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...southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt for turquoise and jade ornaments, prying into tombs. Every tomb promised a surprise. Six fooled the invaders. The men were at the seventh this...
...Feudal Reaction of 1315." Professor Taylor, Emerson...
...trust for ten years. A King daughter is Mrs. Alice Gertrudis Kleberg, mother of the new Congressman. After her is named Santa Gertrudis, the great ranch house at Kingsville where visitors are royally entertained, where meals are served at a soft, table by Mexican servants, where a feudal atmosphere still prevails. "Dick" Kleberg once tried ranching but gave it up to move to Corpus Christi, go into the cattle business, play good golf. Today the King Ranch, with its 100,000 head of livestock, its miles of plains and gardens, its oil wells, is managed by the new Congressman...
...political theory. There are long passages faithfully describing his boyhood which offer valuable insight into the character of the man. In a fine chapter on Washington as a Virginia baron Mr. Fay accomplishes the dual purpose of constructing a Washington of flesh and blood and of portraying the haleyon feudal civilization that was Virginia's. Believing that the key to many of the President's actions can be found in the English colonel's career, the author dwells at unusual length on the French and Indian War, a period that is customarily dismissed by an amused smile at the military...
...terse exposition of the origin of trade, one would-be historian wrote, "Now as the sublime ignorance of feudal days were off, and oriental commodities began to seep in, the inhabitants began to trade their furniture etc. for tea and silks. Hence the beginning of trade...