Word: incase
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the...
The Aztecs were very unlike the Incas of Peru. "The Andean peoples, to generalize broadly, concentrated on the material technique of supporting life," says Vaillant, "the Middle American peoples [i.e., Mayas and Aztecs] on spiritual, or more accurately, supernatural methods." Symbols of Inca culture were their vast aqueducts and irrigation...
Pretty Maria Garland of Peru was dressed in a costume of the ancient Incas. Usni Pramoj of Thailand was a small but elegant figure in silken plus fours. Starlet of the day was seven-year-old, barefoot, pinafored Liana De Bayle, daughter of the Nicaraguan Minister, and a veteran of...