Mujeres caídas

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"Santa palabra". Así fue como el poeta Juan José Churión definió la arepa. Mariano Picón Salas quiso bautizarla con similar tono de religiosidad., como "unánime providencia de la mesa venezolana". Por otra parte, al observar que la arepa igualaba la mesa del pobre y del pudiente, Ramón David León la ensalzó como una expresión eminentemente democrática del venezolano. Pero la arepa también se vio rodeada de prejuicios: tanto que, por ejemplo, un viajero del siglo XIX sentenció que la abundancia de cólicos que sufrían los caraqueños se debía al maniático consumo del pan de...

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...

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.