A carretón y canoa

El presente libro es resultado de una investigación histórica que aporta sobre las migraciones extranjeras a Colombia y en este caso particular sobre los inmigrantes de la India Oriental. En la segunda década del siglo xx se asentaron en las poblaciones intermedias del valle geográfico del río Cauca un grupo de jóvenes inmigrantes indostanos, de religión musulmana, que en la segunda década del siglo xx se asentaron en las poblaciones intermedias del valle geográfico del río Cauca, unos, definitivamente, otros temporalmente, para dedicarse a la actividad comercial que demandaba la...

La ciudad de Ur, donde tuvo asiento una gran cultura, ha sido objeto de numerosas exploraciones e investigaciones, de las cuales la más importante por sus resultados extraordinarios ha sido la que dirigió, entre 1922 y 1929, precisamente sir C. Leonard Woolley, quien también realizó estudios arqueológicos en Nubia y Cachemira.

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What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...