Word: parana
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...description of the wild beauty of a waterfall on the Rio Parana is as much a jewel of writing as his tiny humming bird is a "jewel of nature." Following several colorful and exceedingly virile paragraphs, it was positively shocking in its clear beauty, its excellent choice of words, its exquisite phrases...
...South America, had even reached Europe. About 1520 a Portuguese soldier named Alejo Garcia led an expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca country, was killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot led another group up the Parana River to Paraguay in 1528, sent the representatives of his backers for more support as soon as the first gold and the first llamas were en countered. Fifteen members of his party pushed on, encountered desperate hard ships, crossed the Cordillera in an audacious move, reached the Incas, hurried back...
...Spanish and Portuguese South American Empires broke up into great modern states in the early 19th Century, two bobtail leftovers were Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous...
That sentence revealed Paraguay's strategy. It forced Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to declare neutrality, thus cutting off landlocked Bolivia from importing munitions. Paraguay on the broad Parana River, which like the Amazon is an international waterway, can bring supplies straight up from...
...without a struggle. The chief and three others they shot. They then stole $40 from the police safe, took the electric light plant and telegraph office, began parading the streets calling for recruits. Few joined, but for 18 hours the Kennedys held La Paz. The uprising never crossed the Parana River, which separates Entre Rios Province from the rest of Argentina. In Concordia and Concepcion del Uruguay, police dispersed bands of rebels. Troops heading for La Paz knew no better than to telegraph ahead. The Kennedys got their message, quickly left for their ranch, leaving all but a dozen...