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  • An International College Institute for girls has been established in the handsome city of San Sebastian, which is the high-water mark of women's education and opportunity in the historic old kingdom of Spain.

    Address Before The Second Biennial Convention Of The World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1893

  • I had by this time met and conversed with many of my people in their own language, which was that of the labouring classes of my own times, and from them I had learned that at a village called San Sebastian, through which we had passed, about two leagues to the south of the city, there still dwelt many families of Ayllos -- that is to say, the descendants of those of the old noble Inca lineage, who had been permitted by their conquerors to settle here.

    The Romance of Golden Star ... George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

  • Mark Best and Peter Gilmore, Sydney's two most acclaimed chefs, could qualify as multistarred chefs in any number of cities, such as San Sebastian, San Francisco or Paris, but they both feel that Australia defines their styles.

    The Rise of Chefs Down Under 2010

  • Bollywood, "not the all-singing all-dancing pulp factory of old, famed for melodramatic weepies such as San Sebastian, he told the press," This war on Iraq is a disaster.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Bollywood, "not the all-singing all-dancing pulp factory of old, famed for melodramatic weepies such as San Sebastian, he told the press," This war on Iraq is a disaster.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "The Man From San Sebastian" comes on like a jam between Astor Piazzolla and Vic Flick under Mr. Urata's vocal, while "Contrabanda" is propelled by blaring brass and guest Mauro Refosco's burbling percussion.

    Bold New Music, Old-World Sound Jim Fusilli 2011

  • At Mugaritz in San Sebastian, for instance, I ate an ethereal foie grass that chef Adoni Aduriz -- one of the greats of the generation after Ferran -- produced by working intensely with a university faculty of medicine.

    Barry Yourgrau: The Real Legacy of El Bulli Barry Yourgrau 2011

  • At Mugaritz in San Sebastian, for instance, I ate an ethereal foie grass that chef Adoni Aduriz -- one of the greats of the generation after Ferran -- produced by working intensely with a university faculty of medicine.

    Barry Yourgrau: The Real Legacy of El Bulli Barry Yourgrau 2011

  • Eneko Galarraga, the bar's Basque chef from San Sebastian, said his food was pretty traditional, although he added that he liked to debone the oxtail and slow cook it for hours.

    The Small Plates of Seville Bruce Palling 2011

  • Ben Gazzara holds a lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian film festival in 2005.

    Ben Gazzara dies aged 81 2012

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