Inglés
Mauritania
This country is bounded to the north by the Western Sahara, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by Senegal, to the south and east by Mali and to the northeast by Algeria. The Sahara Desert covers nearly 80% of its surface. Its highest point is the Kediet Ijill, at 910 meters […]
Isabel Riquelme
Although there are no records of Maria Isabel Riquelme y Meza’s exact date of birth, it is known that she was baptized in 1759 in the city of Chillan. She came from an aristocratic family, reason for which she was used to receiving illustrious visitors at home. One of them was Ambrosio O’Higgins, who arrived […]
Jose Toribio Medina
He was born in Santiago on October 21st, 1852. He studied at the Instituto Nacional and then enrolled in the Universidad de Chile, where he became a lawyer in March of 1873. In 1874, minister of Foreign Relations Adolfo Ibañez named him secretary of the legation in Peru. In Lima, he discovered his intellectual calling […]
