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Mario Rubio es un fotógrafo especializado en fotografía nocturna, paisajes y larga exposición. Desde 2007 lidera la web Fotógrafo Nocturno que es una referencia en todos los países de lengua hispana en cuanto a fotografía nocturna se refiere. Cientos de artículos, tutoriales, reviews de productos y (...)

The bombing of Guernica has become a symbol of Nazi involvement in the Spanish Civil War, but the extent of the German commitment is often underestimated. The Luftwaffe sent 20,000 officers and men to Spain from 1936 to 1939, and the Condor Legion carried out many missions in support of the Spanish (...)

The siege of Constantinople in AD 717-18 was the supreme crisis of Western civilization.The Byzantine Empire had been reeling under the onslaught of Arabic imperialism since the death of the Prophet, whilst Jihadist armies had detached Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and Carthage from imperial control and (...)

The final months of Allied naval bombardments on the Home Islands during World War II have, for whatever reason, frequently been overlooked by historians. Yet the Allies' final naval campaign against Japan involved the largest and arguably most successful wartime naval fleet ever assembled, and was (...)

The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes to tanks in the subsequent months?Offering (...)

The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, decisively opened Japan to the outside world and the monarchy embraced modernization, including the creation of a new Westernized army. However, this modernization process was resisted by the (...)

La obra de Jesús de la Sota, conocido fundamentalmente por sus diseños de muebles, que a menudo complementaban los edificios de reconocidos arquitectos (como Alejandro de la Sota, su hermano mayor), constituye un caso singular dentro del diseño español del siglo XX. Destacó siempre por su elegante (...)

Published to accompany a major international exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life features Hockney's drawings from the 1950s to the present day, and focuses on his depictions of himself and a small group of sitters close to him: his muse, Celia Birtwell; his mother, Laura Hockney; and his (...)

La potenciación del transporte ferroviario de mercancías ha sido uno de los grandes anhelos de la industria y las instituciones catalanas que, actualmente, tratan de aprovechar las sinergias generadas por los grandes proyectos diseñados desde Europa. El funcionamiento de las cadenas logísticas solo (...)