MOT 1943: PORTUGAL & SPAIN: EXT Grass field lake sign 'Rio Caia.' Street sign 'Espana' & 'Portugal' w/ Spain & Portugal coat of arms emblems. Spain's Francisco 'El Caudillo' Franco (1892-1975) walking w/ Salazar guards. CU Spanish coat...

This program explores the geography, history, and some important cultural features of the Southwestern Region of the United States. The individual states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada are presented in detail.

Learn Hungarian with Easy Hungarian! In this episode Nóra and Gábor ask people about their favourite day of the week.

The Falklands (MiniWars #1)

Judith and Holofernes depicts a story from the Bible in which Judith and her maidservant behead the tyrant Holofernes. By removing the peripheral iconographies and focusing only on the violent action, Goya brings this story into his own...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Liberal Wars

Learn how to use Demonstrative Adjectives in Spanish. This clip is part 5 in the series 'Learning Spanish: Beyond the Basics'.

Spain has become the leading destination for migrants crossing the sea into the EU, with more than 60,000 people arriving in the country last year, according to UNHCR data.

We all love olive oil! It's great for cooking, it's great for snacking, especially with fresh bread, it's just the best. Where did it come from? Most people know that it is quite ancient, but where did it come from precisely, and what...

At age 78, Francisco Goya left Spain to start over in France. Four years later, he died there. Goya was a radical artist who was passionate about truth. He went from a painter in the Royal Court to the chronicler of catastrophe during...

La Leocadia, also known as The Seductress, is likely one of Goya's last paintings. It is painted on a light background, unlike the dark background of the rest of the Black Paintings. The woman in the painting bears a striking resemblance...

What happens when reason or rationality is asleep and superstitious beliefs take over from science and reason? Francisco Goya explores this and other Enlightenment topics in his Los Caprichos series of aquatint prints. One of the most...

When their brother died in 1553, Elizabeth's sister was crowned Mary I. Mary, a devout Catholic, soon began to distrust her Protestant sister, accusing Elizabeth of involvement in Wyatt's Rebellion of 1554. Despite a lack of evidence,...

The Black Paintings (Las pinturas negras) are often considered to deptic insanity and Goya's own struggles after losing his hearing. But is that an accurate understanding of these paintings? What is the context of the The Black...

The Basilica Sagrada Familia, Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, is a large unfinished Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). Gaudi's work on the building is part of a...

Can we keep drug prices low without hurting innovation? Well, drugs are a lot cheaper in Europe than in the US, and there's still plenty of innovation over there. So what's going on? It's called reference pricing, and it's pretty much...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Liberal Revolution of 1820

MOT 1943: MADRID SPAIN: PAN Plaza Mayor w/ equestrian statue of King Philip III building BG partially completed. Banco de Espana building. INT Banco de Espana. Governor of Banco de Espana sitting at desk in front of large tapestry....

MOT 1940: BARCELONA SPAIN: Waterfront residential buildings. VS Dock workers in breadline. Men taking bread handed to them. Three children led from building by Auxilio Social nurse bombed out neighborhood nurse w/ children to car. Civil...

While inflation and energy prices have been a global issue, the UK seems particularly badly affected by the cost of living crisis. So why is this? Is it simply bad luck on the UK's part? Or are successive Conservative governments to...

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes began working as a court painter for King Charles III of Spain in 1786. He painted mainly portriats and was well-known for his romantic style. His artistic style turned darker, however, when his health...

(1492) - Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Hispaniola and begins enslaving its people. European diseases and brutal working conditions bring the indigenous population to the brink of extinction. Over the next three hundred...

In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Italian Wars

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we visit Casa Carlota, a Barcelona-based design studio that includes people with Down's syndrome, autism and intellectual disabilities. People with intellectual disabilities tend to have...