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High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (Cuéllar, 1549 - Madrid, 1626), cronista, historiador y escritor prolífico del Siglo de Oro, es autor, entre otras obras, de la Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano o Décadas, considerada una de las primeras "Historias de América", principalmente de los descubrimientos y conquistas. Fue Cronista Mayor de Castilla y de Indias. Está considerado el historiador de temática más amplia en su época. Entre su abundante obra sobresale esta Historia General del Mundo en tiempos de Felipe II, que Mariano...

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Durante la segunda mitad del siglo x, el califato de Córdoba se convirtió en la mayor potencia política y cultural de Occidente. Lugar de visita de embajadas y comerciantes llegados desde todos los confines del Mediterráneo, al-Andalus conoció un gran esplendor. El cénit de esa supremacía se produjo en tiempos del califa al-Ḥakam II (961-976), famoso por poseer una de las mayores bibliotecas de la época, por sus obras de ampliación de la mezquita de Córdoba, y por la suntuosidad de la ciudad palatina en la que vivió, Madīnat al-Zahrāʼ, situada a pocos kilómetros de la...