This is a serious compilation of many cases of pilot sightings detailing unusual aerial phenomena in the Mexican skies. The study covers over fifty years of incidents, many with radar confirmation and quotes from the pilots themselves. The volume is written in a clear, sober style that gives priority to the witnesses, with little editorial commentary from the authors themselves." -- Jacques Vallee, scientist and pioneering ufologist "The authors have captured something of the excitement that comes from researching pilot and air traffic controller sightings of unusually strange aerial phenomena. And they have collected and analyzed over fifty years of encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena in Mexico's airspace." -- Dr. Richard F. Haines, Chief Scientist, National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) Authors Carlos Guzman and Alfonso Salazar are two of Mexico's most experienced and highly-regarded UFO researchers. For decades, they have quietly conducted exhaustive research into their country's most remarkable UFO cases, especially encounters involving aviation. The authors have appeared in major UFO-related documentaries on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, Infinito, and other media outlets. They have also spoken about UFOs on numerous radio programs, as well as at many conferences. Guzman and Salazar's book "Ovnis y la Aviacion Mexicana," of which this is the revised, updated English translation, is considered a classic work in UFO research literature and has received unbounded praise from the UFO research community throughout the world.
Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a consistent and systematic thinker, with moral philosophy, broadly understood, lying at the core of his numerous and varied works. Quevedo lived in an age of transition, with the Humanist tradition on the wane, and his writing expresses the characteristic uncertainty of a moment of cultural transition. In this book Alfonso Rey surveys Quevedo's ideas in such diverse fields as ethics, politics, religion and literature, ideas which hitherto have received little attention. New information is also provided towards a reconstruction of the cultural evolution of Europe in the years prior to the Enlightenment, and thus the scope of the book extends beyond that of Spanish literature.
This big board in San Juan, Puerto Rico, announces the final trial for the May 21, 2011. Do you believe that?(6.17 Jeremy) The Lord put guards and told the people: Pay attention to the alarm signal. But the people said: We will not ignore. So says the Lord: Listen, nations know what will happen to my people. Listen earth: I will bring this town a disgrace that is the result of their evil plans, because they ignored my words, but despised my teaching. For I bring you incense Saba and fragrant plants from distant countries? To me I do not like their burnt offerings and their other sacrifices. Therefore the Lord says: I will make this people stumble and fall. Parents and children, neighbors and friends alike will die.
This volume pays homage to the wonderful teams and players from Azusa, La Verne, Claremont, Pomona, Chino, Cucamonga, Ontario, and Upland. A common thread of all these diverse communities was the establishment of baseball teams and, later, softball teams. Baseball played a critical role in advancing civil and political rights, labor reform, gender equality, educational integration, and cultural legitimacy. These remarkable photographs revive the often-overlooked history of Mexican American baseball in the Greater Pomona Valley.
Mexico is the fourteenth largest country in the world and ranks fifth in biodiversity. Located in the transition zone between the temperate and tropical regions of North and South America, Mexico is an important migratory corridor for wildlife and also provides wintering habitat for several species of bats, monarch butterflies, and temperate North American nesting birds. Mexico faces several challenges to wildlife management and conservation efforts. While there is increased public education and acknowledgment of the valuable benefits wildlife provides, there is still much work to do to incentivize conservation efforts. Fortunately, there is growing recognition that Mexico’s wildlife resources can be a critical component in the rural economic development of the country. Bringing together an international team of wildlife experts across North America, Wildlife Ecology and Management in Mexico provides information on the status, distribution, ecological relationships, and habitat requirements and management of the most important game birds and mammals in Mexico. It also reviews current threats and challenges facing wildlife conservation as well as strategies for resolving these issues. This reference is a valuable tool for wildlife biologists, wildlife management professionals, and anyone interested in conserving Mexico’s wealth of natural resources. By laying out the challenges to conservation research, editors Raul Valdez and J. Alfonso Ortega-S. hope to encourage interdisciplinary communication and collaboration across borders.
Against All Heresies was written at the request of Spanish merchants of Flanders to combat heretics and was first published in Paris in 1534. It is a description and criticism of more than 400 heresies, which had arisen in the Church since the time of the Apostles, presented in alphabetical order. It was the author's most popular work for which he received the nickname, "the scourge of heretics." King Philip II of Spain, whom the author served as chaplain, wrote in the preface of this work that this book is "such a useful and beneficial book for the Christian state.
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