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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 Norte en la Historia Regionales un libro que incluye once artículos, fruto de la investigación de especialistas peruanos y extranjeros que han abordado el tema. Los grandes tópicos que se analizan son la economía y sociedad entre fines del siglo xviii y el temprano siglo xix. Es decir, enfocan el período neurálgico del tránsito de la Colonia a la República.

Una colección de historias fascinantes -y reales- en torno a un deporte que levanta pasiones: El ritmo de la cancha es un viaje alrededor del mundo y a través de la historia Sam Balter se subió en 1936 a un barco en el puerto de Manhattan que le llevó al epicentro de la infamia. El rey Faruq I le robó un sable al Sha de Persia y el reloj a Churchill. Big Don puso a bailar a la parroquia afroamericana de la bahía de San Francisco. En Argentina, el mago Mandrake realizaba sus trucos mientras una generación desaparecía de su tiempo. Imelda Marcos guardaba en su ropero 3.000 pares de...

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