Mount Everest (so named since 1865, in homage to the English geographer and topographer George Everest , 1790-1866) is located between Nepal and China and is one of the places in the world that has established the greatest challenges for the imagination, tenacity and resistance of the human being. S
In 1512 the Sistine Chapel was inaugurated (imposing architectural complex built between 1471 and 1484, in the Vatican) with a decoration made up of frescoes on the walls, vaults and domes, made by the most outstanding plastic artists of the time such as Sandro Botticelli and Pietro Perugino , in wh
A day like today, in 1860, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), was elected as the sixteenth president of the United States of America. His emblematic figure has gone down in universal history as one of the main defenders of equality between human beings, due to his decisive role in the abolition of slavery
23 years ago, an image took over the worlds main television networks:hundreds of Germans, most of them young, collaborating with hammers and all kinds of blunt objects to demolish of the Berlin Wall, also called the Wall of Shame. Climbing on the cement structure, a chain of jubilant men replaced th
On a day like today, the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini passed away in Paris, affected by pneumonia. He was 76 years old. Until the time of his death, he was considered the most famous composer of operas, with 39 titles to his credit. The Barber of Seville (original title in Italian:Il barbieri
This Sunday is Palm Sunday and thousands of families will attend mass early and return home with an olive branch , symbol of the triumphant and humble entry of Jesus Christ, son of Mary and Joseph, into the city of Jerusalem. This date marks the beginning of Holy Week , in which the public life of t
Watch movies at Easter it is almost an obligation. Here we offer you the synopses of some of the best known cinematographic productions based on the life, passion and death of Jesus Christ:from terrifying stories to fictional stories, from strict evangelical narratives to hilarious satires, there is
Candy eggs, painted and adorned with multicolored applications, fill the shelves of the main supermarkets in Lima during the season of Holy Week. As is often the case with ancient traditions in our times, the Easter Eggs they have become just an object to be sold these days, and hardly anyone mainta
In November 2013 we announced that we had reached 3,000 subscribers in this page. Today, four months later, the Blog of Spill Magisterial has exceeded that amount by more than 100%. As of now we just passed six thousand subscribers (6,027 to be exact), who weekly receive a Free Electronic Bulletin,
Since 1970 the world celebrates Earth Day , a way of calling societies to reflect on the importance of caring for the natural resources of our planet, the only one in which -until now- the conditions are met for our species to survive, in the immense universe. The earth is our home and its elements
Saul, a Roman citizen born in the Mediterranean city of Tarsus (present-day Turkey), dedicated himself to persecuting Christians during his early youth but was converted to Christianity, according to the Bible, by the risen Jesus himself. This story, fantastic for non-believers and part of the doctr
In the last days, the word “Orion” It is for us, inhabitants of the city of Lima, synonymous with traffic accidents caused by irresponsible drivers who seem more like predators of human beings, behind the wheel of dilapidated vehicles from which they give free rein to their most brutal spirits. Howe
This weekend, the news around the world was the canonization of two popes, the Italian John XXIII (real name, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, known as the good Pope) and the Polish John Paul II (real name, Karol Wojtyla, known as “the Pilgrim Pope”). Beyond the opinions for and against that this appointme
Labor Day it will forever be associated with the world socialist workers movement. The execution of a group of five workers who advocated the achievement of eight hours of daily work (these workers belonged to a union in the United States of America), gave rise to the celebration that takes place in
They say that classical music is “the universal language” but what music are we talking about these days? From the homogeneous shrillness of what we hear on the radio, be it cumbias, reggaetones or disco music? Perhaps this phrase belonged to other times, very old, in which melodies were capable of
In the last blog entry we commented that after the battle of Philippopolis (250 AD) armed confrontations became general between Goths and Romans and the looting of cities of the Empire by the former, until in the year 268 the Roman Emperor Claudius II defeated the Goths at the Battle of Nisch. More
The abrupt irruption of the Huns in the fourth century caused the Visigoths who were on the eastern bank of the Danube to treat to cross the river to its western bank. But that meant crossing the border (limes ) of the Roman Empire. After desperately begging to be allowed to enter Imperial territory
Rome, year 392. The position of emperor of the West is occupied by a young man of twenty years named Valentinian. A few years earlier he had to enlist the help of his brother-in-law and Eastern Roman Emperor, Theodosius. Theodosius, like his father of the same name, had been a noted general. That s
We had talked about Alaric in the entry dedicated to the battle of the Frigid River as one of the generals that accompanied the emperor Theodosius . From that moment the Visigoth began a peculiar love-hate relationship with Rome, in which the emperor Honorius and his main adviser, Stilicho, played a
In 1937 Japanese troops attacked Nanking , the then capital of China. After taking the city, the Japanese army, in a veritable genocide, killed more than 250,000 Chinese civilian residents. Mass executions, people burned and buried alive, beheadings, rapes, robberies, arson and other war crimes. It
Colonialism or colonization was the occupation of territories in America and on the African coast by Portugal, Spain, England and France, in the 14th and 15th centuries. Imperialism is a concept created by Lenin to characterize the territorial expansion of some countries on the European continent,
Francisco Franco was a Spanish general who led a military coup against the Spanish Republic in the 1930s, becoming the countrys dictator until 1975, the year he died. Who was General Franco? Francisco Franco was a Spanish general who became very famous for having been the dictator of Spain between
The Wolof Empire , also Ouolof (fl. 14th - 16th centuries), indicates that it in the early stages of European contact with West Africa today Senegal in Inland ruled . Founded shortly after 1200 Wolof- State was ruled by a king or Burba rules, whose duties were both political
The Institutional Act No. 5 (AI-5) it was a legal norm granted by the military during the period of the Military Dictatorship. It was considered the worst institutional acts implemented by the military in Brazil and marked the beginning of the period of greater repression in all 21 years of dictato