Monday, February 22, 2010

Wolfman

I was watching Wolfman last night and I did not like the movie. I only watched it because I recently found out my surname means wolf. My name comes from the Basque country. Basque takes a small portion of Spain and France. Of the research I have done, about 25% of the Ochoas’ still live in Europe. So far, no one knows where the Basque people came from. Available evidence suggests that the Basques are descendents of prehistoric man dating from the Lower Paleolithic. The Basques developed as a distinct group sometime between 40,000 BC and 7,000 BC.

I don’t remember where I read that the Basque people sailed to the Americas long before Columbus. I also found out that the University of Nevada, Reno has a Center for Basque Studies. Maybe one day I will attend the university, not to mention I would be close to my hometown in California.

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