La Misa de los niños

La historia de los inventores es apasionante, sabemos muy poco de aquellos genios y sus mentes prodigiosas, ellos cambiaron el Mundo y escribieron las páginas más brillantes de la Historia. Sabían que la bombilla no la inventó Thomas Alva Edison, y que la radio no la inventó Marconi, y el teléfono, ¿sabrian decirme quién inventó el teléfono?, la mayoría de nosotros diría que fue Graham Bell, y la máquina de vapor, seguramente, diríamos que fue James Watt, pues ninguno de ellos fueron los verdaderos inventores, con Academia de Inventores descubriremos a los verdaderos genios que...

José Martí was barely 16 years old when he began to fight for the independence of his homeland through his writing. At 17 he was declared an enemy of Spain and sentenced to six years of prison and hard labor. But that did not stop him. Martí dedicated his life to defending Cuba's right to independence. Today he is remembered and honored as a man of integrity--brilliant and courageous--and as a lover of freedom and peace.

People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.

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