Word: pueblito
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...first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect to find it - and it isn't exactly what you'd expect to find either. First, it's not in the United States. Yanga, on Mexico's Gulf Coast, is a sleepy pueblito founded by its namesake, Gaspar Yanga, an African slave who led a rebellion against his Spanish colonial masters in the late 16th century and fought off attempts to retake the settlement. The second thing that is immediately evident to vistors who reach the town's rustic central plaza: there are virtually...
...meteorites are intently studied by scientists for any clues they may offer to the primordial past. But even the highest expectations did not prepare University of Chicago Scientists Robert Clayton, Lawrence Grossman and Toshiko K. Mayeda for what they discovered while studying fragments of the Allende meteorite, found near Pueblito de Allende in Mexico in 1969. Tiny grains of dust imbedded in the chips contained an isotope of oxygen (oxygen 16) in virtually pure form. Ordinary oxygen in the earth's atmosphere−and presumably that on the sun and other members of the solar system−also consists...
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