Word: ciudad
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...Española, the Caribbean island now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Then, according to the legend, he added: "Here I will be buried." And there in 1898 his remains were enshrined in a new marble tomb in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, which is now called Ciudad Trujillo. That same year the navigator's descendants also buried his remains back in Spain in the family plot in Seville. The question ever since: Which tomb has the tibia...
...physician gave evidence to back a Solomonic answer that should satisfy both claimants. Professor Charles Weer Goff, who teaches orthopedic surgery at Yale Medical School and physical anthropology at Hartford's Seminary Foundation, says that some of Columbus' remains are in Seville, some are in Ciudad Trujillo...
Back & Forth. While in Spain, Goff also found that not one of the bones in Seville was duplicated in Ciudad Trujillo. His tentative conclusion: Columbus died in 1506 in Valladolid, Spain; his remains were buried in a monastery near Seville; soon after 1541 the bones were shipped to Santo Domingo; rediscovered towards the end of the 18th century, the bones were apparently split up-some being sent to Havana, then back to Seville, the rest remaining in the cathedral; both were buried anew...
...trials that followed, two of the husbands got 20 years, the other 30. To forestall plotting, the men were sent to widely separated prisons. Two of the sisters themselves were imprisoned briefly, then allowed to return to their family home near Salcedo, 70 miles northwest of Ciudad Trujillo. Two months ago, without explanation, all three husbands were moved to a prison near Salcedo. There, after a tantalizing delay, the wives were granted permission to make a joint visit a fortnight ago. The sisters' cars had been confiscated; gratefully they accepted a stranger's offer to ride...
...strikes few responsive chords: the big Mexican-American communities of Texas and California. At Del Rio, Texas, the President crossed the Rio Grande to pay a farewell call on his good friend, Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos. Despite a steady drizzle, thousands jammed the plaza of Ciudad Acuña to hear Eisenhower proclaim the indestructible friendship of the two neighbors...