La historia de España en 50 tuits

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An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...

A partir del momento en que Francisco Pizarro y sus hombres revelaron al Viejo Mundo sus fastos y misterios, el Perú ejerció sobre Europa una fascinación que llegó a ser proverbial. A través de los siglos, la curiosidad provocada por esta lejana región nunca habría de disminuir, oscilando constantemente entre el ensueño poético sobre este imperio caído y las interrogantes en cuanto a la naturaleza y origen del hombre americano. Nacida en el siglo XVIII, la ciencia etnológica iba a lograr su verdadera dimensión en el siglo XIX, mientras que las grandes potencias industriales...

An interesting and well-researched account of the travels of Fray Marcos de Niza in New Spain as he was sent by Esteban to investigate the Seven Cities of Cibola.