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The Lady of Elche is an Iberian sculpture dating from the 5th and 4th centuries BC. C. It was found "by chance" in the La Alcudia site, in the region of Elche, Alicante (Spain), at the end of the century ...
Wild Tales is a Spanish-Argentine film written and directed by the filmmaker Damián Szifron that was released in 2014. The film revolves around six self-concluding stories, ...
The song "Chilanga banda" was composed in 1994 by the controversial Mexican composer and singer Jaime López, internationalized by the group Café Tacvba. Originally, the topic was ...
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is a Dutch painter who, along with Gauguin, Cézanne and Matisse, is considered a fundamental figure of Post-Impressionism. Ahead of his time, during his life ...
The Virgilio Barco Public Library, located in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, is an architectural complex designed by the architect Rogelio Salmona and inaugurated at the end of 2001. His ...
La vorágine is a novel written by the Colombian author José Eustasio Rivera. It was published in 1924, and is considered Rivera's masterpiece and a classic of Colombian literature and ...
The Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City is a multifunctional building, whose heritage and historical value led it to be declared an artistic monument of the nation by the Mexican government ...
The pyramids of Egypt are the oldest constructions that remain standing. Conceived for eternity, they are the living testimony of a religious mentality, but also of an empire ...
For its beauty, history and fortune, the Tower of Pisa was named a World Heritage Site in 1987. This monument, conceived as a bell tower, is framed in the Romanesque style of the Middle Ages ...
The song Thunderstruck by the rock group AC / DC was composed by Angus McKinnon Young and Malcolm Mitchell Young and is part of the album The Razors Edge, released in 1990. The song...
The movie Life of Pi, also known as An Extraordinary Adventure, tells the story of how young Pi experiences the presence of God after surviving a ...
Released in 2004, The Passion of the Christ is a film co-written and directed by American actor and director Mel Gibson. This film recounts the events that occurred in the last 12 hours of ...
The Cathedral of Notre Dame or Our Lady of Paris, represents the French Gothic style in all its splendor. It began to be built in the year 1163, and since then, it is a reference ...
Postmodernity can refer both to the process of cultural transformation of modernity from the 1970s, and especially the 1980s, as well as to the different cultural movements, ...
"Knowledge is power" means that the more knowledge a person has about something or someone, the more power they will have. Roughly speaking, the phrase refers to how knowledge about something makes us ...
The thinker, Le penseur (in French) or T he thinker (in English) is an impressionist metal sculpture created in 1881 by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). It is the most ...
What is Respect for the rights of others is peace: "Respect for the rights of others is peace" is an apothegm or teaching in a brief sentence of the liberal politician Benito Juárez (1806-1872), ...
What does the poem Canción by José Moreno Villa mean: The poem "Canción" by José Moreno Villa (Málaga, 1887-Mexico City, 1955) is a rhyme or song of oral tradition compiled in his ...
The Latin phrase Veni. Vidi. Vici. it was attributed to Julius Caesar when, after a hard battle, he communicated to the Roman Senate a conquest that he had made over an enemy army. On...
The mural The controlling man of the universe, by Diego Rivera (1886-1957), is a version of the work Man at the crossroads originally commissioned in 1933 for the Center...
What is Cantar de Mio Cid: The Cantar de Mio Cid is based on the exploits of the Spanish gentleman Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043-1099), also known as "el Campeador". The author of the play Cantar de ...
Included on the album Nevermind, Nirvana's best-selling album, the song Smells Like Teen Spirit ('it smells like teenage spirit' would be its Spanish translation) was released in 1991. Soon...
Let It Be is one of the most famous ballads of the band The Beatles, released in 1970 on the album of the same name. Written by Paul McCartney and composed with the participation of John Lennon, a ...
Who did not listen, in their childhood, to some of these fables before going to sleep? These short stories, followed by a moral, are part of the collective imagination and have endured over time ...
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, known as Salvador Dalí (Spain 1904-1989), is one of the most important exponents of Surrealism. Loved by some and opposed by others, ...
What it means And yet it moves: "And yet it moves" is a phrase erroneously attributed to the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, who would have pronounced it after being forced to ...
What is Land and Freedom: "Land and Freedom" is a phrase used as the slogan of peasant struggles for the claim of land rights. In Mexico, it was the Party's motto ...
What it means Luck only favors the prepared mind: "Luck only favors the prepared mind" is an original phrase by the French scientist Louis Pasteur, later quoted and ...
What is Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech: “I Have a Dream” or, in Spanish, “I have a dream”, is a speech that was delivered by the American Martin Luther King, ...
Fernando Botero is a Colombian plastic artist who enjoys the highest international recognition. He is usually known as "the painter of the fat women", but far from what most believe, ...
A set of biomorphic, phytomorphic and geometric geoglyphs designed and executed on the Nazca and Palpa desert, department of Ica, is known by the name of "Nazca lines".
Roma is a film by Alfonso Cuarón released in 2018. The film addresses in an intimate and extraordinary way the daily life of a middle-class family, in the Mexico of the 70s, a ...
Teotihuacán is a pre-Hispanic city located in Mexico, which is considered a World Heritage Site thanks to its fascinating pyramids. But it is also a mystery. The mystery begins ...
Ida Vitale, Uruguayan poet member of the generation of 45 and representative of essentialist poetry, is one of the most important poetic voices in the Spanish-American world. Says the critic ...
Mario Benedetti is a Uruguayan writer who has marked several generations through his lyrics. He was, without a doubt, a controversial writer. His political positions would provoke a life of exile ...
In the book El laberinto de la soledad, the writer Octavio Paz reflects on the identity of Mexico and the cultural values that move the threads of its history. Written in the form of the essay, ...
Taj Mahal means "crown of palaces" and is one of the seven wonders of the world. It was built between 1631 and 1653 in Agra, India. It is a mausoleum dedicated to the favorite wife ...
Black is a song from the first album by the American band Pearl Jam, called Ten and released in 1991. It was composed by Eddie Vedder and talks about breaking up a relationship ...
Andy Warhol is considered the father of pop art, an artistic movement that emerged in the mid-twentieth century that incorporated the themes of mass culture into the repertoire of the arts and broke the aura of ...
"America for Americans" is a phrase that expresses what is now known as the Monroe Doctrine, which defines the foreign policy of the United States in the American hemisphere. Originally,...
Machu Picchu, which means 'Old Mountain' in Quechua, is the name that today is given to an ancient Inca city, located on the top of the mountain of the same name. This mountain houses a work ...
Coco is an animated film from Disney Studios, released in 2017. Inspired by one of the traditional Mexican celebration known as Día de Muertos, the film has become ...