Word: soledad
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...French, they ordered them to depart, but while the colonists elbowed each other, the Spanish argued that the Papal Line of Demarcation of 1492 had awarded the whole region to them. The French sold out to Spain for £24,000, and Port Louis was renamed Puerto de la Soledad. The British, expelled by Spanish troops in 1770 from Port Egmont, talked fiercely of war. Or at least some London politicians did; the government tried to calm the public belligerence by hiring London's most talented polemicist, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson obliged with a pamphlet calling the Falklands "an island...
...Vernet seized them and took one ship with its crew to Buenos Aires for prosecution. There U.S. Consul George Slacum demanded that Vernet be prosecuted for piracy. When the Argentines demurred, the patrolling U.S. Navy corvette Lexington went to wreak vengeance. Commander Silas Duncan attacked Vernet's headquarters at Soledad, spiked all the cannons, blew up all the ammunition, sacked the settlement, and sailed away with seven of Vernet's aides in irons (they were eventually released in Montevideo, but Argentine demands for compensation went on for 53 years...
Fidel Castro confiscated Soledad in 1960 and Claflin spent the next years involved in various activities, including his large collection of American Indian artifacts...
After leaving his job as Harvard treasurer he became president of the Soledad Sugar Co.. which operated a manufacturing plant and owned 30,000 acres of land in Cuba...
...early thirties, Paz has been identified with the surrealist writers, a school he once described as "a negation of the contemporary world and at the same time an attempt to substitute other values for those of democratic, bourgeois society." His best-known works include El Laberinto de la Soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude), an essay on Mexican character described by Irving Howe as "a central text of our time" and long metaphysical poems like Piedra de sol (Sun Stone) and Blanco...