Freethought Almanac

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2014-09-16
September 16: Tomás de Torquemada

Tomás de Torquemada (d. 1498) It was on this date, September 16, 1498, that the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Tomás de Torquemada, died in Ávila. Born on a date uncertain in 1420 in what is now Valladolid, Torquemada was a Dominican monk – one of the famed "hounds of the Lord" (domini canes) – in […]

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May 20: Honoré de Balzac

Sometimes ironically called "the Christ of Modern Art," his drastic Rationalism pervades all Balzac’s work.



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