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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...

Luís Maria Filipe Pedro de Alcântara Gastão Miguel Rafael Gonzaga de Orleans y Bragança (Petrópolis, 26 de enero de 1878 - Cannes, 26 de marzo de 1920), Príncipe de Brasil y Príncipe de Orleans y Bragança, se convirtió en Príncipe Imperial de Brasil y, por tanto, en el heredero del entonces extinto trono imperial brasileño, a partir del 30 de octubre de 1908, cuando renunció su hermano, Pedro de Alcântara de Orléans y Bragança. Don Luís era el patriarca de la rama de Vassouras. Apodado "Príncipe Perfecto", fue el segundo hijo de la última princesa imperial de Brasil, Dª....

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La muerte le sentó bien a Benito Juárez. En cuanto exhaló su último suspiro, tras la dolorosa angina de pecho, se inició el lento y sutil proceso que convertiría al liberal oaxaqueño en uno de los mayores héroes de la historia patria. A revisar esa trayectoria, más que a narrar la vida del zapoteco que se convirtió en presidente de la república, se dedica aquí Rebeca Villalobos Álvarez: con herramientas retóricas empleadas de un modo original, la autora muestra las transformaciones que experimentó el Benemérito de las Américas durante el siglo posterior a su fallecimiento,...