Jesús Sevilla

[Jesús Sevilla @JessSevilla7]

@AndreaAcostArts Murió en 1992

[Jesús Sevilla @JessSevilla7]

@jotacuspi Grande Jota!!!

[Doctor Frusna @doctorfrusna]

El gran #MelBrooks habla sobre su cameo en la maravillosa #YoungFrankenstein (1974) ...y sí, Mel tiene seis dedos, pero el video no es IA 😅
#TeamCoco

[R E P L I C A N T @Roybattyforever]

Necesito que me digas esa película que nadie conoce, que a nadie le importa, pero que todos deberíamos ver.

[Código Carnaval @codigocarnaval]

Hoy, un nuevo 17 de mayo Capitán...

Que la ciudad te recuerde cantando, como tú quisiste.

#EternoCapitanVeneno 🖤

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

245 years ago today, a 35-year-old Spanish nobleman fired a single artillery shell that redrew the map of North America, broke British power in the Gulf of Mexico, and arguably saved the American Revolution. His name was Bernardo de Gálvez. He's not in your textbook. He should be.

When Spain entered the war against Britain in June 1779, the American cause was bleeding out. Washington's army was unpaid and shrinking. The Continental dollar was worth pennies. The British had taken Savannah and were preparing to take Charleston. France was helping, but France alone couldn't bankrupt the British Empire.

Spain could. And in New Orleans sat the man who would prove it.

Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid was 33 years old, the governor of Spanish Louisiana, a battle-scarred career officer who had been wounded fighting Apaches in northern Mexico and Algerians in North Africa. The day he learned Spain had declared war, he didn't wait for orders from Madrid. He raised an army of Spanish regulars, Louisiana Creoles, free Black militia from New Orleans, Acadian refugees, German settlers, and Choctaw scouts, and he went on the attack.

In three months he took Manchac, Baton Rouge, and Natchez. The next year he took Mobile. The British presence on the Gulf shrank to one last fortress. Pensacola, the capital of British West Florida, defended by Major General John Campbell with 1,500 redcoats, the 3rd Waldeck Regiment of German mercenaries, loyalist battalions from Maryland and Pennsylvania, and a powerful alliance of Creek and Choctaw warriors led by the brilliant mixed-race chief Alexander McGillivray.

Gálvez arrived off Pensacola in March 1781 with 7,000 men and a fleet. The Spanish naval commander, Admiral Calbo de Irazábal, refused to enter Pensacola Bay. The entrance was narrow, raked by British guns at Fort Barrancas Coloradas, and treacherous with sandbars. So Gálvez did something insane. He boarded his own little brig, the Galveztown, hoisted his personal pennant, and sailed her into the bay alone, in full view of the British batteries, daring the Royal Navy to sink him. The British fired and missed. The Spanish fleet, shamed, followed him in. For this he was awarded the right to put the words "Yo Solo," meaning "I alone," on his coat of arms by the King of Spain.

The siege ground on for two months. Gálvez was shot in the abdomen and the finger directing artillery and refused to leave the field. The British defenses at the Queen's Redoubt, also called the Crescent, held against everything thrown at them. And then, on the morning of May 8, 1781, a Spanish howitzer crew lofted a shell over the parapet. It dropped, by pure luck or perfect skill, directly into the open powder magazine.

The explosion killed roughly 100 defenders in a single instant. Waldeck grenadiers, British regulars, loyalists, all gone. The blast tore the redoubt's wall open like paper. Spanish grenadiers and Louisiana militia poured through the breach within minutes and turned the captured British guns on the inner works. Campbell knew it was over.

The next morning, May 9, white flags went up. By May 10 the entire province of West Florida belonged to Spain. Over 1,100 British troops marched out as prisoners of war.

The strategic consequences were catastrophic for Britain. The Gulf Coast was lost. The Mississippi was a Spanish river from source to sea. Britain could no longer reinforce its southern armies by sea from the Caribbean, and the Royal Navy's Caribbean squadron had to be redeployed. Five months later, Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, in a siege funded in part by 500,000 silver pesos that Gálvez and the people of Havana raised in a matter of days to pay French Admiral de Grasse's fleet to come north.

Without that money, no French fleet. Without the French fleet, no Yorktown. Without Yorktown, no independence on those terms.

Gálvez was made Count of Gálvez and Viscount of Galveztown. The bay he charted in Texas still bears his name, Galveston. His portrait hangs in the United States Capitol by act of Congress. In 2014, he was made an honorary citizen of the United States, an honor given to only eight people in American history, including Lafayette, Churchill, and Mother Teresa.

