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FOUR SEASONS: CONTRAPORTADA DE LA CORONA Rafael Dávila Álvarez

  Durante unas horas ha dejado de ser un hotel de lujo en el centro de Madrid para ser la cubierta trasera, la parte de atrás, de la Corona de España. Desde su terraza, que es la contraportada del hotel, porque no se mira hacia dentro, se atisba el Palacio Real: “Entró el Ayudante de servicio y entregó a Romanones un escrito de Alcalá Zamora, al parecer conminatorio, pues era ya tarde y se…

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Sembrando Sueños 

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Sembrando Sueños Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Director Alfonso Sanchez Music by Pablo Cervantes Label Plaza Mayor Company LtdSpain Theater February 15th, 2024 Sembrando Sueños is a documentary that celebrates the illustrious artists that were the Álvarez Quintero brothers. It also pays homage to the popular Andalusian works that came into being more than…

[realmadridnews]

Celta Vigo - Real Madrid 1:2

scorers: 0:1, Mbappe 20'

1:1, Swedberg 51'

1:2, Vinicius 66'

Celta Vigo: Guaita; Manquillo (72' Javier Rodriguez), Starfelt, Marcos Alonso; Hugo Alvarez, Beltran (87' Damian Rodriguez), Sotelo, Migueza; Bamba (79' Duran), Iglesias (79' Douvikas), Swedberg (72' Alfonso Gonzalez)

Real Madrid: Courtois; Lucas, Militao, Rudiger, Fran Garcia (70' Mendy); Valverde (63' Modric), Tchouameni, Camavinga (63' Rodrygo), Bellingham; Mbappe (82' Ceballos), Vinicius

yellow cards: Sotelo, Marcos Alonso - Ancelotti, Lucas

[goya-65]

El Gringo dice: - Hola, de donde eres?

El Mexicano responde: - Hola, soy de México

Gringo: - Aahh! La tierra del Chapo Guzmán, los narcos, la marihuana, crimenes y extorsiones.

Mexicano - Disculpe es usted adicto, verdad?

Gringo - No!!! ¿por qué?

Mexicano: -Porque si usted fuera deportista me habría identificado con Ana Guevara, Hugo Sanchez, Julio Cesar Chavez, el Finito López, El chicharito Hernández, el Canelo Alvarez, Rafael Márquez, etc.

Y si usted fuera culto, me habría preguntado sobre las grandes culturas como los Mayas, los Aztecas, los Olmecas, los Chichimecas.

Y si usted hubiera viajado me preguntaría por nuestras ruinas arqueológicas, ciudades coloniales, las grandes megalópolis o nuestras exhuberantes playas, incluso por nuestra biodiversidad de selvas, playas, desiertos o bosques.

Me habría identificado con nuestros grandes pintores, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Frida Khalo, José Clemente Orozco, o nuestros compositores: Agustín Lara, Consuelo Velázquez, Armando Manzanero, Juan Gabriel, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, o nuestros escritores y poetas: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Juan José Arreola, Elena Poniawtoska, Amado Nervo, Jaime Sabines, o nuestros inventores y científicos: Manuel Mondragón, Guillermo González Camarena, Luis Ernesto Miramontes, nuestros cineastas: Ismael Rodríguez, Emilio Fernández, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Emmanuel Lubezki e incluso Luis Buñuel que siendo español adopto la nacionalidad mexicana.

Y si usted fuera un gourmet me habría preguntado por los Tamales, la Cochinita Pibil, el Mole, el Adobo, los chilaquiles, los Chiles en nogada, el Guacamole, el Pan de Muerto, etc. Por nuestras bebidas: el pulque, tequila, mezcal, los vinos y las cervezas.

Sin embargo, veo que solo conoce al proveedor de su adicción!!!

Sólo quiero probarle que México es mucho más de lo que la gente ignorante cree. Que somos muchos mexicanos honestos, que incluso si no nos conoce le abriremos las puertas de nuestra casa y le encantará conocernos y visitarnos, porque Mexico es aún muchísimo más maravilloso de lo que yo pueda contarle!! 🇲🇽

Así que cuidado Extranjero, Lee y conoce para poder Opinar y Calificar !!

🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

MesPatrio2023 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[hanselw]

Sarasate's jewelries

Sara: "I have much but most of them I don't use. Violinists don't use them!"

a) Sapphire ring. Empress Augusta of Germany. 1877. Pamplona City Council.

b) Digmantes ring. Queen Victoria of England. Pamplona City Council.

a) Diamond and Esmolte's rings. Brazilian Emperor Pedro L. Pamplona City Council.

b) A ring with garnet and diamonds. Albert I, King of Saxony. Pamplona City Council.

a) Ring with emerald and diamonds. Queen Maria Christina of Spain. G. Veralba and Flores. Madrid. Pamplona City Council.

b) Diamond button. King Alfonso XI of Spain. Francisco Mazzo. Madrid. Pamplona City Council.

a) Button of pearls and diamonds. Queen Victoria of England. 1896. Pamplona City Council.

b) Button of hard diamond and enamel, with Cologne pattern. Empress Augusta of Germany. 1886. Pamplona City Council.

a) Button and diamond cufflinks. Prince of Wales. Pamplona City Council.

b) Agate and silver buttons. Pamplona City Council.

a) Diamond tie pin. Queen Victoria of England. Collingwood&C. London. Pamplona City Council.

b) Diamond tie. Anso Reina's Home. Pamplona's mother.

a) A tie pin with black pearls and diamonds. Queen Maria Christina of Spain. Pamplona City Council.

b) Sapphire and diamond Tie clip. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild. Friedrich Hartone. Vienna. Pamplona City Council.

a) Watch. A. Ladet. Flower shop. Pamplona City Council.

b) Watch. L. Leroy and Cie. Paris. Pamplona City Council.

a) Diamond watch. Spanish people in Mexico. 1890. Dina and Rottak. Mexico. Pamplona City Council.

b) A watch with enamel and diamonds. Napoleon II. 1861. Czapek&Cie. Ginebra. Pamplona City Council.

Damascus watch. Toledo Committee on Art Monuments. 1881 Alvarez. Toledo. Pamplona City Council.

[rabbitcruiser]

Oviedo Cathedral, Spain (No. 2)

The cathedral was restored in the 12th century by Archbishop Pelagius of Oviedo, the chronicler. Bishop Fernando Alfonso (1296–1301) undertook another restoration of the chapter-house, and his successor, Fernando Alvarez (1302–1321), began the cloister. At the end of the 13th century Gutierre de Toledo began the new Gothic basilica, the principal chapel bearing his arms, though it was completed by his successor Guillén. Diego Ramirez de Guzmán (1421–41) built the two chapels of the south transept (now replaced by the sacristy), the old entrance to the church, and the gallery of the cloister adjoining the chapter-house. Alonzo de Palenzuela (1470–85) completed the other part of the transept. Juan Arias (1487–97) left his cognizance, the fleur-de-lys and four scallops, on the nave. Juan Daza (1497–1503) erected the grille of the choir; Valerano (1508–12) added the stained-glass windows. Diego de Muros, founder of the great college at Salamanca known as the Oviedo, had the crestings of the porch wrought by Pedro de Bunyeres and Juan de Cerecedo, while Giralte de Bruselas and Juan de Balmaseda completed in the years 1512 to 1517 the carving of the precious altarpiece ordered by Valeriano Órdoñez de Villaquirán. Cristóbal de Rojas (1546–56) affixed his coat-of-arms to the completed tower, with its octagonal pyramid, one of the marvels of Gothic architecture.

Source: Wikipedia  

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Through the Years → Felipe VI of Spain (2,788/∞) 12 May 2022 | King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia of Spain visit Pinofranqueado on the occasion of the centenary of King Alfonso XIII's visit to the Las Hurdes region, in Caceres, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)

[kismetharborconnections]

JULIETA ALVAREZIS LOOKING FOR HER EX-HUSBAND!

OOC: Kaila

Character: Julieta Alvarez

Type of Connection: Ex-Husband

WC Name: TBD Castro

Age Range: 36+

FC Options: Alfonso Herrera, UTP as long as they can be related to David Castañeda (Diego Castro)

Would you like to be contacted?: Yes, please

Triggers: N/A

Connection Description: Julieta and TBD grew up in Taos, New Mexico. Her parents worked a lot and she took care of her younger siblings a lot on her own. When they met the Castro family, they were taken in by them like they were part of the family. Later in their teens, TBD and Julieta started dating and the two were head over heels in love with each other. They married by the time Julieta was 19 years old and TBD moved with Julieta so that she could attend New Mexico State University. Marriage was harder than they realized but they fought through it and though he was reluctant to move with her to New York, he did so that she could finish schooling. However, Julieta was so busy with school and work, that their marriage suffered. After two years, Enrique left in the middle of the day and left divorce papers on the table for her to get home to. She has not heard from him since. Julieta moved to Kismet Harbor two years ago, where they used to visit all the time as teens and even during their brief marriage.

[juarezesdeporte]

HAY TIRO!!

Beverly Hills, Calif.-Es el primer cara a cara. Hubo apretón de manos, mucho respeto, y ambos púgiles coincidieron que el 4 de mayo el ganador será el público.

Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez pondrá en juego los cetros Supermedianos del CMB, OMB, AMB y FIB ante el tijuanense e invicto Jaime Munguía, a quien le echó muchas flores el tapatío durante la presentación oficial, en Beverly Hills, del combate que se realizará en la T-Mobile Arena de Las Vegas.

"Estoy muy contento y siempre he estado orgulloso de cualquier mexicano, de la música, del deporte, y estoy orgulloso de Jaime Munguía, de lo que ha logrado, y siempre ha tenido mi apoyo y lo va a tener, y hoy nos toca enfrentarnos, lo cual me pone orgulloso, que dos mexicanos acaparen el boxeo a nivel mundial, y el 4 de mayo voy a entregar todo como siempre lo he hecho, que tira golpes y con hambre de triunfar. La gente va a ganar", apuntó el campeón del mundo y considerado uno de los mejores 10 peleadores libra por libra dela actualidad.

"Canelo", de 33 años, llegará al ring con una marca de 60-2-2, 39 KO's, mientras que Jaime, de 27 años, tiene marca invicta de 43-0, 34 KO's.

"Gracias a toda la gente que nos vino a apoyar y a la gente que hizo este encuentro, a la gente de Canelo, de PBC, de Zanfer de Golden Boy, a los que me han ayudado para estar aquí.

"La verdad es que es un gran logro enfrentar al peleador más grande de esta época y el peleador que lleva las cuatro fajas (Supermedianas)", dijo Jaime. "Nos estamos preparando fuerte y es el mayor compromiso de mi carrera. Será una gran pelea y vamos a hacer vibrar a México".

Será la primera vez que "Canelo" tiene una pelea de título mundial ante un mexicano desde 2011 cuando enfrentó a Alfonso Gómez.

Igualmente se confirmó que en el contrato que pactaron los dos boxeadores hay cláusula de revancha.

(Diego Martínez / Agencia Reforma)

[generaldavila]

ENTRADA MÁS LEÍDA EN ESTE BLOG EL AÑO 2023: NO QUIERO SER ESPAÑOL. Rafael Dávila Álvarez, General de División (R.)

Incertidumbre. Muchas y variadas situaciones, declaraciones, a raíz de lo que en España está sucediendo y en todas un futuro de incertidumbre se barrunta. Nada bueno. Es lógico sentir el peso de lo que uno ha hecho hasta ahora y en el repaso que me corresponde resulta que de nada me arrepiento. Ni un paso atrás. Me apoyo en lo que fui e hice. No me gusta lo que veo ni lo que parece que viene: la…

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 7 / 10

Título Original: 25 Watts

Año: 2001

Duración: 92 min

País: Uruguay

Dirección: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll

Guion: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll

Música: Maximiliano Angelieri

Fotografía: Barbara Alvarez (B&W)

Reparto: Daniel Hendler, Jorge Temponi, Alfonso Tort, Valentín Rivero, Valeria Mendieta, Roberto Suárez

Productora: Control Z Films, Taxi Films

Género: Comedy; Drama

TRAILER:

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Lineup

Real Madrid: Courtois; Lucas, Militao, Rudiger, Fran Garcia; Tchouameni, Camavinga, Valverde, Bellingham; Vinicius, Mbappe

Bench: Lunin, Mestre, Vallejo, Mendy, Modric, Guler, Ceballos, Rodrygo, Endrick

Celta Vigo: Guiata; Manquillo, Starfelt, Marcos Alonso; Hugo Alvarez, Beltran, Sotelo, Mingueza; Bamba, Iglesias, Swedberg

Bench: Villar, Carreira, Douvikas, Cervi, Alfonso Gonzalez, Jailson, Duran, Ristic, Allende, Dominguez, Javier Rodriguez, Damain Rodriguez

[goya-65]

EL GRINGO Y EL. MEXICANO

Gringo: - Hola, de donde eres?

Mexicano: - Hola, soy de México

Gringo: - Aahh! La tierra del Chapo Guzmán, los narcos, la marihuana, crímenes y extorsiones.

Mexicano - Disculpe es usted adicto, verdad?

Gringo - No!!! ¿por qué?

Mexicano: -Porque si usted fuera deportista me habría identificado con Ana Guevara, Hugo Sanchez, Julio Cesar Chavez, el finito, El chicharito Hernández, el Canelo Alvarez, Rafael Márquez, etc.

Y si usted fuera culto, me habría preguntado sobre las grandes culturas como los Mayas, los Aztecas, los Olmecas, los Chichimecas...

