Your pre-theatre blog from Madrid: mannerism, models, me, and modern literature.
November 6th 2015 A lovely day in Madrid. Sunny and 20 degrees. Many Madrilenos were actually able to take off the puffy coats they were wearing when it was chilly earlier this week. Last week, when it was 9, we saw a female police officer on duty outside a government office with a scarf pulled up over her nose (Susan assures me that scarf was not uniform issue, either) and she wasn't the only one!
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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 
