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...

La guerra tiene olor, sabores y sonidos propios. Que son los de la muerte. Que fueron los de la batalla más triste de todas las batallas, la del Ebro. Este libro cuenta, emocionado, la historia de aquellos cuatro meses de 1938 cuando, junto a las aguas rojas, doscientos mil hombres murieron y mataron sin descanso en pos de una gloria incierta. Jorge M. Reverte ha escrito un libro ejemplar: en cada una de sus páginas hay una historia y todas ellas unidas constituyen la historia de la batalla del Ebro contada desde todos sus ángulos, desde la alta política internacional hasta el fondo de la ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Una investigación exhaustiva sobre las revolucionarias armas nazis que les llevaron a perfeccionar los reactores militares e incluso a desarrollar los primeros platillos volantes.La historia de las armas nazis es una de las historias más apasionantes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Fruto de investigaciones que hasta ese momento nadie había podido siquiera imaginar, el armamento nazi supuso un avance de décadas en tecnología militar, tal fue así que sus logros armamentísticos fueron utilizados, por ambos bandos, en la posterior Guerra Fría. Incluso ahora, muchos de los artilugios que...