Word: peruvians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Those questions and more may soon be answered. Five hundred years after her fateful climb, the Inca maiden has returned to the world below the clouds. Her frozen body, along with those of two other youths, was discovered almost by accident last month by anthropologist Johan Reinhard and his Peruvian guide Miguel Zarate. Her tissues and bodily fluids were still intact. Researchers have found the mummified corpses of other Incas who were sacrificed, and four years ago, the freeze-dried remains of a 5,000-year-old man turned up in the Tyrolean Alps. But none were nearly as well...
...Brahms, Richard Strauss, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky." What sets the new composers apart, though, is their ability to combine disparate influences in the same score, drawing equally on rock, jazz, classical and folk influences. In Braveheart, for example, Horner melds the lonely sound of the Irish uillean pipes and the Peruvian flute with a modern symphony orchestra to portray Mel Gibson's doomed hero...
...seem that street musicians play simply for fun, but for many it is a true source of income and a lifestyle all its own. According to Jorge Garces, a street performer with the Peruvian folk music group Inca Sun, street performance is a much more common profession in his native South America. "For us it is a tradition," he explains. Indeed, from Homer to Spanish gypsies, minstrelsy may be the civilized world's third-oldest profession--after, of course, prostitution and law. Unfortunately, says Ned Landin, a street performer known to his following as "Flathead," street performance is about...
What was all the fighting about? No one was exactly sure. The remote no-man's-land that is claimed by both Peru and Ecuador has long been said to contain gold and uranium. ``The amount of gold there is incredible,'' former Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose de la Puente Rabdill told reporters last week. But no geological studies of the site have been done. Instead, the skirmishing may have had more to do with domestic politics, as both Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Ecuadorian President Sixto Duran Ballen used the long-standing border quarrel to bolster their own popularity...
...most recent violence began on Jan. 9, when an Ecuadorian military patrol captured four Peruvian soldiers along the border, in territory that is claimed by Ecuador. Two days later, Ecuadorian soldiers discovered a contingent of a dozen or so Peruvians in the same area. ``As soon as we ordered them to identify themselves, they opened fire. Since that day Peruvians have attacked nine Ecuadorian towns in the area,'' says Duran Ballen. Ecuador responded by mobilizing some 60,000 troops and accusing the Peruvians of attacking with helicopters that the U.S. had donated for drug-suppression programs...