After a convulsive period that coincided with the validity of the Volstead Act (better known as Dry Law) in which the American mafia made gold, but in which the streets of Chicago and New York were littered with corpses in the struggle for control of organized crime, the main mafia families of the c
We moved to Havana in the 18th century, there we have an Alicante man, from Petrer, Juan de Miralles Trailhon . In 1740 he had arrived in Cuba with a small fortune that served him to court, and later be able to marry, Mª Josefa Eligio de la Puente , the most desired single woman on the entire island
During the years of the Cold War, from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall, any one-time event in the USA or the USSR was susceptible to being misinterpreted and generating a new war on a global level – such as the Mistranslation of the words of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev
It is difficult to understand, now that an African-American resides in the White House and holds the most powerful position in the world, that until relatively few years ago in the United States there was a policy of racial segregation based on regulations such as those known as the Jim Crow Laws, w