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  31: The Grandparents of Editorial Cartoons

  November

  1: Danger! Animals!

  2: Day of the Dead

  3: The Guillotine

  4: The Suicide of Tenochtitlán

  5: A Sickness Called Work

  6: The King Who Was Not

  7: Dreams

  8: Legal Immigrants

  9: No Entry

  10: World Science Day

  11: Fyodor Dostoevsky Was Born Twice

  12: I Don’t Like It When They Lie to Me

  13: The Father of Moby-Dick

  14: The Mother of Female Journalists

  15: Hugo Blanco Was Born Twice

  16: An Examiner of Life

  17: The Other Ear

  18: Zorro Was Born Four Times

  19: The Moss and the Stone

  20: Things Children Say

  21: The Saddest Match in History

  22: International Music Day

  23: Grandpa

  24: Grandma

  25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

  26: Laura and Paul

  27: When the Waters of Rio de Janeiro Burned

  28: The Man Who Taught by Learning

  29: World Terror Championship

  30: A Date in Paradise

  December

  1: Farewell to Arms

  2: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

  3: The King Who Said “No More”

  4: Green Memories

  5: The Longing for Beauty

  6: A Lesson in Theater

  7: Art Doesn’t Age

  8: The Art of Neurons

  9: The Art of Living

  10: Blessed War

  11: The Poet Who Was a Crowd

  12: Tonantzin Is Called Guadalupe

  13: International Day of Choral Singing

  14: The Monk Who Escaped Seven Times

  15: Green Man

  16: Fight Poverty: Massage the Numbers

  17: The Little Flame

  18: The First Exiles

  19: Another Woman Exiled

  20: The Encounter

  21: The Joy of Saying

  22: The Joy of Flying

  23: Resurrections

  24: A Miracle!

