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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...

El siglo XVIII, el Siglo de las Luces: «el gran siglo» según Michelet. Sí, indudablemente, si la grandeza de un siglo se mide por el brillo del pensamiento libre y por la preocupación por el destino terrestre de los hombres. Todavía encerrado en las supervivencias de la época feudal, heredero de estructuras aparentemente inmóviles, el siglo, último del Antiguo Régimen, se despega poco a poco del antiguo orden y se abre a un mundo ampliado tanto por el pensamiento crítico y el progreso científico como por la expansión mercantil y por una economía conquistadora. Implicando tras de ...

Premio de Ensayo y Humanidades José Ortega y Gasset de la Villa de Madrid (2007) En vísperas del bicentenario de la Guerra de la Independencia, una de las plumas más acreditaras del contemporaneísmo español reconstruye, sólida y agudamente, los principales aspectos de aquel decisivo conflicto, verdadero pórtico de la sociedad actual. Manejando bibliografía clásica y reciente, con objetividad y espíritu crítico, se analizan los acontecimientos bélicos y políticos que determinaron el rumbo de la contienda y, con él, la construcción de la España moderna. El papel de la guerrilla...

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