Well, I wish you good nightbut first shit on the bedand make it burst.Sleep soundly,my love,your ass in the mouthyou will put. What would you think if you received a letter/email/message with this good night wish? What if the sender is also in love with you? A bit incomprehensible, right? Mozar
Nepotism derives from nepote (nephew) and refers to the favorable treatment of the Popes regarding their nephews whom they named cardinals, originating the figure of the nephew cardinal during the Middle Ages and that would last until 1692 when Pope Innocence XII promulgated the bull Romanum decet P
We are located in Hamburg (Germany) in the year 1675 and we find a merchant named Hennig Brand . He was not an eminence in business but, due to his wifes dowry, he had enough money to devote his time to the noble art of alchemy. The alchemists (now they would be a mixture of chemists and geeks) were
Pirates and, in general, all criminals, before attacking violently, the first step they took was to intimidate their prey. It is for this reason that, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, when a group of men repudiated all government and went to sea, they tended to choose large ships—although
Long before the Medellin Conference (1968), where a group of Latin American bishops laid the foundations for what we know today as Liberation Theology ”, there was a group of Dominican friars settled on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola who sowed the seed of said theology denouncing the encomienda
After leading the American victory in the Revolutionary War against Great Britain and recognized independence in the Treaty of Paris (1783), George Washington he resigned from his military commissions and returned to his Mount Vernon plantation in Virginia. His retirement only lasted a few years, si
Today, the appearance of a comet in the sky is quite an astronomical spectacle. Before it was a symptom and omen of adversity. The expedition of Pedro Álvares Cabral he was able to verify it. He left Portugal on March 9, 1500, made up of 13 ships (10 carracks and three caravels). Bad number, some of
Before I am judged and sentenced for writing this article, I would ask that it be read and that the accusatory evidence of my conviction was not only the title. Clarified this, why are the Spanish accused of having committed genocide in the American continent? The answer to this question is very e
A cow and a horse start off from the same point P in different directions. Both travel circular paths that converge at point P. If the cow advances along a path A of 48 km. in circumference at a speed of 8 km. a day, and the horse a path B of 32 km. of circumference to 12 km. per day, how many days
Since the 8th century, the Muslims, who controlled North Africa, bled the African continent of its human resources in every possible way. The spread of Islam into so-called Black Africa entailed the capture of millions of slaves who were shipped north via routes across the Sahara, and to the Arabi
On April 3, 1502, Christopher Columbus began his fourth voyage to the American continent. After exploring the Atlantic coast of Central America and returning to the island of Hispaniola, they were surprised by a storm that forced them to divert to Jamaica. In June 1503 Columbus landed on the beach o
The Roman calendar was made up of twelve months and 365 days, but the movement of the Earth around the Sun lasted a little longer (365.25 days). This gap had produced a delay of 90 days, so the seasons -very important for the harvests- danced. Julius Caesar brought the wise Sosigenes of his retreat
Olimpia Maidalchini she was born in Viterbo in 1594. From a very young age, she began to be rebellious with the society in which she lived, in which others decided the future of women. Her family, wealthy and not rich, decided that her future would go through serving the Lord… she would be a nun. Fr
In the 17th century, Holland experienced a speculative increase in prices in the market for the sale of tulip bulbs. This speculation, which caused some bulbs to be sold for thousands of guilders (up to forty times the average annual income of a person at the time), created the first economic bubble
Until a few years ago, the vision that showed us a rural area where the large ranchers predominated, and around these those popularly known as gauchos was still firm. , lazy or misentertained . However, for some time now, many investigations have contributed by bringing us closer to another image
They say that when Catherine de Médicis , daughter of the powerful lord of Florence Lorenzo II de Medici, married Henry, the youngest son of King Francis I of France, she did it completely in love, but very soon discovered that for her better half it was only a political marriage. In 1547, after the
As martial arts fans well know, Okinawa is the homeland of karate . Not for nothing Mr. Miyagi, the famous master of Karate Kid , he is also native to this chain of islands located halfway between China and Japan. But, beyond the geographical data, the truth is that the origins of this popular metho
We are not referring to the spirit of Don Diego Velázquez leaving Las Meninas lets see whats cooking for The forge of Vulcano; or because La Gioconda del Prado wander through the corridors trying to escape to meet your twin in the Louvre. No. The ghosts we are not referring to are in one of the corn
During some of the darkest moments of Spanish history the mere mention of him, always in a low voice, instilled panic among the people. The Holy Garduña it was a secret society of criminals whose power challenged the Church and the Crown alike. They were rogues, prostitutes and swordsmen for hire. F
There may have been pirates more successful than him, like Bartholomew Roberts, and others who were more eccentric, like Jack Rackham; However, there was only one pirate who managed to create a character that has survived to this day, and to do so in such a way that, even today, when someone thinks
New research by a Greek anthropologist of the diaspora, which took place in Paliokastro on the island of Thassos, brought to light, among other discoveries, a skull from the early Byzantine period (fourth to seventh century AD). The skull bears traces of surgery, which is incredibly complex, accordi
In the middle of the 19th century, the rise of the railway led to the development of a revolution in travel across Europe.In this great upheaval of an industrious and innovative century, an idea was to germinate and make its way into the mind of the Belgian engineer Georges Nagelmackers (1845-1905):
Alalia of Corsica, todays Aleria, was a Greek city founded by settlers from Phocaea in Asia Minor during the Second Greek Colonization. The Phocaeans who had founded Phocaea were settlers from Phocis and Athens. The Phocaeans had also founded other cities in the wider area of the Italian and Frenc
British history began with the landing of Caesar, said the British Prime Minister Wiston Churchill during World War II, but it was the famous Gaius Julius Caesar who laid the foundation for Europe today. It can be said that. Caesar has made great achievements in the history of the world, but he ha