Granados Chapa

A dictionary of Mexican history, geography, and society offers information on prominent individuals in all fields, cities, states, and geographical features, Mexico's relations with each country in the world, and other subjects.

In the year I was born and in Africa in 1984, Mobutu already had more than USD $ 15 billion in his personal fortune derived from the trafficking of Congo's natural resources, which he renamed Zaire (the name of his beloved mother). ). That same year, the gross domestic product of France was USD 532,339 million, with a growth of USD $ 30,160 million compared to the previous year, 1983. Mobutu Sese Seko, during his 32 years of power, became the most powerful and dangerous fool in the world, and above all, the richest. Being benevolent in the estimates and taking into account some other...

«L’età classica della corrida finì un giorno del 1914 dal barbiere. Un giovanotto dalla bazza pronunciata entrò in un famoso salone della madrilena calle Sevilla e sistemandosi sulla poltrona ordinò: “Barba e capelli. Ma prima mi tagli il codino” [...] Era un matador di 22 anni in rapinosa ascesa [...] Voleva solo cortarse la coleta, anacronistico cascame settecentesco, prolungando sin nel look la rivoluzione modernista che aveva appena avviato nelle plazas de toros. Di lì in poi la storia della tauromachia si sarebbe divisa in un prima e un dopo Belmonte [...]. Ma in che cosa...

«No sé por qué debería regalar mi nueva música a iTunes o quién sea. No me pagan un anticipo por ello y encima se enfadan porque no pueden conseguirla.» Prince Prince es una de las pocas estrellas de la música que actualmente sigue siendo un enigma. Enemigo declarado de la prensa y las entrevistas, Prince ha contribuido, con una personalidad polémica y contradictoria, a crear su propio mito. Matt Thorne, reconocido escritor británico, ha hecho un trabajo meticuloso y exhaustivo en esta biografía de Prince en la que analiza su extenso catálogo musical y describe sus tendencias,...

Chronicles the life of Corrie, whose happy life in Holland is shattered when she is sent to a Nazi concentration camp, where she endured much suffering, but experienced God's love and help in unbearable situations. (Biography)