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Traditional sources offer many definitions for the word palaver. These show a turbulent history in the word’s vernacular—from tribal “palaver huts” where Portuguese traders negotiated with African tribesmen in a dialogue between native and invader, to the colloquial hijack: a “fuss or commotion”—palaver comes to us with some proverbial baggage....
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Every decade since 1956, as a naval officer, assistant to President Gerald Ford, and World War II battlefield tour leader and historian, Wilmington native Wilbur Jones has traveled the world. He has visited some 30 countries from Syria to Kiribati, Greece to the Marianas, and Luxembourg to South Korea, and...
