Colombia. Bosquejo de su geografía tropical

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

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A finales del siglo XVIII un ilustrado de Carmona escribía que le había resultado muy difícil disponer de la obra Antigüedades y excelencias de la Villa de Carmona y compendio de historias para su lectura. Finalmente en 1778 se la facilitó el presbítero Don Nicolás de Lara. En la red se dispone de, al menos, tres ejemplares con origen diverso: Biblioteca Nacional, procedente de la Librería de don Pascual Gayangos; Biblioteca universitaria de Madrid, procedente de la Librería del Campo de Alange; y Real Biblioteca de Corte Imperial Viena (Kaiserliche koenigliche hofbibliotek wien)....

El Principe, de Nicholas Maquiavelo, es una obra clasica en materia poli-tica y de gran trascendencia dentro de la cultura occidental. Maquiavelo es, ademas de un gran teorico del pensamiento politico, y uno de los grandes prosistas en lengua italiana del s. XVI. Atacado por muchos y defendido tambien con firmeza, Maquiavelo nos demuestra su talento de escritor y la forma de conseguir y mantener el poder.