Spain 1909 La Semana Trágica, or the Tragic Week, was a momentous episode in Spanish labor history. In 1909 a general strike was called to protest the sending of conscripted troops to Morocco. This erupted into a week-long insurgency remembered...

Tragic Week (in Catalan la Setmana Tràgica, in Spanish la Semana Trágica) (July 25-August 2, 1909) is the name used for a series of bloody confrontations between the army and the working classes of Barcelona and other cities of Catalonia, backed by...

THE pictures of Lieutenant Joanne Dyer and Private Eleanor Dlugosz, killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, show two young women proudly serving their country. There is so much promise in their faces. So much hope for their careers and lives....

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The condition of five-time world champion boxer Johnny Tapia was upgraded to fair Wednesday as he begins to recover from an apparent cocaine overdose.Teresa Tapia, the boxer's wife and manager, said her husband has been improving but he's "not out of the woods yet." He's...

Five-time world champion boxer Johnny Tapia was released from the hospital after a three-day stay that began with an apparent cocaine overdose.Tapia was upgraded from serious to fair condition Wednesday at Presbyterian Hospital and released later in the day.It has been a tragic week for...