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Summary
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April 2008
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The first genocide of the 20th century
Between 1915 and 1917, two-thirds of the Armenians residing in the Ottoman Empire were massacred by the Turkish authorities. Considered the predecessor to the Holocaust, paradoxically, it is a historic episode that remains quite unknown. A hundred years later, the silence and denial cultivated by Turkey have kept the wounds from healing.
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The latest on Mary Magdalene
She is popularly known as a repented prostitute redeemed by Jesus. Nothing could be further from the truth. A witness to the death and resurrection of the Lord, Mary Magdalene was an outcast among the rest of the male apostles, who strove to construct a totally negative account of her character. Why?
Franco against the hippies
In the late sixties Ibiza became a point of pilgrimage for the hippies. Franco’s government, however, soon passed an action to bring the movement that offended the morals of the regime to an end. The plans they devised are reflected in a series of official reports from the Secretariat of the Civil Government that have been preserved in the Historical Archives of the Kingdom of Majorca.
I killed Rasputin!
The powerful gift of the gab and the golden mystique of the Siberian peasant Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin intoxicated the plebeians, clerics and aristocrats of tsarist Russia. The enormous influence that he came to hold in the Romanov court rendered him a very inconvenient person. So much so that some of his enemies orchestrated a plot to remove him for good from the circles of power.
What life was like in medieval Montblanc
The decision of Ramon Berenguer IV to establish a centre exempt from taxes in a fertile and territorially strategic area was an infallible call to settlers from regions near and far who decided to establish themselves there. Together they raised one of the most powerful towns in medieval Catalonia.
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