Tilting at windmills Cervantes wrote and published "Don Quixote" during the Eighty Years' War, or Dutch War of Independence (1568–1648), a revolt by the Habsburg Netherlands to end Spanish rule. In "Don Quixote", the eponymous protagonist consistently misinterprets the motives and actions of his adversaries and allies, and struggles to even understand his own at times — a conundrum regularly resulting in apparently unjustified violent actions and consequences. One way of interpreting Don Quixote's tilting at windmills could be allegorically, thereby promoting critical, skeptical, or satirical evaluation of either a hero's motives, rationales and actions, or the ultimate aims of a nation's foreign
Pino (fictional character) the drawings. 20 short films has been made about Pino and has been broadcast on SVTs kids show Bolibompa and has also been distributed through DVD. Pino is also featured in a computer game, memory card game and toys in the form of a teddy bear. Pino has become successful in France where he is called Tomi and 14 of the books have so far been published there. Pino has also been published in Norway and Japan. Two DVDs has been released about Pino. The two DVDs consists of 10 animated films each. Pino (fictional character) Pino is a fictional