Francisco-franco News Report

Who invented Scalextric? Was it the first electric race car set?

QUESTION Who invented Scalextric? Was it the first electric race car set? In 1912, New York toymaker Lionel Co. launched the first electric slot car racing set, featuring heavy tinplate cars, miniatur...

04.22.2024 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sites

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Seville's flamenco haven where tradition, fashion dance hand in hand

Luis Fernandez's workshop in Seville's Old City is buzzing with customers who have come to try on his dazzling array of flamenco dresses, their vibrant fabrics replete with voluptuous ruffles and polk...

04.21.2024 Thestar.com.my and 5 sites

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Will he stay or will he go? 6 things to know about Pedro Sánchez’s threat to resign

It’s the bombshell announcement that’s left Spain bewildered and raised eyebrows across Europe. Citing exasperation with right-wing attacks on his family, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he is takin...

04.25.2024 Politico.eu and 2 sites

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The 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution - the peaceful uprising that toppled a dictatorship and ended a decade of colonial war

Across Portugal, a number of photography exhibitions are currently on display that commemorate the ousting of the Estado Novo , the dictatorial, authoritarian and corporatist political regime that had...

04.24.2024 Copenhagennews.net and 2 sites

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Carnation Revolution, a wind of change that blew from Portugal 50 years ago

By Nur Asena Erturk Portugal marks on Thursday, April 25, the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution that ended the dictatorship and led the country to democracy. The bloodless military coup orchestrated in 1974 was a wind of change that blew from Portugal during the Cold War, and marked the memories with the images of the revolutionary soldiers with carnations inserted in their rifle barrels. The military coup took over then-Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano, and the dictatorial regime of hi...

04.25.2024 Aa.com.tr and 1 sites

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How the flamenco dress is evolving with fashion

Luis Fernandez's workshop in Seville's Old City is buzzing with customers who have come to try on his dazzling array of flamenco dresses, their vibrant fabrics replete with voluptuous ruffles and polk...

04.24.2024 Livemint.com

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The artist who painted Franco’s tomb locks himself in a shop window dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner

The Corus Artist Enrique Tenreiro In October 2018, he painted a dove on the dictator’s tomb Francisco Franco in the Valley of the Fallen. Now, Tenreiro has started a sit-in in an art gallery window in...

04.24.2024 Observatorial.com and 1 sites

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For being a “civic reference” Joan Manuel Serrat receives the famous Princess of Asturias Award

The Princess of Asturias Awards They recognized this Wednesday the “civic reference” of the Spanish artist and universal singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat and author of songs like ‘Mediterráneo’ or...

04.24.2024 Euro.eseuro.com and 1 sites

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Eight Decades After the Spanish Civil War, Is Spain’s Slow Exhumation of Its Traumatic Past a Signal That It Is Ready To Build “A Culture of Memory?

Three people work in silence over a hole in the ground. They are hunched over, on their knees. One of them lays down to make it easier to manoeuvre. In front of them is a collection of bones: arms, pe...

04.20.2024 Portside.org

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ST GEORGE’S DAY – APRIL 23

By The Crazy Guy St George, a military saint, is famous for slaying a fierce dragon, which was causing p anic in the city of Silene, Libya, at the time that George arrived there. Historically, the countries of England, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia...

04.23.2024 Eyeonspain.com