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Saturday, 21 July 2007 |
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In 1964 the great protruding thumb, the Yucatan Peninsula, also called the "cape of Mexico," harbored no one – neither inhabitant nor visitor – dreaming of such a thing. Chich'en Itza´ (as it's more properly, but not popularly, called) and the ancient, eye-boggling Mayan sites that today each year rightfully attract the attention of tens of thousands of tourists the world over were still rude rubble and jungle/scrub overgrowth, compared to their present much-buffed, theme-park appearance. |
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Saturday, 14 July 2007 |
 'Chichen Itza as it is today' - Photo By CR Staff Mexico's Chichen Itza ("The mouth of the well of the Itza") has just been named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World by one hundred million people around the globe who cast ballots by phone and Internet. In piquant contrast, pre-hispanic history established this soon to be long-ignored Mayan capital as the refuge/way station of Mexico's great culture hero Quetzalcoatl. That priestly ruler, stung by fateful sin, promising to return, fled (around 987) to the east from his kingdom of Tula, the influential, sophisticated capital of the Toltecs in central Mexico. He was called "Kukulkan" by the Itza Maya of Yucatan, where it is said he established his second kingdom. |
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 |
 '' For longer than anyone knows, the Seri Indians of Sonora have repulsed the incursions of interlopers: other tribes early on, then Spanish Conquistadores and friars, Mexican dictators, priests and revolutionaries, marauding bands of killers and thieves, and the often indistinguishable "modern" Mexican governments of various covetous temperaments. |
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Saturday, 30 June 2007 |
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Looking over the shoulder of George Washington as he took command of the revolutionary army at Cambridge, June 2, 1775, one sees an undisciplined, untrained militia that wanted to name its own officers and serve only under those from their own colony. There was also desperate, frequently corrupt, lack of supplies. |
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