I'll always remember that day. In Spain it was 3 in the afternoon, and everybody watched it on TV... Outside USA we were thinking that it was happening not so far from us, it was an attack against all the occidental culture. We learned that in march, 11 of 2004, when 192 people died in Madrid by the same fanatic hands.

I think this kind of "wheel of the innocents" exists in other parts of Europe, mostly in catholic convents of closed orders. In Spain we call that wheel "torno", and it's the same, the nuns used this wheel to contact with the world, and there they found food, money or, as you say, abandonned babies.

I see everybody knows it. In León, Spain, we call it "mayal". The act of hitting the corn, to separate it from the plant, it's named "mayar".
very good blog!