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Gladiators school was discovered in Vienna

Marcos Ponce — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:08:57 +0000

Vienna, Austria, September 6, 2011
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A group of Austrian archaeologists found the remains of an ancient gladiatorial school 48 kilometers east of Vienna via satellite imagery.

The discovery has been called “sensational” because it is an important structure that even competes with the famous school for gladiators known as the Ludus Magnus, based in Rome.

The School of Vienna is part of a city that flourished 1,700 years ago as a prominent commercial and military point of the Roman Empire.

Although excavations didn’t begin yet, through satellite imagery, large murals can be seen surrounding 40 small cells where probably the fighters stood.

Also it was recognized a training area, bathrooms and a cemetery outside the walls, probably to those who died during training.

The gladiators were usually slaves or convicted criminals and they were exposed to these kinds of practices.

14 years ago, Mother Teresa died in Calcutta

Marcos Ponce — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:44:55 +0000

September 5, 2011
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Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997 in India, at age 87 after a life dedicated to the poor and marginalized.

Today the world remembers her and many continue her legacy because she was a woman with a great humanitarian work that inspired millions to give a little more of themselves in pursuit of those who have less.

Mother Teresa was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and the highest award of civil life in India, the Bharat Ratna in 1980.

Her remains now rest in Calcutta city at the headquarters of the religious order that Mother Teresa founded called the Missionaries of the Charity.

The Tango World Cup began in Buenos Aires

RedactorR — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:04:08 +0000

Buenos Aires, August 25, 2011
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On the track Maria Nieves on the Exhibition Centre, before a large number of spectators, the Tango World Cup started with Salon and Stage categories.

Today the second day of qualifying continue where each pair make two presentations to be evaluated by a jury of five members of the Association of Teachers, Dancers and Choreographers of Argentine Tango, Milongas Organizers Association and the Chamber of Tango Houses Argentine Popular Music.

Between Friday 26 and Saturday 27 at the Exhibition Centre, and Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 at Estadio Luna Park, the semifinals and finals will take place of the World Dance ‘Tango Salon’ and ‘Stage Tango’.

According to the regulations, “If there is tie by determination of the jury, contestants will dance the necessary to make a final decision.”

The score is defined as the accumulation of points given by judges on a scale of 1 to 10.

Google pays tribute to Jorge Luis Borges

Marcos Ponce — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:01:12 +0000

August 24, 2011
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Google uploaded a new logo on the homepage of its browser that pays homage to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges to celebrate the 112 anniversary of his birth.

Google unveiled on Wednesday a new ‘doodle’ recalling the work of the writer Jorge Luis Borges.

The man would be Borges watching through a window to the outside world with people who walk in his created world.

Clicking the ‘doodle’ the browser takes you to a page with the results on the writer’s life.

Francisco Solano López, Argentine cartoonist, died at 83 years old

RedactorB — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:32:33 +0000

Argentina, August 13, 2011

The Argentinean artist Francisco Solano Lopez, cartoonist of the comic “El Eternauta”, created by Hector Germán Oesterheld, died yesterday due to a stroke. His remains will not be veiled, and his body will be cremated by the family’s decision.

His career as an artist began in 1953 in the journal Misterix, then integrating the editorial staff of Oesterheld and where they created Rolo, The Martian Foster, Black Poppy, Joe Zonda, Rul of the Moon and El Eternauta, their most renewed comic.

“Oesterheld always liked science fiction. We had already done Rolo before the Eternauta and he felt like publishing a cartoon in that genre with Argentine heroes, at the same time realistic and science fiction” he said when asked about the origin of most famous character of the pair.

The Eternauta was first published in Hora Cero in 1957, reaching a total of 106 numbers. It was also reprinted on numerous occasions and recreated later with Alberto Breccia.

Between 1963 and 1968 he lived in Europe and painted Galaxus, Kelly Magic Eye, Eternal Adam and Prof. Kraken and then left for a time to draw in national magazines.

In 1976 he returned to the country and accepted the proposal of Oesterheld Editions to meet again and create a sequel to The Eternauta, published in the journal. Soon after, Oesterheld was kidnapped and Solano Lopez emigrated to Spain in 1977, where he make Slot Barr with his sons.

Controversy for Marilyn Monroe sculpture

Marcos Ponce — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:01:11 +0000

Chicago, August 08, 2008

A gigantic Marilyn Monroe sculpture inspired on the scene that became her in an international celebrity with her skirt flying by the air of a metro grill, has lift controversy in Chicago.

The art critics said it is bad taste, which has nothing to do with Chicago as the film was shooting in New York, and it’s close to maleness.

However tourist seems not to pay attention to these critics and the sculpture has become in a mandatory walk for the visitors.

The sculpture was made by Seward Johnson in two years and armed in three days. It weights 17 tones and it is of stainless steel.

San Cayetano: Work and bread patron

RedactorR — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:40:07 +0000

Buenos Aires, August 7, 2011

San Cayetano was born in 1480 in Vicenza, near to Venice, Italy and he is considered the Bread and Work patron.

Hundred of faithful are camping on the street in front of the sanctuary in Liniers neighbor since two days ago.

