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Like a Fish to Water

The incredible story of Francisco de la Vega Casar, The Fish Man of Liérganes, and the tragic legend of Pesce Cola (Nicholas Fish).

When an 18th century Benedictine monk, himself Professor of Theology, not only echoes but ends up publishing essays in which he writes about the existence of fish men, rescuing in detail two specific cases between the 13th and 17th centuries, one of them in Cantabria and the other in Sicily, and also discarding any supernatural explanation for the phenomenon, it is worth at least taking a look at those texts where both events are collected and narrated. Read More

The «Roof of the World»

The Himalayan mountain chain extends between the courses of the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers, in a length of 2,400 km and with a width that oscillates between 160 and 240 km. It is the only one in the world that has several peaks with an altitude higher than 8,000 meters. The highest of them is Mount Everest (8,848 meters). Read More

Fátima 1917: What Religion Could Not Admit and Science Could Not Explain

What really happened between May 13 and October 13, 1917 in the Cova da Iria moor in Fatima? Marian apparitions as the Catholic Church maintains? UFO phenomena according to some researchers? Or simply a fraud advocated from both within and without the religious faith? Did the Catholic Church take advantage of the alleged appearances to regain power and influence, while generating a lucrative business? Read More

Political Parties or the Art of Getting the Elected Away From Their Voters

An essential institution of liberal regimes are political parties, which are born and develop at the same time as elections and representation. At first they appear as electoral commissions in charge of raising funds for the campaign and obtaining important patronages for its candidate. It’s also observed the birth, in the assemblies, of parliamentary groups of deputies of the same tendency for a common action, and that in a natural way produces the federation of their basic commissions, which originate the parties. Read More