Eduardo Galeano - Children of the Days - A Calendar of Human History

The word was “Abracadabra,” which in ancient Hebrew meant and still means, “Give your fire until the last of your days.”

ABC , 271

Abraham, 59

Acosta, Juan Pío, 56

Adam, 22, 125, 384

AES Gener, 329

Afghanistan, 137, 180, 313, 327, 369

Africa, 38, 62, 96, 107

Aguilar, Juana, 40

Alabama, 7

Alagoas, 71, 103

Alaska, 88

Aleksandr, Prince, 260

Aleksandra, 260

Alexandria, 190

Alice, 217, 311

Allah, 20, 76

Allende, Salvador, 272

Alvarado, Pedro de, 243

Amaru, Túpac, 152

Amazon, 97, 381

Ameghino, Florentino, 294

America, 4, 26, 245, 307, 311, 312

American Psychiatric Association, 112

Amsterdam, 246

Andalusia, 118

Andes, 86, 192, 235

Andrei, Prince, 260

Anselmo, Lance Corporal, 9

Anthony, Susan B., 186, 187

Antigua, 389

Aphrodite, 45

Appalachians, 174

Aqualtune, 71

Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 76

Aranha, Felipa Maria, 71

Araracuara, 84

Arbenz, Jacobo, 127

Argentina, 12, 13, 53, 73, 92, 161, 182, 183, 198, 293, 370

Aristotle, 76

Artemis, 218

Artigas, José, 277, 278

Aswan, 190

Atahualpa, 171

Athens, 222, 265

Attar, Farid al-Din, 386

Auschwitz, 162

Australia, 23, 26, 50, 79

Austria, 163, 271

Aventis, 49

Ayacucho, 36

Azurduy, Juana, 247

Baghdad, 5

Bahia, 71

Baker Street, 160

Balaam, 59

Balaguer, Emma, 305

Ballestrino, Esther, 132

Banderas, Antonio, 352

Barbosa, Moacir, 215

Barings Bank, 63

Barnum, Phineas T., 206

Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 25

Barrett, Rafael, 9

Barrett, Soledad, 9

Bashō, Matsuo, 393

Bay of Pigs, 122

Bayer, 49

Bayer, Osvaldo, 53

Beatles, The, 47

Beijing, 48

Belgium, 271, 329

Bell, Joshua, 14

Bellarmino, Roberto, 158

Benedict, Pope, 162

Benga, Ota, 155

Benguela, Teresa de, 71

Berlin, 17, 62

Bernal, Lorenzo, 172

Bernays, Edward, 104

Bianchi, Francisco, 91

Bible, the, 59, 63, 76, 125, 205

Black Corsair, the, 281

Blagojevic, Petar, 163

Blanco, Hugo, 349

Bly, Nellie, 348

Boabdil, 396

Bobadilla, Rosa, 285

Bolívar, Simón, 244

Bolivia, 28, 73, 308, 309, 314

Boninsegna, José Antonio, 370

Boniperti, Giampiero, 212

Bonpland, Aimé, 204

Boop, Betty, 251

Borges, Jorge Luis, 125

Borneo, 226

Botswana, 297

Bouazizi, Mohamed, 383

Braslavsky, Guido, 92

Brazil, 9, 24, 39, 44, 56, 71, 103, 209, 211, 215, 216, 361, 373

Brecht, Bertolt, 125

Bretton Woods, 223

British Air Council, 26

British Empire, 63, 142, 182, 249

Broadway, 251

Bronx, 155

Brown, John, 368

Browning, Robert, 25

Bruno, Giordano, 158

Buenos Aires, 177, 178, 198, 247, 294

Buñuel, Luis, 73

Busch Circus, 292

Bush, George W., 5, 292

Butler, Smedley, 18

Cabral, Amilcar, 280

Cádiz, 395

Caesar, Julius, 5, 83

Caiboaté, 46

California, 91, 119

Calpurnia (Pisonis), 83

“Cambalache”, 139

Canada, 318

Canary Islands, 70

Cancún, 364

Cândido, João, 361

Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes), 73

Cañizares, Manuela, 244

Capone, Al, 18

Caracas, 328

Cardano, Girolamo, 289

Caribbean Sea, 122, 256, 305

Carroll, Lewis, 217

Cartagena de Indias, 37

Carter, Howard, 143

Carthage, 265

Caruso, Enrico, 119

Carver, George Washington, 7

Cavalcanti, José Paulo, 377

Caxias, Marquis of, 39

Ceará, 381

Celanese, 49

Central America, 282

Chang and Eng, 206

Charity, Freedom and Diversity Party, 169

Charlemagne, 30

Charles I, 316

Charles II, 340

