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Magellan: The man and the myth
AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in Philippine waters. In a little over three weeks from ...
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David Cohn’s New Book Traces the Roots of Modernism in Spain
Spain: Modern Architectures in History, by David Cohn. Reaktion Books, 344 pages, $40. The most spectacular debut at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics was the Archery Range at Vall d’Hebron by Enric ...
US Net International Investment Position Is Dire: An Economic History Lesson From The Spanish Empire
The Trump administration aims to reset the economy to produce as much as it consumes, addressing the historical issue of ...
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Spain’s Stunning 1968 Eurovision Win Revisited in ‘La Canción,’ From ‘Hierro,’ ‘Rapa’s’ Pepe Coira and Fran Araujo
From the 1950s, as foreign tourists poured onto its beaches, Spain ... s history. In both “Hierro” and “Rapa,” they took a genre, the rural crime mystery, and tore up the rule book ...
Spain’s Stunning 1968 Eurovision Win Revisited in ‘La Canción,’ From ‘Hierro,’ ‘Rapa’s’ Pepe Coira and Fran Araujo
The truth, often comic, says a lot about why things happen and what it’s like living under a dictatorship, such as Spain’s in 1968.