Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the Ivory Tower? With its traditions of self-government and academic independence, the university is likely to hold its commanding position in the Latin American intellectual world. Some 5,000 non-Mexicans enroll each year in its 15 colleges. But it is a big question whether the university'...
In 1924 I sailed for a long cruise in the barkentine St. George, which visited remote islands in the Pacific to collect specimens for the Natural History Museum in London. But I myself was never employed by the museum; I just went along for the trip. I have also studied...
Their camp, guarded by medieval-looking sentries carrying tasseled spears, is divided into streets along which sit neat, wooden barracks with thatched roofs, a big theater, an ambitious hospital building for which there is almost no equipment. Each day General Peng runs his troops through stern drills with dummy guns...
Darul Islam's leader is Kartosuwirjo, a 46-year-old mystic, who holds court in the rugged mountain fastnesses of western Java. Against the Dutch, Kartosuwirjo's tactics were simple and effective: kill, rape, loot and burn. His religious concept is medieval: death to unbelievers; his politics uncompromising...
In medieval times, royal funerals were too lengthy for the current embalming methods. Sometimes, according to the records of Westminster Abbey, "the smell was most offensive in spite of clouds of incense." So the English took to making effigies of their deceased royalty and using them as funereal stand-ins...