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Chichén Itzá, located on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, was a fortified Mayan city. Its name translates as 'Mouth of the well of the Itza'. The Itza were, apparently, characters ...
Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, in 1945. For her, poetry was the most important discovery of her life, since it allowed her to find a ...
The film The Embrace of the Serpent, directed by Ciro Guerra, was presented to the public in 2015 and was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film. It is a...
The song Until the Root is part of a self-titled album by Natalia Lafourcade, the sixth of her entire discography, released in 2015. It was composed and set to music by Lafourcade herself with ...
Armando Reverón is a Venezuelan painter, draftsman and sculptor born in 1889, whose legacy became so important that the MOMA dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him in 2007. He was...
The Beatles song Don't Let Me Down has become one of the greatest rock music classics of the 1960s. It was composed by John Lennon, despite being attributed ...
What does La Catrina by José Guadalupe Posada mean: La Catrina, a metal engraving published in 1873, is an original illustration by the Mexican engraver and cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada ...
What is the Grito de Dolores: The Grito de Dolores is the speech that begins the Mexican War of Independence delivered by the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla on September 16, 1810 in ...
What is Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega: Fuenteovejuna is a work by the Spanish playwright Félix Lope de Vega (1562-1635), published in 1619; It is considered one of the most ...
The story El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges is one of the most emblematic of this Argentine author. The interest aroused by it reaches such a point that it is considered a cult tale in the ...
What is it? The land belongs to those who work it: “The land belongs to those who work it” is a famous phrase of the Mexican Emiliano Zapata Salazar, renowned military and peasant leader, who represented the ...
What is the book The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm: The book The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm (Frankfurt, Germany 1900 - Muralto, Switzerland 1980) theorizes as a psychoanalyst, humanist and sociologist the faculty...
What is To the enemy who flees the silver bridge: "To the enemy who flees the silver bridge" is a phrase authored by the Castilian politician and military man, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453-1515), known in the ...
What it is If you want peace, prepare for war: “If you want peace, prepare for war” is a phrase by the Roman Flavio Vegecio Renato (383-450) contained in his work De re militari ...
The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated in 1889, the year in which the first centenary of the French Revolution was celebrated. It is considered a symbol of the industrial and technological advancement of the France of ...