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
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
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English translation copyright © 2009 by Mark Fried
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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