Alfonso XII of Spain, likely fathered by Enrique Puigmoltó i Mayans. It was a public secret at the time- and the resemblance between the two is quite striking.
When in exile and needing money from the then King, on his reluctance to increase her stipend, she told him «Lo que tienes de Borbón lo...
Francisco de Asis, who was quite cruelly mocked by everyone, from his wife on down to the common people: "Paco Natillas es de pasta flora y mea en cuclillas como una señora" ("Custard Francis is made out of filo pastry, and pisses squatting like a lady").
Which he would have had to do in any...
Surprised it took this long. Bad son, bad king, worse ruler. His father was not great either, his daughter was disgraceful, and his grandson... well, he seemed OK, but died young - perhaps if he had lived longer, he could have ruined things even more.
Spain has had only one decent king in the...
Most likely never formed at all.
A major influence on Monty Python was The Goon Show (Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine).
Milligan met Harry Secombe during the war in the North Africa campaign.
No North African campaign, no Goon Show, no Monty Python, or Firesign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Tasty_and_Healthy_Food
It is an interesting approach - it has everyday fare as well as for special occasions.
Common meals could be made from ingredients that were, from what it seems, intended to be available to anyone anywhere in the USSR.
That...
Many details of Salvo Montalbano were inspired by Pepe Carvalho, a detective created by the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, who was quite left wing, even going to prison for one year and a half for joining a strike in 1963.
Depending on the Spanish situation in TTL in the '60s and...
There are other sources of talent available.
With no Red Scare Hsue-Shen Tsien could have stayed in the US. Korolev might have been able to leave the rump USSR.
If he survived, that is.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.