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Mirrors

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by Eduardo Galeano

Orléans

  Orpheus

  Ortiz, Fernando

  Osiris

  Osorio, Sila

  Ostia

  Ouro Preto

  Oviedo, Jorge

  Owens, Jesse

  Pachacamac

  Pacheco, Duarte

  Pacific Ocean

  Pactolus River

  Padua

  Paine, Thomas

  Paiwas Radio

  Pakistan

  Palenque

  Palestine

  Palma de Mallorca

  Palma Soriano

  Palmares

  Palos

  Panama

  Pandora

  Pangaeum, Mount

  Pará

  Paraguay

  Pardo Bazán, Emilia

  Paredes, José de

  Paris

  Paris (city)

  Parks, Rosa

  Parris, Samuel

  Parsons, Albert

  Parthenon

  Pasquino

  Patagonia

  Patuxet

  Paul, Saint

  Paul IV, Pope

  Pavletich, José Esteban

  Pavlov, Ivan

  Pedralbes

  Pedro I, see Pedro IV

  Pedro IV

  Pelé

  Peloponnesian War

  Pemberton, Doctor

  Peña, Luis de la

  Perancho River

  Peranchito River

  Pérez Isla, Carlos

  Pericles

  Périgord

  Perrault

  Persia

  Peru

  Pessoa, Fernando

  Peter, Saint

  Phidias

  Philae

  Philip II

  Philip V

  Philippines

  Phineus

  Phrygia

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pietro Damiani, Saint

  Pigafetta, Antonio

  Pigs, Bay of

  Pineda, Mariana

  Pinochet, Augusto

  Piribebuy

  Pius V, Pope

  Pius IX, Pope

  Pixinguinha

  Pizarro, Francisco

  Plato

  Pleiades

  Pliny the Elder

  Plutarch

  Plymouth

  Pol Pot

  Poland

  Polo, Marco

  Polynesia

  Ponce, María

  Poppaea

  Porto Alegre

  Portugal

  Poseidon

  Postumius

  Potosí

  Pound, Ezra

  Powell, Colin

  Priam

  Princeton

  Priscillian

  Prometheus

  Prussia

  Ptolemy

  Pu Yi

  Puerto Rico

  Pullman

  Pythagoras

  Queensberry, Marquis of

  Queipo de Llano, Gonzalo

  Quetzalcóatl

  Quiriguá

  Quito

  18 Rabbit

  Rábida Monastery

  Raleigh, Walter

  Rao

  Ravenna

  Reichstag

  Reinhardt, Django

  Reis, Ricardo

  Rembrandt

  Rhodes, Cecil

  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

  Published by Nation Books

  A Member of the Perseus Books Group

  Originally published in the Spanish language in 2008 by Siglio XXI Editores

  (Spain and Mexico) and Ediciones del Chanchito (Uruguay).

  Engravings from the exhibit “Monstruos y seres imaginarios,”

  Madrid National Library (2000). A complete list of artists can be found at the

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  TEXT DESIGN AND COMPOSITION BY JENNY DOSSIN

  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

 

 

 


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