Fiesta Mayor de Verdiales en la Venta El Tunel Su majestad Juan Medina y Jose-Gutierrez To the province of Málaga in Andalusia on Spain’s Costa del Sol. From 1969 to 1971, photographer Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 – 29 August 2020) was there to capture the essence of the place rapidly shifting from rural, fishing-dependency to a major European tourist hotspot. Having shown us around Glasgow and given us his final interview, Jürgen now takes us back to Spain on the brink of modernity. We see the area around Torremolinos, the fishing village of Los Boliches in Fuengirola, the Fiesta Mayor de Verdiales at Venta El Túnel and the Ronda bullring.   Los Boliches, Fuengirola, At a religious festival in Mijas Jürgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin in 1931. From 1946 onwards he studied at the city’s College for Optics and Photography, before becoming a photographer with the German Press Agency (dpa) in Hamburg. In 1950 he moved with his family to South Africa, where he joined the staff at Drum magazine, which focused on the country’s black majority population. From 1964 onwards he worked in Europe and the USA, as well as lecturing at various universities.  In 1985, he returned to South Africa, where he was based until 2007. Jürgen Schadeberg lived in Spain together with his wife and passed away in 2020.   Los Boliches, Fuengirola, A party on December 28 Fans at the Plaza de Toros de Ronda El-basurero-feliz-de-Torremolinos-limpia-lo-que-dejan-los-turistas-copyright-jurgen-schadeberg-scaled On the beach in Malaga At a bar in Mijas At a festival On the beach in the last 1960s The post With The People of Malaga – 1969-1971 appeared first on Flashbak.

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by Matthew Piepenburg, Von Greyerz: On Friday, January 30, 2026, the world learned (or rediscovered) just how grotesquely rigged the paper gold and silver markets truly are. The Great (Yet Familiar) Fall Despite no change whatsoever in global supply and demand forces, silver went from a $120 near-high on Thursday to a $78 low on Friday, marking […]

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American history is full of war stories. The United States has come out victorious in many wars, including its own Revolutionary War and fights like World War I and World War II. Other wars haven’t gone quite so well, though. Take the Vietnam War and the recent occupation of Afghanistan as examples of that. Yeah… […] The post Ten Forgotten American Wars appeared first on Listverse.

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