Today activities

At 12 am, Monsignor Raul Martin, auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires and Episcopal Vicar of Devoto zone will open the sanctuary doors to the peregrines and among the priests of the temple will make the first blessing, giving the welcome to all visitors that usually arrive to 100 Cuzco St. from different points of the country.

From 4 am to 11 am priests will give masses every hour while from the 1 pm to 11 pm they will take place at odd hours.

From 9 am masses will be celebrated in a little stage located in Cuzco St in front of the temple.

At 11 am the mass will be presided by Buenos Aires Bishop and First cardinal of Argentina Jorge Bergoglio. Then he will bless the faithful who are waiting to enter the temple.

As every year there will be two lines: one longer with that people who want to pass in front of San Cayetano image, located at the right side of the temple and other shorter for those who just desire to enter the temple.

Inside and outside the temple there will be priests available for confession.

The blessing of people, keys, images and religious objects will take place from 12 am every 15 minutes inside and outside the temple.

Advocate of divorce Florentina Gomez Miranda passed away

RedactorP — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:38:04 +0000

August 1, 2011

M24Digital regrets to inform the death of former MP and militant of the UCR Florentina Gomez Miranda. She passed away today being 99 years old.

Gomez Miranda served as national Member of Parliament of the Radical Civil Union (UCR) between 1983 and 1991, during the presidencies of Raul Alfonsin and Carlos Menem.

She introduced several social-changing projects such as divorce, equality between extra-marriage childs and marriage childs, the right of continue using the maiden name after marriage, and the pension to widows, divorced spouses, and non married partners.

Father Mario Pantaleo, 96 years of his birth

RedactorR — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:55:35 +0000

August 1st, 2011

Jose Mario Pantaleo was born August 1st 1915 in Pistoia, Florence, Italy. He was the son of Ida Melani and Rafael Enrique Pantaleo.

Jose Mario studied in a Salesian school and in 1931 entered in Arezzo seminar, where he became priest in Mattera Cathedral on December 3, 1944.

In 1948, he traveled to Argentina among a group of priests and decided to live in Gonzalez Catan town, where he created two humanitarian organizations, an elementary and a high school, a medical center, a bakery for disabled people, etc.

But father Pantaleo was recognized for his gift of cure people with his hands. Thousands follow him as famous citizens like artist Raul Soldi, businesswoman Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, writer Ernesto Sabato, and former presidents Arturo Frondizi and Carlos Menem.

Council building of San Luis

Marcos Ponce — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:07:33 +0000

SAN LUIS, July 30, 2011

In front of the San Luis hills, there is a replica of the historic Argentine council where no detail was forgotten. Thousand of tourists visit it every day.

Photos: Marcos Ponce for M24Digital

Eva Peron’s sculpture will be inaugurated in a new anniversary of her death

RedactorB — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:35:55 +0000

Argentina, July 26, 2011

Today will be inaugurated a artistic work made by the sculptor Alejandro Marmo and the painter Daniel Santoro of Eva Peron. The ceremony will take place on Avenida 9 de Julio y Belgrano.

On March 9, 2010 the President signed the decree 329, declaring Eva Peron as the “Woman of the Bicentennial,” in the context of the 200th anniversary of the May Revolution.

Thus it was decided to include in the north and south facades of the Ministry of Social Development, two portraits of Evita made with iron structures.

The artists were asked about whether the work could soon become a realistic state art, like the socialist realism of the USSR that had a clear objective of ideological indoctrination through art, to which Santoro said, “The work I’ve done with AlejandroMarmo is something else. It is realistic, obviously, but is in anchoring an urban icon. Evita, as well as the Che Guevara is an icon of universal value. She transcends Marmo and I. We wanted the picture to reflect such an urban icon of Buenos Aires. It has to be also a tourist picture”.

The ceremony will start at 8.25 pm, the time when Evita died on July 26, 1952.

July 9th Avenue was now completely cut off the traffic way south from Avenida Corrientes to Chile Street.

St. Basil’s Cathedral turns 150

Marcos Ponce — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:36:57 +0000

Moscow, July 12, 2011

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St. Basil’s Cathedral turns 150 and it honor a mass and a bell concert in its honor at Red Square.

Also, the Russian will celebrate the end of the restoration works that took ten years.

The cathedral, whose real name is of the Virgin Intercession on the Mound, was built between 1555 and 1561 by orders of Czar Ivan, The Terrible.

In 1558, a new chapter was constructed over the St. Basil’s grave, and people started to call it by his name.

Today Google joins to the celebration with a cathedral image in its logo.

June 20: ‘Flag Day’

RedactorR — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:29:41 +0000

Manuel Belgrano created our national symbol on February 27 of 1812 and was first hoisted on August 23, 1812, in the church tower of St. Nicholas of Bari, where now stands the Obelisk in Buenos Aires.

Once declared the independence Argentina on July 9 of 1816, the blue and white flag was adopted as a symbol in Congress on July 20, 1816, and then was added the sun on February 25, 1818.

On June 8, 1938, with congressional approval, then President of Argentina, Roberto Ortiz, signed the law 12.361, where it was decided June 20 as the Flag Day and declared a national holiday in honor of Manuel Belgrano who died on June 20, 1820.

