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Trece chicas, siete de ellas menores de edad, murieron fusiladas la madrugada del 5 de agosto de 1939 contra las tapias del cementerio del Este en Madrid. Su delito: ser rojas . Minutos antes habían sido ajusticiados contra el mismo paredón cuarenta y tres compañeros de la Juventud Socialista (...)

¿Ha muerto definitivamente el arte occidental? ¿Podrá salir algún día del pozo sin fondo en el que parece encontrarse? Giorgio Agamben habla en este ensayo de Arte y Terror, lleva a cabo una fascinante relectura del origen del "buen gusto", de la separación entre el artista y el espectador, para (...)

Even before the spectacular success of its X-1 rocket-powered aircraft in breaking the "sound barrier," the adventurous Bell Aircraft Corporation was already pushing ahead with a parallel project to build a second aircraft capable of far higher speeds. The X-2 (or Model 52) explored the equally (...)

Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle-making brothers from Dayton, Ohio, secured their place as the most famous names in aviation history when, on December 17, 1903, they made the first powered, controlled, and sustained heavier-than-air flight. But their success over the cold and windswept (...)

Adopted from the Celts in the 1st century BC, the spatha, a lethal and formidable chopping blade, became the primary sword of the Roman soldier in the Later Empire. Over the following centuries, the blade, its scabbard, and its system of carriage underwent a series of developments, until by the 3rd (...)

Apenas inaugurado, en 2015, el Museo Universidad de Navarra invitó a Elena Asins a producir un proyecto para el Museo. Ella propuso uno que denominaba La ciudad democrática. Se trataba de poner en pie una ciudad a partir de la experiencia del espacio y el tiempo que había logrado en una escultura (...)

A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy worldwide, and which maintained and enforced the rule of the British Empire at its peak.In recent years the (...)

Packed with illustrations, this is a study of the Polish warships such as the Grom-class destroyers that were developed and built in the interwar years.Newly independent Poland's naval force was created in 1920, initially with six ex-German torpedo boats. However, after German-Soviet exercises off (...)

Escribir nuevamente sobre el General Amado Balmes era no solo imprescindible sino necesario, por higiene histórica, pues el economista Ángel Viñas estaba construyendo un relato sobre la figura del brigadier que en nada se parecía a la realidad de lo que ocurrió aquella mañana soleada del 16 de (...)