Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...couple left Moscow, prying Soviet correspondents queried the bridegroom as to what sort of reception he expected to get on returning to Chile. "I fear that my marriage is likely to go unrecognized there," he smiled. "But I happen to live and practice law in Peru. It makes me feel better to have my union with Martha regarded as legal by at least one Great Power...
...Peru and Bolivia", Professor Dixon, Peabody Museum...
Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, presented last week to the Library of Congress a large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...
Salvador, Capt. Nunez; Honduras, Pilot Garay; Guatemala, Commandant Morales Lopez; Cuba, Capt. Delaborde; Peru, Carlos Martinez de Pinillos; Mexico, Emilio Carranza. Best known in the U. S. was Mexico's Carranza, who flew through fogs, storms and engine trouble from Mexico City to Washington. As he was trying to fly back, lightning struck his plane, killed...
...Galactic universe, 50,000 light years away. This center of our universe is in the Sagittarius-Scorpio region, the brightest part of the Milky Way, which is visible here in the summer sky but too low in the south to be seen in all its glory. In Arequipa, Peru, the region is overhead and is truly a remarkable sight in that transparent atmosphere...