Photo Gallery: Water Dragons

Marcos Ponce — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:31:18 +0000

SYDNEY, June 19, 2011

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A photographic study of the so-called water dragons reveals the great beauty of these particular animals that inhabit the warm waters of southern Australia, although some specimens have been found in Tasmania.

Dr. Keith Martin-Smith of the University of Tasmania led the project which was published and the journal of Fish Biology.

The bodies of the dragons are made of beautiful patterns of dots and spots that help them blend into their environment and avoid predators.

The research team observed that males may carry eggs in the spongy tissue located under their tails and it is presumed that the young hatch in the cooler waters of Tasmania.

Jorge Luis Borges: 25 anniversary of his death

RedactorR — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:11:57 +0000

June 14, 2011
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Today we remember the 25th anniversary of the death of Argentine writer Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges, who was born in Buenos Aires on August 24, 1899 and died in Geneva on June 14, 1986.

He was and is considered one of the lead authors of the twentieth century literature.

Borges went blind at age 55, and was a controversial figure, with policy positions that prevented him from winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, being a candidate for nearly thirty years.

He was a lover of philosophy, theology, mathematics and mythology, using them in her writing, as in, short stories, poems and essays.

Hiroshima, unpublished photos of the horror

Marcos Ponce — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:19:48 +0000

New York, June 7, 2011
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The International Center of Photography in New York presents the exhibition entitled “Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945″, a selection of at least 60 powerful images of the city that was hit by one of the atomic bombs dropped by U.S. in World War II .

The photographs had never being shown so far and incredibly this is happening in a very particular context, taking into account the nuclear disaster in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami of March.

The U.S. government had given clear instructions about the ban on publishing pictures of Hiroshima a month after the bomb, “in order to not disturb the public.”

The nuclear weapon led to the death of 140,000 people in a few seconds and destroyed 70% of the city’s physical structures.

The First Market of Cultural Industries of Argentina

Marcos Ponce — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:00:33 +0000

BUENOS AIRES, June 3, 2011.- The First Market of Cultural Industries of Argentina (MICA) was opened yesterday and runs through June 5 at the Plaza Court Complex located at 4405 Del Libertador Avenue.

Elena Roger and Tango Quartet composed of the Orchestra “Juan de Dios Filiberto” performed at the opening ceremony.

Furthermore, important national authorities attended as Labor Minister Carlos Tomada and Tourism Enrique Meyer, Secretary of Culture Jorge Coscia, the chief of staff of the Ministry of Industry, Horacio Cepeda, and representatives of Argentina’s Foreign Ministry.

Through MICA, audiovisual producers, record companies, publishing, video games, arts and designers will have the opportunity to meet with leading cultural industries around the world and open new business opportunities, as outlined in the authorities Official Site.

Pablo Perel take to film a Montserrat Gascon’s novel

Marcos Ponce — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:56:33 +0000

June 3, 2011.- Argentine filmmaker Pablo Perel signed a contract with Synergy Films production company in Barcelona to film a novel Montserrat Gascón.

Catalan-Spanish company Synergy Films led by producer Hector Figueredo and Lola Gispert has signed with the author and Argentine director Pablo Perel entrusting the writing and directing feature-length film based on the novel “The Secret Heart ” of Montserrat Gascón.

The plot of the film tells about a mother caught in the clash between two cultures, Western medicine academic and pre-Columbian shamanic medicine, facing in the search for answers to save the life of a child. In this story, which travels from Europe to Mexico, crosses the Sahara desert and travels back in time to the very court of King Arthur, reveals a secret hidden within the human being for thousands of years.

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio led the Te Deum of May 25 at the Metropolitan Cathedral

RedactorR — Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:11 +0000

May 25, 2011

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio led the Te Deum in the Cathedral on the 25th of May, and was attended by the Head of Government of Buenos Aires, Mauricio Macri.

In his homily Bergoglio said “When we propose the impossible, we punish ourselves with the impossible. We harried to get depressed with our ambitions and need to be recognized, highlighting, or with our begging for affection. There is nothing to accumulate wealth and power”.

“The poor knows that he stands on his own. He feels loved by their creator with contempt, neglect and humiliation”.

“From the trip of 200 years, today invites us to awaken once again to humility, humility to accept what we can and what we are”.

“No country is cemented with delusions of grandeur challenging and few credible”.

“The makeup of the dress of power and spiteful claims are a shell of souls that fill the empty sad and above all his inability to provide creative ways to inspire confidence. It is the consequent depletion of the compulsive of pride in its most clumsy, which is the fickleness. “

From the pride of every man for himself or take advantage of the confusion for occasional power, it caused the disintegration of the motherland. “

Tower of Babel with 30 thousand books created by Marta Minujín in Plaza San Martín

RedactorR — Sun, 08 May 2011 14:33:48 +0000

May 8, 2011

An extraordinary Tower of Babel of 28 meters with 30 thousand books in all languages was created by the artist, Marta Minujín and is being exposed in Plaza San Martín, celebrating the designation of the city as “Capital of the Books of the World 2011″ by the UNESCO.

The massive tower is composed of classic books of literature, from dictionaries to old manuals, such as “best sellers” in languages like German, Spanish, French, English, Japanese, Swedish, Russian, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, Portuguese and Polish. The panels themselves are on a spiral structure of six levels:

Distributed: Ground floor, books from around the world.

