Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dominican zealot Girolamo Savonarola who presided over the Bonfire of the Vanities during Carnival in Florence in 1497. Thousands of the Florentine children who were Savonarola's followers went through the city collecting what they deemed to be lewd books, as well as pictures, lutes, playing cards, mirrors and other vanities, and piled them in the great Piazza della Signoria of Florence. The pyramid of offending objects rose 60 feet high, and went up in flames. One year later Savonarola had a political quarrel with Pope Alexander VI, was excommunicated, tried and hanged. His body was burned at the stake...
...mark of the era that no one puts lighthearted cartoons about the players on the back of the cards anymore, like "Bob enjoys playing guitar in the off-season" or "Jesus once served 18 months in the Dominican Army," Topps used to be masterful at these cartoons. This year, they and Donruss put the player's contract status on the back...
Cohen: We had active voodoo priest advisors all through the making of the picture both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. And I would say that if they did not like what we were doing, we would not have been able to complete the movie...
...attack came as the two warring sides began a second round of peace talks in the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo. The negotiations broke down within hours; the contras insisted on talking directly with the Sandinistas, and Managua said it would bargain only through advisers. "We are at an impasse," said Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nicaragua, who serves as a mediator between the belligerent parties. The two sides agreed to a two-day Christmas truce, but Sandinistas accused the contras of numerous violations. The rebels denied the charges. In Managua, Nicaraguan President Daniel...
Washington is no stranger to military action in the Caribbean. U.S. Marines intervened in Haiti in 1915 after increasing civil strife, and stayed until 1934 as an army of occupation. Marines landed in the neighboring Dominican Republic in 1965. In 1983 some 1,900 U.S. soldiers and a small Caribbean task force ousted a radical regime in Grenada. When former President Jean-Claude Duvalier was tottering last year, the U.S. provided the C-141 Starlifter cargo plane that flew the dictator and his family out of the country...