The Magnificent Chinese Jade Pagoda

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

El 19 de junio de 1867 murieron fusilados en el Cerro de las Campanas de Querétaro, el Emperador Maximiliano I de México y sus leales generales Miguel Miramón y Tomás Mejía. Tras esto se inició un largo proceso para repatriar desde México a Austria tanto el cadáver de Maximiliano como los restos dispersos de su derrotado ejército. Para ello, el Emperador Francisco José I de Austria, hermano de Maximiliano, envió a México a su vicealmirante Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, junto con las fragatas Novara y Elisabeth. Finalmente, tras múltiples vicisitudes y contratiempos, el cadáver del...

Es una de las fronteras más conflictivas del mundo nace una de las organizaciones criminales más antiguas del país. Esta es su historia.

Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and fraught with danger. Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe—here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives, spanned seven tumultuous years. At one point, he even proposed marriage. In Frank & Marilyn, we follow Sinatra and Monroe from one explosive relationship to another, their marriages and love affairs...