The first and second floor filled with books of America.

The third and fourth floor with books from Europe.

Fifth floor: Africa.

Sixth floor: Asia.

This was explained by the artist from Argentina and her idea was “to unify all races throughout the book and remember the mythical Tower of Babel, over 4 thousand years”.

Pakapaka is already on DirecTV

Marcos Ponce — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:32:11 +0000

BUENOS AIRES, May 4, 2011.- The children’s channel ‘Pakapaka’ was finally incorporated into the grid of DirecTV, after months of complaints.

From today at 7 pm, the first public children’s channel in Argentina can be tuned in the number 303 of DirecTV. Meanwhile, in Telecentro kids can enjoy this interesting proposal on Channel 23.

National Government spokesmen expressed the need for companies “still do not comply with the Broadcasting Act” (among which is Cablevision) to join the transmission of this channel for “all kids can enjoy it as it represents and respects them as citizens, builders and thinkers of his own reality.”

Pakaka is an initiative that was born on September 17, 2010 and its creators opt to “erect a place of dialogue with the school and a fun and imaginative space.”

Picasso and his lithographs (see images)

Marcos Ponce — Wed, 04 May 2011 01:10:54 +0000

BARCELONA, May 3, 2011.- The Picasso museum exhibits about 40 lithographs by the genius from Malaga made between 1945 and 1956.

Ernesto Sabato: The last goodbye to a great writer of the twentieth century

RedactorR — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:24:14 +0000

Mario Sabato with his wife / Efe

May 1, 2011

Ernesto Sabato, who died yesterday at age 99 in the locality of Santos Lugares where he lived his last 50 years, was escorted to his final resting place by his family, friends, neighbors and personalities of culture and policy, in the private cemetery in the neighborhood of Malvinas Argentinas.

The president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the Ministry of Culture and the Embassy of Spain sent flowers.

Letter from the son of Ernesto Sabato

Dear Friends

A few hours ago my father died. I know you all share the sadness we feel in the family. Because my father did not only belong to us. With pride, with joy, we know that we share with many people who wanted and needed him as much as we do. From five in the afternoon, we will dismiss him as he ever wanted, in the club in his neighborhood, Defensores de Santos Lugares.

Ernesto Sabato, died this morning at his 99

RedactorR — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:06:24 +0000

April 30, 2011

This morning, the Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato died due to a strong by strong bronchitis.

His remains will be veiled in the first floor of Club Defensores de Santos Lugares, in Greater Buenos Aires.

The writer, essayist, physicist and Argentine painter, was born in the locality of Rojas, 24 June of 1911 and wrote three novels: In 1948, the tunne,l in 1961, On Heroes and Tombs and in 1974, Abaddon the destroyer.

He completed his primary studies in his hometown, conducted his high school at the National College of La Plata, and then entered the Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

He was a member of the University Reform movement.

In 1934, when the Communist Party found the writer doubts that ideology and the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, I sent for two years at the Lenin School in Moscow, where, according to Sabato: “It was a place where one is healed or ended in a gulag or a psychiatric hospital. “

In 1936 he married Matilde Kusminsky Richter.

In 1995, Sabato wrote: “may seem like a horrible act of snobbery that three fundamental crisis of my life happened in Paris, but actually it was. The first occurred in the winter of 1935, when I was a boy of 24 years. I was committed to the Communist Youth, when the dictatorship of General Uriburu. I left school, family and my bourgeois comforts. I lived under an assumed name in La Plata, in whose suburbs were the two largest industries of the nation, which ruthlessly exploited to all sorts of immigrants living in crowded slums of zinc, surrounded by putrid waters swamps. I participated in the organization of strikes”.

“When I had started my doubts about Stalinism, I decided to go to Lenin’s School in Moscow, to purify me. If I had left, I would never live again. I had to pass through Brussels for a conference against fascism and I knew with horrific the details of the ‘processes’ of Moscow.

I escaped to Paris, I lived a very hard winter in the little room of a fellow dissident. I got back to La Plata, where I continued my career in physics and mathematics. When I finished I got a bourse to work in the Curie laboratory, where I worked for almost a year and there in Paris, attended the breakdown of uranium atom, which fought three laboratories.

I thought it was the beginning of Armageddon. I lived in horrible confusion, as I wrote my first novel and I made the shame of letting Matilda returned to Argentina with our first child, a few months while I had a Russian mistress. The third crisis was the result of all this, and my relationship with the Surrealists: Domínguez, Matta, Wifredo Lam and others.

Mario Vargas Llosa at the Book Fair

RedactorR — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:06:01 +0000

April 21, 2011

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature, gave a short speech in front of a crowd, in the second opening of the Book Fair, thanking the President that avoid the claim intended to censor him, and said “I hope to spread to all my supporters and guide their own conduct as governor”.

The first was held yesterday, but today, the Nobel Literature Prize will gave a lecture on literature, but without talking about the current politics of the country.

The 37th edition of the show will be open until May 9, and this year is highlighted by the motto: An Open-Book City”.

Organizers invited writers of Hispanic literature and the Spanish Antonio Muñoz Molina, Rosa Montero and Juan Jose Millas, in addition to Chile’s Jorge Edwards, Francois Zambian Dubey and Wilbur Smith, author of an African saga that broke sales records.

