Breve de Nuestro Muy Santo Padre Pio VI, Expedido Á Instancia de S.M. Por El Qual Su Santidad Proroga Por Otros Siete Años El Vicariato General de Los

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

En el Tratado de las idolatrías, supersticiones y costumbres Jacinto de la Serna describe, entre otras, las costumbres de las indígenas aztecas durante el embarazo. Según comenta, no debían mirar los eclipses del Sol y la Luna, pues la criatura podría tener labios leporinos. Tampoco podían contemplar ejecuciones, pues los niños nacerían con una horrible soga de carne anudada a la garganta. Este tratado además ha sido extensamente citado por los expertos en sustancias psicotrópicas. Serna se ocupa de las diferentes sustancias que ingieren los indígenas en sus rituales y su texto se...

During the Spanish civil war, activities of resistance occurred more or less from both groups, on the Republican side as well as among the insurgent groups. On some occasions, they merely performed tasks of information and propaganda, while on others, they exercised indiscriminate sabotage.--Publisher's description

At the juncture of an Excan Tlahltoloyan invasion to Cholula, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca engage in a violent war when disputing the love of goddess Victoria on the gladiatorial stone, who is manifested as the emissary and harbinger of the fifth sun destruction. Amid rituals and sacrifices, flowery warfare, and tzompantli, love blossoms and dies. The story is complemented by a chilling account of the Battle of Zacatecas and the Jerez fair, where Mexican traditions are illustrated and glorified.