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2) Las 7 maravillas del mundo antiguo: Una guía fascinante de la Gran Pirámide de Guiza, los Jardine
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Probablemente haya oído hablar de «las siete maravillas del mundo antiguo». Pero, ¿cuánto sabe realmente?El mundo antiguo albergó algunas de las mayores civilizaciones de la historia. Los egipcios, los griegos, los babilonios y otros pueblos quisieron dejar su huella en la historia para que otros recordaran su grandeza. ¿Y qué mejor manera de explorar esa grandeza que examinar algunas de las mayores maravillas que el mundo ha conocido?La mayoría...
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From a master historian, the definitive account of history's first terrorists
An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they aimed to overthrow the existing Sunni order in Islam and replace it with their own. They terrorized their foes with a series of dramatic murders of Islamic...
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¿Existen límites a la omnipotencia del Partido Comunista? ¿Es irremediable su problema medioambiental? ¿Qué consecuencias tiene la tensión con Taiwán? ¿Cuál es la realidad de la interdependencia económica entre China y Estados Unidos?
En apenas unas décadas, China se ha convertido en la segunda potencia mundial. Su mercado, su estrategia y también sus deficiencias influyen en el futuro de todo el planeta, como lo demuestra la pandemia...
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Prologue. Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) released \"The Autumn of the Middle Ages\" in 1919, offering profound insights into the medieval era and shedding light on its dark times. With a deep understanding of language, Huizinga becomes captivated by play and devotes himself to the study of games within the course of history. The medieval period is a beautiful sunset that occurs as darkness descends, symbolized by sunsets and moonlight....
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Through a focus on a number of historical themes, debates, and different sources, the History curriculum introduces the students to a number of significant historical events and processes. Students may learn about the events and procedures through a discussion of these topics, but they could also experience the thrill of reading historical accounts. However, a useful method of determining whether the lessons learned. The process of having specified...
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This essay, the second in Jack Kelly's series of modern treatments of Hawaiian history, frames a historic alliance that would shape the future of Hawaii – between the famed British explorer Captain George Vancouver, and King Kamehameha of the Big Island. Arriving in Kealakekua Bay 15 years after Captain Cook's bloody death, Vancouver was intent on the mission of the British Empire, to foster order and trade. But in dismissing the Hawaiians as uneducated...
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"You don't know how close war is."
Radomir Bogdanov, Deputy Director, Institute of the USA and Canada, 1983
"It was a matter of rather--I would say-greater danger than almost any other period in the Cold War, if only because the most-shall we say extreme-or hardline elements in the Soviet intelligence and military leadership might have at some point either misconstrued some
developments in the West or chosen to act on the basis of
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