The Passover begins today

RedactorR — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:48:39 +0000

April 18, 2011.- Today when the first star appears, Passover begins.

The Jewish community celebrates the transition from slavery to freedom when Hebrew people out of Egypt.

The festivities last 7 days, and again this year it coincides with the Christian Easter. During the celebration people are barred from consuming foods derived from cereals (wheat, barley, rye, oats and buckwheat) fermented, called chametz (חמץ), which according to history ‘the Jewish people left Egypt so quickly that failed to prepare and had no time to let rise the bread for the road, and therefore it was born the prohibition of eating chametz.”

They have the habit of eating Matzah (מצה), or unleavened bread. During the first night of the festival, the first two in the Diaspora tend to perform a traditional dinner, called “Seder” (סדר) during the same they relates the story of the Exodus from Egypt.

This holiday is also called Spring Festival, because at this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere this season starts and hot weather in Israel is the dry season, which after Passover and Sukkot are accustomed to pray for dew, not rain.

Rabbi Gustavo Kraselnik said “Passover is the story of the mission entrusted by God to Moses and Aaron, his brother, the saga of the stubborn impediment of Pharaoh’s story of the eternal punishment that made him change his opinion to the king of the Nile; and the memory of the exodus of the Israelites into the Promised Land. All this crystallized the Jewish national identity and marked its genesis as a free people, experience and foundation giving to the most important concepts of Judaism and its tradition.”

Palm Sunday

RedactorR — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:00:35 +0000

April 17, 2011:

Today the Catholic Christian community, celebrated around the world ‘Palm Sunday’, the first day of the Holy Week, which recalls the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The Gospel of Matthew 21, 1-11

“When they were approaching to Jerusalem, near Bethpage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, and told to them, come into the village and then enter it, ye shall find a tied colt, on which no one has sat: loose and bring it. And if anyone says to you: Why are you doing this? say that the Lord needs it and that he’ll will send it back. They came and found the colt tied up outside the door in the corner of way, and they untied it. And some of those who were there said to them: What are you doing untying the colt? “they said to them that Jesus had commanded: and they let them go. They brought the colt to Jesus and threw their clothes on it, and sat on it. And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And those who went before and those behind cried, saying: Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord Blessed be the kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest And Jesus went into Jerusalem and the temple: and he looked around at all, as it was evening, went out to Bethany with the twelve “.

At masses it takes place the blessing of the palms and olive branches and laurel recalling the passage of the Gospel, the faithful take these classes in their hands, to be raised when the priest began to bless.

The photo recognized by Ortega y Gasset Awards

Marcos Ponce — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:35:44 +0000

MADRID, April 12, 2011.- The photograph recognized by Ortega y Gasset prize this year is for photographer Cristobal Manuel, who was able to reflect the devastation and desolation of Haiti after the earthquake of January 12, 2010.

The image is entitled “Young walking naked through Port au Prince” and the jury said in its choice: “The chilling photograph reflects the harmony and the loneliness of man in a chaotic and hopeless.”

Moreover, Moses Naim, who was Minister of Industry and Trade of Venezuela in the early 90′s and director of the Central Bank of Venezuela, won the award for “most outstanding professional,” because of his “independence” and “enormous strength and analysis capability.” The jury saw him as an “indispensable reference in Spanish.”

The Best Press went to journalist Octavio Enriquez from Nicaragua for his research “on transactions covert enrichment” of Tomas Borge, former interior minister of Nicaragua, published in the newspaper La Prensa.

Carlos Martínez D’Abuisson from El Salvador was awarded for Digital Journalism for his blog The criminal in the country of last things, because it exposes faithfully “the pain of relatives, witnesses and victims of kidnappings, rapes and murders.”

Ortega y Gasset Awards for Journalism are delivered by the newspaper El Pais and recognize the best journalism in Spanish.

As if controversy was missing, Vargas Llosa will talk of populism at the Book Fair of Argentina

RedactorP — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:54:29 +0000

April 5, 2011

As if controversy was missing around him, the Nobel Prize winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa decided to discern on “the challenge to freedom of populism in Latin America” in his presentation at the Book Fair of Argentina 2011.

The Peruvian is presented as the main figure of the most important literary event in Argentina, despite that there were attempts to lock his participation.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 chose to present a controversial issue at the regional meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, from 17 to 20 April: “The challenge of freedom from populism in Latin America.”

Presidential candidate in his country, Vargas Llosa is recognized for being a major political opinologyst in Latin America, and opposed to the typical characteristics of governments in the region, the so-called “populism.”

M24Digital was able to find out that the meeting will include the participation of various economists, intellectuals, politicians, writers, artists, and government officials of the City of Buenos Aires.

First image of Christ

RedactorR — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:05:50 +0000

April 4, 2011.- Experts said that ‘it may be the image of Christ’ and was found in a cave after a series of floods.

The face is in a carved wooden covers of a codex of two thousand years, and it shows a face with curly hair and what they assume to be a crown of thorns.

According M24 Digital and other international media, “Wood was found in a small niche in a cave near the Golan Heights.”

Each of the holes found containing eight or nine letters with the sacred word; they were closed with metal rings, and therefore experts believe that it is not going to be opened.

