Nobody can deny that Marlon Brando is one of the acting profession's most venerated names, but he also had a habit of phoning ...

A particular case in point was the Spanish Friar Tomás de Torquemada who assumed the title of the First Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. A hardened man who backed torture-based ...

The authors dedicate an entertaining chapter to Bergh’s clash with circus magnate P.T. Barnum, who displayed a menagerie of ...

Some Seders will be hosted by families who lost loved ones on October 7 or in battle with Hamas or Hezbollah. Others will be ...

Torquemada, and Hitler (sic) but also the military genius of Gideon and Joshua, the music of Deborah and David, and so forth. I have written at considerable length about Mr. Neck's bogey ...

Founded in the 11th century to protect the Spanish territories from the Moors, this 'City of Saints and Stones', the birthplace of St Teresa and the burial place of the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada, ...

"What about Galileo?" is among my favorites, along with inquisitive notes about Torquemada. But the majority of these "zingers" turn out to be protests about the Church's rule of clerical celibacy.

Founded in the 11th century to protect the Spanish territories from the Moors, this 'City of Saints and Stones', the birthplace of St Teresa and the burial place of the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada, ...

A Chinese motorcycle dealer was last month deported from Kenya after a video leaked online showing him making a number of racist comments, igniting outrage across the country. He referred to the ...

Davies, Rhian 2020. Revisiting “Place” in a Realist Novel: “Thinking Space” in Galdós’s Torquemada en la hoguera (1889). Hispanic Research Journal, Vol. 21, Issue. 4, p. 353. Winner of the 2017 Peter ...

The first involved creating an electronic learning package to complement my electronic edition of Torquemada en la hoguera, the second was a grammar package for Level 2 (Post A-level) students and I ...