Determining whether the dead were actually dead was a puzzling and inexact science before the advent of modern medicine. But the fear was not totally irrational. Throughout history there have been numerous cases of people buried alive accidentally and curious legends spoke of open coffins where a co
We are located in the year 1805, on October 21, in the Bay of Cadiz in front of Cape Trafalgar. The Battle of Trafalgar takes place, pitting the English navy, led by Admiral Nelson, against the Franco-Spanish navy, led by Villeneuve. The better preparation of the English fleet, the ingenuity of N
Had the delinquent file existed in the times of Felipe II, the one with which telecommunications companies threaten you for non-payment of one euro, whether it is legal or illegal debt, the name of the Spanish king would have appeared in first place since 1557, the year in which he declared the susp
It was not the (black) plague of the 14th century, but a later outbreak in the 17th century that, for example, in England killed almost 100,000 people and more than a fifth of the population of London. 3 or 4 days ago I saw an unburied corpse in a coffin on the street... the plague is making us cr
Although to date they have fallen on deaf ears, since the end of the last century and the beginning of this one an initiative of African-Americans has been gaining strength in the United States that, in the style of the reparations paid to the Jews and to the State of Israel by Germany They demand c
About half a thousand protesters entered San Franciscos Golden Gate Park on the 19th to practice the new fashion of toppling statues. One of those chosen was the bronze effigy of Fr. Junípero Serra . This Spanish Franciscan, far from being a genocide or a racist, represented the opposite throughout
On June 17, 1527, he left Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), heading for the colonization of Florida, an expedition led by Pánfilo de Narváez . After various setbacks (desertions, storms and hurricanes, wrong decisions...) they arrived in Tampa Bay (Gulf of Mexico) in April 1528. After the first conta
There is a phrase, typical of parents, that as children we have all heard -and some, among whom I find myself, too many times- when we have asked them to buy something for us or money directly:What do you think? money grows on trees? Well now, many years later, I already have the arguments to refut
I remember a trip to the Caribbean a few years ago in which all the women in the group decided to do their hairstyle with African or African-American braids. The essential requirements to put yourself in the hands of these street artists, because the truth is that it requires a lot of skill, are lon
The episode of the Invincible Armada is one of the most famous and, at the same time, one of the saddest in the history of Spain. An entire fleet of ships from a country that was among the great global military powers and that ended in a fiasco because of the weather. Since we were little we have he
According to the 2018 Barometer of Reading Habits and Buying Books, the number of book readers in their spare time reached 61.8% of the population. The number of frequent readers also grew, those who read at least once or twice a week, which now account for 49.3% of the population. 38.2% of Spaniard
In “The Bleak House ”, a novel that Charles Dickens serialized between 1852 and 1853, a detective appeared for the first time. So, following in his footsteps, we will investigate the life and work of Dickens through the women who passed through his life. In 1836, and after the wedding of Charles D
On April 22, 2015, Jonas Gudmunsson, Sheriff of the Wesfjords (Iceland), symbolically repealed a law, still in force because it was never formally enacted, that allowed Basques who entered the area to be killed with impunity. And all because of something that happened in this northwestern region of
The term pediatrics comes from the Greek, country, paidós (child) and -iatros (medical), therefore, and as we all know, is the branch of medicine that deals with the health and illnesses of children. We are going to leave aside texts or references from the past in which diseases of children and the
The Dutch East India Company ( Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC), created in 1602 in the Netherlands, was one of the first large multinational corporations -first place would be disputed with the British East India Company- whose objective was the control of trade with Asia. That was its fou
We already knew the story of a (fake) typhus epidemic created by the doctors of two towns in Poland to avoid deportations to the Nazi camps, but there was also another epidemic, in this case real, intentionally spread by pale faces to put an end to the lenape indians (lenapes lenni , real people), a
And we end with the trilogy of «Everything you believed about the Inquisition and it was not true » (part 1 and part 2) with points 5 and 6. It was used by the civil authority and to satisfy revenge You dont have to be a lynx to realize that, on occasions, it served to satisfy revenge and resentmen
Logically, the different religious currents have had a great influence on the future of the events of the peoples throughout history, and it would be foolish for me not to recognize that European societies were modeled by the predominant Church in each one. of them, whether Catholic or Protestant. T
At the beginning of the 17th century, the situation in Castile, from where until then the men and taxes that Carlos I and Felipe II needed for their hegemonic and religious policy in Europe had come from, was no longer the same as that of the previous century. It was exhausted, bankrupt, overwhelm
The life of Elena de Céspedes , which was the name of our protagonist, seemed like it was going to be difficult from day one. I would dare to say that even from the moment her mother, a slave who served in the house of the girls father, the Céspedes, found out that she was pregnant. She was born in
The battle at the castle of Agios Georgios in Skorta, Arcadia, on September 9, 1320, is one of the little-known, but particularly interesting conflicts between Byzantines and Latins for control of the Peloponnese. After the battle of Pelagonia in 1261, the Byzantine Empire acquired a bridgehead i
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the protagonist of this time, has the longest name in world history textbooks. 5 As one of the last of the Five Good Emperors, also known as the Tetsujin Emperor, lets take a look at his life, which is even recorded as King Qin Shi Huang in Chinese Han books far away.
An unmatched archery champion, devoted to King Richard the Lionheart, leader of the forest team fighting the wicked sheriff of Nottingham. Since the Middle Ages, the legend of the hero of the poor captivates and fascinates entire generations. The character of Robin Hood has evolved over the centu
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets In the last blog entry, Edward I of England vs. Llywelyn Prince of Wales, we had left the latter kneeling before the former to pay homage to him at Westminster on Christmas Day 1277. From then on there were a few years of unsettled balance between the dimi