Many many years ago, when those “wonderful” mobile applications with which we more or less translate other languages did not even exist in our thoughts, there were some little people who made sure that people who spoke different languages could understand each other. These hard-working professio
Residents of mid-19th-century San Francisco were used to seeing all kinds of quirky characters on their streets. The gold rush was on its last legs and a veritable tide of outlaws, settlers, opportunists, and people of the most diverse stripes had flocked like flies to honey, attracted by the promis
The Industrial Revolution, or what is the same, the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 17th century in Great Britain and allowed the transition from a rural economy based on agriculture and trade to a urban and mechanized, it did not off
Although the British called it Black War (Black War), no war was declared. This is how the English call the extermination of the Tasmanian aborigines promoted directly by the British Empire. The island of Tasmania – a place name known from the Warner cartoons whose protagonist is the Tasmanian De
In the mid-19th century, the use of guano (seabird droppings) began to be used as a fertilizer to enrich the depleted or poor farmland of old Europe. Its collection was done, almost exclusively, in the Chincha Islands (Peru). This area of the Pacific is populated by producers of guano (seagulls, p
On September 11, the official holiday of Catalonia, la Diada, was celebrated as every year since 1886. . Although the party was born to honor the Catalan resistance of September 11, 1714, for a few years it has become an unequivocally sovereign party that may have a turning point on November 9... or
Today I am going to deal with the noble art of gastronomy looking for the origin of three recipes as simple as they are succulent:the French omelette , the potato or Spanish omelette and the potato omelette without potatoes or egg . Before starting, I would like to point out that establishing the ex
The Treaty of Paris of 1898, signed on December 10, put an end to the Spanish-American War –Disaster of 98 – and gave the finishing touch to the Spanish overseas empire. Through this treaty, Spain abandoned its demands on Cuba and declared its independence, and the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico
Madrids Almudena Cathedral It is due to the interest that María de las Mercedes de Orleans put into its construction. , first wife of King Alfonso XII . After his untimely death, the heartbroken widower wanted to fulfill his wifes wish and stipulated that, as in the case of the Taj Mahal , the cat
On September 25, 1926, the Slavery Convention was signed. , an international treaty promoted by the League of Nations that declared slavery illegal. Later, on September 7, 1956, the prohibition and persecution was extended to certain behaviors that were considered analogous or assimilable to slavery
In December 1788 he was crowned King of Spain Carlos IV , a monarch without character or personality – he left the government in the hands of others like his wife María Luisa de Parma or the valid Manuel Godoy – and who was overcome by the events of the time –French Revolution -. A conversatio
We all know the feat of Thermopylae where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans of his – in addition to the 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans forgotten – they faced the innumerable army of Xerxes - innumerable because the numbers range from 100,000 to a million - but there was another similar feat that took p
We already talked about how Spain left the Sahara (History of a moral debt with the Saharawi people)… Spain abandoned the Saharawi people to their fate. They passed from Spanish rule to Moroccan military occupation. Today we are going to talk about how we got there… This is the story of how Emil
Between 1791 and 1804, and inspired by the sorcerers Boukman and Mackandal, the ringleaders François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines led the Haitian revolution against the slave system established in the French colony of Saint-Domingue , which would culminate in the prohib
The traveler has several reasons to visit Huéscar , a Granada municipality already attached to the provinces of Albacete and Jaén. One could be that an excellent segureña sheep is raised there whose chops are a delight. Another, who likes melancholy ruins and takes pleasure in contemplating the phar
In 1700, after the death of Carlos II without descendants, the European powers dispute the Spanish throne. On the one hand, Philip of Anjou (House of the Bourbons) –with the support of France– and on the other, the Archduke Carlos (House of the Austrians or House of Habsburg, to which the dead king
Present in many cultures of our world, it is perhaps the most universal of all myths. The werewolf is a legendary creature that goes back almost to the very origin of humanity and its long shadow continues to terrify the populace even today, especially and especially during full moon nights. Could h
In 1864, at the height of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln he was facing presidential re-election. In addition to the particularity of the situation, he had to face other problems:divisions within the Republican party, a long war between brothers that was bleeding the country dry, and the issue of abo
On February 15, 1898 at 9:40 p.m., an unexpected explosion disturbed the nightlife of Havana. An explosion on the US battleship Maine it irremediably sank it... two officers and 266 sailors lost their lives. After 115 years, that episode is still the subject of controversy and mystery, since it is
At the end of the 19th century, the domain of the south-eastern tip of Africa was divided between the British Crown and the Boers or Afrikaners , settlers of Dutch origin, successors of the first Europeans who had colonized the region in the 17th century. In 1886, Queen Victoria –after successive c
The battle of Peta, on July 4, 1822, was one of the most disastrous for the Greek arms during the Revolution of 1821. But it was also one of the most glorious where the Greek regular soldiers, a few Philhellenes and Iptanesians, fought something more than heroic although they knew that the barbarian
Averroes was the most eminent philosopher of Islam , in whom the Arabic Aristotelian tradition culminates and whose commentaries on the works of Aristotle exerted considerable influence on Christian medieval scholasticism. The 12th century Córdoba, where the philosopher was born, was still the intel
Sculptures by Wit Stoss. Figures by Durer. Rubens paintings. There were real masterpieces in pre-war Polish collections. During the war, many of them were stolen and taken away, mainly to Germany. Others were thoughtlessly destroyed. These are the most valuable lost treasures that have yet to be rec
Alphonse XII (the Peacemaker) was king of Spain. He was born on November 28, 1857 in Madrid . Son of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Francisco de Asís, with whom he went to France, when the Revolution of 1868 took place. On June 25, 1870, his mother abdicated, in him, all the rights to the Crown