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...He pays particular attention to the 1923-1930 rule of strongman General Miguel Primo de Rivera — “the least researched period of modern Spain”....
...Although theoretically native peoples could not be enslaved, except under certain conditions, those conditions (if thought to be cannibals, rescued from human sacrifice or enslavement to a non-Christian,...
...Look at Cortés’s and Pizarro’s odds-defying conquests....
...What four-word title is given to the speech delivered in Washington on August 28 1963 by the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?...
...Naya Rivera, Glee’s groundbreaking actor: in case you missed it, I wrote an obituary of the incredibly talented Rivera, whose portrayal of a teenage “megabitch” in the high-school musical drama was an inspiration...
...The Valley of the Fallen is officially a memorial to the war dead on both sides and contains the remains of 33,000 people — but the only marked graves are those of Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera...
...To staunch the losses, the Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera ruled out a coalition with Mr Sánchez and aligned it with the two other parties to his right....
...Rivera depicted the modern nation as the product of its tormented economic, racial, and religious past....
...On the other it is feeling the heat from disruptive, fresh-faced centrists, notably Emmanuel Macron in France and Albert Rivera in Spain....
...The victim, Mollie Tibbetts, was a white Christian. Her alleged killer, Cristhian Rivera, was a Mexican illegal immigrant. Those split screens exposed America’s visceral divisions....
...Mr Castaner also visited Albert Rivera, leader of Spanish centrist party Ciudadanos, this week. More trips are likely, aides say....
...Mr Macron’s party is holding talks with Albert Rivera, the 37-year-old Spanish centrist leader of Ciudadanos, part of ALDE....
...These are some of the ways Claus Guth’s sterile new production, with sets and costumes by Christian Schmidt, drains Beethoven’s robust opera of its red blood....
...Basque: Spanish Recipes from San Sebastián and Beyond, by José Pizarro, Hardie Grant Books, RRP£25/$39.95 This is Pizarro’s third book in which he finally gets to explore his own roots in Basque cooking...
...The Christian symbolism of the execution scene was as predictable as it was sentimental. operaparallele.org...
...Christian Salomé, president of L’Auberge des Migrants, a group that provides food and other aid in the camp, says getting across is just a matter of time....
...All evidence suggests that he was raised a Greek Orthodox Christian....
...But Trujillo, one of Spain’s most authentic cities, still wears its historical heart on its Christian sleeve with an annual victory celebration....
...Junot Díaz’s top 10 books: Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor by Tom Athanasiou; Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic by Edward Rivera; From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary...
...This year it is the turn of French sculptor, photographer and installation artist Christian Boltanski....
...“His force is capable of carrying out operations with or without coalition help,” Captain Pedro Rivera of 1-67 Armor Regiment, based near Kirkuk, told me....
...ever a peg on which Shaffer had hung his favourite dramatic conceit: the love/hate clash between the uninhibited, brilliant, inspiring wild/pagan/other and the repressed, laborious, worshipful civilised/ Christian...
...But even if we know the names of Cortes and Montezuma, Pizarro and Atahualpa, few of us are familiar with the story of how Spain lost its American empire 300 years after Cortes planted his flag on Mexico...
...Coming from a large African country that is home to both Christians and Muslims, he is on the front line of the Church's engagement with other world religions....
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