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Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua, Veracruz, Mexico

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Fuerte de Juan de Ulua, Veracruz, Mexico

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Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua, Veracruz, Mexico

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Aduana, Veracruz, Mexico

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Aduana, Veracruz, Mexico

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Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua, Ver, Mexico

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Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua, Ver, Mx

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Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua, Ver, Mexico

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Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua, Veracruz, Mexico

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Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua, Veracruz, Mexico

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Fuerte de San Juan de Ulua, Veracruz

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Aduana Veracruz, Mexico

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Puerto de Veracruz, Mèxico

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Acuario Veracruz, Mexico

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The Law (Hippocrates)

noreply@blogger.com (alceyo) — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:13:00 +0000

Translated in 1849.

MEDICINE is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts. Their mistake appears to me to arise principally from this, that in the cities there is no punishment connected with the practice of medicine (and with it alone) except disgrace, and that does not hurt those who are familiar with it. Such persons are like the figures which are introduced in tragedies, for as they have the shape, and dress, and personal appearance of an actor, but are not actors, so also physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

2. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instruction; a favorable position for the study; early tuition; love of labor; leisure. First of all, a natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

3. Instruction in medicine is like the culture of the productions of the earth. For our natural disposition is, as it were, the soil; the tenets of our teacher are, as it were, the seed; instruction in youth is like the planting of the seed in the ground at the proper season; the place where the instruction is communicated is like the food imparted to vegetables by the atmosphere; diligent study is like the cultivation of the fields; and it is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.

4. Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine, and having acquired a true knowledge of it, we shall thus, in traveling though the cities, be esteemed physicians not only in name but in reality. But inexperience is a bad treasure, and a bad fund to those who possess it, whether in opinion or reality, being devoid of self-reliance and contentedness, and the nurse both of timidity and audacity. For timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

5. Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

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Tumu Crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Tumu Crisis (simplified Chinese: 土木之变; traditional Chinese: 土木之變; pinyin: Tŭmù zhī Bìan); also called the Crisis of Tumubao (simplified Chinese: 土木堡之变; traditional Chinese: 土木堡之變; pinyin: Tǔmù zhī Biàn) or Battle of Tumu Fortress (Chinese: 土木之役; pinyin: Tǔmù zhī Yì), was a frontier conflict between the Oirat Mongols and the Chinese Ming Dynasty which led to the capture of the Zhengtong Emperor on September 1, 1449 and the lossof an army of 500,000 men to a much smaller force.^[1] This outcome was largely due to the Chinese army's remarkably bad deployment. The Ming expedition is regarded as the greatest military debacle of the dynasty.

In July 1449 Esen Tayisi (Chinese: 也先台吉) of the Oirat Mongols launched a large-scale three-pronged invasion of China with his puppet khagan Toqtaq-Buqa. He personally advanced on Datong (in northern Shanxi province) in August. The eunuch official Wang Zhen, who dominated the Ming court, encouraged the twenty-two year old Zhengtong Emperor to lead his own armies into battle against Esen. Esen's raiding army in size is unknown but a best guess puts it at some 20,000 men. The Ming army of about 500,000 men was hastily assembled; its command was made up of twenty experienced generals and a large entourage of high-ranking civil officials, with Wang Zhen acting as field marshal.

On August 3, Esen's army crushed a badly supplied Chinese army at Yanghe, just inside the Great Wall. The same day the Emperor appointed his half-brother Zhu Qiyu as regent. The next day he left Beijing for Juyong Pass. The objective was a short, sharp march west to Datong via the Xuanfu garrison, a campaign into the steppe, and then to return to Beijing by a southerly route through Yuzhou.

Initially the march was mired by heavy rain. At Juyong Pass, the civil officials and generals wished to halt and send the emperor back to Beijing, but their opinions were overruled by Wang Zhen. On August 16, the army came upon the corpse-strewn battlefield of Yanghe. When it reached Datong on August 18, reports from garrison commanders persuaded Wang Zhen that a campaign into the steppe would be too dangerous. The "expedition" was declared to have reached a victorious conclusion and on August 20 the army set out back toward China proper.

Fearing that the restless soldiers would cause damages to his estates in Yuzhou, Wang Zhen took the decision to strike northeast and return by the same exposed route as they had come. The army reached Xianfu on August 27. On August 30, the Mongols attacked the rearguard east of Xianfu and wiped it out. Soon afterwards, they also annihilated a powerful new rearguard of cavalry led by the elderly general Zhu Yong at Yaoerling. On August 31 the imperial army camped at the post station of Tumu. Wang Zhen refused his ministers' suggestion to have the emperor take refuge in the walled city of Huailai, just 45 km ahead.