  25: Voyage of the Sun

  26: Voyage to the Sea

  27: The Traveler

  28: Nostalgia for the Future

  29: The Road Is Destiny

  30: We Are Made of Music

  31: Voyage of the Word

  Index of Names

  ABC, 271

  Abraham, 59

  Acosta, Juan Pío, 56

  Adam, 22, 125, 384

  AES Gener, 329

  Afghanistan, 137, 180, 313, 327, 369

  Africa, 38, 62, 96, 107

  Aguilar, Juana, 40

  Alabama, 7

  Alagoas, 71, 103

  Alaska, 88

  Aleksandr, Prince, 260

  Aleksandra, 260

  Alexandria, 190

  Alice, 217, 311

  Allah, 20, 76

  Allende, Salvador, 272

  Alvarado, Pedro de, 243

  Amaru, Túpac, 152

  Amazon, 97, 381

  Ameghino, Florentino, 294

  America, 4, 26, 245, 307, 311, 312

  American Psychiatric Association, 112

  Amsterdam, 246

  Andalusia, 118

  Andes, 86, 192, 235

  Andrei, Prince, 260

  Anselmo, Lance Corporal, 9

  Anthony, Susan B., 186, 187

  Antigua, 389

  Aphrodite, 45

  Appalachians, 174

  Aqualtune, 71

  Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 76

  Aranha, Felipa Maria, 71

  Araracuara, 84

  Arbenz, Jacobo, 127

  Argentina, 12, 13, 53, 73, 92, 161, 182, 183, 198, 293, 370

  Aristotle, 76

  Artemis, 218

  Artigas, José, 277, 278

  Aswan, 190

  Atahualpa, 171

  Athens, 222, 265

  Attar, Farid al-Din, 386

  Auschwitz, 162

  Australia, 23, 26, 50, 79

  Austria, 163, 271

  Aventis, 49

  Ayacucho, 36

  Azurduy, Juana, 247

  Baghdad, 5

  Bahia, 71

  Baker Street, 160

  Balaam, 59

  Balaguer, Emma, 305

  Ballestrino, Esther, 132

  Banderas, Antonio, 352

  Barbosa, Moacir, 215

  Barings Bank, 63

  Barnum, Phineas T., 206

  Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 25

  Barrett, Rafael, 9

  Barrett, Soledad, 9

  Bashō, Matsuo, 393

  Bay of Pigs, 122

  Bayer, 49

  Bayer, Osvaldo, 53

  Beatles, The, 47

  Beijing, 48

  Belgium, 271, 329

  Bell, Joshua, 14

  Bellarmino, Roberto, 158

  Benedict, Pope, 162

  Benga, Ota, 155

  Benguela, Teresa de, 71

  Berlin, 17, 62

  Bernal, Lorenzo, 172

  Bernays, Edward, 104

  Bianchi, Francisco, 91

  Bible, the, 59, 63, 76, 125, 205

  Black Corsair, the, 281

  Blagojevic, Petar, 163

  Blanco, Hugo, 349

  Bly, Nellie, 348

  Boabdil, 396

  Bobadilla, Rosa, 285

  Bolívar, Simón, 244

  Bolivia, 28, 73, 308, 309, 314

  Boninsegna, José Antonio, 370

  Boniperti, Giampiero, 212

  Bonpland, Aimé, 204

  Boop, Betty, 251

  Borges, Jorge Luis, 125

  Borneo, 226

  Botswana, 297

  Bouazizi, Mohamed, 383

  Braslavsky, Guido, 92

  Brazil, 9, 24, 39, 44, 56, 71, 103, 209, 211, 215, 216, 361, 373

  Brecht, Bertolt, 125

  Bretton Woods, 223

  British Air Council, 26

  British Empire, 63, 142, 182, 249

  Broadway, 251

  Bronx, 155

  Brown, John, 368

  Browning, Robert, 25

  Bruno, Giordano, 158

  Buenos Aires, 177, 178, 198, 247, 294

  Buñuel, Luis, 73

  Busch Circus, 292

  Bush, George W., 5, 292

  Butler, Smedley, 18

  Cabral, Amilcar, 280

  Cádiz, 395

  Caesar, Julius, 5, 83

  Caiboaté, 46

  California, 91, 119

  Calpurnia (Pisonis), 83

  “Cambalache”, 139

  Canada, 318

  Canary Islands, 70

  Cancún, 364

  Cândido, João, 361

  Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), 73

  Cañizares, Manuela, 244

  Capone, Al, 18

  Caracas, 328

  Cardano, Girolamo, 289

  Caribbean Sea, 122, 256, 305

  Carroll, Lewis, 217

  Cartagena de Indias, 37

  Carter, Howard, 143

  Carthage, 265

  Caruso, Enrico, 119

  Carver, George Washington, 7

  Cavalcanti, José Paulo, 377

  Caxias, Marquis of, 39

  Ceará, 381

  Celanese, 49

  Central America, 282

  Chang and Eng, 206

  Charity, Freedom and Diversity Party, 169

  Charlemagne, 30

