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An Aymara Indian legend relating how Viracocha, the creator of the world, repopulated the world after the great flood of antiquity.

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably. It has been the purpose of BICRES I (from the early beginnings to 1600), published in 1994, to bring together already available bibliographical information with the more recent research findings, scattered in many places, books and articles and published during the past one hundred years. BICRES II (covering the 1601–1700 period) followed in 1999....

Más allá del ron, el tabaco o el café, y hasta del deporte, es la música la manifestación artística que más nos ha dado a conocer internacionalmente. Aunque la literatura cubana no ha corrido la misma suerte de ser universal, sí fue y es un elemento esencial en la formación de nuestra nacionalidad y se merece un lugar especial en estas páginas escritas por dos cubanos curiosos: un pintor y una editora, dos poetas que nos ofrecen un gran lienzo al cubano como artista.

One day some stretched-out gentlemen come and ask a father to be king. It seems a good opportunity, but in the end one must choose between being king and being a father. In a simple story, the authors invite us to reflect on the relationship of fathers and sons.