About half a thousand protesters entered San Franciscos Golden Gate Park on the 19th to practice the new fashion of toppling statues. One of those chosen was the bronze effigy of Fr. Junípero Serra . This Spanish Franciscan, far from being a genocide or a racist, represented the opposite throughout
Dimitrios is an exotic, so to speak, personality whose actions, although completely historically documented, also passed into the zone of legend of the eastern peoples. Dharmamita of the Yonas or Yavanas, as the Greeks were called, left behind a reputation that still accompanies the Greeks in these
It is known that in kabuki , one of the classic forms of Japanese theatre, cannot be performed by women, and the female roles are played by transvestite men who often turn out to be more feminine than the very ladies they are trying to imitate. They are the onnagata , ambiguous and provocative figur
An ace of intelligence who, disguised as a Wehrmacht general, stole the secret plans of the Nazis. Pilot, engineer, inventor, polyglot. Spy. One of the best in his profession. Kazimierz Leskis biography is so colorful and moving that it could form the basis of one of the novels from the James Bond s