Y si usted hubiera viajado me preguntaría por nuestras ruinas arqueológicas, nuestras ciudades coloniales, nuestras grandes megalópolis o nuestras exuberantes playas...

O por nuestra biodiversidad de selvas, playas, desiertos, bosques...

Me habría identificado con nuestros grandes pintores, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco, o nuestros compositores: Agustín Lara, Consuelo Velázquez, Armando Manzanero, Juan Gabriel Jose Alfredo Jimenez, o nuestros escritores y poetas: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Juan José Arreola, Elena Poniatowska, amado Nervo, Jaime Sabines, o nuestros inventores y científicos: Manuel Mondragón, Guillermo González Camarena, Luis Ernesto Miramontes, nuestros cineastas: Ismael Rodríguez, Emilio Fernández, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Emmanuel Lubezki e incluso Luis Buñuel que siendo español adoptó la nacionalidad mexicana...

Y si usted fuera un gourmet me habría preguntado por los Tamales, la Cochinita Pibil, el Mole, el Adobo, los chilaquiles, los Chiles en nogada, el Guacamole, el Pan de Muerto, etc. Por nuestras bebidas: el tequila, El mezcal, los vinos y cervezas.

Sin embargo, veo que solo conoce al proveedor de su adicción...

Sólo quiero probarle que México es mucho más de lo que la gente ignorante cree. Que somos muchos mexicanos honestos, que incluso si no nos conoce le abriremos las puertas de nuestra casa y le encantará conocernos y visitarnos, porque México es aún muchísimo más maravilloso de lo que yo pueda contarle!

SEAN TODOS INVITADOS A MÉXICO

🌹🇲🇽❤️ 2023

[makairodonx]

Las Brujas de San Sebastián

Somewhere in the middle of a little town that stood behind the jagged, green peaks of the Cordobas Mountains, there lived four young witches who led very wild and interesting lives. And while witches in other towns could be tried by the inquisition for what they did and forced to renounce their ways, Angelica, Gabriella, Isabella and Maria continued to secretly keep witchcraft alive in the town of San Sebastian...Without the authorities themselves knowing it.

Seventeen-year-old Angelica saw that a husband had asked her to help him deal with his unfaithful wife. "I will give you this bag of powder," she said to the husband, "And I want you to mix it into the cup of hot chocolate that your wife drinks every morning. Only then will she truly remain faithful to you."

Afterwards, Angelica turned herself into a black vulture and flew out of the window and straight over the reddish-orange-tiled roofs of the houses and shops.

"I'm back!" She said to her fellow witches as she reverted to human form upon landing at the tall, beige-painted house of her three sisters.

"Did you just help Mauricio Alvarez secure the fidelity of his unfaithful wife, Angelica?" Sixteen-year-old Gabriella asked her.

"Yes I have, Gabriella," Angelica replied. "I gave that poor man a special bag of powder for him to mix into the chocolate drink of his unfaithful wife so that she may no longer part ways with him. And were you, Isabella and Maria doing anything else while I was alone?"

"Yes we did, Angelica." Said Gabriella. "I have just used my crystal ball of divination to help Esmeralda de Salamanca see into the future of her children, so that she will guide them away from sinful acts in adulthood."

"I have just used my magic mirror to help a poor man his beloved a dog which he had lost for nine, whole weeks," Sixteen-year-old Isabella added.

"And I have just gave one of my best potions to Luisa Martinez for her abusive husband to drink," Said Fifteen-year-old Maria, "So that he will no longer torment her under his iron will."

"Very well indeed," Said Gabriella. "Now it looks like we've finally been finished with our community errands for the day."

"But I also think that it is very important for us to not expose any our magical practices to the rest of the town." Said Isabella.

"Of course so, Isabella..." Maria said, "For we should always remember what our parents and grandparents did for our community before they were all sadly caught by the Inquisitors and forced to give up the noble examples they once set four our fellow San Sebastianos and San Sebastianas..." Maria said.

And as the sun set over the peaks of the Cordobas Mountains, the four witches gathered in a dark room of their house and lit a few candles in a circle to honor the founders of their great families as they solemnly closed their eyes and whispered prayer-like lamentations of their passing, which heralded a time in which witchcraft was no longer becoming a tradition that was passed down from mothers and fathers to their daughters or sons.

