CUBA 1959

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

El 21 de febrero de 1803, el coronel Ed­ward (Ned) Marcus Despard fue ahorca­do y decapitado en Londres ante una mul­titud de 20.000 personas por organizar una conspiración revolucionaria para de­rrocar al rey Jorge III. Catherine (Kate), su esposa de origen caribeño y raza negra, le ayudó a escribir el discurso que pronun­ció desde el patíbulo, en el que se procla­maba amigo de los pobres y los oprimidos. En él expresó también su confianza en que «los principios de la libertad, la humani­dad y la justicia triunfarán finalmente so­bre la falsedad, la tiranía y el...

After the success of Miss Narco, Javier Valdez presents a new work on Mexico s drug crisis. This time, the leading characters are young men and women at that crucial age in their personal development who, in one way or another, come across the world of drug trafficking. Some escape its clutches while others fall in its trap, but their lives are irrevocably changed. The author collects the most intense, moving and surprising accounts that mark Mexicos social and political reality today. Spanish Description: Tras el exito de Miss Narco, Javier Valdez entrega una nueva obra acerca del...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.