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Borrowed by Director Roland J. McKinney of the Baltimore Museum of Art were 149 pieces representing virtually the entire range of Maya civilization from 1 A.D. to 1541 A.D. The Aztecs, whose beautiful city of Tencchtitlàn was razed by Hernando Cortés in 1521, were a late-flowering branch of this civilization. Accurate astronomy and mathematics, a written language, games with rubber balls were known to the Maya people. The truncated pyramids on which the Maya built their temples still stand in the jungles of Mexico and Yucatan. Like the jungle itself, their carvings were luxuriant with...
...site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found one of the grooved Folsom arrow points actually imbedded in the vertebra of an extinct bison. Miss Frances Densmore continued recording Indian music, and Dr. J. R. Swanton pursued the route of Hernando de Soto through Georgia and South Carolina...
Pecans were known to white men as early as 1541 when Spain's Hernando de Soto explored the Mississippi River Valley, but it was not until after the Civil War that the nuts were used for much besides feeding hogs. First commercial sheller-dealer of any importance in the U. S. was a Swiss-born cake and candy maker, Gustave Antonio Duerler of San Antonio, Tex., who, in 1882, found a market for a few barrels of pecan meats he shipped East on a gamble. Today one out of every five nuts eaten...
Last week British liberals in the House of Commons continued their sniping at British munitions makers, and in particular at the House of Vickers. Was the Government aware, they wanted to know, that while Dr. Hernando Siles was President of Bolivia (1926-30) he had obtained an important loan from Vickers-Armstrongs on condition that all the money go for war materials in Britain...
...Mississippian, I offer no defense for the manner in which the Hernando hangings were conducted (TIME, March...