Esen sent an advance force to cut off access to water from a river south of the Chinese camp. By the morning of September 1, they had surrounded the Chinese army. Wang Zhen rejected any offers to negotiate and ordered the confused army to move toward the river. A battle ensued between the chaotic Chinese army and the advance guard of Esen's army (Esen was not at the battle). The Chinese army lost all organization and was almost annihilated. The Mongols captured a huge quantity of arms and armour while killing most of the Chinese soldiers. All the high-ranking Chinese generals and court officials were killed. According to some accounts, Wang Zhen was killed by his own officers. The Emperor was captured, and on September 3 was sent to Esen's main camp near Xianfu.

The entire expedition had been unnecessary, ill-conceived, and poorly commanded. The Mongol victory was won by an advance guard of perhaps as few as 5,000 cavalry. Esen, for his part, was not prepared for the scale of his victory or for the capture of the Ming Emperor.

At first, Esen attempted to use the captured emperor to raise a ransom and planned to conquer the undefended Ming capital of Beijing. However his plan was foiled, due to steadfast leadership of the Ming commander in the capital, Yu Qian. The Ming leaders rejected Esen's offer, Yu stated the country was more important than an emperor's life.

The Ming never paid a ransom for the return of the Emperor as Esen released him after four years. Esen himself faced growing criticism for his failure to exploit his victory over the Ming and he was assassinated six years after the battle in 1455.

Although the Oirats later occupied the Ordos Desert, they never again seriously threatened the Ming state.

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Con la frente en alto

noreply@blogger.com (alceyo) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:29:00 +0000

Gaby Vargas
6 Dic. 09

"Conduce tu vida de tal modo que siempre puedas llevar la frente en alto". Estas palabras, papá, me las repetiste muchas veces durante mi adolescencia. En esa época no se hablaba claramente con los hijos sobre los riesgos de empezar a ser dueño y único responsable de tu propia vida; sin embargo, aquella frase me dijo todo.
Y, en efecto, sirvió de freno en las locuras que de adolescente pasaron por mi mente cometer. Después, si bien quedó tatuada en el inconsciente, nunca más la volví a recordar.
Ahora, al despedirte, y en medio del aplauso tan espontáneo, prolongado y lleno de cariño que la gente te dio cuando te sacaron de la sala funeraria, regresaron a mi mente esas palabras que tanto escuché. Sólo que tú lograste llevarlas más lejos.
Llena de orgullo, pensé que a través de tu congruencia, de tu integridad; de tu ejemplo como padre, esposo, hermano, mexicano, empresario, jefe y amigo; de tu pasión por la música y el trabajo; por celebrar los momentos buenos, "porque los malos llegan solos" (tu dicho); por una vida llena de retos y adversidades, los cuales enfrentaste como guerrero.
Conseguiste lo que quizá pocas personas han logrado, y que nos dejas como desafío: dejar este mundo con la frente en alto. ¡Vaya tarea!
Sin proponértelo, tu frase trascendió hasta tus nietos. Vi a mi hija Carla dedicarte unas palabras en la misa que celebramos en tu honor, y comprobé que el orgullo que ella sentía por ti, le hacían pronunciar las de la misma manera: con la frente en alto.
Eras el abuelo Joaquín, el hombre que inspiró en su esposa Gaby un amor incondicional.
El que con una armónica en los labios, llenaba de canciones las reuniones de amigos y familia.
Eras el abuelo, quien se deleitaba al comer cualquier cosa relacionada con el chocolate.
El que usaba corbata roja todas las navidades y solía sentarse en la cabecera de una larguísima mesa de comedor en la calle de Cóndor.
El hombre que vibraba con la música y se emocionaba aún más cuando la compartía.
El que apartaba en su vida un espacio especial para los amigos.
El abuelo que, con un afilado sentido del humor, desafiaba a la vida y hasta al Parkinson.
Nosotros, los nietos, no nacimos a tiempo para verte gozar de plena salud. Sin embargo, al presenciar tu batalla personal, nos regalaste una de las lecciones más profundas que alguien pueda recibir.
Vimos cómo tenías tanta fuerza interna, que no flaqueabas ante pesares personales o profesionales; ni siquiera ante tu propio cuerpo, que poco a poco te traicionaba y le fallaba cada vez más al espíritu creativo y aventurero que llevabas dentro.
Gracias, abuelo, por tan valiosa enseñanza. Gracias, porque ahora te haces presente en nuestro corazón y en el apellido que todos tus nietos llevamos.
Te tenemos en cada uno de nuestros nombres como recuerdo de tu música, tu honor y tu fuerza. Precisamente por todo el significado que le diste... llevaremos tu apellido con orgullo.
Aunque momentos como éste son los que nos llevan a descubrir con exactitud dónde tenemos el alma, quiero decirte, papito, que lloro llena de orgullo al recordarte.
Sembraste sólo buenos recuerdos para tu país y para quienes te conocimos.
Tu paso por el mundo sí lo dejó mejor de como lo encontraste. ¡Qué satisfacción! Cumpliste tu misión: entraste, te quedaste y te fuiste con la frente en alto.
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