The American singer and writer Patti Smith, this year’s recipient of the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, said Tuesday at a news conference following the ceremony in Oviedo, Spain that “sometimes it feels like we don’t have power, but we do have power,” and that what the U.S. needs right now is “for people to use that power, to rise up, think for ourselves and then unite.” She added that for her it is difficult to talk about her country’s current situation, describing it as having “deplorable leadership.”

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A pocos kilómetros al suroeste de Lugo, en una aldea del municipio, se encuentra la iglesia de Santa Eulalia de Esperante, o Santalla de Esperante en gallego. La historiografía la describía como un templo rural sencillo de época plenomedieval, con una sola nave, una cabecera recta y una fachada lisa del siglo XVIII coronada por […]

The church is Santa Eulalia de Esperante, known in Galician as Santalla de Esperante. It stands in a hamlet a few kilometres southwest of Lugo. Until now, historians saw a simple rural church from the high Middle Ages, with one nave, a square east end and a smooth 18th-century front topped by a bell gable […]

Hacia el año 400 a.C. Europa cambió, pero no lo hizo en una sola dirección. Atenas acababa de perder la guerra del Peloponeso (404 a.C.) y, según la tradición romana, los galos saquearían Roma en torno al 390 a.C. Más al norte, las comunidades de la Edad del Hierro reaccionaban de maneras casi opuestas. En […]

Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), and Roman tradition says the Gauls would sack Rome around 390 BC. Farther north, Iron Age communities reacted in almost opposite ways. In the south of the Netherlands and the southeast of Gaul, people […]