All material found is related to the onset of Christianity and Christ’s life as one of the translations said “Savior of Israel.”

Mario Vargas Llosa celebrates his 75 birthday

RedactorR — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:52:14 +0000

March 28, 2011.- Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa celebrates on Monday his 75th birthday.

A group of 24 writers and Hispanic scholars decided to pay homage to the publication of new texts in the journal Turia.

Vargas Llosa, the latest Nobel Prize for Literature, welcomed the initiative with his own text entitled ‘Brief discourse on culture’. “

In the nearly 600 pages of ‘Turia’ edition Javier Cercas (Spain) wrote on it as well as Jorge Volpi (Mexico), Rodrigo Fresán (Argentina), Alberto Fuguet (Chile), Ivan Thays (Peru), Edmundo Paz Soldan (Bolivia) and Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico).

The special edition was coordinated by Fernando Iwasaki, Peruvian writer too.

Portrait of Elizabeth Taylor done by Andy Warhol was put on sale for $20 to $30 million

RedactorR — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:07:45 +0000

March 24, 2011

As was reported by the New York auction house Phillips de Pury & Company “A portrait of the British actress Elizabeth Taylor, made by the American artist Andy Warhol will be on sale at a price of between 20 and 30 million of dollars”.

Warhol’s portrait of Liz Taylor was created in 1963 and will go on sale next May 12 in New York.

The director of contemporary art auction house, Michael McGinnis said, “It’s a gem. Warhol at his best” is a classic that portrays the actress as she was when Warhol painted nearly fifty years ago”.

Plácido Domingo and the orchestra of the Colon will play only in the Obelisk

RedactorP — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:19:10 +0000

City of Buenos Aires, March 22, 2011

After the struggle between the workers in the Teatro Colón and the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, the members of the Permanent Orchestra decided to accompany the tenor Placido Domingo only in his concert in the Obelisk.

Far from being a “scandal”, as certain media calls the incident, there is a discussion of the problem between a free show for all, or one exclusive one for those who can pay the ticket of the Colon. The only certainty was that the Spanish concerts were in doubt.

Finally, the culture minister, Hernán Lombardi, said: “The concert on July 9 will take place, and the one in the Teatro Colon is canceled. We did solve the conflict, but we opened a positiveparenthesis.”

Meanwhile, Max Parpagnoli, representing the workers of the theater, said: “What the minister says Lombardi is your responsibility, the official about what will happen is going to tell the master Plácido Domingo today at 21.”

Argentino Luna died in the Favaloro Foundation (Watch video)

RedactorR — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:44:47 +0000

March 20, 2011:

With 69 years old and after a long illness, Argentino Luna, Argentine singer and songwriter, died last night at the Favaloro Foundation.

According to people close to the musician “Luna died last night at the clinic Favaloro, where he had been hospitalized since late February”.

Rodolfo Gimenez, who adopted as a stage name “Argentino Luna”, was born in the locality of General Madariaga, Buenos Aires. He was the father of five children born of two marriages.

Luna, in his long career composed over 300 songs, like “Zamba to say goodbye, ” which was his first big hit, “Look how beautiful is my country” “Look, what things are “.

He received numerous awards in his career as Silver Palm, Golden Lemon, Gardel de Oro, Golden Charrúa.

Picasso painting, the world’s most expensive

RedactorR — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 14:45:59 +0000

March 7, 2011

The painting, “Nude, green leaves and bust ‘(1932) of the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, which has not been exhibited since 1961, was sold at an auction last May in the gallery Christie’s in New York for 81 million euros.

The world’s most expensive painting is being shown on public since today in the UK.

The director of the Tate Modern in London, Nicholas Serota, told the media that “It is an outstanding painting by Picasso and I am delighted that, thanks to the generosity of the lender, we can expose to it to the British public”.

Pablo Picasso’s work, “Nude, green leaves and bust” was inspired by his mistress Marie-Therese Walter.

The copyright of the image of “El Che” will be returned to the Guevara family

RedactorP — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:48:48 +0000

February 18, 2011

Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, who was in charge of reproducing the most famous image of Ernesto “El Che” Guevara, said he will demonstrate his rights on the photo to then return the copyright to the family of the diseased revolutionary.

Fitzpatrick will ask for the documentation that proves that he owns the copyright of the image with the objective of stopping its “crude commercial use”.

The Irish, who gave free authorization for the reproduction of the photo of “El Che”, will then travel to Havana to deliver the documents to the Guevara family.

“I just want to deliver it to the family and let them decide what they want to do, I caused the problem and I’m looking for the way to amend it”, Fitzpatrick said.

Unpublished Andy Warhol portrait auctioned for 17 million

RedactorA — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:46:50 +0000

England, February 17, 2011

Andy Warhol self-portrait was auctioned in London for $ 17 million. The auction house Christie’s expected less than half.

A private collector had it in his power since 1974. The table has two square meters and was acquired by a New York gallery whose owner identity was not revealed.

Warhol’s work, one of the most influential of contemporary painting, includes eleven self-portraits. Five of them are scattered in museums of different countries and eight were part of the artist’s retrospective devoted to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1989, two years after his death.

Warhol self-portraits are, along with the can of Campbell’s soup and Marilyn Monroe images, the most popular paintings of the artist.

