The country suffered extensive damage. Franco was succeeded as head of state by Juan Carlos the son of the king who had been deposed by the Republicans. King Juan Carlos, who still sits on the Spanish throne, shepherded the country to a constitutional monarchy and was instrumental in thwarting an attempted right wing military coup in 1981. Guernica was a Spanish city that was destroyed by German aerial bombing. If a print of this painting is available in a book you have at home or in the library, show it to your child.
Palmistry is the art of telling the future by reading the lines on a person's hand.
Palmistry is at least 4,000 years old and is still popular today. In most cities you can see the advertisements of palm readers. Some form of divination has been practiced in all cultures. His clear spare style has influenced innumerable writers. He won the Pulitzer prize for The Old Man and the Sea in 1953 and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.