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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...

Muchos de los mitos griegos continúan vivos hoy. Este libro los explica. Recuerda también cómo imaginaban los griegos el origen del mundo y la aparición de los humanos, sin olvidar el papel esencial de los héroes entre los dioses y los hombres.

Las guerras púnicas abren este segundo volumen, en el que se describe el imparable avance de la dominación romana hasta las fronteras naturales de Italia, primero, y luego mucho más allá, desde la unión de los Estados itálicos hasta la sumisión de Cartago y de Grecia. Mommsen no se limita a la narración cronológica de los hechos militares: su objetivo es la reconstrucción sistemática de la civilización romana, tanto la explicación de su formidable expansión territorial como también el análisis de las relaciones entre gobernantes y gobernados, las características del sistema...

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