The sisters Angelica and Gabriella both came from the House of Osorio, whose chief patriarch was Brujo Alfonso, and the sisters Isabella and Maria came from the House of Posada, whose chief matriarch Bruja Rafaela happened to be the firstborn daughter of Pedro Posada and Ernesta Osorio. Six hundred years earlier, and twenty years after Alfonso was born from the marriage between Ignacio Osorio and Luisa Posada, Alfonso's sister married one of the two younger brothers of the Bruja Rafaela. Together they started off the Posada Family that Gabriella and Isabella came from. Brujo Alfonso was esteemed throughout San Sebastian for his skills in using herbs and roots to heal all kinds of illnesses or sicknesses, and Bruja Rafaela was equally famous for her carefully-concoted potions, powders, and spells, which were all used to help out the townsfolk deal solve everyday problems they faced throughout their lives. But as the Inquisitors grew very powerful with the help of a class of faithless doctor-priests who loathed the widespread presence of the supernatual, they used a complex system of propaganda to dissuade the townsfolk from seeking the services of the brujos and brujas, who were regularly persecuted and fined as the doctor-priests took over the cultural and social life of the town with the use of their crooked and twisted medicines and sermons. But nevertheless, the witches of the Osorio and Posada families retreated into their small, dimly-lit shops among the walls of taller buildings, anf from there they secretly taught most of the life-skills of witchcraft to their children and grandchildren, especially as soon as San Sebastian's populace tore itself into two opposing camps consisting of those who saw witchcraft as a societal menace that had to be eradicated and those who saw it as a special asset to fixing societal problems that were far beyond the scope or reach of any ordinary human being.

"Good afternoon, little witches," Pablo, the house-guardian, stepped in ten minutes later with his four friends. Like most of the duendes that dwell in the lands surrounding the Cordobas Mountains, they had long, poitned ears, stood less than three feet tall, and wore dark brown gowns with long, drooping sleeves and a tall, pointed hats for nightime outings.

"Are you offering your prayers to the deceased members of your families?" Pablo asked the four witches.

"Yes we are, Pablo..." Angelica said to him after she and her fellow withces finished off their prayer to carry on the legacies of their persecuted forebears. "Ever since the long-gone days of Brujo Alfonso and Bruja Rafaela, our great-grandparents, grandparents and parents have all had to face the iron will of the Inqusition as they strugged hard to keep the flame of witchcraft flickering in this town..."

"And now we four children are all that is left of our two great witchcraft-practicing families, the Osorios and the Posadas..." Maria said with a tear dropping from her right eye.

"Perhaps you can find some suitable husbands on your own and have children with them," Said one of Pablo's fellow Duendes, "So that you'll all be able to continue the Osorio and Posada lines..."

"Of course we could, some day,” Said Gabriella, “But only once we're fully mature enough to marry, though…”

“I see.” The Duende replied.

"But oh, how sad..." Pablo sobbed. "How sad it was that you all have happened to be quite young enough to remember the loss of your parents and grandparents to the iron cuffs and wicked chains of the Inquisition...and its mobs of witch-hating supporters who care for none of the magic that is still left in this world..."

The poor duende, much to the dismay of his fellow Duendes, soon broke into an emotional fit of crying and sobbing that made him look like a small, nasal-voiced, pig-faced man in the eyes of the four witches, who all happened to be quite amused by his seemigly-hilarious antics.

"Would you please stop crying like this, Pablo?" Angelica said. "It's really making us laugh since you look both cute and funny at the same time when you do so!"

"And we can still hopefully thank our parents and grandparents for extensively training us to use our gifts to serve the community before they were ultimately forced to give up the practice of witchcraft forever..." Said Isabella.

Pablo quickly stopped sobbing, stood up and got back to his senses. "Now that sounds like good news, then..." He remarked at Iasbella's words. "Good news that the practice of witchcraft will still live on in the town of San Sesbastian..."

"Unless we all happen to be truly careful enough to hide from the clutches of the Inquisition." Gabriella added.

"That's right," Said Pablo. "And you should remember also that my fellow Duendes and I are all doing our best to take good care of you four witches in the abscence of your beloved parents and grandparents..."

"For we've all been helping you wash the dishes, clean your rooms and clothes, and prepare breakfast and coffee, lunch, and supper, each and every morning, noon, and evening!" Said one of Pablo's fellow Duendes.

"And that's why you can always count on us duendes as your loving, caring, family, even though we're small and frightening enough to scare off the big folk!" Said another one.

"How wonderful indeed, our little duendes," Maria smiled.

"And after all," Said Angelica, "it was you and your fellow Duendes, Pablo, who've kept us safe and secure in this Casa Osorio-Posada...ever since we've lost our parents and grandparents to the Inquisition when were were just about ten or eleven, too..."

The belated witch bent down on her knees to pick up Pablo in her arms, stood up to hug him dearly like a mother hugging her infant child, and stooped down to put him back onto the ground with the other four duendes.

"Now let's go outside and enjoy this night without the Inquisitorial authorities knowing it, shall we?" Said Gabriella.

"Of course we can!" Said Pablo.

