Eso no estaba en mi libro de Historia de España

Después de la conquista española, los libros conocidos con el nombre genérico de Chilam Balam fueron redactados en lengua maya, con caracteres latinos. Estos libros conservan las tradiciones, mitos y costumbres de los antiguos mayas. Su contenido es histórico-religioso y su narración se extiende desde el siglo V hasta la época del dominio español.

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...

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Los movimientos independentistas que, a lo largo del siglo XIX, pusieron fin al dominio ibérico en América constituyen una épica apasionante y llena de claroscuros. Es una aventura rica en sucesos extraordinarios y personajes notables que contribuyeron a redefinir el rostro de un continente. La memoria colectiva conserva algunos de estos sucesos y a muchos de sus protagonistas. Sin embargo, una parte significativa de lo ocurrido durante ese tormentoso siglo y un buen número de figuras que encabezaron dicho impulso libertario han sido objeto del más injusto olvido. Juan María Alponte nos ...