Word: pizarro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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History provides us with a ready-made answer. It is not the first time that a modern Christian society encounters a powerful enemy ruled by a son-of-heaven. . . . The Inca Empire's ten million people fell to Pizarro's 180 men not so much because of the Spaniards' firearms and horses, but because of Pizarro's capture of Atahualpa, the queen...
...anthology edited by, a Colombian sociologist (for two years a visiting professor in the U.S.) of 33 selections from Latin-American history and fiction of the past 100 years. It tells about Latin America from the 16th Century to the present, is filled with heroes and villains from Pizarro to Pancho Villa, is set in cities, plains and jungles from the Caribbean to Cape Horn...
According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the Spaniards...
When Sarah Pizarro, who had been shopping, returned to her small apartment on New York's lower East Side, she told her seven-year-old son Tony she had a pain in her chest, was going to lie down for a moment...