Historia mínima de la globalización temprana

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

Was the ancient knowledge of the holographic nature of mind and the reality model what discovered quantum physics? Did the Egyptians know the term autopoiesis was utilized to discover the process of cognition in living creatures and had revolutionized the world of biology? Did they hide the hieroglyphic texts that contain symbols that had gone unnoticed by the Egyptians and that explain the rationale of the Great Pyramid? What was Plato referring to in one of his speeches when he indicated that, periodically, a catastrophe loomed over the Earth that would return human beings back into a state ...

Fue entre los días 15 a 17 del pasado mes de julio del presente año, cuando celebramos el que vino a ser ya el XVI Curso de Verano “Ciudad de Tarazona”, que en esta ocasión tuvo por título el de “Cinco siglos de la expedición Magallanes-Elcano. La herencia de Aragón y su Corona en el Orbe”, en clara alegoría al V Centenario de la expedición que protagonizasen, en nombre de la Monarquía Hispánica, Fernando de Magallanes y Juan Sebastián Elcano, a través del cual el rey de España patrocinó la que habría de ser una de las más importantes de las hazañas que hasta ese...

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.