Don Juan O´Brien

Dalle prime esperienze politiche a Roma fino alla tragedia di Azio e al suicidio in Egitto, passando per le terre e i campi di battaglia di Gallia, Balcani e Armenia, il percorso di un giovane ambizioso giunto ai massimi gradi del potere, la cui fine segnò anche la fine di un'epoca. Le nostre informazioni su Marco Antonio (circa 83-30 a.C.) derivano soprattutto da ciò che hanno tramandato i suoi nemici. Prima Cicerone e poi la propaganda augustea hanno alimentato l'immagine stereotipata di un uomo d'azione avido e arrogante, dedito ai piaceri e agli eccessi, e schiavo delle donne al punto...

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Los procesos de endeudamiento son una clave para la comprensión de la trayectoria histórica del Estado colombiano. A lo largo del siglo XIX, la deuda pública no significó simplemente una parte de su fiscalidad, sino su eje y su dinámica de funcionamiento: los recursos del Estado estuvieron sistemáticamente mediados por una serie de compromisos; vales, billetes y bonos que circularon respondiendo a intereses heterogéneos, públicos y privados. Esta situación implicó una formación estatal “a crédito” que terminó pagando con creces un funcionamiento que escapaba sistemáticamente ...

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...