En busca de El Dorado

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Arranca el siglo XVIII y una nueva dinastía inicia su andadura con Felipe V para culminar con Carlos III y la Ilustración. Los ilustrados Floridablanca, Campomanes o Esquilache (que dará nombre al famoso motín), no lograrán imponer sus tesis. Tras la Revolución Francesa (1789), Napoleón ambicionó dominar Europa y en España la guerra contra los franceses hará que el pueblo español añore a Fernando VII «el deseado». Después vendrá la guerra de sucesión y posteriormente las carlistas. La debilidad española propiciaría que las colonias americanas se independicen de la...

Argentina y la Primera Guerra Mundial, un momento clave de la historia argentina, que marcó el curso del siglo XX.

American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records. As a result, U.S. Army airmen daringly accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. In Around the World in 175 Days, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. After two years of planning, four ...