Thomas Edison (Milan, Ohio. 1847-1931). E l Wizard of Menlo Park A prolific inventor, he created the first laboratory, in Menlo Park, New Jersey, dedicated to inventions with money earned from the sale of his quadruplex telegraph to the communication and financial services company Western Union for $ 10,000 . The invention in question involved four signals traveling on the same […]
Che Guevara, a traveler on a motorcycle, probably without today’s mandatory motorcycle gloves (son obligatorios los guantes en moto) 😀 , traveled to Spain during the Franco regime, incognito, but with the knowledge of the secret services of Generalissimo Franco. That’s how it went. It happened in 1959, during the Franco dictatorship. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, on […]
Detective Sherlock Holmes is real or made up? It may be that, jokingly or seriously, many people for a long time sent letters addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes at 221a Baker Street, the fictional home of a fictional character turned real. The great fondness for the novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle led to […]
The concept of beauty has changed a lot over time. That is a reality that we cannot deny. For this reason, when we look for testimonies about the most beautiful kings and queens in history, if these characters are far from us in time, their images can be shocking to us. We can get to […]
Janus 1, the new year and the consular year In ancient Rome, the Romans worshiped a god named Janus (Janus, Ianus). He was the god of doors, transitions, and endings. Janus had two faces: one looking forward and the other looking back, into the past. Emperor Julius Caesar thought it would be appropriate for January, […]
We inquire about the painter Diego Velázquez and his personal life and his family The painter Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, such was his full name, is considered worldwide as one of the most important artists in all of History. And with good reason. Velázquez remains a unique reference in the history of painting, […]