they? Nothing but a lot of cutthroats and Corsicans.
Amelia FarrarVOICE_ACTOR
Amelia, what a cruel thing to say.
Amelia FarrarVOICE_ACTOR
Think of our darling Ginevra.
Ginevra DiPiomboVOICE_ACTOR
me.
Ginevra DiPiomboVOICE_ACTOR
I know everything about you.
Ginevra DiPiomboVOICE_ACTOR
We're fellow Corsicans.
Ginevra DiPiomboVOICE_ACTOR
You're a brave soldier, and I love, love, love you.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
They introduced the Mafia to the Triads.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
The Corsicans had been known as the French connection in the drug trade.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
They had worked with supplies coining from Turkey, through Lebanon, and then to Marseilles, France.
DJ PetrovskiHOST
Now the triads ship Asian drugs to the US via South America, and the triads control the drug trade in New York City almost totally now.
speaker_0HOST
The American farmers back home were sweating, plowing, weeding, just fighting the soil all summer long.
speaker_2HOST
And the Corsicans?
speaker_0HOST
The Corsican farmers were literally sitting around the village square, smoking pipes and chatting.
speaker_2HOST
That's amazing.
JimmyHOST
We know almost to the hour when he reached the Caribbean, yet his origins are so thinly documented that they've been fought over for well over a century.
JimmyHOST
Catalans, Galicians, Portuguese, Corsicans, and even champions of an exiled Polish king have all laid claim to him.
JimmyHOST
The version most of us learned in school, and the one most historians still accept, has Cristóforo Colombo born in Genoa around 1451.
JimmyHOST
He was, according to the official historical narrative, the eldest of five children of Domenico Colombo and Susana Fontanarosa.
speaker_3HOST
The American farmers back home were sweating, plowing, weeding, just fighting the soil all summer long.
speaker_2HOST
And the Corsicans?
speaker_3HOST
The Corsican farmers were literally sitting around the village square, smoking pipes and chatting.
speaker_2HOST
That's amazing.
John MerrimanHOST
And nobody hated them or had reason more to hate them, and this may be unfair, but, but it's not unfair, than minorities.
John MerrimanHOST
Because those are the ones that, that, that these white, many of them Corsican, but it's not just Corsicans, but white people from the south who were moved into northern posts and, and, and they, they didn't want to see North Africans or West Africans and folks like that around.
John MerrimanHOST
But anyway, they move in, they evacuate the Sorbonne, and things get spin out of control.
John MerrimanHOST
And the May 10th to May 11th is the night of the barricades.
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