Chartres, 304

Chávez, Hugo, 113

Chekhov, Anton, 31

Chengdu, 48

Chernobyl, 128

Chicago, 18, 342

Chile, 172, 329, 355

China, 25, 146, 237, 238, 326

Chiquita Brands, 81

Church of the Word, 91

Churchill, Winston, 26, 249

Cleopatra, 5

Cnidus, 45

Cockburn, Claud, 128

Collodi, Carlo, 239

Colocolo, 172

Colombia, 81, 84, 325, 327

Columbus, Christopher, 305

Communist Party, 120, 390

Conceição das Crioulas, 71

Condor Plan, 52

Congo, 155, 156

Connecticut, 206

Conservative Party, 129

Constantine, 159

Constantinople, 58

Cook, James, 23

Cooke, John, 316

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 158

Corá, Cerro, 69

Córdoba, 92

Cortés, Hernán, 306, 307, 338

Coruña, 177

Cos, 45

Costa Rica, 367

Coubertin, Baron de, 246

Coyoacán, 306

Cranach, Lucas, 331

Crillon, Hotel de, 179

Crioula, Mariana, 71

Crowley, Richard, 186

Cuba, 73, 122, 211

Cuzco, 152, 349

Czechoslovakia, 271

Da Cutri, Leonardo, 253

Dahomey, 369, 392

Dalton, Roque, 144

Darwin, Charles, 357

Dávalos, Juan Carlos, 13

Decca Recording Company, 47

De la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés, 346

Delaware River, 311

Delft, 324

Delon, Alain, 352

Delta and Pine, 250

Denmark, 271

Descartes, René, 341

Devil, the, 15, 22, 27, 78, 115, 124, 285, 290, 291, 331

Díaz, Porfirio, 284

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 371

Diego de la Vega, 352

Diego Garcia, 301

Dien Bien Phu, 141

Di Monte, Piero, 184

Discépolo, Enrique Santos, 139

Disney, Walt, 239

Dmitri, Prince, 260

Dominican Republic, 305

Donne, John, 99

Don Quijote de la Mancha, 125

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 345

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 160

Dracula, 163

Dresden, 363

Ducasse, Isidore, 106

Dumas, Alexandre, 210

DuPont, 49

Ecuador, 10, 97, 244, 254

Edwards, Henrietta, 318

Egypt, 5, 40

Eiffel Tower, 179

Einstein, Albert, 120

Eisenhower, Dwight, 127, 243, 302

Elba, Isle of, 60

El Salvador, 144

Endesa, 329

Engels, Friedrich, 11

Enheduanna, 387

Ephesus, 218

Eratosthenes, 190

Esparragosa, Narciso, 40

Espejo, Manuela, 244

Espírito Santo, 71

Ethiopia, 358

Eudoxia, 260

Euripides, 372, 373

Europe, 11, 59, 62, 128, 242, 271

European Union, 111

Eve, 125, 379, 384

Exú, 38

Fairbanks, Douglas, 352

Falkland Islands, 182

Father Sun, 378

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 120, 145, 262

Fernando, 161

Ferreira, Francisca and Mendecha, 71

Figueres, Pepe, 367

Finlay, Carlos, 248

Flanagan, Hallie, 372

Flood, the, 59

Florence, 54, 176

Fonseca Amador, Carlos, 230

Fortunato, Ángela, 53

Foster, Maud, 53

Fracastoro, Girolamo, 242

France, 60, 154, 164, 210, 241, 259, 271, 273

Francesco, 54

Francis of Assisi, Saint, 205

Franco, Francisco, 51, 271

Freire, Paulo, 362

Fuji, Mount, 80

Fukushima, 128

Gabriel, Archangel, 16, 93

Galileo Galilei, 158

Gambá, Zacimba, 71

Gandhi, Mahatma, 249

García, Consuelo, 53

Gelman, Macarena, 52

Genesis, vii

Genoa, 37

Geppetto, 239

German Football Association, 288

Germany, 32, 85, 221, 241, 269, 270, 363

Geronimo, 36

Gibraltar, Strait of, 222

Ginés de Sepúlveda, Juan, 376

Girardelli, La Signora, 165

Giraud, Marie-Louise, 337

Glaucon, 319

Goldman, Emma, 385

God, 7, 16, 19, 20, 54, 61, 62, 64, 93, 124, 162, 178, 240, 283, 290, 305, 357, 378

Gong, Prince, 326

Gonzaga, Chiquinha, 39

Gouges, Olympe de, 337