Benito Juarez
I have always admired Benito Juarez! To me he was like David and Goliath. His life story was very similar to the life of Abraham Lincoln. They were contemporaries and faced similar struggles. Benito Juárez,...
Mexico
Maximilian I Emperor of Mexico 1864 – 1867
This month I revisited one of the most controversial characters in the history of Mexico.I am talking about Maximilian Archiduke of Austria, Emperor of Mexico. He has been portrayed as an infamous character, yet when...
Alexander von Humboldt and “Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain”
Ralph Waldo Emerson described Humboldt as “one of those wonders of the world”—a scholar whose interests spanned astronomy, botany, chemistry, economics, geography, geology, physics, politics and zoology; a man who, even today, has more species...
Cinco de Mayo – Alexander Von Humboldt – Napoleon III
Most Americans learn about the battle of “Cinco de Mayo” at school, and mistake it for the Mexican war for independence. The events that trigger this battle involved many interesting characters, countries, and stories that...
Who Were the Three Kings?
Only the Gospel of Matthew mentions “wise men from the East” who follow a star to Bethlehem. In the original Greek, they were called magoi (in Latin, magi), from the same root that gives us...