Aug 19 2009
Subversive Historian – 08/19/09
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The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca
Back in the day on August 19th, 1936, Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered. With the initial phases of the civil war in Spain raging, the avant-garde dramatist had taken refuge in the province of Granada were he was born thirty-eight years before his death. Garcia Lorca, sensing that …
The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca
Back in the day on August 19th, 1936, Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was murdered. With the initial phases of the civil war in Spain raging, the avant-garde dramatist had taken refuge in the province of Granada were he was born thirty-eight years before his death. Garcia Lorca, sensing that …
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