The Spanish novelist and essayist Pío Baroja y Nessi (1872-1956) ranks as one of the major writers of Spain's Generation of 1898. His many works consistently reveal harsh criticism of his country and a pessimistic view of life. Pío Baroja w...
In an ambitious attempt to create television's next epic, TNT's latest original production takes viewers to ancient Rome, where a young Julius Caesar rose to power. "Caesar" recounts the triumph and demise of the Roman general whose aspirations and arrogance ultimately led to his...
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The Boston Globe
Hail, Caesar 08/07/1994: 1,355 words, approx. 5 pages
Caesar salad was so popular in the 1920s in Tijuana, Mexico, where it was invented, that people drove down from California just to eat it. Of course, this was during Prohibition in the United States, and Tijuana had two other tourist attractions: liquor and...
