La guerra fascista

Villa María Capital de la Nación (consta en actas) nos presenta la historia y los pormenores de aquella decisión histórica de convertir a Villa María Capital de la Nación. Historia que finalmente no fue. Ampliamente documentado con facsímiles de actas del Congreso de la Nación (inhallables en la actualidad) esta obra nos muestra el proceso por el cual la ciudad de Villa María, Córdoba fue designada capital de la República Argentina a fines del siglo XIX, el debate parlamentario, el veto del presidente Sarmiento y, luego, la designación final de Buenos Aires como Capital de...

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...

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Hace quinientos años, la expedición de Magallanes y Elkano dio la primera vuelta al mundo. Ahora Ander Izagirre sale de Getaria y vuelve a Getaria, el pueblo natal de Elkano, para darle una vuelta geográfica, histórica y mental al país de los vascos. Viaja en bicicleta y va encontrando historias asombrosas: las de hace quinientos años (navegantes, exploradores, esclavos, revolucionarios, emperadores, desterrados, balleneros, espíritus locales, dioses remotos) y las actuales (exploradoras, pescadores, mineras, inmigrantes, carpinteros, arqueólogas, cocineros, escultores, poetas,...