Category: History

The history of cats is the history of the domestic cat, whose scientific name is Felis Catus, lives among us, which has been attested, for more than four thousand years. Its closest relative, among the animal fauna, is the genet, a carnivore that lives in the most tropical forests of Africa. It is known that […]

Pablo Neruda’s father wanted his son to go to university to build a future for himself. Thus, he enrolled in the Institute Pedagogical. Quickly, it came to his ears that instead of frequenting the University d, he spends a lot of time in the bohemian life. Reason for which, he stops sending the money that […]

Hippie, as a name, derives from “hip”. “Hip“, a term applied to the literary trend known as “Beats”, which became very fashionable during the 1950s. We are talking about writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Although the Hippie, also spelled hippy, is considered a member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement […]

1. Real name: Margaretha Zelle. 2. Place of birth: Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. 3. Date of birth: August 7, 1876. 4. How does Mata Hari die ?: Sentenced to death before a firing squad. 5. Where? In Vincennes, France. October 15, 1917. Mata Hari was the stage name that the Dutch Margaretha Zelle adopted when she became one of the most […]

The Roman soldiers were the fundamental piece so that the Roman Empire could expand and dominate the half known world. That would not have happened if behind the powerful army there had not been some well-disciplined, trained and equipped soldiers to fight in all fields and in all circumstances, knowing how to innovate with war […]

The idea was, in principle, simple. A city could be “compressed into an agglomeration of vertical extrusions in a limited location.” That was what had been done on Manhattan Island in the early 20th century. And the idea had crossed the Atlantic to Europe. Charles Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, the Raven, devised […]