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We studied the important events in the life and work of Puerto Rican scientist and politician Narciso Rabell Cabrero (1873-1928). He lived in the turmoil of the change of sovereignty from the Spain regime to the United States of America regime during the American-Hispanic War of 1898. Despite this turmoil, he made contributions in the natural history of Puerto Rico, especially in paleontology, archaeology, pharmacy, botany and politics. Rabell Cabrero was a man without boundaries. A genealogical summary is also provided.

La fachada de la Universidad de Salamanca es una presentación alegórica de un programa político: una glorificación de Carlos V como emperador del Sacro Imperio Romano, fundado por Carlomagno para la Renovatio imperii romani. El programa es de cancillería, concretamente del canciller Gattinara. Por eso, el paño central ostenta las armas del Imperio: efigie del Emperador, águila bicéfala y blasón de Carlos V, y las de España: águila de san Juan y Reina Juana, subrayando así la filiación española del Emperador a través de su madre Juana y de sus abuelos los Reyes Católicos. En el ...

Charata, paradójicamente, en gran medida debe su origen a la obstinación de pobladores pioneros intrusos, los cuales a pesar de no tener garantizada la regularización de su situación, decidieron permanecer en la zona, pues las tierras vírgenes de Charata representaban un rápido progreso material dinamizando con su actividad una incipiente producción local.