Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

This week is Holy Week (Semana Santa), the most sacred time in the Catholic liturgical year, so my blogging will be lighter than usual until next Tuesday, April 19.

According to u/tywindevillena: The oldest provincial cities of Spain are Huelva, Cádiz, and Jaén: “Cádiz is frequently considered the oldest city in Europe. It was founded by the phoenicians, who named their settlement Gadir, somewhere in the 11th century BC.” … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
On this day (April 9) in 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee formally surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant after the remnants of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia were decisively defeated at the Battle…

What is “Stigler’s Law of Eponymy“? You can either read about Stigler’s law for free on Wikipedia (see here) or pay a company called “Wiley” up to $42.00 to obtain a PDF copy of Stigler’s original 10-page paper — that’s … Continue reading →

Don’t you love it how North American CEOs like to lecture us about privacy, gay rights, or “social justice” while at the same time they are doing business in China. (Apple, Disney, the NBA, and Nike immediately come to mind.) … Continue reading →

This week’s edition of “Wednesday Writing Tips” comes to us via The Paris Review, which published an intimate and in-depth interview of Ernest Hemingway in 1958–available here (in the PDF format) or here (online version). In the words of one … Continue reading →

You may already know about world-famous Tiananmen Square protests that occurred in June of 1989, but did you know about the Tiananmen Incident that occurred on this day (April 5) in 1976? Via Wikipedia (footnote omitted): “The Tiananmen Incident [Chinese: … Continue reading →