Word: evita
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief 33 years, Eva Perón traveled fast and far. The illegitimate daughter of a dirt farmer and a woman who ran a rooming house, she became the second wife of Argentine Dictator Juan Perón. With her expansive charity giveaways, Evita, as she was known to Argentina's adoring masses, became a cult figure-the "Queen of the Descamisados" (the shirtless ones...
Dignity. But Evita's travels in life were nothing compared to her travels in death. On the night of Dec. 22, 1955, her body vanished from Buenos Aires' central labor headquarters; it had been placed there after she died of cancer in 1952 while a glass-enclosed mausoleum was being made ready. Rumors had her body thrown into the River Plate by the regime that ousted Perón. There was one report that 25 leading citizens were each given a sealed coffin, sworn to secrecy and asked to bury it. Each of the 25 believed that...