The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Fernando, son till Christopher Columbus, minns hur hans far bevisade för honom att jorden är rund. Med denna vetskap anser Columbus att han ska kunna nå Orienten genom att segla västerut från Kanarieöarna. Han söker stöd hos kyrkan för sin upptäcktsresa men kyrkan vägrar att ge sitt samtycke ända tills Columbus backas upp av sjöfararen Pinzón och den inflytelserike bankiren Santangel. Drottning Isabella tilltalas av Columbus idealism och löften om framtida berömmelse och hovet ger sitt samtycke till expeditionen. Den 3 augusti 1492 avseglar Columbus med de tre skeppen Pinta, Niña och Santa Maria. I oktober är man framme, inte i Orienten som de trodde, utan i en hitintills okänd världsdel.
In 1898, a Minnesota farmer clearing trees from his field uprooted a large stone covered with mysterious runes that tell a story of land acquisition and murder. The stone allegedly dates back to 1362. Initially thought to be a hoax, new evidence suggests the find could be real, and a clue that the Knights Templar discovered America 100 years before Columbus, perhaps bringing with them history's greatest treasure... the Holy Grail. Follow the clues as experts use erosion studies on the rune stone and match symbols in Templar ruins all over Europe to support this theory. Stones with similar markings have been found on islands across the Atlantic Ocean, and in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Is it possible the Knights Templar, long thought to have been massacred, escaped on an incredible journey and were leaving clues to the whereabouts of the stone?
The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.
A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.