Word: maximilian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today is the sixth and last day of the Cinco de Mayo celebration sponsored by the Mexican-American student group RAZA, commemorating one victory the Mexicans won against the French during Maximilian's war to annex Mexico, RAZA members said...
Cardenas was born in 1934, the year his father became President. In a gesture of populism, Lazaro Cardenas abandoned Chapultepec Castle, in which the Emperor Maximilian and nearly all subsequent Mexican rulers lived. Instead, the President, his wife and his son -- who was named for the last Aztec emperor and whose name is pronounced Kwa-tay-mok -- moved into Los Pinos, a white stone box set in a corner of Mexico City's Chapultepec Park. "I have only isolated images of it," says Cardenas of his boyhood home. "But one thing I do remember: I was given every possible opportunity...
...late 50s or early 60s, was branded on both cheeks for that. In later years he was in and out of dungeon and lived under a cloud of civic disapproval, while Durer, some 30 years his junior, dined with humanists and councilmen and enjoyed a life stipend from Emperor Maximilian...
...Pope traveled next to the monastery of Niepokalanow, 30 miles west of Warsaw, to pay tribute to Poland's newest saint: Father Maximilian Kolbe. While a prisoner in Auschwitz in 1941, Kolbe volunteered to die in the place of another Polish inmate who had a wife and children. He was canonized by John Paul in a solemn pontifical ceremony last October in the Vatican...
BORN. To Olivia Hussey, 30, comely British actress who beguiled a generation in Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet, and her husband, Japanese Rock Star Akira Fuse, 35: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Maximilian...