Avisos de Jerónimo de Barrionuevo (1654-1658) Y Apéndice Anónimo (1660-1664), Vol. 4

Los antiguos persas debatían todos los asuntos políticos dos veces: una sobrios y otra borrachos. Los vikingos creían que la hidromiel era la fuente de la poesía. El castigo que los aztecas infligían a los borrachos era el estrangulamiento público y los londinenses del siglo xviii estaban obligados a comprarle gin a un gato mecánico. Cada civilización ha tenido que encontrarle un lugar –o una forma de controlar– al eterno impulso humano de emborracharse. Prácticamente todas las culturas han bebido, y donde hay bebida, hay borrachera. Pero en cada época y en cada lugar la...

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, is the earliest Euro-American trade route of cultures and commerce in the United States. It spanned about 1,800 miles from Mexico City, where the road originated, to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. For three centuries, this Spanish colonial road followed a network of ancient Native American footpaths and trails that followed the wide expanse of the Rio Grande valley. There were parajes, or campgrounds, along the way for travelers, and early Spanish settlements were established too. Some of the towns and villages are now modern cities, ...

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