  Charles I, 316

  Charles II, 340

  Chartres, 304

  Chávez, Hugo, 113

  Chekhov, Anton, 31

  Chengdu, 48

  Chernobyl, 128

  Chicago, 18, 342

  Chile, 172, 329, 355

  China, 25, 146, 237, 238, 326

  Chiquita Brands, 81
/>   Church of the Word, 91

  Churchill, Winston, 26, 249

  Cleopatra, 5

  Cnidus, 45

  Cockburn, Claud, 128

  Collodi, Carlo, 239

  Colocolo, 172

  Colombia, 81, 84, 325, 327

  Columbus, Christopher, 305

  Communist Party, 120, 390

  Conceição das Crioulas, 71

  Condor Plan, 52

  Congo, 155, 156

  Connecticut, 206

  Conservative Party, 129

  Constantine, 159

  Constantinople, 58

  Cook, James, 23

  Cooke, John, 316

  Copernicus, Nicolaus, 158

  Corá, Cerro, 69

  Córdoba, 92

  Cortés, Hernán, 306, 307, 338

  Coruña, 177

  Cos, 45

  Costa Rica, 367

  Coubertin, Baron de, 246

  Coyoacán, 306

  Cranach, Lucas, 331

  Crillon, Hotel de, 179

  Crioula, Mariana, 71

  Crowley, Richard, 186

  Cuba, 73, 122, 211

  Cuzco, 152, 349

  Czechoslovakia, 271

  Da Cutri, Leonardo, 253

  Dahomey, 369, 392

  Dalton, Roque, 144

  Darwin, Charles, 357

  Dávalos, Juan Carlos, 13

  Decca Recording Company, 47

  De la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés, 346

  Delaware River, 311

  Delft, 324

  Delon, Alain, 352

  Delta and Pine, 250

  Denmark, 271

  Descartes, René, 341

  Devil, the, 15, 22, 27, 78, 115, 124, 285, 290, 291, 331

  Díaz, Porfirio, 284

  Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 371

  Diego de la Vega, 352

  Diego Garcia, 301

  Dien Bien Phu, 141

  Di Monte, Piero, 184

  Discépolo, Enrique Santos, 139

  Disney, Walt, 239

  Dmitri, Prince, 260

  Dominican Republic, 305

  Donne, John, 99

  Don Quijote de la Mancha, 125

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 345

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 160

  Dracula, 163

  Dresden, 363

  Ducasse, Isidore, 106

  Dumas, Alexandre, 210

  DuPont, 49

  Ecuador, 10, 97, 244, 254

  Edwards, Henrietta, 318

  Egypt, 5, 40

  Eiffel Tower, 179

  Einstein, Albert, 120

  Eisenhower, Dwight, 127, 243, 302

  Elba, Isle of, 60

  El Salvador, 144

  Endesa, 329

  Engels, Friedrich, 11

  Enheduanna, 387

  Ephesus, 218

  Eratosthenes, 190

  Esparragosa, Narciso, 40

  Espejo, Manuela, 244

  Espírito Santo, 71

  Ethiopia, 358

  Eudoxia, 260

  Euripides, 372, 373

  Europe, 11, 59, 62, 128, 242, 271

  European Union, 111

  Eve, 125, 379, 384

  Exú, 38

  Fairbanks, Douglas, 352

  Falkland Islands, 182

  Father Sun, 378

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 120, 145, 262

  Fernando, 161

  Ferreira, Francisca and Mendecha, 71

  Figueres, Pepe, 367

  Finlay, Carlos, 248

  Flanagan, Hallie, 372

  Flood, the, 59

  Florence, 54, 176

  Fonseca Amador, Carlos, 230

  Fortunato, Ángela, 53

  Foster, Maud, 53

  Fracastoro, Girolamo, 242

  France, 60, 154, 164, 210, 241, 259, 271, 273

  Francesco, 54

  Francis of Assisi, Saint, 205

  Franco, Francisco, 51, 271

  Freire, Paulo, 362

  Fuji, Mount, 80

  Fukushima, 128

  Gabriel, Archangel, 16, 93

  Galileo Galilei, 158

  Gambá, Zacimba, 71

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 249

  García, Consuelo, 53

  Gelman, Macarena, 52

  Genesis, vii

  Genoa, 37

  Geppetto, 239

  German Football Association, 288

  Germany, 32, 85, 221, 241, 269, 270, 363

  Geronimo, 36

  Gibraltar, Strait of, 222

  Ginés de Sepúlveda, Juan, 376

  Girardelli, La Signora, 165

  Giraud, Marie-Louise, 337

  Glaucon, 319

  Goldman, Emma, 385

  God, 7, 16, 19, 20, 54, 61, 62, 64, 93, 124, 162, 178, 240, 283, 290, 305, 357, 378