Antique tribal used skulls for drinking

Marcos Ponce — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:45:30 +0000

UK, February 17, 2011.- British scientists discovered that the inhabitants of the European island used the skulls of their victims as drinking bowls.

The discovery was based on the remains of three people, whose bones dating back 14,700 years ago, at the end of the last glaciations, in a cave in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset County (southwest England).

Although the remains were already known by scientists at the Natural History Museum in London, a detailed study with a 3D microscope of 37 skull fragments and four pieces of jaw, revealed a common pattern: the bones had been carefully worked to become in drinking vessels.

The bones show signs of a detailed work on trying to extract the maximum possible amount of meat, which shows the cannibal behavior of this primitive tribe, who did not discriminate anyone, as part of the remains belong to a child of three years old. Then, they used stone tools to work and transform the skulls in these claims containers.

People of the Cheddar Gorge cave scalped skulls, removed the eyes and ears, ironed out the features of faces, gave off the jaws and chiseled edges. They earried out a very thorough job,” Professor Stringer explains, one of the authors.

The oldest prosthesis of the world was discovered

RedactorP — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:37:36 +0000

Egypt, February 16, 2011

Investigator Jacky Finch discovered the oldest prosthesis of history when she investigated a mummy with an artificial toe on each foot.

The medical tool that seems to us very modern and usual was already used in the Ancient Egypt. The Egyptologist Finch managed to prove this as she found two artificial big toes in a 2.600 years old mummy at the Egyptian Museum of El Cairo.

According to the investigator, the Egyptians used prosthesis since 600 BC for those who had had amputated limbs.

The first book on the story of “Che” Guevara for kids

RedactorP — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:22:38 +0000

Spain, February 13, 2011

Editorial La Marca published the book “Che, the star of a revolutionary”. With texts of Editorial Marea, Constanza Brunet and Guido Indij, it is the first educational book on the man who freed Cuba from the pro-USA government.

Indij sadi: “We decided to take out a collection of books on historical men for children. What better man to start than Che Guevara”.

In Argentina there already is a controversy. It is for sure that a book on a socialist freedom fighter would not receive flowers and 5 stars from certain groups. That is why the discussion is set on whether to give use this book for Primary Education or not.

“It’s a bit revolutionary this book, and many parents and people will judge it, but those who read and understand its message will understand it”, Indij explained.

The book is authorized to be used on primary schools in Spain.

New Goya painting discovered under another one

RedactorR — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:16:15 +0000

EFE-On the right, Portrait of Jovellanos, Goya, to left, x-ray that shows a young woman was underneath.

February 5, 2011

As reported by the Museum of Fine Arts in Oviedo, “With the new techniques of radiography and reflectography, it could be revealed a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya that was hidden under another of his paintings”.

Under the “Portrait of Jovella on the beach of San Lorenzo (1780-1782), was discovered a young woman of unknown identity, a technique that is not unusual in the author’s work.

Clara Gonzalez-Fanjul, curator of the Museum of Fine Arts of Oviedo, where is being kept Goya’s work, explaine “The painter used to use an old picture as the basis for another, which allowed faster painting portraits of his friends”.

Radiography and reflectography are the new techniques in restoration and allows the digitization of works through a computer program.

Vargas Llosa and Del Bosque receive aristocratic titles

RedactorR — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:17:18 +0000

February 4, 2011.- King Juan Carlos of Spain granted the noble title of Marquis to writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, coach of Spanish soccer Vicente Del Bosque, professor Aurelio Menendez and businessman Juan Miguel Villar Mir.

The announcement was published in the Official Gazette.

Mario Vargas Llosa was recognized for “his outstanding contribution, universally appreciated, to the Spanish Language and Literature.”

Vicente del Bosque for his “dedication to Spanish sport” and “his contribution to promoting sporting values.”

Professor of Commercial Law Aurelio Menendez, tutor to the Prince of Asturias and co-founder of the prestigious law firm Uria and Menendez, for his “valuable and fruitful work in the field of university teaching and legal sciences at the service of Spain and the Crown.”

OHL president Businessman Juan Miguel Villar was recognized for his “outstanding and long career in the service of Spain and the Crown.”

Tribe is discovered in the middle of the Amazon

RedactorR — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:34:34 +0000

Photo: ONG Survival

Brazil, February 1, 2011.- A tribe in the Amazon was discovered by photographs and it is believed that its members never had contact with modern civilization.

The images were taken by the Department of Indian Affairs of Brazil and published by the NGO Survival International. It is a totally isolated tribe in the world and the images show five people of different ages, with apparent good health and noting the plane from where they were photographed.

According to experts, images will be used to promote a campaign to preserve their habitat. These indigenous people see their environment threatened by loggers’ activity on the border between Peru and Brazil.

Benz invented the car 125 years ago

Marcos Ponce — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:33:34 +0000

Germany, January 29, 2011.- 125 years ago the German Karl Benz created the first vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine.

On January 29, 1886 Benz patented an invention that was a vehicle operating with gas. The registration was granted the patent number 37,435 in the city of Berlin.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the invention “as one of the great technological advances and to celebrate tonight she will participate in a commemorative event in Stuggart.

