Almost a century after its independence, the United States of America suffered the greatest political crisis in its history. The discrepancies between the Member States were close to making the project generated by those original Thirteen Colonies fail. Finally, the victory of the defenders of the Federation in a bloody Civil War allowed the country […]
“Blonde,” the film based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, features a particular scene that people who have seen the film have described as “horrible,” “crazy,” or “degrading.” A scene that shows us the unpleasant development of a demanding and unromantic fellatio, so to speak. It is said that the representation is fictitious, that […]
The Bourbon Restoration: peripheral nationalisms and regionalisms At the end of the 19th century, three nationalist movements arose in Spain. Its main consequence was based on the centralization that the Bourbon Restoration entailed, but there are others: The federalist ideas of the Sexenio; The rise of nationalism in Europe; The denial of these nationalist movements […]
The history of the gin and tonic began when the Spanish conquerors, in the 1700s, learned of the use that the Quechua tribe (in what is now Peru) gave to the bark of the cinchona trees (technically: a genus of flowering plants of the order of the Gentianales of the Rubiaceae family) The Quechua removed […]
Cleopatra VII, an immortal figure The last queen of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, is one of those characters who has such a fascination that she crosses the centuries. Her charismatic figure has inspired hundreds of books, articles and films, being she one of the most well-known historical figures by the general public around the world. From […]
All those things: playwright, actor, poet (or some of them, as we will see later) was William Shakespeare, who is still considered one of the greatest playwrights in the world and who is credited with authorship – in whole or in part – of a total of thirty-eight theatrical works and an abundant poetic production. […]