Russell Studebaker: Fireball poppy is rare, desirable cultivar Starting from Mexico in 1541, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Coronado searched in vain for the fabled cities of gold in the plains of Texas and Kansas. A few centuries later, and not far from Wichita, I discovered a plant that is almost as rare as Coronado's gold, at least in the nursery trade.
June 8, 2013 - Tulsa World
Tony Judt in guardian.co.uk The "conquistador attitude in Israeli officers", Judt says, "gave the lie to the idea that there was something special about this war, this occupation, this army - myths that many Israelis still believe in ...... By the time I went back to...