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“Peter whipped”: The True Story of Peter Gordon. EMANCIPATION

The film “Emancipation” about “Peter whipped”, directed by Antoine Fuqua already has a release date. It will be on Apple TV, next December, on the 2nd, after its theatrical release just a week in advance, as announced this week, with the staging of the trailer: “Emancipation” Trailer “Emancipation” (“Emancipation”, in its original title) stars Will …

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Napoleon crossing the Alps. Final version

Napoleon crossing the Alps: between art and propaganda

Two versions of the same historical image that, in reality, never happened. That really is political propaganda The painting of the neoclassical artist  Jacques-Louis David ‘ Napoleon crossing the Alps ‘ navigates, for the course of History, between art and propaganda, like practically all the paintings referring to kings, dictatorships and leaders of the time and centuries following, when there was no …

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Who was the first dictator in history. What powers did he have? And who was the first dictator in modern history?

Who was the world’s first dictator?

Today we think of the dictators of today’s countries as “he who arrogates or receives all political powers , and supported by force, exercises them without legal limitation “. At least that is what the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy says. But, as the same dictionary also says, ” among the ancient Romans, “the dictator was a supreme and temporary magistrate, appointed …

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