Mirrors (88 page)

Rhodesia

Richard III, King

Richard the Lionhearted

Richmond

Richthofen, Wolfram von

Rhine River

Rio de Janeiro

Rita, Saint

River Plate

Rivera, Fructuoso

Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène

Robeson, Paul

Robespierre, Maximilien

Robinson, Jackie

Roca, Julio Argentino

Rocinante

Rockefeller Foundation

Rodin, Auguste

Rodríguez, Simón

Roland, Manon

Rome

Romero, Oscar Arnulfo

Romero, Vicente

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rosario, Arthur Bispo do

Rosenthal, Joe

Rothschild, Nathan

Rotterdam, Erasmus of

Rouen

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Royal African Company

Rufrius Crispinus

Ruggiero, Trotula di

Rural Society

Russell, Lord John

Russia

Rwanda

Sacramento

Sade, Marquis de

Sahara

Said Pasha

Saint-Just, Louis

Saint Louis

Saint Moritz

Saladin, Sultan

Salaria, Via

Salem

Salerno

Sally

Salmydessus

Solomon

Salsipuedes

Salta

Saltrelli, Jacopo

Salvador da Bahia

San Francisco

San José

San Juan

San Martín, José de

St. Petersburg

San Salvador

Sánchez Mora, Rosario

Sancho Panza

Sandino, Augusto César

Sankara, Thomas

Santa Claus

Santa Cruz, Andrés de

Santa Marta Xolotepec

Santiago de Chile

Santiago del Estero

Santo Domingo

São Paulo

Sappho

Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino

Sarno, Richard

Saturn

Saudi Arabia

Savitri

Savonarola, Father Girolamo

Sawyer, Tom

Scheherazade

Schiller, Friedrich von

Scianna, Ferdinando

Scotland

Selden, John

Seneca (the Elder), Lucius Annaeus

Senegal

Servet, Miguel

Sesostris III, Pharaoh

Sétif

Sevilla, Fran

Seville

Sforza, Francisco

Shafik, Doria

Shah Jahan

Shakespeare, William

Shikibu, Murasaki

Shōnagon, Sei

Shun (Lord Hibiscus)

Sicily

Siemens

Sienna

Sierra Leone

Silva, Antonio José da

Simojovel

Simon, Father Pedro

Siracusa

Sirius

Sisa, Bartolina

Sitting Bull

Sklodowska, Marie

Slave Coast

Sloan, Alfred

Smith, Tommie

Smithsonian Institution

Soares, Bernardo

Socrates

Somé, Soboufu

Somoza, Anastasio

Sonnenfels, Joseph von

Sopeña Monsalve, Andrés

South Africa

South America

South Carolina

South Sea Company

Soviet Union

Spain

Sparta

Spartacus

Spencer, Herbert

Spies, August

Sprenger, Jakob

Stalin, Joseph

Stalingrad

Standard Oil

Stanley, Dr.

Stoffels, Hendrickje

Strabo

Sucre, Antonio José de

Sudan

Suez

Suharto

Sukaina

Sumatra

Sumeria

Sun

Sun Tzu

Sundblom, Haddon

Suribachi Volcano

Suriname

Sutter, John

Sweden

Swift, Jonathan

Switzerland

Syria

Taft, William Howard

Tahiti

Taklamakan

Tanzania

Taprobane

TASS

Tassili

Tejas,
see
Texas

Telemaco

Tennessee

Tenochtitlán

Tesla, Nikolai

Texas

Thales of Miletus

Thames

Thamus

Thebes

Theodora

Theresa, Saint

Thermopylae

Thoth

Thrace

Thule

Thyestes

Thyssen

Thyssen, Fritz

Tigris

Timbuktu

Timor

Tiphys

Tiradentes

Tituba

Tlalmanalco

Tlaxcala

Tlazoltéotl

Tokyo

Tonkin, Gulf of

Torquemada

Torre, Tomás de la

Torrijos, Omar

Totonicapán

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri

Transjordan

Treblinka

Trevelyan, Charles Edward

Tripoli

Tristán, Flora

Tropicana

Trotsky, Leon

Trotta, Lothar von

Troy

Trujillo, Rafael Leónidas

Truman, Harry

Tshombe, Moise

Tubman, Harriet

Tule

Túpac Amaru

Túpac Catari

Turing, Alan

Turkistan

Turkey

Tuthmosis

Twain, Mark

Tyre

Ucello, Paolo

Ukraine

Unilever

Union Carbide Corporation

United Nations

United States

Upper Volta,
see
Burkina Faso

Urabá

Urban VIII, Pope

Urraca

Uruana

Uruguay

Ussher, James

Utah

Valadon, Suzanne

Valencia

Valley of the Fallen

Van Gogh, Vincent

Varela, Obdulio

Varennes

VARTA

Vatican

Vázquez Díaz, Daniel

Venice

Venezuela

Venus

Vera Cruz, Rosa María Egipcíaca da

Verceil

Verdi, Giuseppe

Verdun

Vermeer van Delft

Versailles

Vespucci, Amerigo

Vesuvius

Via Appia

Victoria, Queen

Videla, Jorge

Vienna

Vietnam

Villa, Pancho

Villaflor, Azucena

Villarejo de Salvanés

Virgil

Virgin Mary

Virginia

Vivaldi, Antonio

Vivaldo

Volkswagen

Voltaire

Volterra, Daniele da

Wahid, Abdurrahman

Walker, William

Warner Brothers

Warren, Samuel

Washington

Washington, George

Waterloo

Watson, Dr.

Watson, James

Watt, James

Wayne, John

Wellesley, Arthur

Wellington, Duke of,
see
Wellesley, Arthur

Welser

Wembley Stadium

Wender, Peter

Westinghouse

Wheeler, John H.

Whitman, Walt

Wier, Johannes

Wilde, Oscar

Wilhelm, Emperor

Wilson, Woodrow

Winslow, Mrs.

Winthrop, John

World Bank

Wounded Knee

Wyoming

Xuan Zang

Yaa Asantewaa

Yalta

Yamato Takeru

Yamuna River

Yang Huanyi

Yellow River

Yellowstone River

Yesenin, Sergei

Yi

York, Duke of

Yourcenar, Marguerite

Yu

Yucatan

Yugoslavia

Yutian

Zacatecas

Zanzibar

Zapata, Emiliano

Zeus

Zheng, Admiral

Zinacantán

Zinoviev, Grigory

Zola, Emile

Zukor, Adolph

Zurich

Zyklon B

Copyright © 2009 by Eduardo Galeano

English translation copyright © 2009 by Mark Fried

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Originally published in the Spanish language in 2008 by Siglio XXI Editores
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Galeano, Eduardo H., 1940-
[Espejos. English]

Mirrors : stories of almost everyone / by Eduardo Galeano ; English
translation by Mark Fried.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-0-786-74470-1

1. History--Miscellanea. I. Title.
D21.3.G3513 2009
909--dc22
2009004518