Carlos V y el regreso a Italia de la reina Bona de Polonia

El 24 d?abril de 1547 es va lliurar la batalla de Mühlberg, en la qual Carles V va donar un colp d?autoritat en derrotar els prínceps alemanys que s?havien unit en la Lliga d?Esmalcalda per oposar-se al govern imperial a Alemanya. No obstant això, aquesta victòria no va donar pas a un període de tranquil·litat, sinó que el landgravi de Hesse i Joan Frederic de Saxònia foren segrestats. Carles V va decidir que Joan Frederic de Saxònia fos custodiat pel soldat i poeta Hernando de Acuña i viatgés amb ell durant el segrest, però el landgravi de Hesse va quedar en mans de diversos...

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...

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

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La defensa marítima de los dominios españoles fue insuficiente durante el s. XVII, y con el cambio de siglo comenzó a preocupar seriamente a la Corona. Los nuevos tiempos exigían rehacer la marina y formar oficiales guerreros, que fueran también cosmógrafos y científicos. Pronto sobresalieron los vascos, que dirigieron expediciones cartográficas y de observación científica, defendieron el Mediterráneo contra los turcos y el Pacífico contra los corsarios, y mantuvieron a Inglaterra en jaque hasta la batalla de Trafalgar.