Word: aztecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting for the conference, Chapultepec Castle, in whose park the Aztec emperors used to stroll, was symbolic. U.S. troops stormed the castle in 1847, and to Mexicans. Chapultepec means much the same thing that Bunker Hill means to the U.S. Among its defenders were teen-age cadets of the Mexican Military College, who are revered to this day in Mexico as the "Niños Héroes" (Boy Heroes) of Chapultepec...
...dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have got a ribbon there for everything but Shays's Rebellion...
...Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes' eye for impact value rates much of the credit for the show's success...
...recognition of helping to advance scientific cooperation between the United States and Mexico, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican Government...
...Nostril, knew it as a pit of death. How many skeletons were mouldering on the bottom, how deep it was, no man could say. Geologists had once probed 380 ft. straight down; one man had once descended part way, and lived to tell about it. He found two Aztec daggers...