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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
Roald Dahl
Pilot
Fighter
Mediterranean
Flying
Syria
Libya
Hurricanes
Iraq
Western
Greece
Egypt
Flew
Fighter Pilot
Desert
Round
I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.
Rory Bremner
Skin
Mediterranean
Easily
Tell
Could
Nobody
Fair
Quite
Burn
Olive
I grew up with a Mediterranean diet, so I like clean, simple food. But if there's pizza on a menu, I always end up ordering it. I can't resist it.
Sara Sampaio
Food
Simple
Mediterranean
Clean
Menu
Like
Always
End
Up
Diet
Grew
Ordering
Pizza
Resist
When my dad hit 40, he quit everything. He sold the house and bought the boat and went off sailing the world. I was on that boat from age 12 to 18. We didn't actually go around the world. We went pretty much from France through the whole Mediterranean basin. We went to Ireland first. We also went to coast of Africa, South America and the Caribbean.
Sebastian Roche
Age
World
First
Mediterranean
Caribbean
Sold
Everything
France
Pretty
Through
He
Bought
House
Also
Around
Sailing
Go
South
Off
South America
Ireland
Hit
America
Quit
Africa
Boat
Much
Coast
Whole
Dad
Actually
It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers.
Simon Schama
World
Believe
Mediterranean
Jews
Kind
Eating
Brought
Fish
Were
Debt
Selling
Apart
Chips
Who
Actually
Britain
We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.
Susan Hampshire
Age
People
Value
Become
Older
Mediterranean
System
More
Written
Support
Wiser
Countries
Off
Get
Happens
Which
Much
Should
Act
Older People
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Time
Mediterranean
Possible
Atlantic
See
Morocco
Same
Same Time
The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.
Theodor Mommsen
Great
World
Old
Three
Ocean
Mediterranean
Considerable
Once
Penetrating
Gulf
Various
Divisions
Islands
Continent
Branches
Expanding
Breadth
Forms
Land
Far
Separates
Sea
Old World
Connects
Largest
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
Thomas Bulfinch
People
Country
Own
Mediterranean
Those
East
See
Except
Knew
Thus
Real
South
Greeks
Real People
Any
Little
Ages
Coast
Near
Early
A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
Zinedine Zidane
Culture
Mediterranean
City
Really
Grains and beans are negative aspects of the Mediterranean Diet that are countered by the large amounts of olive-oil polyphenols, large amounts of red-wine polyphenols, and fish.
Steven Gundry
Negative
Mediterranean
Beans
Fish
Diet
Grains
Aspects
Large
Large Amounts
Amount
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