Historia y población

Dans ce que Paul Valéry appelait le '' continent méditerranéen '', où longtemps seuls les grands centres ont retenu l'attention des historiens, Murcie ne manque ni d'importance ni d'originalité. Située au centre d'une vaste huerta fécondée par les eaux du Segura, la ville fut jusqu'à la fin du XVe siècle la capitale d'un grand royaume enclavé entre l'Aragon et Grenade et dont la façade maritime était le seul débouché méditerranéen de la Castille. Rattaché à celle-ci par la force des armes en 1226, après plus de cinq siècles d'appartenance au monde islamique et vingt-trois ...

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Since the airplane's invention in 1903, thousands of military aircraft have been designed and hundreds of thousands of have been produced. Drawing widely from that massive group, journalist Paolo Matricardi has fashioned a fascinating history of this deadly weapon of war. This large-format book traces the military aircraft from the early days of the 1911 Italy-Turkey war, when the first bomb was dropped from an airplane, to today's computerized, high-tech models with precision-guided missiles and laser targeting. Author Matricardi discusses such intriguing models as Lockheed's A-12 Oxcart...

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