Biskra
Americannoun
noun
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Yezza, who lives in France, was arrested July 16 at the airport in Biskra as he tried to return home after attending his father’s funeral.
From Seattle Times
Matisse’s “Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra” “forced Picasso to radically rethink what he was doing” while he was working on what would become his groundbreaking “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.”
From New York Times
Five fans were killed when their van slid off a road east of Algiers, four died in a car accident in Biskra and three people died in other towns.
From BBC
It was only when some chance word of his led Christina to ask him a question about Biskra, that the flow of his eloquence suddenly ceased.
From Project Gutenberg
"Your mention of Biskra brought back so many pictures of the past, and—I was looking at them instead of going on with my story."
From Project Gutenberg
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