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In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual.

A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

Francisco Pizarro (1478 ?-1541), figura central de la Conquista española, como Cortés en México, entró tardíamente en la Historia, cuando a más de cincuenta años descubrió el Perú y sus fabulosas riquezas. Hijo bastardo de un militar hidalgo adinerado y de una criada, Pizarro nació se crió pobre en Estre-madura y fue analfabeto toda su vida. Muy joven, se dejó llevar por los espejismos del Nuevo Mundo descubierto apenas unos diez años atrás. Después de dos décadas de anadanzas infructuosas en zonas marginales del imperio en formació, la fortuna la sonríe : dirige su propia...