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least in the big scheme of space things. What does Stephen Hawking think? Wormhole History A recent YouTube video published by MLordandGod discusses the recent creation of a wormhole in Spain. Scientists and Physicists at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona developed…

Up until the late 13th and 14th centuries and the eventual expulsion of the Jews in 1492, Jewish culture clearly thrived throughout Spain and left a lasting impression on politics, cuisine, culture, and the city as a whole. When Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon tried to strengthen their church, they purified Spain by purging it of anyone who was not Christian. Leading up to their eventual expulsion, many Jews were forced to convert, and many were burned at the stake. Eventually, in…

Michael Jackson was considered the King of Pop throughout his long career. The entertainer is responsible for changing the world of pop music to something that just about everyone across the world could listen to and enjoy. Jackson was a singer and an excellent dancer. There were few that could reproduce his smooth moves in his day. However, numerous Jackson impersonators have come along and tried to reproduce the King of Pop's look and smooth moves. Certainly, capturing Michael Jackson's style…

Snowflakes Life Snowflake was the first albino gorilla to every live everybody loved him everybody wanted to meet him so they put him in a gorilla habitat everybody loved him the barcelona zoo made millions on people trying to meet him people would pay millions to meet him and see him in person the zoo kept making hundreds thousands millions billions and the zoo got rich people would travel across the world to meet him. One day they were at the the vet and they found out thatssnowflake was…

Clark Metcalfe is the doer, thinker, and tinkerer behind multi-branded cannabis products, marketed under such notable trade names as Clark’s Cannabis and Clark’s CBDs. The Southern California native, dubbed the Cannabis Cowboy by the Wall Street Journal and likened to Steve Jobs by Buzzfeed, is the acknowledged Pater Patriae of North American CBDs. Prior to his entrepreneurial enterprises, Clark came of age in and around California’s 1960s counter-culture movements. For him, hippies, aging…

paragraph of most stories often reveal characters and settings in which the reader will get to know personally and begin to adapt with them as well. In this story however, we are immersed in a train station in an unspecified location in Spain between Barcelona and Madrid. A train station can be representative of a midpoint between now and the future time that will arrive once the train does. The train can also give the reader a sense of transition between experiences, which was not provided…

His obsession with El Greco started when he went to study in Madrid where he was impressed by El Greco’s magnificent heads. As early as 1899 he had filled page after page of a sketchbook with caricatures of Greco-like portraits, often with flamboyant ruff collars, exaggerating their pointed chins, their schematic quality and their hyper-refined tonality. One of his heads even had the inscription: Yo El Greco, yo Greco! Shortly afterwards Picasso’s Blue Period followed and there his pictures were…

very young age. In 1895, Picasso's 7 year old sister Conchita died of diphtheria. And Picasso was traumatized by her death. After some incomplete sessions of art school in Barcelona and Madrid. Picasso spent his adolescence associating with the group of Catalan Modernists who gathered at Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona. From there he moved to Paris, where he quickly found likeminded poets and painters. His work began to attract serious critical attention and praise by the time he was…

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau, or the French term for “New Art,” is a colorful movement in the arts that attracted Europe during the process of change from the 19th century to the 20th century. Art Nouveau had other names, “Stile Liberty” in Italy and “youth style” in German. Right before art lovers would begin riding in motor cars, watching moving pictures, and refreshing for the First World War, they would flip through bright international philosophy and style of art magazines. This cultural…

Each year, Gonzaga receives hundreds of applications. In those applications, I’m sure you’ve read about students who are athletic, enthusiastic, energetic, interactive with their teachers, love learning outside the classroom, or who are students who speak many languages. I strive to be a combination of all these things, and more. I am a student that excels both inside and outside the classroom. I believe that through my educational journey, I will learn what is necessary for me to accomplish my…