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The bravest journalist in the world

If Don Ambrose Bierce were alive, we would have to take off his hat in his presence. He was the bravest journalist ever. On his desk he had a skull: "It is

The best kept secret

source The story began in Coyoacán, Mexico. Matilde, a young girl, came back from school and one day, nervously or knowingly, she did not know, she dropped the notebooks

Could it be that we have an ant brain?

Of everything that we know in the universe, our own brain is the most surprising thing. And the most paradoxical thing is that the one hundred billion neurons allow

The movie that we never saw

To escape the misery and religious persecution in Europe, a couple of Irish and Scottish, took a ship that threatened to be shipwrecked with each wave, and that

Tips for Donald Trump

It happened in another country. There, a friend with cheekbones and pigmented skin asked him to fill out a form for his father to access an emergency medical service.

Nine dangerous blacks

The 9 defendants and their lawyer. Center: Vicky and Ruby, used to accuse the detainees. Right: Clarence Norris, the last survivor, was pardoned at the age of 60

Russia in the times of cholera

It happened to a 14-year-old Russian boy and he marked it for life. One day an epidemic of cholera broke out in the city. There was no effective medication and one

Revenge, more revenge, more revenge...

source Revenge is a dish that is eaten cold. A beautiful woman, named Monika Ertl, with a sweet face like few others, starred in one of the most shocking revenges

He was flying like a butterfly, and what was Muhammad Ali afraid of?

One afternoon, in New York, Robert Bruckell, a young black man, decided to commit suicide when he discovered that he was more afraid of life than of death. His childhood

Actress, spinner, ruler and saint

In the story each character is stranger than the other. Some are immortalized in books and statues, or are famous for some war or something similar. But there are

The return of Dracula. But really, no fake.

fuente They say that a classic work is one that nobody has read, but that everyone knows what it is about, like The Bible, Don Quixote, Capital, and some more. And

THE SAILOR MUSICIAN

The story of Nicolás was very simple and similar to that of many children around the world. To him, like many children, he had an authoritarian father, with some

Who was that Hitler?

Someone said that to know what the world would be like if the Nazis had won the war, it would be enough to see and hear the news every day. Nothing better than a

The stranger who knew the value of the word

It happened in ancient Greece, in the middle of a play. In one scene, one of the characters, who played the role of king, came out dressed in rags. At that moment,

Where is there an innocent to shoot?

source Somewhere in the world, in an amusement park, a row of onlookers in front of a huge, closed cage, looks inside through a small hole. Above, a sign says:

POOR NICE CHILD

source In the nineteenth century England, when the industrial revolution was just beginning, the employees of the street and the pretext of protecting the cold,

FAMOUS BARBER

source Tells a story, that an earl was in love with a young girl who lived in the inn of a distrustful and cantankerous old man who did not allow anyone to approach

Slandered Bird

source Humans are unfair when we use animals to remember our own defects. We insult ourselves with "donkey, rat, dog" or, sometimes, we simply say

Nothing happens: they declared war on us

source Francois Miterrand is said and people know that he was a French president. But Marelle Pereira, who today is 38 years old, and who was orphaned at 8, knows

Why not believe in storks?

source There was a time when many, as children, we thought we had arrived from Paris at the peak of some stork. Then, discovering what it was like, we learned that