Children of the Days (27 page)

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Authors: Eduardo Galeano

  7: The Visitor

  8: International Literacy Day

  9: Statues

10: The First Land Reform in America

11: A Day Against Terrorism

12: Living Words

13: The Armchair Traveler

14: Independence as Prophylactic

15: Adopt a Banker!

16: Costume Ball

17: Mexico's Women Liberators

18: The First Female Doctor

19: The First Female Admiral

20: Female Champions

21: Prophet of Himself

22: Car-free Day

23: Seafaring

24: The Inventor Magician

25: The Inquisitive Sage

26: What Was the World Like When It Was Beginning to Be the World?

27: Solemn Funeral

28: Recipe for Reassuring Readers

29: A Dangerous Precedent

30: International Translation Day

October

  1: Emptied Island

  2: This World Enamored of Death

  3: Curling the Curl

  4: World Animal Day

  5: Columbus's Final Voyage

  6: Cortés's Final Voyages

  7: Pizarro's Final Voyages

  8: These Three

  9: I Saw Him Seeing Me

10: The Godfather

11: The Lady Who Crossed Three Centuries

12: The Discovery

13: Robots with Wings

14: A Defeat for Civilization

15: Born from Corn

16: He Believed Justice Was Just

17: Silent Wars

18: Women Are Persons

19: Invisible

20: The Prophet Yale

21: Thou Shalt Blow One Another Up

22: International Day of Natural Medicine

23: To Sing

24: To See

25: A Stubborn Man

26: War for Drugs

27: War Against Drugs

28: Simón's Folly

29: Good-hearted Man

30: The Martians Are Coming!

31: The Grandparents of Editorial Cartoons

November

  1: Danger! Animals!

  2: Day of the Dead

  3: The Guillotine

  4: The Suicide of Tenochtitlán

  5: A Sickness Called Work

  6: The King Who Was Not

  7: Dreams

  8: Legal Immigrants

  9: No Entry

10: World Science Day

11: Fyodor Dostoevsky Was Born Twice

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

13: The Father of Moby-Dick

14: The Mother of Female Journalists

15: Hugo Blanco Was Born Twice

16: An Examiner of Life

17: The Other Ear

18: Zorro Was Born Four Times

19: The Moss and the Stone

20: Things Children Say

21: The Saddest Match in History

22: International Music Day

23: Grandpa

24: Grandma

25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

26: Laura and Paul

27: When the Waters of Rio de Janeiro Burned

28: The Man Who Taught by Learning

29: World Terror Championship

30: A Date in Paradise

December

  1: Farewell to Arms

  2: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

  3: The King Who Said “No More”

  4: Green Memories

  5: The Longing for Beauty

  6: A Lesson in Theater

  7: Art Doesn't Age

  8: The Art of Neurons

  9: The Art of Living

10: Blessed War

11: The Poet Who Was a Crowd

12: Tonantzin Is Called Guadalupe

13: International Day of Choral Singing

14: The Monk Who Escaped Seven Times

15: Green Man

16: Fight Poverty: Massage the Numbers

17: The Little Flame

18: The First Exiles

19: Another Woman Exiled

20: The Encounter

21: The Joy of Saying

22: The Joy of Flying

23: Resurrections

24: A Miracle!

25: Voyage of the Sun

26: Voyage to the Sea

27: The Traveler

28: Nostalgia for the Future

29: The Road Is Destiny

30: We Are Made of Music

31: Voyage of the Word

Index of Names

ABC
,
271

Abraham,
59

Acosta, Juan Pío,
56

Adam,
22
,
125
,
384

AES Gener,
329

Afghanistan,
137
,
180
,
313
,
327
,
369

Africa,
38
,
62
,
96
,
107

Aguilar, Juana,
40

Alabama,
7

Alagoas,
71
,
103

Alaska,
88

Aleksandr, Prince,
260

Aleksandra,
260

Alexandria,
190

Alice,
217
,
311

Allah,
20
,
76

Allende, Salvador,
272

Alvarado, Pedro de,
243

Amaru, Túpac,
152

Amazon,
97
,
381

Ameghino, Florentino,
294

America,
4
,
26
,
245
,
307
,
311
,
312

American Psychiatric Association,
112

Amsterdam,
246

Andalusia,
118

Andes,
86
,
192
,
235

Andrei, Prince,
260

Anselmo, Lance Corporal,
9

Anthony, Susan B.,
186
,
187

Antigua,
389

Aphrodite,
45

Appalachians,
174

Aqualtune,
71

Aquinas, Saint Thomas,
76

Aranha, Felipa Maria,
71

Araracuara,
84

Arbenz, Jacobo,
127

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

Aristotle,
76

Artemis,
218

Artigas, José,
277
,
278

Aswan,
190

Atahualpa,
171

Athens,
222
,
265

Attar, Farid al-Din,
386

Auschwitz,
162

Australia,
23
,
26
,
50
,
79

Austria,
163
,
271

Aventis,
49

Ayacucho,
36

Azurduy, Juana,
247

 

Baghdad,
5

Bahia,
71

Baker Street,
160

Balaam,
59

Balaguer, Emma,
305

Ballestrino, Esther,
132

Banderas, Antonio,
352

Barbosa, Moacir,
215

Barings Bank,
63

Barnum, Phineas T.,
206

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth,
25

Barrett, Rafael,
9

Barrett, Soledad,
9

Bashō, Matsuo,
393

Bay of Pigs,
122

Bayer,
49

Bayer, Osvaldo,
53

Beatles, The,
47

Beijing,
48

Belgium,
271
,
329

Bell, Joshua,
14

Bellarmino, Roberto,
158

Benedict, Pope,
162

Benga, Ota,
155

Benguela, Teresa de,
71

Berlin,
17
,
62

Bernal, Lorenzo,
172

Bernays, Edward,
104

Bianchi, Francisco,
91

Bible, the,
59
,
63
,
76
,
125
,
205

Black Corsair, the,
281

Blagojevic, Petar,
163

Blanco, Hugo,
349

Bly, Nellie,
348

Boabdil,
396

Bobadilla, Rosa,
285

Bolívar, Simón,
244

Bolivia,
28
,
73
,
308
,
309
,
314

Boninsegna, José Antonio,
370

Boniperti, Giampiero,
212

Bonpland, Aimé,
204

Boop, Betty,
251

Borges, Jorge Luis,
125

Borneo,
226

Botswana,
297

Bouazizi, Mohamed,
383

Braslavsky, Guido,
92

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

Brecht, Bertolt,
125

Bretton Woods,
223

British Air Council,
26

British Empire,
63
,
142
,
182
,
249

Broadway,
251

Bronx,
155

Brown, John,
368

Browning, Robert,
25

Bruno, Giordano,
158

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

Buñuel, Luis,
73

Busch Circus,
292

Bush, George W.,
5
,
292

Butler, Smedley,
18

 

Cabral, Amilcar,
280

Cádiz,
395

Caesar, Julius,
5
,
83

Caiboaté,
46

California,
91
,
119

Calpurnia (Pisonis),
83

“Cambalache”,
139

Canada,
318

Canary Islands,
70

Cancún,
364

Cândido, João,
361

Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes),
73

Cañizares, Manuela,
244

Capone, Al,
18

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