Jefatura de Policía de Durazno

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

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Situado en el corazón mismo del monoteísmo y la cultura occidental, Moisés no es una figura de la historia, sino de la memoria, y como tal se convierte en el objeto principal de esta obra de Jan Assmann. Con increíble maestría, Assmann nos introduce en el mundo de los recuerdos, y nos muestra de qué forma se conservaron, modificaron o eliminaron los recuerdos relacionados con dos acontecimientos clave de la historia del antiguo Egipto: la revolución monoteísta de Akhenatón y la expulsión de los reyes hicsos que supuso el comienzo del Imperio Nuevo. A través de las páginas de este...

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...