The first idea of uniting the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea dates back to the 16th century when the Spanish controlled the area, but it was not until the 19th century that the French got down to work in Panama. Given the success that the French businessman Ferdinand de Lesseps he had had
Lets situate ourselves at the end of a century, the beginning of the next. In those times, things or objects were large as a general rule. To give you an idea, the hammer bone of the ear of a person, animal, or mineral, common at that time, measured around 3 to 4 meters in longitudinal length. Thi
Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He was one of the founders of the « Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade » (Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade) and passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807 which ended the British sl
The American fleet has positioned itself off the Libyan coast, starting the naval blockade of Tripoli. Tension is rising in the area after the first incidents and the war may have unforeseen consequences in North Africa in this turbulent situation. The President of the United States has given permis
In 1858, James Stephens, Thomas Clarke, John Oleary and Charles Kickham founded the “Irish Republican Brotherhood” in Dublin (IRB , in Gaelic ) as a secret organization that was supposed to fight the British occupation and mobilize the Irish to make Ireland independent. At the same time, an American
Leaving aside the maxim of the great Groucho Marx :«These are my principles. If you dont like them I have others «, in this society lacking values, and principles, in which vile metal rules, the answer, being honest, would be yes . But, to this day, there are still places where principles are above
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) is considered one of the best military strategists in all of history but, like everyone else in life, he also suffered setbacks, defeats... and a great humiliation .Among the great setbacks we can mention the Russian campaign (1812) , as the most significant defeat
Well, perhaps out of habit, tradition, there would even be some who would attribute it to some kind of superstition... but the fact is that it has a scientific explanation. During the 19th century, in the so-called colonization of the Far West, the caravans of settlers had to travel long distances
The painting in question is the oil painting «Pollice Verso » (1872) by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme . First of all, I would like to admit that it is a spectacular painting but one that was misinterpreted. It represents the scene of an amphitheater in which a gladiator awaits the emperors de
Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) was an English naturalist who postulated that all species of living things have evolved over time from a common ancestor through a process called natural selection. Author of «The origin of species by means of natural selection «, the bible of evolutionary theory and wor
In the mid-19th century, the use of guano (seabird droppings) began to be used as fertilizer to enrich the exhausted or poor farmland of old Europe. Its harvesting was done, almost exclusively, in the Chincha Islands (Peru) . This area of the Pacific is populated by producers of guano (gulls, pe
Timothy Dexter (1748 – 1806) was an eccentric American businessman whose fortune was on his side in his crazy business dealings. He was a man without any culture who at the age of 8 already worked in the fields and at 16 he was an apprentice leather tanner. He was lucky enough to fall in love with
It has always been said that greed, greed, money... blind, they prevent you from seeing the rest of the landscape. Well, with this anecdote from John Henry Newman It is scientifically proven. John Henry Newman (1801 -1890) was an Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism in 1845 – Henry VIII had
In the Battle of Bailén (1808) General Castaños inflicted the first major defeat on the Napoleonic army, under the command of General Dupont , which meant a huge number of prisoners who were taken to Cádiz with the promise of being returned to France. They were held on pontoon boats (boats that, moo
He was running on July 10, 1856 in Croatia (actually in more places) and saw Nikola Teslas first rays of sunlight. Interestingly, and perhaps as a foreshadowing of his destiny as an electrical engineer, he was born after his mother gave birth. As we mentioned, he studied electrical engineering at
Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, playwright, and an artist of epigrams (short poetic composition expressing a single satirical thought in a witty way). Oscar Wilde He happened to live in the Victorian Era (Queen Victoria I of the United Kingdom) whose society was governed by
After the controversial cover of the saritic / humorous magazine «el Jueves» in 2007, in which the Prince of Asturias and Doña Letizia were caricatured maintaining relations and that the National Court ordered kidnapped, now the magazine returns to the fray. Some statements by Jaime Peñafiel, statin
We address, at a good time, a topic on everyones lips, today even more so, after the barrage (or fabadon) of new followers of Creationism . The Evolution of Species was written at the end of a century and the beginning of the next by Sir Chearles Darwin (known dolphin television). The bases for hei
Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis) is an extinct species of the genus Homo that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia from 230,000 to 28,000 years ago. The discovery, in 1856, was made by Johann Karl Fuhlrott , inside a cave in the Neanderthal Valley near Düsseldorf. Following the disco
Raise your hand if you havent paid a financial penalty for late returning a book to the library or, worse yet, if you dont have a book in your private library suspiciously stamped with the hallmark of some temple of knowledge... But this case takes the cake for its delay in returning the book, 221 y
The demand for womens right to vote appears linked from its origins to the thought and action of groups of women who became aware of the unjust situation to which they were subjected by a patriarchal social structure that ignored them. The achievement of social, legal and economic rights was a long
Georgios Poulos is a special case of a bastard in modern Greek history. Dishonoring the uniform of the Greek officer, he committed crimes worse than those of the German conquerors with whom he collaborated. It is worth noting that Poulos was a fanatic Venizelic, anti-royalist and of course anti-Semi
The emperor Constantine, most probably, laid them down in the place where they lied for centuries. They were discovered at the height of the war, under extraordinary circumstances ... and quietly moved. How was it possible to find some of the most precious relics of Christianity again and could we h
Battle of the Forts was the name given to the four-day defensive struggle of the defenders of the so-called Metaxa Line against the German forces which at 0515 on April 6, 1941 attacked Greece without warning. Germany, having already decided to invade the USSR, was forced, on the occasion of the fin