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Summary
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May 2008
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The forgotten dead: we track down all the common graves in Catalunya
Graves to conceal the crimes of Franco’s retaliation and those of uncontrolled groups, graves to bury those who fell at the front or as rearguards, graves at hospitals…The historian Queralt Solé has found 179 trenches of differing types that still exist in the Principat. They may hide the bodies of over 9,000 people, most of them soldiers, from both sides.
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Hatshepsut, the great queen of Egypt
After her role as the queen-consort of Pharaoh Tuthmosis II, Hatshepsut put all her wits to use in order to take the reins of power in Egypt in the 15th century BC. Despite gaps in history and the sexist judgements passed down on her, her commitment to peace is unquestionable as is her impressive constructive legacy.
The new Barcelona of the Danube
In 1735 the troops of Philip V occupied Sicily and Naples. After losing the War of Succession many Catalans began a second exile in Vienna. Perceived as an economic burden to the coffers of the Empire, Charles VI made them colonists of a region defined by the Danube.
The first king of the Americas
Henry I was the king of the first free, black country in the Americas at a time in history in which Africans were slaves almost all over the world. A defender of the rights of the black population, he took his cue from European aristocratic customs and implemented an absolute monarchy on the island of Haiti.
What music and musicians were like in the Middle Ages
In addition to musical pieces of a religious nature, the 12th century was also an extremely rich era for popular and secular music in palaces and town squares at the hands of minstrels and troubadours.
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