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5 Sept 2025 — Hernando de Soto (born c. 1496/97, Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Spain—died May 21, 1542, along the Mississippi River [in present-day ...See more

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It is based on a year of 12 months: Muḥarram, Ṣafar, Rabīʿ al-Awwal, Rabīʿ al-Thānī, Jumādā al-Awwal, Jumādā al-Thānī, Rajab, Shaʿbān, Ramaḍān (the month of ...Jump to

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In Ecuador: Relief …three main physical regions: the Costa (coastal region), the Sierra (highland region), and the Oriente (eastern region).

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Transportation, the movement of goods and persons from place to place and the various means by which such movement is accomplished.

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The origins of the Lunar New Year festival are thousands of years old and are steeped in legends. One legend is that of Nian, a hideous beast ...

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Peru is the third largest country in South America and may be divided into three geographic regions from west to east: the Costa (coast), which consists of ...

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La guerra del fin del mundo (1981; The War of the End of the World), an account of the 19th-century political conflicts in Brazil, became a best seller in ...

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1 Oct 2025 — Túpac Amaru II ; Original name: José Gabriel Condorcanqui ; Born: 1740–42?, Peru ; Died: May 18, 1781, Cuzco, Peru.

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On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 am local time, an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Over the ...

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Given district status in 1963, Jesús María is mainly a middle- and upper-income residential area. Most striking is its architecturally innovative San Felipe ...

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The ruins belong to the Chavín pre-Columbian culture, which flourished c. 900–c. 200 bc. The central building is a massive temple complex constructed of ...

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2 Oct 2025 — Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. It is also called Emancipation Day or Juneteenth Independence Day.

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In Ica …city in 1961, and the Regional Museum of Ica has a collection of textiles and pottery of the Nazca culture (c. 200 bce–600 ce). Ica is connected by ...

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Chavín, earliest highly developed culture in pre-Columbian Peru, which flourished between about 900 and 200 bc. During this time Chavín artistic influence ...

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The day following Thanksgiving—commonly referred to as Black Friday—has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the United States.

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Cerro de Pasco is a high-altitude mining city in central Peru, known for silver, copper, gold, lead, zinc, and bismuth mines. It is one of the ...

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Mario Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian Spanish writer who was one of the most influential authors of contemporary literature and a leading figure in the boom of ...

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Argentine soldier, statesman, and national hero who helped lead the revolutions against Spanish rule in Argentina (1812), Chile (1818), and Peru (1821).

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6 days ago — Battle of Ayacucho, (Dec. 9, 1824), in the Latin-American wars of independence, revolutionary victory over royalists on the high plateau near Ayacucho, Peru.

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The American historian Paul Kosok observed the lines from an airplane in 1941 and hypothesized that they were drawn for astronomical purposes.

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Latin America is generally understood to consist of the entire continent of South America in addition to Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the ...

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The crash initially killed 12 people, leaving 33 survivors, a number of whom were injured. At an altitude of approximately 11,500 feet (3,500 metres), the group ...See more

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Latin America is generally understood to consist of the entire continent of South America in addition to Mexico, Central America, and the islands of the ...Read more

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A number of natural disasters also made headlines, most notably Hurricane Helene and flooding in Spain. Prominent deaths in 2024 included Aleksey Navalny and ...

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Pedro Castillo is a Peruvian politician, union leader, and schoolteacher who served as president of Peru from 2021 to 2022, when he was removed from office ...

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5 days ago — Lima, city, capital of Peru. It is the country's commercial and industrial centre. Central Lima is located at an elevation of 512 feet (156 metres)Read more

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The Shining Path began its revolutionary campaign in remote areas of the Andes (the group's first act of violence occurred on May 17, 1980, near ...See more

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Bogotá is the capital of Colombia. The city lies in central Colombia ... With independence from Spain achieved, Bogotá in 1821 was made capital of Gran Colombia ...

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It was reorganized as a centralized representative republic with its capital at Bogotá; Bolívar became president and Francisco de Paula Santander vice president ...

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Peruvian independence was declared on July 28, 1821. Lacking power to attack the strong Spanish forces in the interior, San Martín sought aid from Simón Bolívar ...

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13 Sept 2025 — Adam Smith, Scottish social philosopher and political economist who is a towering figure in the history of economic thought, best known for ...

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2 Oct 2025 — Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games ; Date: July 23, 2021 - August 8, 2021 ; Location: Japan ; On the Web: National Center for Biotechnology Information - ...

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José María Arguedas was a Peruvian novelist, short-story writer, and ethnologist whose writings capture the contrasts between the white and Indian cultures.

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7 days ago — list of cities and towns in Peru · Barranco · La Victoria · Magdalena del Mar · Miraflores · Pueblo Libre · Rímac · San Isidro · San Martín de Porres ...

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6 days ago — Bolívar was now president of Gran Colombia and dictator of Peru. Only a small section of the continent—Upper Peru—was still defended by ...

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6 days ago — Bolívar served as president of Gran Colombia (1819–30) and as dictator of Peru (1823–26). The country of Bolivia is named for him. What ...

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