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...great mysteries of modern Spanish history may soon be solved. This week, a team of archaeologists and historians from the University of Granada began excavations of a mass grave located outside the southern town of Alfácar. For decades, the site has been suspected to hold the remains of the renowned poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, who was assassinated by the Nationalist Civil Guard in the early months of Spain's 1936-39 Civil War. For a country that has long suppressed its public memory of the conflict, the exhumation represents one more significant step...
...Guard squad car. What happened after that remained a mystery until years later. In the 1950s and '60s, writers Gerald Brenan and Ian Gibson interviewed witnesses who said that Lorca had been driven outside the city with three other prisoners to a ravine between the towns of Viznar and Alfácar. The four were shot and buried in a mass grave. (See pictures of Spain...
...Laura García Lorca. "That's important for the memory of all the victims. Because of who he is, we think of him as a sort of guardian, ensuring the remains of all the others won't be disturbed or forgotten either." Earlier this month, the town of Alfácar granted that wish by declaring the site a cemetery. (Read "At Last, Spain Faces Up to Franco's Guilt...
During the 1936 presidential campaign, the Chicago Tribune, under its archconservative owner, Colonel Robert McCormick, wholeheartedly endorsed the candidacy of the Republican Alf Landon. The paper was so vehemently anti-F.D.R. that 10 days before the election, switchboard operators at the newspaper answered the phone by saying "Hello. Chicago Tribune. Only 10 days left to save the American way of life...
...water concept has been abused by enough sitcoms to make you dread seafood. But this series, about Raja, a Pakistani Muslim exchange student (Adhir Kalyan) who befriends his suburban host family's nerdy son (Dan Byrd), is fresh, good-hearted and totally winning. Like Taxi's Latka Gravas and Alf's title alien, the earnest Raja is a foreign power you'll surrender to from sheer laughter...