FOR no reason that we can very satisfactorily explain, we have read this odd book quite through ; and at the end we are in doubt whether Mr. Gayarré, who is of Spanish extraction, wrote the work ...

Carp and pike are currently considered invasive in Spain and have been blamed for causing significant damage to ecosystems in the country. But is Philip II ultimately responsible for this?

The Philippines was named in honor of King Philip II of Spain when the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos, arrived in our islands in 1542. And it is not even all the islands which comprised ...

You can say a lot of bad things about Philip II. And in the 42 years that he ruled Spain, from 1556 to 1598, a lot of bad things were indeed said about him, a good number by Elizabeth I of England ...

Pedro II is still there for Civ 6 - thank God - but there are changes elsewhere in the roster. Take Spain, for example. Isabella is out and Philip II is back. This makes total sense. Philip II ...

Philip II of Spain - the most powerful monarch of the early modern period - was married to Queen Mary Tudor from 1554 until her death in 1558. But Philip was not merely Mary's King Consort.

following King Philip II of Spain, William III, Prince George of Denmark and Prince Albert. Prince Philip died at Windsor Castle in England on April 9, 2021, one month before his 100th birthday.

The so-called Golden Age of Spain had many tarnished secrets, and King Philip II was behind the darkest of them. Cold, cruel, and inflexible in his ways, Philip viewed himself as the pious hero of ...

In 1561, King Philip II of Spain established Madrid as his capital, largely because its central location made it a handy base for his frequent tours of the realm. Nearly 500 years later, ...