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#1 The Gadsden Purchase, which added nearly 30,000 square miles of territory to the United States, included the towns of Mesilla and Tucson, as well as all the mountains in between. Those mountains constituted the heart of Apacheria.
#2 After the Americans acquired the land, Charles Poston and his friends Johnny Ward and William G. Poston, founded a frontier paradise...
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#1 The first humans to live in Mesoamerica were tribes of hunter-gatherers who began migrating into the area around 10,000 years ago. The first settlements were small houses built of adobe and occupied by people who supplemented hunting by growing crops.
#2 The Olmecs were the most advanced culture in Mesoamerica from around 1400-800 BCE. Then, around 400 BCE, the Olmecs...
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#1 I was offered an extremely attractive assignment overseas in mid-September, 1942. I was to be placed in charge of the Army's part of the atomic effort. I was skeptical, but it took me several weeks to realize how overoptimistic an outlook Styer had presented.
#2 I was brought into the picture when research on the uses of atomic energy was already underway. The American-born...
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#1 I was in a men-only room with my companion, the Famous Blue Raincoat. We'd been domestic for years. It seemed difficult to understand why two men who were happy with each other would take the risk of going to these places where the atmosphere would tend to drive them apart.
#2 I had determined myself into that pace. I had not gone upstairs to be anything but another...
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#1 In 1922, Leo Koretz, a financial wizard, was honored by the friends and relatives he had dragged from the gutter. The dinner was held at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, and the centerpiece was a plaster model of a seaway through a wilderness of mountains and jungle.
#2 Leo Koretz, a friend of Cohn's, was a financial genius and a multimillionaire. He had started...
66) El último baluarte: La campaña de independencia del Caribe y la capitulación de Cartagena, 1819-1821
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La guerra de independencia en la Costa Caribe, que culminó con la capitulación de Cartagena y la salida de las tropas realistas, en octubre de 1821, fue un episodio decisivo de la emancipación colombiana de España. Este libro contiene ocho excelentes ensayos de destacados historiadores sobre cómo fue completándose estratégicamente la independencia de la Nueva Granada. Fue un momento heroico y único, dice Rodolfo Segovia en el Prólogo, que...
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#1 In the northern latitudes, the dawn came early. In Berlin, Germany's most bombed city, the ruins stood out in stark, macabre splendor. The city was blackened by soot, pockmarked by thousands of craters, and laced by the twisted girders of ruined buildings.
#2 The 314th American bombing raid on Berlin was over, and the city was in ruins. The statistics of destruction...
68) Los Incas
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Los incas -fundadores de uno de los imperios más grandes de todos los tiempos, Tahuantinsuyu, que ocupaba un territorio de más de 4.000 km de longitud sobre la costa de Sudamérica y agrupaba a aproximadamente doce millones de habitantes- reinaron durante cientos de años antes de que su organización sucumbiera a principios del siglo xvi. La civilización inca fue excepcionalmente rica y brillante, llena de fervor espiritual en todos los instantes...
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#1 Morris, a member of the First Continental Congress, spoke of the future of the country during the summer of 1777. He spoke of a waterway that would span the wilderness of upper New York, connecting the Hudson River with Lake Erie.
#2 The American war for independence was won in 1783, and Americans began heading west to find land of their own. The trail through...
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#1 Lourdes, the mother, is leaving her son, Enrique, behind in Honduras. She cannot afford to bring him with her to the United States, so she leaves him behind.
#2 The journey is hard for the Mexicans, but even harder for the Central Americans. They must make an illegal and dangerous trek up the length of Mexico. They are hunted by corrupt police, bandits, and gang...
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#1 Dodge City was a gateway to the Great American Desert, and it was there that the American West and Manifest Destiny were symbolized. It was a reservoir of tall tales, yet many of the facts are equally if not more fascinating.
#2 The first explorers of America were looking for a land to settle, and they found it in Kansas, which was right in the middle of the Louisiana...
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Book Preview: #1 Presidents are, by their very nature, the subjects of copious written material. However, in many cases, the absence of juicy sex stories is not due to the unsullied conduct of the president, but because of a dearth of detailed information in the form of love letters, autobiographies, and newspaper reports.
#2 Many American presidents have had affairs, and many of...
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Book Preview: #1 The Rykowers, their names eventually Americanized to Hyman, Fannie, and Rachel, had spent each day scanning faces outside the Registry Room doors. They had left their former lives behind, bringing only what they could carry. They feared this would be the closest they would ever get to the promise of the New World.
#2 When Abraham Rickover arrived in America, he was...
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En este análisis sobre los procesos que han constituido la ficción teórica del Alto Cauca, una región que incluye municipios de los departamentos del Cauca (Santander de Quilichao, Buenos Aires y Suárez) y el Valle del Cauca (Jamundí), se trabajaron, a la vez, dimensiones como el desarrollo y la producción agrícola, la distribución desigual de la tierra, la gestión y el manejo ambiental, el multiculturalismo, los cultivos de uso ilícito,...
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#1 The first voice Jenny heard after the anesthetic wore off was the surgeon's. The sterilization procedure was a success, and you're eight weeks pregnant. Jenny was twenty-six, the mother of two young children, and had been suffering from lymphatic cancer, Hodgkin's disease, for the past two years.
#2 Jenny had never viewed abortion as a women's liberation issue, even...
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#1 The boys set a fire at the Gerrity Lumber Company in Boston, which was investigated by the police. They targeted a large, tall single-story brick building. The pair walked to the front of the structure, where they found the large overhead door open. They entered the building and planted two devices.
#2 The fire was visible from a half-mile away, and flames were soaring...
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#1 The story of my family's griot, Jim, says that Madison had a relationship with one of his slaves, Coreen, that resulted in the birth of a son, Jim, who was sold and sent away when he was a teenager.
#2 I was a debutante in the cotillion, a ball sponsored by the Bay Area chapter of the Links, which was a national organization of wives of prominent black men. Dating...
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#1 I wrote an autobiography that was focused on the way I had been shaped by movements and campaigns in communities of struggle. I did not want to write a conventional autobiography in which the heroic subject offers lessons to readers.
#2 The American canon of literature has been contested before, and if one considers the autobiography of Malcolm X, which has clearly...
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#1 Azeema was a sniper, and her life and the lives of her teammates hinged on her ability to bide her time and know just the right moment to shoot. She was under siege in Kobani, a Kurdish town near the Syrian-Turkish border.
#2 The Kurds are a large ethnic minority in Syria, and they have been seeking their own land since the Treaty of Sèvres promised them a state...
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#1 The world is still recovering from the attack on America on September 11, 2001. The American president rallied his nation's support with a Let's get the bastards! He then ordered the invasion of Afghanistan against an unclear enemy.
#2 In the story of Troy, Paris, the prince of Troy, visited by three goddesses who handed him a golden apple, asking him to choose the...
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