Cerro Gordo

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

En el proyecto intelectual de Alberdi parece inevitable la puesta en escena de la filosofía como ciencia de las causas últimas y como respuesta a los acuciantes conflictos del continente americano durante el siglo XIX. La Argentina de entonces, ávida de razones y de leyes, debería encontrar en la prédica de Alberdi referencias para orientar su actividad política y espiritual.

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Dentro del amplio repertorio de textos religiosos de la historia de la literatura egipcia, El libro egipcio de los muertos es, sin duda, el más popular de todos. En él, a lo largo de 190 sentencias o letanías, se recogen las oraciones y fórmulas que el difunto debía utilizar si quería superar con éxito los numerosos obstáculos que se presentaban en el camino hacia los Campos de Ialu, gobernados por el dios Osiris en el Más Allá. El origen de este escrito milenario se encuentra en los textos de las Pirámides, que datan de los albores de la cultura egipcia. El uso de estos documentos ...

Fernando del Paso tells his work experience as a translator, radio announcer and producer of radio shows of the Latin-American service of the BBC before and after the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina for the Falkland Islands. It reflexs upon the posture taken from both countries in front of the international community for the rightful sovereignty of the islands and the censorship measures about the subject in the media.