Word: isleta
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...performance in quelling the last mutiny. Though he had planned to ask Congress to close ranks behind Aquino, Arroyo instead spent three hours berating the military, the Roman Catholic Church and the business community for failing to support her during the uprising. He compared Ramos' spokesman Colonel Honesto Isleta with Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propagandist. Arroyo said that three of the country's leading businessmen, all longtime Aquino boosters, are guilty of treason for plotting to have him fired. He also attacked Vice President Salvador Laurel, who a few days earlier had polled loyal soldiers on their opinion of Colonel...
...York Socialite Robert David Lion Gardiner became the 16th, and seemingly the last, lord of the manor of Gardiner's Island. The seven-mile eastern Long Island isleta Gardiner fief since 1639 and perhaps the only English royal grant in the U.S. still owned by its original family-would fall to Yale University if there were no Gardiner heirs...
...mound group, the largest Indian mound in America, which is a few miles outside of St. Louis. The party will then proceed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they will spend a day at the important Jarvy Museum. From here they will go south to the large modern pueblo of Isleta, and the Laguna and the Acoma pueblos. The latter, built on a mesa 400 feet high, is in nearly the same condition that it was when Coronado found...
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