El Gran Capitán

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

El mas grande de los virtuosos del violoncello, Pau Casals 1976 1973. ha acabado convirtiendose en un verdadero icono cultural del siglo XX, y su nombre sigue vivo entre nosotros mucho mas que el de ningun otro genio contemporaneo de la musica, llamese Rubinstein, Horowitz, Heifetz o Kreisler: en festivales de musica de dos continentes, en museos de tres paises, en salas de conciertos, grabaciones, concursos... Casals tuvo una vida intensa, en todos los sentidos. Vivio casi noventa y siete anos, revoluciono todas las tecnicas del violoncello, transformandolo en un instrumento solista...

XX Premio Fundación Obra Pía de los Pizarro Francisco Pizarro vino al mundo en Trujillo de Extremadura. Fue fruto de los furtivos amores mantenidos entre la campesina Francisca González y el capitán Gonzalo Pizarro; por tanto tuvo genes plebeyos e hidalgos. Sin embargo, muy pronto primaron en él los paternos, ya que a los diecisiete años éstos le indujeron a seguir la carrera militar. A esa edad se enroló en los tercios del Gran Capitán, que luchaban en Nápoles, y desde entonces se convirtió en un soldado. Consecuentemente, después de regresar de Italia, en 1502, marchó a las...

In the year I was born and in Africa in 1984, Mobutu already had more than USD $ 15 billion in his personal fortune derived from the trafficking of Congo's natural resources, which he renamed Zaire (the name of his beloved mother). ). That same year, the gross domestic product of France was USD 532,339 million, with a growth of USD $ 30,160 million compared to the previous year, 1983. Mobutu Sese Seko, during his 32 years of power, became the most powerful and dangerous fool in the world, and above all, the richest. Being benevolent in the estimates and taking into account some other...