Upon stepping out of their house, Angelica, Gabriella, Isabella, Maria, and their five little duende guardians all saw that some of the other duendes were hopping or waddling out onto the dimply-lit cobblestone streets that straddled the shops and houses in their dark robes, asking the human residents to lend them their nightime services. But things didn't turn the way the Duendes themselves expected.

"It's just...worriesome..." One of the duendes said to the four witches with tears rolling from his cheeks. "We're simply just asking the men and women of this town to kindly let us enter their shops and taverns...And all we've got are screams of terror and people running away from us...as if we're all just horrible monsters who simply don't have a place in this world!"

"Oh, don't worry, Little Camilio," Gabriella said to the duende. "You and your fellow duendes do have a place amongst us four witches..."

"Since we've always been taken care of by the caring Pablo and his four merry friends!" Isabella continued.

"And for now," Maria said to Little Camilio, "you can just hang out with other duendes, if you want!" Angelica smiled.

"All right, then..." The duende smiled and waddled off into the distance in search of other duendes to hang out with.

"So..." Isabella said as she looked up at the peak of a tall, imposing mountain that stood outside the town and saw a few yellow lights flickering from a cave below, "shall we go to the Cave of Mount Zumbatoca for our aquelarre with the Duendes? For it looks like they, after all those years of continually being treated like stray dogs by our town's human residents and shunned from all forms of town life, have been waiting for us to come and celebrate this special Friday night with them..."

"Of course you can!" Pablo cried. "And be sure to meet me and my fellow duendes at Mount Zumatoca!"

"Sure we will, Pablo!" Angelica smiled at Pablo and his fellow duendes hopped off into the darkness and vanished into thin air.

And thus the four witches brought out their broomsticks, hopped on them one by one, and flew off to the Aquelarre that was being held at the cave on Mount Zumbatoca to spend the night with the duendes and the vampire bats. And there before the blazing fire whose flames glowed ever brightly against the stone walls of the cave, which were painted with magic symbols of beasts, glyphs and men that only brujos and brujas understood, the Osorio and Posada sisters drank drinking-gourds of mate, ate an asado, danced and sang with the little pointy-eared imps and bats, and showcased some of their animal transformations. Angelica took the form of a black vulture, Gabriella took the form of a Coati, Isabella took the form of a dog with long legs and pointed ears, and Maria took the form of a jaguar with bright, amber eyes, much to the joy and amusement of the duendes themselves. And the Aquellare went on through the night.

On the following morning, the four witches were carrying out their daily errands to serve the townsfolk as usual, until at last their supernatural activities soon caught the attention of a suspicious man named Pablo Ortiz. The man reported the witches over to the Inquisitors, who were prowling the main square, the streets and the alleys in search of anything or any practices that could easily be labelied as "supernatural or having a distinctively supernatral nature."

"Look!" Yelled the inquisitor. "Witches! Arrest them!"

The Inquisitional authorites chased the four girls here and there in the streets of the bustling town, until they suddenly took to the air in the shape of black vultures and flew across the heads of the townsfolk.

"Catch these four witches before they escape this town!" Pablo Ortiz cried.

The inquisitors rushed forward, stood in the middle of the plaza, and aimed their crossbows at the four witches, who were all circling high up over the rooftops of the houses and shops, and shot at them with a volley of arrows that struck their wings and cause them to plummet to the cobblestone-tiled ground, whereupon the four witches reverted to their human forms and stood in the middle of the marketplace with all of San Sebastian's residents gathered around them in a huge ring that was teeming with dozens of bewildered, perplexed faces.

"It's the witches," Pablo Ortiz cried with the Inquisitors running beside him. "IT'S THE WITCHES! IT'S THE WITCHES! We've caught them all!"

"Bring them to the office of the Inquisition so that they'll be forced to renounce witchcraft forever!" Cried the Commander of the Inquisitors to his henchmen as they all started to close in on the Osorio and Posada sisters.

But just as the heavily-armored men were about to catch the four witches with their handcuffs, Angelica quickly rose up and shot a flaming ball of purple light from her left hand at the face of one of the inquisitors, who was knocked away in an instant.

"You are not going to tread on us so easily like this..." She growled. "Not when we've all got the knowledge and skills of our parents and grandparents on our side!"

With these words the four witches unleased their magic spells upon the ten heavily-armed Inquisitors as they rushed forward to attack them with their weapons. Angelica shot a ball of flaming purple light from her hands which knocked out two of the Inquisitors, Gabriella used a spinning gesture of her hands that caused the crossbows to explode in the Inquisitors' hands, Isabella shot a bright ball of green flame from her fingers that knocked out three more of the Inquisitors, and Maria used a sweeping motion of her left arm to unleash a blazing half-ring of fire at the attackers and transformed five of the Inquisitors into helpless toads with a snap of her fingers, while the Osorio sisters levitated the remaining five fifteen feet up into the air with an upward gesture of their arms and started to choke them with closing motions of their palms.

