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Medicine’s Dubious History
The opera Giant, written for five voices and through the use of 18th century instruments tells this haunting story beautifully. There are moments at which you feel you are watching a bewitching heart-breaking fairy tale where the wicked witch is simply medical science.
Bricktop
Her journey in Paris was different, she came over as a performer but not as a super star like Josephine Baker. It was a quieter trip in a way. Bricktop sang and became a friend to big white stars.
From a Swiss farm to a palace in Constantinople: the extraordinary life of Elisabeth Tschumi.
From a Swiss farm to a palace in Constantinople Author: Rinaldo Tomaselli The extraordinary life of Elisabeth Tschumi who was born and brought up in a Swiss peasant family and then […]
Frederick Bruce Thomas: an extraordinary character’s tribulations
Author: Rinaldo Tomaselli Frederick Thomas was an African-American from Mississippi who made a fortune in Tsarist Russia and Constantinople. He was known as the Black Russian or Jazz Sultan.
Cinema: Dunkirk, Churchill and the Brexiteers
By Pierre Scordia One year after the shock of Brexit, two of Britain’s best known filmmakers, Christopher Nolan and Joe Wright, released two films about one of the most tragic episodes […]
Catalonia and other identities in our common home
It is rather unfair to set the entities of Catalonia and Spain against each other. As if Catalonia were a singular entity attached to the Spanish State, and the latter an homogeneous […]
HISTORY / LITERATURE / USA
From Kennedy to Hillary: the end of the myth of the American dream
The end of the myth of the American dream By Pierre Scordia Democracy seems a sham when you read two books, one by Hillary Rodman Clinton, What Happened, and the other […]
TEL AVIV – COMO EN CASA
Autor: Rea Peleg La mayoría de las personas que visitan Tel Aviv experimentan una sensación única de familiaridad, como si hubieran llegado a casa. Esto es raro encontrarlo en ciudades históricas grandes […]