Word: maria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...service of Spain, the Genoese navigator Christopher Columbus took the caravels Nina and Pinta along with the Santa Maria on his historic voyage across the Atlantic...
...drop Jorge at the beach at Santa Maria del Mar and get back to moving down the coast. Minutes later we pull over for two girls, each carrying a cake, each about 20, giggling to themselves in the back seat. Sisters? No, just friends. They're on their way home, to the next town, Guanabo. We pass a photo shoot, by the water: a skeletal blond woman, a photographer, a band of Cuban men, grinning in matching shirts, all standing in front of a mid-'50s Chevy, powder blue. We all wonder who the model is. Anyone we know...
...exquisite little head of Philip IV's daughter, the Infanta Maria Teresa, is even more summary. Velazquez paints shapes that look so obsolete that they're almost abstract--the massive cornrowing of the brown wig, for instance, and the mysterious, icily translucent lace butterflies that adorn it. He paints paint, or, more exactly, cosmetics: that pale mask flushed with matte pink, a plain little girl--she was a teenager then--propelled onto the international market by Papa's political schemes. Such portraits were made to be sent abroad to the relevant ambassadors, in the hope of arranging a suitable marriage...
...Carlos A. Monje Catrin E. Moran Elisabeth J. Moriarty-Ambrozaitis Sung Hee Moon Caitrin E. Moran Garrett B. Moritz Nora B. Morrison Kathryn A. Moynihan Paul R. Mrockowski Douglas S. Muller Angela M. Munoz Alyssa B. Murphy Carlye A. Murphy Justin G. Muzinich Elie Y. Mystal Jesse I. Needleman Maria C. Nelson Seth P. Nickinson Mary W. Nicklin Jessica A. Niles Paul K. Nitze Gregory S. Novak Deirdre A. O'Dwyer Kathleen M. O'Toole Elizabeth C. Oelsner Dara B. Olmstead Noah D. Oppenheim Matthew T. Ozug Edwin T. Pankau Irwin G. Park Michael S. Passaportis Jonathan M. Patton Tamin...
...next eldest sister, Martha, died in 1995. Esther is the third sister. She discovered she was HIV-positive only after the birth of her daughter Emmaculate, who was chronically sick and died in 1998, age two. The fifth sister, Elina, died of AIDS last year; the sixth, Maria, in May. Esther, 26, takes care of 11 other AIDS orphans in her family, from her brother James, 17, to her niece Manyara, 9, who is HIV-positive. Esther worries about who will take care of these children when she dies...