Current World

The women’s suffrage movement was decades in the making and came with many harsh setbacks. But it resulted in a permanent victory: women’s right to vote. How did the suffragists do it? One hundred years later, an eye-opening look at their playbook shows that some of their strategies seem oddly familiar. Women’s marches at inauguration time? Check. Publicity stunts, optics, and influencers? They practically invented them. Petitions, lobbying, speeches, raising money, and writing articles? All of that, too.

La Historia de Actualidad 2: Nuevas revelaciones que cambiarán la Historia es el segundo audiolibro de una entretenida colección de carácter divulgativo y didáctico. Para comenzar, el autor nos traslada al preciso instante en que el paleoantropólogo estadounidense Donald Johanson asiste al excepcional hallazgo de "Lucy". A continuación, nos transporta hasta el Imperio romano para profundizar en la biografía de Nerón. Para continuar, nos sitúa en el siglo XV para intentar descifrar el enigmático lugar de procedencia del gran navegante y descubridor Cristóbal Colón.

International attention has been drawn over the past few months to the activities of ISIS, the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria. The entire world has been taken by surprise as they have witnessed the flagrant violation of all forms of human decency by these militants without their even considering the smallest fragment of human nature. It was only with impotent fury and despair that people across the globe could watch the brutal beheadings of innocent human beings by these radical Islamists.

The attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris shocked the world, with many governments coming out strongly to condemn it. There are many people who did not know the events that led to this attack and what followed.