La profecia de Orion

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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...

El objeto de esta Tesis Doctoral es el estudio del Monte de Piedad de Madrid en los primeros años del siglo XVIII, institución dedicada al préstamo prendario sin interés al tiempo que trata de difundir la devoción por las Benditas lnimas del Purgatorio a través de sufragios en su favor. Se divide en tres capítulos precedidos de una introducción sobre el origen de los Montes de Piedad italianos del siglo XV. En el primer capitulo se desarrollan los aspectos biográficos del fundador, Francisco Piquer, así como el estudio de las Descalzas Reales de Madrid, fundación a la que...