"No, no, no, no, no!" Cried Pablo. "Don't do this to the Inquisitors, please!"

We'll continue to tourture all these poor men with our magic spells," Angelica said coldly to him, "Unless you give up wour wicked ways and remember what our great families, the Osorios and the Posadas, once did four our community 700 years ago..."

"At a time when Brujo Alfonso and Bruja Rafela used their mastery of la Brujeria to tend to the problems faced by each and every resident of this amazing, glorious town!" Gabriella continued.

"So what do you now think of destroying the legacies of the Osorio and Posada Families?" Maria added. "A legacy from our town's once-magical past that has to be honored to this day?"

"And who will be there to tend to the everyday needs and problems faced by our fellow San Sebastianos and San Sebastianas?" Said Isabella.

"Only you can do so..."Pablo Ortiz sobbed with a few tears rolling down from his face. "Only you and your fellow witches can use your magic spells to find solutions to societal problems that are far beyond the scope of being solved by persons like me...And I shall never, ever try to discourage you all from pursuing this time-honored trade of yours ever again...And without the help of your magical services, San Sebastian may never again be the wholesome, welcoming and problem-free place that it had once been 700 years..."

"Now that, Pablo Ortiz," Angelica said, "is what we'd want to hear from someone who has just tried to attack the magical knowledge passed down to us by our caring, loving forebears and is now seeking to find out the errors of his ways..."

Isabella and her witches proceeded to unbind the ten Inquisitors from their magical control with a single lowering motion of their hands.

"So please remember, Don Pablo," Angelica said to Pablo, "That it was Brujo Alfonso Osorio and Bruja Rafaela Posada who once told our great-grandparents, grandparents and parents that our practice of witchcraft is not to be used to inflict harm upon others, unless they happen to be comitting crimes, but to serve the memebers of our esteemed community."

"And therefore," Said Maria, "it is important for you now to let us honor the legacies of the Osorio and Posada families by allowing us to continue the work that they and their forebears have done to serve our community."

"For sure, then..." Said Pablo Ortiz, "If that happens to be the will of you and your fellow witches..."

Afterwards, the Alcalde of San Sebastian disbanded the Office of the Inquisition, stripped the faithless Doctor-Priests of much of their former authority and finally allowed Angelica, Gabriella, Isabella and Maria to freely keep on the esteemed work of their forebears without ever having to deal with the Inquisition, and San Sebastian's residents also came to gradually tolerate the presence of the witches and their duende familiars and openly embrace them as a major part of the town's supernatural history and cultural and social life. And with the blessing of the generous Alcalde on their side, the four witches all continued to use the practice of la brujeria they've inherited from their magical Osorio and Posada forebears to serve the community as usual.

Angelica Osorio saw that Dona Frida been bitten in the right arm by a rabid, stray dog that she accidentally fed. "Can I use my expertise in herbal medicine to treat this wound for you?" She asked the young woman. "For I do know the right kind of herb to be used for curing animal bites like these..."

"Sure you can, Bruja Angelica!" Said the Dona.

The witch soon found a particular herb that she had happened to freshly pluck from the verdant slopes of the Cordobas Mountains, squeezed it and pressed it onto the site of the dog bite.

"Now I feel much better, Bruja Angelica," Dona Maia said to her, "And I thank you most dearly for this miraculous act of healing!"

"You're welcome, Dona Maria!" Angelica said to her.

"My lover has not been kind and faithful to me these days," A man told Gabriella Posada the next day. "And now she's trying to separate with me!"

"Don't worry, Senor Fernando," Gabriella Osorio said to the man as she handed him a magic potion that was bottled up in a wooden drinking gourd. "Please take this green lemon-grape potion which I have personally brewed from my own caldera if you will, and give it to your wife for her to drink. That way will she never, ever try to part ways with you."

"Thanks a lot, Bruja Gabriella!" Senor Fernando said to her. "The advide of you and your fellow witches is most welcome when it comes to facing problems like this!"

"You're welcome, Fernando!" The witch smiled.

"Come into my office if you will, Miguel de Tordesillas," Isabella Posada beckoned a man to her dark room, and I shall show you where your lost cat really is..."

Isabella lit up a few candles around her crystal ball, spoke a soft incantation which caused a dark blue cloud to swirl inside it, and encouraged Miguel to look into the ball, which surely soon showed that the man's beloved cat was sitting and eating grilled meats outside of someone's restaurant.

