The brothers John and Jesus Garcia Naveira emigrated from Betanzos (A Coruña) to Argentina in the 19th century to make a fortune, like so many other compatriots... but they succeeded. On his return to Spain in 1893 he financed charitable works in his native village:schools, fountains, asylums, hospi
The coup détat of July 18 failed to succeed in the province of Jaén due to the strength of the labor movement, the scarcity of military personnel and the fact that the Republican militias managed to arm themselves by assaulting the Civil Guard barracks. The main confrontation took place in the Sanct
Our young king was brought up by women and Italians who are more fearful than women, wrote one of the high-ranking courtiers. And not so far from the truth. Little Sigismund was seven years old when in 1527 there was a tragedy in Niepołomice - an accident in which his only brother died shortly a
He who loses his riches loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses everything. These words of the universal Miguel de Cervantes they should not have reached the ears of the Frenchman Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve or at least they did not make a dent in it