22 5 / 2012
Acabo de darme cuenta de una cosa que me parece genial. Cuando leía un blog de moda en español, vi una errata pero todavía entendí lo que la escritora había querido decir. No busqué la palabra desconocida en el diccionario, sino me di cuenta que solamente era un error tipográfico. Pienso que esto es un indicio que mi nivel de comprensión ha mejorado. Esto me alegró mucho. :)
21 5 / 2012
Updated Inventory - Books/Plays I’ve Read
Los nuevos
El nuevo mundo descubierto por Cristobal Colón - Lope de Vega (Spain)
La traición en la amistad - María de Zayas y Sotomayor (Spain)
El burlador de Sevilla - Tirso de Molina (Spain)
La vida es sueño - Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Spain)
Fuenteovejuna - Lope de Vega (Spain)
El gran teatro del mundo - Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Spain)
19 5 / 2012
Tupac Amaru II
1742-1781
Tupac Amaru II was the nom de guerre of José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera, a Jesuit-educated mestizo from Peru who organized one of the largest indigenous rebellions against the Spanish in South America. Inspired by Garcilaso de la Vega’s seminal Comentarios Reales de los Incas, and claiming to be a descendant of the last great Inca leader Tupac Amaru, who had perished over two hundred years earlier, Condorcanqui began his insurrection with the public execution of a local colonial governor. He gathered up an army of several thousand indigenous people who quickly occupied various smaller colonial towns before successfully defeating the Spanish in the Battle of Sangarará in 1780. His army was eventually met by a string of defeats, and he was ultimately betrayed to the Spanish by some of his collaborators. Tupac Amaru II was sentenced to a brutal death in Cusco, where he was decapitated and quartered, his severed body parts strewn all over the country. Most of his family met a similar fate, and all his properties and goods were confiscated and destroyed. His rebellion led the colonial Spanish government to ban all outward expressions of Inca culture and traditions, and inspired similar indigenous revolts elsewhere in the continent.
(Source: fylatinamericanhistory, via fylatinamericanhistory)
15 5 / 2012
Mural de Diego Rivera en San Francisco California
Did you know Frida and Diego lived in San Francisco? He has several murals around the city, this one is at the San Francisco Art Institute on 800 Chestnut Street.
13 5 / 2012
ON THIS DAY: 13th May 1846 - The United States declared war on Mexico after a series of disputes in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, starting the Mexican–American War
Image shows a painting of the Battle of Veracruz by Carl Nebel
