What year did Germany invade France? What happened to the Austrian Empire after WWI? Who fought in the War of Austrian Succession? What was the War of the Spanish Succession? Who won the War of Austrian Succession? What happened with the Anschluss in 1938? What war took place in the 1940...
Consider the case of Clifton Blackwell, age 61. He saw a Hispanic man and threw acid on his face, saying, “Why you invade my country?” He was well known in the local grocery store to talk endlessly about his support for Trump. In a search of Blackwell’s home, police found gun pa...
In the beginning and for at least a year and a half, Winston held his own, but finally in January he started slowly going downhill. By the time I left for Mexico, he was going downhill pretty fast, and I worried that he might not be there when I got back, but the dear little ...
American Dirt got all the attention (and controversy) in recent years, but in 2009 there was another, warmer and funnier, novel detailing an impossible immigrant journey from Mexico to the U.S. Populated with tenacious teenagers armed with sharp wit, the story also vividly details the Mexican ...
occupation all through the first months of 1942. I have gathered so from memoirs; and also from my own memories of the lead-up to Christmas, 1990 and the buildup when operations began before the first Gulf War(the last year that we were in Spain)and how mothers and fathers put on a ...
Should we care about the loss of Spain, France, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, Tunisia? Look at what they say is in store for Mexico. Should we notice? Should we care? Maybe it’s just easier, psychologically, to swallow the lie that these scientists who devote their lives to their work...
he was walled up, but this time the punishment was simply that he starve to death. However, Herman persuaded the abbot to keep him alive for a year and promised that in that time he would createa book that would glorify the monastery for ever. If Herman did so, said the abbot, he co...
You are soo wrong about spaniards…I´m from Mexico and they love us there. I´ve been to Spain 3 times and everyone is just open and very warm. Special treatment in bars, nightclubs and restaurants (special treatment as in free drinks and stuff like that). Maybe other latin ...
about to invade Tenochtitlan, he had an army of around a quarter of a million people, almost all of them Indians. As Francesco Lopez de Gomara, Cortez’s chaplain and secretary, recounted: “Altogether, I believe, there were two hundred thousand men present at the siege of Mexico.” ...
Did Adolf Hitler and his new wife use the ratlines to get on a boat in Spain and escape to Argentina or Brazil? Some people think so, and that he lived as long as 1978. The FBI maintained files in which Hitler sightings are reported, although never verified, and didn't declare Hitler...