La España del Seiscientos

Stéphane Hessel, cuyo alegato contra la indiferencia ha contribuido a desperezar las conciencias de miles y miles de indignados, proclama ahora la necesidad de comprometerse, desde la exigencia ética individual y con rechazo explícito a toda violencia. A través de una vibrante conversación con Gilles Vanderpooten, desde los casi setenta años que los separan, Hessel propone medios a los jóvenes para la acción contra las injusticias, los abusos del poder del dinero y el atropello de los derechos humanos, y apela, por encima de todo, a evitar la tentación del derrotismo. «Resistir...

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Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

Esta magnífica obra trata del amor que sentía el gran cacique Guarionex por la hermosa taina Loarina. Pero este gran amor no era correspondido, pues Loarina amaba a su vez al soldado español Cristobal de Sotomayor. Al sentirse rechazado, Guarionex reta a un duelo a muerte a Sotomayor, que termina con graves consecuencias para ambos...