  Gong, Prince, 326

  Gonzaga, Chiquinha, 39

  Gouges, Olympe de, 337

  Gough, Lady, 25

  Goya, Francisco de, 117

  Gracia, Marcela, 177

  Granada, 4

  Grand Café (Paris), 87

  Greece, 319

  Guadalajara, 49

  Guanajuato, 342

  Guatemala, 91, 108, 125, 127, 389

  Guayaquil, 185

  Güegüense, 27

  Guevara, Che, 308, 309

  Guinea-Bissau, 280

  Guipúzcoa, 37

  Guiyang, 146

  Gutenberg, Johannes, 59

  Haiti, 15, 16, 250, 257, 336

  Halley’s Comet, 153

  Hammurabi, 109

  Hapsburg monarchy, 340

  Harlequin Theater, 373

  Havana, 248

  Hawaii, 23

  Hays Code, 251

  Hegel, Georg Friedrich, 125

  Hell, 4, 38, 178, 197, 331

  Helsinki, 227

  Hercules, Pillars of, 222

  Hergé

  (Georges Prosper Remi), 156

  Herodotus, 287

  Herostratus, 218

  Hessel, Stéphane, 11

  Hidalgo, Miguel, 284

  Hikmet, Nazim, 8

  Hill, Joe, 353

  Hiroshima, 64, 240, 296, 363

  Hitler, Adolf, 32, 221, 261, 270, 271, 363

  Ho Chi Minh, 141

  Holbein, Hans, 331

  Hollywood, 64, 65, 163, 251, 310

  Holmes, María de las Mercedes, 275

  Holmes, Sherlock, 125, 145, 160

  Holy Inquisition, 40, 178, 195, 289

  Holy Spirit, 91

  Holy Trinity, 77

  Hong Kong, 335

  Honorata, 281

  Houdini, Harry, 292

  House Committee on Un-American Activities, 372

  Huanoquite, 349

  Hunt, Ward, 186

  IBM, 49

  Iceland, 111

  Iemanyá, 38

  Ife, 107

  Inanna, 387

  India, 249

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 111, 223, 382

  Inti Raymi, 192

  Iran, 127

  Iraq, 5, 88, 313

  Isidore the Laborer, Saint, 378

  Ismael, Abdul Kassem, 5

  Israel, 148, 205

  Istanbul, 58

  Italy, 239

  Ivan the Terrible, 260

  Jamaica, 42

  James II, King, 203

  James, Jesse, 105

  Japan, 80, 128, 393

  Jehovah, 76

  Jesus Christ, 38, 93, 114, 123, 205, 224, 289, 378, 389, 391

  Jiménez, Ángela, 285

  Joan of Arc, 164

  João (peasant), 276

  João, Prince, 219

  John of Damascus, Saint, 76

  John the Baptist, Saint, 378

  Josaphat, 304

  Juliache, María, 53

  Justinian, Emperor, 58

  Juventus, 212

  Kahlo, Frida, 207

  Katyn, 363

  Kealakekua Bay, 23

  Kepler, Johannes, 350

  Khama, Seretse, 297r />
  Kharkov, 363

  Kim Il Sung, 208

  Kinchil, 94

  King, Martin Luther, 262

  Kisiljevo, 163

  Klee, Paul, 374

  Kooning, Willem de, 220

  Koran, The, 76

  Ku Klux Klan, 65, 105

  Kurosawa, Akira, 80

  Labat, Jean-Baptiste, 256

  Laden, Osama bin, 136

  Lafargue, Paul, 360

  Lago Agrio, 97

  Lame, Quintín, 325

  Lamport, William, 352

  Landa, Diego de, 115

  Lapinha, Joaquina, 188

  La Rioja (Spain), 123

  Las Vegas, 342

  Latin America, 63

  Laurence, William L., 296

  Lautréamont, Comte de, 106

  Lecumberri Prison, 284

  Lee, Robert E., 368

  Lenin, Vladimir, 79, 125

  Lenkersdorf, Carlos and Gudrun, 85

  Leonid, Archbishop, 260

  León, Manuela, 10

  Levi Montalcini, Rita, 375

  Levoisier, Jean, 304

  Lezo, Blas de, 37

  Li Po, 193

  Libya, 313

  Life Magazine, 64, 220

  Lillo, Miguel Ignacio, 293

  Lima, 98, 307

  Lincoln, Abraham, 105, 278

  Liñeira, Oscar, 184

  Lisbon, 24, 188

  Liverpool, 47

  Loij, Angela, 57

  London, 24, 47, 82, 99, 271

  López de Segura, Ruy, 253

  López Rocha, Miguel, 49

  Lorz, Fred, 202

  Los Angeles, 64, 342

  Louis XIV, 273

  Louis XVI, 284

  Louis XVIII, 60

  Lucian of Samosata, 222

  Lucy, 358

  Lumière, Louis and Auguste, 87

  Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 19

  Lustig, Victor, 179

  Luther, Martin, 73, 331

  Luxemburg, Rosa, 17

  Lydia, 319

  Lynch, Eliza, 69

  Lyon, 87

  Machado y Álvarez, Antonio, 118

  Mack, Myrna, 125

  Madrid, 73, 117, 257, 340

  Mãe Domingas, 71

  Malaysia, 281

  Mandela, Nelson, 201

  Manhattan Minerals Corp., 171

  Maní Convent (Yucatán), 115

  Manso, Juana, 198

  Manzanares River, 117

  Maracaibo, Gulf of, 281

  Maracanã Stadium, 216

  Maradona, Diego, 213

  Mares, Encarnación, 285

  Maria I, Queen of Portugal, 24, 219

  Mariana, Lady, 281

  Marie Antoinette, 337

  Marley, Bob, 42

  Marlowe, Christopher, 372

  Maruja, 98

  Marx, Karl, 11, 79, 82, 360

  Marx, Laura, 360

  Maryland, 95

  Mata Hari, 241

  Mato Grosso, 71

  Matos, Gregório de, 373

  McClung, Nellie, 318

  McDonald’s, 314

  McKinney, Louise, 318

  Méliès, Georges, 87

  Melville, Herman, 347

  Menchú, Rigoberta, 243

  Mendes, Chico, 381

  Mexico, 22, 73, 77, 85, 278, 284, 295, 306, 315, 327, 335, 336, 343, 348, 352, 378, 380

  Miami, 122

  Michelangelo, 54, 176

  Miednoje, 363

  Milky Way, 237

  Mirabal sisters, 359

  Miró, Joan, 374

  Mitra, 391

  Moctezuma, 284, 338

  Mohammed, 20, 76

  Moniteur Universel, Le, 60