Fernando VII

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...

REDOBLES POR MANUEL SCORZA es una selección de artículos, reeditados como inéditos, fruto de una particular dedicación al estudio de la vida y obra de Manuel Scorza. Este libro celebra al gran cantor de la epopeya ranqueña por los 50 años de herencia scorziana, titulada "Redoble por Rancas" (1970). Se trata de textos en torno a la pentalogía ("Redoble por Rancas"; "Historia de Garabombo, el Invisible"; "El Jinete Insomne"; "Cantar de Agapito Robles"; "La Tumba del Relámpago") y a la última novela "La Danza Inmóvil", de Manuel Scorza, con una bibliografía de referencias revisitadas, ...

Historia de la "Batalla del Río de la Plata": el desembarco de la tripulación del Graf Spee, su hundimiento y el suicidio de su capitán, Hans Langsdorff, en el contexto argentino que va del golpe de Uriburu a la llegada del peronismo.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...