"Oh, thank you very much, Bruja Isabella!" Miguel said to the witch. "Thank you for showing me that my cat Tico is at Mauricio's Asado Bar!"

"You're very welcome, Senor Miguel!" Isabella smiled.

"My husband Pedro always cusses at beats me and my children upon returning home in a drunken state from the bar late every night," Dona Stefana told Maria Posada at her office the following day, "And there is nothing I can do to stop him!"

"Do not worry, Dona Stefana," Maria told the woman. "I shall give you this bag of powder made of dried fruits, grasshoppers and fireweed, and I want you to mix it into the cup of coffee that your husband takes every morning. And then, your husband will surely return to being the loving, caring family man that he once was..."

"Oh, for sure, Bruja Maria!" Dona Stefana after Maria handed her the bag of magic powder. "And thank you for finding the right soultion for my husband's reckless behavior!"

"You're truly welcome, Dona Stefana!" Maria said.

And in addition to those simple, everyday deeds of theirs, the Osorio and Posada sisters also used their Duende and vampire bat familiars to police the town every night and punish those who committed any serious crimes, or to help the four witches carry out some of their magical tasks day and night.

So somewhere in the middle of a little town that stood behind the jagged, green peaks of the Cordobas Mountains, there lived four young witches who led very wild and interesting lives. And while witches in other towns could be tried by the inquisition for what they did and forced to renounce their ways, Angelica, Gabriella, Isabella and Maria have all continued to keep the practice of witchcraft alive...in the magical town of San Sebastian.

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ANATOMIA DEL CUERPO HUMANO de JUAN VALVERDE 1560 FACSIMIL (NUEVO)

Historia dell’Anatomia de Giouanni Valuerde (Juan Valverde de Hamusco). Editorial Doctor Andreu S.A. (Barcelona, 1993). Idioma: Italiano. Edición Facsimil muy cuidada en cartóne (piel y papel especiales). 42 láminas atribuidas a Gaspar de Becerra.

DOCTOR ANDREU, S.A. tiene el placer de hacer llegar a sus manos la presente edición facsímil de la obra del español Juan Valverde de Hamusco, Anatomía del cuerpo humano, del año 1560. La edición que presentamos es la primera italiana, publicada sólo cuatro años después que la castellana y que hemos escogido como muestra de la gran difusión que la obra alcanzó en toda Europa, y deseando que el hecho de estar escrita en italiano no dificulte excesivamente su compresión por paste del lector. Fue, sin duda, la obra más reimpresa de los siglos XVI y XVII. La concisión y claridad expositiva de Valverde fueron quizá las principales razones por las que su obra tuvo más trascendencia que la propia FABRICA de Vesalio (1543) y de RE ANATOMICA (1559) de Realdo Colombo. Junto con esta última, la anatomía de Valverde fue la obra que sirvió entre otras cosas para difundir los descubrimientos de Miguel Servet, cuya obra fue prácticamente destruida en su totalidad tras su trágica muerte. La obra de Valverde de forma total o parcial fue reeditada en poco más de un siglo dieciséis veces en cuatro idiomas: Castellano, holandés, italiano y latín. Kousis dio a conocer incluso una adaptación griega a comienzos del siglo XVIII que quedó manuscrita. La Anatomía de Valverde está ilustrada con un frontispicio y 42 láminas foliadas grabadas calcográficamente. La profusión y correcta realización de las figuras así como la concisión y claridad expositiva del autor fueron la cláve del éxito de la obra y su trascendencia en el tiempo. Las ilustraciones de la obra de Valverde -que son calcográficas y no xilográficas como las de de la FABRICA- se atribuyen tradicionalmente a Gaspar de Becerra (Baeza, 1520 – Madrid, 1570). La relación de este gran artista con la anatomía se inició durante los años cuarenta y cincuenta durante su estancia en Roma, donde siguió la orientación de Miguel Angel frente al rafaelismo de la mayoría de los artistas españoles allí residentes. El estilo de sus figuras humanas tuvo en España un influjo extraordinario, desplazando al que había impuesto Alfonso de Berruguete. Fundamento de su fama fue precisamente su sólida preparación anatómica.Juan Valverde de Hamusco (o Amusco) nació en Amusco, Palencia y estudió humanidades y filosofía en España y posteriormente medicina en Padua. Alcanza gran relevancia durante su estancia en Roma, donde publica Historia dell’Anatomia y ejerce como médico del cardenal Juan Alvarez de Toledo. Además de la anatomía, Valverde publicó entre otras obras la titulada «De animi et corporis sanitate inenda» (Paris 1552)

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