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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Aztecs Revisited | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THEY SENT THEIR LOVE HOME | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tooth Graft | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conquerors & Colonizers | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

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