He died of yellow fever in Mexico City at 40 years old, three years after the war ended.

Most Americans have never heard his name.

[Skyhook Mag @skyhookmagazine]

Estabas viendo historia y no lo sabías: la auténtica salvajada que protagonizó Bullock en este concurso de triples.

[NBA en español 🏀 @_NBAESP_]

Os queremos dejar un regalito: el partido completo de la Final del Mundial de 2006 entre España y Grecia, en español con los comentarios de Andrés Montes. Disfruten:

[Gigantes del Basket @GIGANTESbasket]

Estos tres minutos en Belgrado.

[Charo Luque @charo_lu]

La verdadera noticia, es lo bien que está Aitana Sánchez-Gijón interpretando a Raimundo en la obra de teatro La Malquerida. Aún podéis ir a vela al Teatro Español. (hasta el 26 de abril)

[Cinefilia Cult @cinefiliacult]

Se que muchas veces no tienen tiempo, pero estas 6 series cortas que les dejo para esta Semana Santa, las van a devorar.
Espero que les gusten y compartan😉. Al hilo👇🏼🧵:

1/6 - Ripley (2024): Siento que se habla poco de esta delicia, y no entiendo por qué… Uff, es TREMENDA👌❤️

[Pablo Lolaso @PabloLolaso]

La Bombilla 2x06
Jordi Villacampa

Me flipa hablar con las nuevas generaciones del baloncesto. Y luego se me caen las bragas al suelo cuando tengo el privilegio de charlar con leyendas tan enormes como esta. Lujo.

YouTube: https://t.co/mfqCWVmyzO
Spotify: https://t.co/2tYmgUgZ9O

[Carolina Marín @CarolinaMarin]

Mi camino acaba aquí. Gracias a todos, porque también habéis formado parte de ello. En esta nueva aventura llevaré conmigo los valores que me han acompañado hasta ahora e intentaré devolver a la sociedad todo lo que me ha dado en este tiempo. Ha sido un viaje maravilloso ♥️

[Juan Ceñal @ordago13]

Las mejores playlists hermanas para que elijas la que mejor se adapta a ti en cada momento y no se te acabe nunca la buena música (HILO)

[Doctor Frusna @doctorfrusna]

Con el estreno de #TorrentePresidente, he recordado este viejo sketch con #RowanAtkinson
@SSantiagosegura utiliza esa misma sátira e ironía para convertir el panorama político actual de nuestro país en su particular imperio austrohúngaro, en la que es su entrega más berlanguiana⬇️

[Doctor Frusna @doctorfrusna]

Aprovechando el cumpleaños de nuestro querido Sir #MichaelCaine 🎂 vamos con un HILO 🧵 actualizado de todos los videos que he subtitulado hasta la fecha, con sus maravillosas enseñanzas y divertidísimas anécdotas 🥳

Ojalá las disfrutéis tanto como yo ❤️😂😂
DENTRO HILO!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Pedro Torrijos @Pedro_Torrijos]

Si hay algo a la altura delirante de Dubái es la arquitectura de Dubái.
O como digo yo: obras diseñadas por críos de 7 años a los que dijeron dibuja el edificio más guay que se te ocurra y en vez de poner el dibujo en la nevera, lo construyeron.

Os cuento en #LaBrasaTorrijos ⤵️

[Gigantes del Basket @GIGANTESbasket]

📈🇪🇸Más gente jugando al baloncesto que nunca: se bate el récord de licencias en España

🏀 El año 2025 se cerró con 13.000 licencias más en baloncesto, llegando hasta las 453.092, una cifra récord para el baloncesto español

Número de licencias de baloncesto en España
Total: 453.092 (+2,9%)
Masculinas: 289.322 (+2,2%)
Femeninas: 163.770 (+4,0%)
Clubes: 3.180

Evolución de licencias de baloncesto en España
2016 | 347.017
2017 | 354.328
2018 | 385.110
2019 | 385.635
2020 | 376.352
2021 | 272.451
2022 | 377.108
2023 | 411.885
2024 | 440.427
2025 | 453.092

[Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn @RembriBarrocho]

"Todos los niños nacen artistas. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artistas al crecer".

Pablo Picasso

La vuelta al mundo, de André Henri Dargelas (c1860, colección particular).

[Jesús Sevilla @JessSevilla7]

@D_S_Iglesias @pdrsnche No encuentro la lista en Spotify