Articles with keyword "Spain"
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Russian Dreams of an American Colony
Fort Ross on California's rocky coast contained an oasis of Russian refinement.
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Lorca, American Style
In spite of generations of poets and translators' efforts to categorize Federico García Lorca, his talent remains untamed.
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Thieves of Pleasure
A vicious fraternal war rewards Alfonso VI with the artistic and poetic treasures of al-Andalus.
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How to Lose Weight and Gain Power
From The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of a Castilian Culture, © 2008 by Jerrilynn D. Dodds, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale.
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Survival of the Luckless
Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s 1599 Indian Militia was called by historian Geoffrey Parker the “first manual of guerrilla warfare ever published.” Thomas Jefferson kept a copy on his bo