El Rastro

Madrid, Spain- February 2011

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October 3rd 2011
“I suppose, from a modern moral point of view… the whole bullfight is indefensible; there is certainly much cruelty, there is always death, and I should not try to defend it now, only to tell honestly the things I have found true about it.” -Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, 1932 Hemingway didn’t have a moral dilemma about bullfighting. When he wrote of people’s aversions, it ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more