Word: talavera
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...Boutique, tel: (52-222) 482 0603, a dance club with international DJs. Come daytime, meander though the city's compact colonial center, passing its 17th century Catedral de Puebla. Check out the antique shops lining Callejón de los Sapos or splurge on intricately detailed, floral-patterned Talavera tiles at the Uriarte Talavera Factory, www.uriartetalavera.com.mx, which has been in business since 1824. True, Puebla's charms are a world away from Mexico City's all-hours action. But for a growing number of cognoscenti, that's no bad thing...
After a two-year-long war against factional leaders, notably Rafael Munoz Talavera, found shot to death in his jeep in Juarez in September 1998, Vicente secured his bid to succeed his brother. He has since been indicted in El Paso, Texas, and in Mexico on drug-trafficking charges. Many of the bodies being unearthed south of Juarez are believed to be victims in that war, as are any Americans who Mexican officials say might be among the dead...
Melody (Daniel J. Travanti) is a displaced Irish gentleman drunk. Having fought with the Duke of Wellington in Spain at the Battle of Talavera, the anniversary of which he celebrates on the day of the play by dressing up in his old uniform and demanding a feast, Melody regards himself as being passed up by history...
...story tells of a day in the life of Major Cornelius Melody (Ret.), the son of an Irish inn-keeper who once fought bravely under Wellington at the Battle of Talavera. When Melody emigrated, he brought with him the myth that he had formerly been a land-holding aristocrat, now reduced by circumstance to keeping a tavern in America...
...robust hauteur then considered the proper mark for men of distinction. This is particularly true of his portrait of Sir Duncan Campbell, a dashing figure who, as a general's aide-de-camp, had three horses shot out from under him at the Peninsular battle of Talavera. In later years the young officer became a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county of Argyll, in 1831 was created first baronet of Barcalvine and Glenure. There is little doubt that he liked his early portrait. It remained in the family for more than 100 years, was bought early this year...