Word: swineherd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding a horse got 100 lashes. The viceroyalty threw off the rule of Spain in 1823, later crumbled into five warring states. In the 105 revolution-torn years that followed, 18 dictators ruled Guatemala, beginning with the swineherd Rafael Carrera (1839-65) and reaching a savage climax under the megalomaniac General Jorge Ubico, who took power in 1931, held the Indians' wages as low as 3? a day, and was overthrown and exiled in 1944. Jacobo Arbenz is the country's second elected President since then...
...year-old opera, Irmelin. For four hours, the wistful music wended its peaceful way. The Princess Irmelin rejected her 100th suitor, explaining, in effect, that she was not frigid, just waiting for her dream man. She finally got him in the last scene, in the person of a swineherd...
...onetime swineherd, cruel Francisco Pizarro, conquered the Incas and in 1535 founded the city of Lima. After laying out a great square, which he called the Plaza de Armas, he placed the cornerstone for a cathedral on the eastern side. Then he allotted spaces for a city hall and a governor's palace, to be occupied by himself. In the middle, he added a touch of his own, a gibbet...