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Cortes sent one of his lieutenants to Taxco in 1522 to dig silver out of the Indians who were digging it out of the surrounding mountains. But Taxco's first big silver boom did not occur until 1717, when a very smart young man named Jose de la Borda came out from Spain to show his uncles how to mine silver at a fantastic profit...
...Borda built palaces for himself in Taxco, Cuernava.ca, Mexico City; he built a paved road all the way across the mountains to the capital; and for $1,680,000 he built Taxco's lovely pink parroquia, particularly interesting among Mexico's colonial churches because it was completed by the men who began it. Borda, a heavy speculator, went broke several times before he went broke for good. But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped. The gold...
...have known Saint Exupery at two schools, namely St. Jean, Fribourg, Switzerland and Bossuet, Paris, from 1915 to 1919, also knew him in Strasbourg when he was in the air force. He prepared at Bossuet School for the "Borda," French Annapolis, flunked, was too old to try again. Chose the air force when conscripted, took his pilot's license with a civilian firm; the French Government only training for pilots its enlisted...
Lieut. Paul Borda Kurtz...
Lieutenant Paul Borda Kurtz A.B. '16 was killed in action while flying near Toul, May 22, 1918. He was one of the first to enlist in the American Ambulance, becoming chief of Section 18, April 17, 1917. In May of the same year he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre for extraordinary heroism near Mort Homme at Verdun. In July of 1917 he left the Ambulance and enlisted in the American air service. That fall he was commissioned a 1st Lieutenant...