But despite the celebrations, in other parts of the world the date of January 29, 1886 is not accepted. Some believe that this is 1913, when Henry Ford established the series production of the invention.

Amazon sold more electronic books than paper books

RedactorR — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:26:36 +0000

January 28, 2011.- The Amazon online store reported that “during the last quarter of 2010 sold more electronic books than softcovers paper books in United States.”

In the history of the store, it is the first time that “e-books sales to exceed paperback.”

Amazon’s executive director Jeff Bezos confirmed that “last July he announced that e-books had overtaken the hardcover, as we expected, and that would outweigh the paperbacks in the second quarter of 2011. We have achieved this goal even earlier than expected.”

And “in the last three months of last year we sold 115 eBooks per 100 paperback books.”

These figures exclude free downloads offered by Amazon Books.

Although overall sales fell 9% during the same period, a figure worse than expected.

The exhibition called “Our Silence” was shown in London

RedactorB — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:56:53 +0000

England, January 15, 2011

Rivelino, Mexican artist, opened in London his exhibition called “Our Silence”, which is based on a series of ten sculptures calling for reflection about freedom of expression.

The exhibition as shown in five other major cities of Europe in Lisbon(Portugal), Madrid (Spain), Brussels (Belgium), Potsdam (Germany) and Rome (Italy).

After being exhibited until 17 February in London, “Our silence” will travel to Paris (France).

Argentine composer María Elena Walsh dies at age 80

Marcos Ponce — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:20:39 +0000

January 10, 2011.- Argentine Composer Maria Elena Walsh died today at age 80. She will be veiled from 5 pm to 0 am. at the headquarters of Argentine Society of Authors and Composers (Sadaic) located at 1547 Lavalle street and tomorrow she will be buried in La Chacarita Cemetery.

Maria Elena was 80 and left this world at 11.15 am after weeks of being admitted to La Trinidad Sanatorium.

She was born in Ramos Mejía and was author of children’s hits such as Manuelita, El Reino del revés, among others. She published her first book ‘Inolvidable otoño’ at age 17 when she was about to complete the School of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano.

Thereafter she began a long career dedicated to the world of children; although in the 60 she premiered at the Teatro San Martin ‘Canciones para mirar’, which was then recorded on a disk.

In 1979, during the military dictatorship she created ‘Desventuras en el País-Jardín de Infantes’ that highlighted what many wanted to ignore.

She was also the creator of theatre players Doña Disparate y Bambuco. And the books El reino del revés, Cuentopos de Gulubú, Hecho a mano and Juguemos en el mundo, Tutú Maramba, Zoo Loco, Dailan Kifki and Novios de Antaño.

In 1985 she was named Distinguished Citizen of Buenos Aires City and in 2008 she was honored by her peers. Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner also honored for her wonderful contribution to the culture of the country.

In 2008 she published Ghosts in the park, an autobiographical novel, through which she settled life in Parque Las Heras, where real and ghostly characters were in.

Important paint of Paul Gauguin will be auctioned in London

Marcos Ponce — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:18:05 +0000

London, January 7, 2011.- An important auction will take place in England, around a masterpiece of French artist Paul Gauguin.

Responsible for carrying out this event is the auction house Christie’s, whose spokesman said that it is expected the paint to reach U.S. $ 15.4 million.

It’s “Nature morte à ‘L’Esperance’” (Still Life with “The Hope “), a painting of sunflowers as part of a series of four works that the French artist held in honor to his friend Vincent Van Gogh.

The work, which had not been seen in public since 1989, was made in 1901 while the painter lived in Tahiti, shortly before his death.

According to EFE, the director and head of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie’s Giovanna Bertazzoni said that last year the collectors market from China and Russia have bid up to record sales figures in this house.

“The auctions in February of this year Christie’s will offer a significantly higher number of Impressionist works that have remained in private hands for decades”, she said.

U.S. mail stamps with the image of Carlos Gardel

RedactorA — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 22:07:51 +0000

December 29, 2010

Argentine singer Carlos Gardel will be honored by US mail service appearing in a special commemorative stamps print for 2011.

Prominent Latino figures as Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Carmen Miranda and Selena, join Gardel in the stamps.

Anglo figures such as former U.S. President Ronald Reagan are part of the stamps. The writer Mark Twain, actors Gregory Peck and Helen Hays and Disney characters like Buzz Lightyear (from “Toy Story”) and the robot Wall –E.

The former congressman and civil rights leader Barbara Jordan also will be honored, and also a stamp printed by the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.

DSW: The world’s population hits 6,900 million

RedactorA — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:44:04 +0000

Germany, December 28, 2010

The German Foundation for World Population (DSW) informs that the world population will hit this year 6,900 million people, about 80 million more than in 2009.

The same report released today in Hannover by German experts predicted that the number will reach 7,000 million by mid-2011.

DSW said that 2.6 children are born per second in the world. Most of them take place in emerging countries, which accounts the 82% of the total world population.

Africa is currently the continent with the highest population growth. It is estimated that over the next forty years their population of 1000 million people will double to 2000 million.

Currently, about half of the inhabitants of this continent don’t cover basic needs, which means that population growth will go hand in hand with an unstoppable increase in poverty.

For that reason, the DSW calls to promote family planning and sex education in African countries.

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