Word: incases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The armies of Peru's Incas marched again & again during the 15th Century deep down into the narrow strip of coast that was even then called Chile, to conquer the proud Araucanian Indians. Pizarro's men took the job over, passed it on to generations of Spanish soldiers...
Panama. Not until this year did Dr. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop reveal the extent and significance of the fabulous treasures which he and other Harvard archeologists have uncovered In three years of unpublicized digging in the Province of Coclé, 90 mi. from the Canal Zone. The region was inhabited half...
"From the tristes (which are the blues of Spanish America) to the saudades of Brazil, the whole Continent weeps and regrets in music; the Indians on their flutes, made from a hollowed human tibia, weep for the Incas, Brazilian Negroes weep for Africa (though they have benefited considerably by their...
"Newfoundland, as you know, is inhabited by 2,000,000 people of Spanish origin who still speak Spanish since Cortes conquered the country from the Incas, while the Guatemalans speak Portuguese, since Don Pedro of Syracuse conquered the country in 1456. . . . As just one example of injustice, these two States...
In every way Zoraima disappointed. The setting among the Incas of 16th Century Peru was new for opera but the story was just another version of the one where the soprano saves the tenor by promising herself to the baritone, then cheats by committing suicide and boasting about it beforehand...