● May Day, known as International Labor Day, is a public holiday in many European countries, the Canal Zone, Philippine islands, and the Latin American countries. It falls on May 1, and is celebrated especially by the working people.● November 25 is Saint Catherine's Day. The French cel...
And then I woke up about 1/2 an hour before my 4am alarm, showered, did the last little bit of packing, and made my way to the train station in time to catch the train before my target train — which was particularly helpful because there was a train delay that cost about 15-20 m...
I mean, it's not easy in most scenarios. This thing flops, it's not gonna work out, but it did work out. This is a serious nation state, like you might want to take it seriously. [00:00:31] Jordan Harbinger: Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger ...
When did Bartolome de las Casas free slaves? When was the Spanish-American War declared? When were the Crusades? When was Montezuma Castle discovered? When was Spanish America created? When did the Spanish Revolution begin? When was Latin America decolonized? When did Spain take over the Holy...
His theory is that a broad rebellion led to the civilization’s demise after almost 2,000 years. (Interestingly, very little is known about the life of the workers. They did not live in these stone cities of the rulers and their servants, but outside the walls, in wooden structures that...
s novels were also pretty well reviewed and the one that sounded the most interesting ended up on my TBR. Less a review and more of a news item was a brief piece on the publication of letters between some of the titans of Latin American literature in a collection calledLas Cartas del ...
The humble seamoth is burdened with the Latin name Pegasidae, a mash-up of Pegasus, the winged stallion born of Poseidon, Greek god of the sea, and Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon. Even its common name calls to mind a Godzilla-style nemesis, one that may explode into the air from the...
The takeaway, I'm hoping, for those that see the movie, is that it's one individual who was motivated to do something, who inspired many others to continue to support what he did, but they also are doing great things on their own. It's really inspirational to know that one pe...
Prior to his appointment as the president of the Inter-American Dialogue, Hakim was a vice president of the Inter-American Foundation, had worked with the Ford Foundation in both New York and Latin America. Writing in 2002, Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth observe that the Inter-American ...
They’re doing what they always did, only up to eleventy now, and out in the open. And they don’t know why we’re all going “whoa, now!” And it’s going to keep happening. Trump started it, but at this point it’s a perpetual motion machine. The masks just keep falling. T...