If Don Ambrose Bierce were alive, we would have to take off his hat in his presence. He was the bravest journalist ever. On his desk he had a skull: "It is from an old friend", and next to it,

source The story began in Coyoacán, Mexico. Matilde, a young girl, came back from school and one day, nervously or knowingly, she did not know, she dropped the notebooks and a boy who always looked at

Of everything that we know in the universe, our own brain is the most surprising thing. And the most paradoxical thing is that the one hundred billion neurons allow us to compose the Ninth Symphony and

To escape the misery and religious persecution in Europe, a couple of Irish and Scottish, took a ship that threatened to be shipwrecked with each wave, and that took them to North America. It was the

It happened in another country. There, a friend with cheekbones and pigmented skin asked him to fill out a form for his father to access an emergency medical service. In the box asking about the race of

The 9 defendants and their lawyer. Center: Vicky and Ruby, used to accuse the detainees. Right: Clarence Norris, the last survivor, was pardoned at the age of 60 source It was the year of 1931 and the

It happened to a 14-year-old Russian boy and he marked it for life. One day an epidemic of cholera broke out in the city. There was no effective medication and one of the victims was his mother. It was

source Revenge is a dish that is eaten cold. A beautiful woman, named Monika Ertl, with a sweet face like few others, starred in one of the most shocking revenges of modern times. He was German, of wealthy

One afternoon, in New York, Robert Bruckell, a young black man, decided to commit suicide when he discovered that he was more afraid of life than of death. His childhood had been an overdose of humiliation,

In the story each character is stranger than the other. Some are immortalized in books and statues, or are famous for some war or something similar. But there are others that are not mentioned much and

fuente They say that a classic work is one that nobody has read, but that everyone knows what it is about, like The Bible, Don Quixote, Capital, and some more. And also, Dracula, for example, who now returns

The story of Nicolás was very simple and similar to that of many children around the world. To him, like many children, he had an authoritarian father, with some frustrations, like many other parents ...

Someone said that to know what the world would be like if the Nazis had won the war, it would be enough to see and hear the news every day. Nothing better than a fierce joke to tell a truth. This racist

It happened in ancient Greece, in the middle of a play. In one scene, one of the characters, who played the role of king, came out dressed in rags. At that moment, one of the spectators, a wealthy boy,

source Somewhere in the world, in an amusement park, a row of onlookers in front of a huge, closed cage, looks inside through a small hole. Above, a sign says: "Observe the most dangerous beast. Kill

source In the nineteenth century England, when the industrial revolution was just beginning, the employees of the street and the pretext of protecting the cold, were taken to work during the strenuous

source Tells a story, that an earl was in love with a young girl who lived in the inn of a distrustful and cantankerous old man who did not allow anyone to approach him. The count, remarkable seducer,

source Humans are unfair when we use animals to remember our own defects. We insult ourselves with "donkey, rat, dog" or, sometimes, we simply say "animal". We attribute to animals

source Francois Miterrand is said and people know that he was a French president. But Marelle Pereira, who today is 38 years old, and who was orphaned at 8, knows that Mitterrand was the one who ordered

source There was a time when many, as children, we thought we had arrived from Paris at the peak of some stork. Then, discovering what it was like, we learned that Paris was true, but we began to think