Compendio chronol?gico de los privilegios regulares de Indias

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...

Guía del Patrimonio Cultural de Madrid no pretende ser una guía de arquitectura más de los muchas que hay en el mercado, sino una guía complementaria a las ya existentes. En primer lugar, no es una guía de todo el patrimonio artístico oficial sino una guía del Madrid cultural con edificios, estatuas, monumentos rincones que más representan a esta ciudad, entre otras cosas. Por no ser una guía del patrimonio artístico, sino una guía del patrimonio cultural, se ha incluido en este libro elementos que no tienen el título oficial de Bien de Interés Cultural, como son por ejemplo la...

Springfield Township, Montgomery County, adjoins the city of Philadelphia on its northern border. The township's six-plus square miles, originally established as "Penn's Manor of Springfield," was a gift from William Penn to his wife, Gulielma Maria Springett, c. 1681. This historic township was home to a major stagecoach line and its associated taverns and inns, considerable activity during the Revolutionary War, summertime residences of Philadelphia's wealthy, and subsequent post-World War II development as a burgeoning community just over the Philadelphia border. Springfield Township's...

Urquizo narra los sucesos ocurridos en un célebre periodo revolucionario de México, que comienza con la traición de algunos militares a las órdenes de Victoriano Huerta, en seguida convertido en dictador, contra el presidente Francisco I. Madero y el vicepresidente José María Pino Suárez. Urquizo mismo fue durante el régimen maderista soldado federal -miembro de las guardias presidenciales- y después constitucionalista.