Word: incases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost 2,000 years ago, the Incas of Peru used to yank out aching teeth, then stick them back in their sockets and pray for them to grow firm again. It never worked.
From Roman Catholic Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo of Popayan, Colombia, a Chicago gem syndicate bought for an unrevealed sum the foot-high emerald crown of Our Lady of the Andes, containing 453 jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in...
THE SPANISH MAIN : Focus or ENVY - Philip Ainsworth Means- Scribner ($3). Originally "The Spanish Main" meant the mainland of North and South America controlled by Spain. Eventually it came to be associated with "not only the central and crucial part of the Spanish, empire," but also with the vast sweep...
"With the exception of the Aztecs and the Incas there has never been a co-ordinated society." Assuming, however, that it is technically possible to provide abundance for everyone, he predicted that a scientifically planned society is possible.
It is known that there was a civilization at Lake Valencia at the time of the Spaniards. Excavations at this site reveal that there were several earlier phases of this same culture, which had reached its highest point at the time of the Conquest. The culture was a simple one...