Alemania: 1945-2012

?Un libro que no sólo brinda respuestas sino que además desvela las más fabulosas preguntas. Una obra que abrirá los ojos a sus lectores a un pasado que puede ser muy diferente a cómo nos lo han contado? (Revista Clave 7, junio de 2012) Objetos cuya existencia es indudable pero que, precisamente por eso, contradicen las leyes científicas y obligan a reescribir la historia y a dudar de lo que nos han contado. ¿Puede existir una pila eléctrica con más de 2.000 años de antigüedad? ¿Es probable que haya cráneos prehistóricos que presenten heridas de bala? ¿Y una esfera cuya...

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

La contraofensiva estratégica De la Sierra Maestra a Santiago de Cuba

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...