Word: pizarro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich that he daily powdered himself from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...
...years, bullfighting has been Lima's favorite spectacle. The great Pizarro, according to tradition, killed the first bull in a fight before the cathedral in the Plaza de Armas; the old Lima bull ring, built in 1765, is said by Limeños to be the world's oldest. But never has Lima known a fighter like its own Conchita Cintron, the world's greatest female torero and mistress, to boot, of the art of rejoneo (bullfighting with a short spear from horseback...
Bloodshed and treachery, in delicate balance, had brought Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro, discoverer and conqueror of Peru, a long way from herding swine under the oaks of Estredemadura...
There had been, for example, the terrible hardships he and his 13 companions had gone through to spy out the Inca empire (and the side deal with Charles V to cut Pizarro's 13 companions out of most of the loot). Now, at 70, Don Francisco was weary of bloodshed and treachery. In his garden the first fig tree of New Castile had just borne fruit. When the enemies he had left alive conspired against him, he invited them to his palace for half a dozen figs and some friendly advice. The rebels answered the invitation by breaking into...
...death of Francisco Pizarro is told in the story that gives The Knights of the Cape its name. Peru's Ricardo Palma, who called his stories Tradiciones Peruanas was a tradition and a classic himself before he died in 1919 at the age of 86. He had fought against the Spanish at Callao and against the Chileans at Miraflores. He was once editor of the great Prensa in Buenos Aires, and returned to Lima to rebuild the National Library which the Chileans had pillaged...