Home > People > History > Mesoamerican indigenous peoples: Biographies

Topic:Moctezuma

Moctezuma. (Image by Britannica)

Visit our new topic page about Moctezuma

Moctezuma

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Moctezuma see Montezuma .

Author not available, MOCTEZUMA., The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

	Yo, Moctezuma: bajo el disfraz de un relato novelesco el historiador britanico ha hecho una admirable pintura del fin del imperio azteca y de la fascinante personalidad del emperador Moctezuma. Es la historia de la Conquista en voz de uno de su principales protagonistas.(Extracto) Contenido; 5/1/2002; Thomas, Hugh; 8997 words ; Recuerdo muy bien el momento en que oí hablar por primera vez de los extraños de cabello claro. Fue por la tarde, cuando regresé de haber sometido a los soconuscos apenas unos meses después de haber ascendido al trono. Había regresado de esa lejana guerra con millares de cautivos. Desde la ancha Read more
	WOMAN MAY HAVE RUN DRUGS TO ROANOKE Roanoke Times & World News; 10/27/2006; Lindsey Nair lindsey.nair@roanoke.com 981-3343; 336 words ; The 21 people charged in a giant methamphetamine investigation in Colorado include a woman accused of running drugs to Roanoke. Jeff Sweetin, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain office, says he believes Leticia Moctezuma used her connections in Colorado Read more
	Woman may have run drugs to Roanoke: DEA officials say they aren't sure how much meth the woman, one of 21 people investigated in Colorado, may have sold here. Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA); 10/27/2006; 389 words ; ... Roanoke office of the DEA at (540) 857-2555. Copyright (c) 2006, The Roanoke Times, Va. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ... Read more
	Man sentenced in Red Bull heists.(News) Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 2/12/2008; Gutowski, Christy; 394 words ; Byline: Christy Gutowski Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer cgutowski@@dailyherald.com William Moctezuma worked as a security guard and studied to be a cop. But, instead of upholding the law, authorities said he ended up on the opposite side of it. Moctezuma was sentenced Monday to 18 years in Read more
	REGAL RETURN OF AN AZTEC RULER Americas; 7/1/2004; Tennant, Anne; 1318 words ; Finally, the Aztec monarch has returned to his homeland, the Americas-at least, for a time. A stunning, life-size portrait of Moctezuma II of Mexico is perhaps the most unforgettable work in the exhibition Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821, on view April 3-july 25, 2004, at the Read more
	INTERIOR SECRETARY'S RESIGNATION IS LATEST CRISIS FOR PRESIDENT ERNESTO ZEDILLO'S ADMINISTRATION SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico; 7/5/1995; 1088 words ; The resignation of Esteban Moctezuma Barragan as head of the powerful Interior Secretariat (Secretaria de Gobernacion, SG) renewed concerns about President Ernesto Zedillo's leadership ability and raised some questions whether he will be able to serve his full six-year term, which expires in the Read more
	CORPORACIÓN MOCTEZUMA TO INVEST US$83.6MN THIS YEAR Infolatina; 2/24/2003; 228 words ; 00-00-0000 Corporación Moctezuma to invest US$83.6mn this year MEXICO CITY, Feb 24, 2003 (El Economista/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- Cement company Corporación Moctezuma (Cmoctez) has announced its investment plans for 2003 and proposed the payment of a Read more
	CEMENT FIRM MOCTEZUMA TO INVEST 1.5BN PESOS Infolatina; 2/6/2003; 219 words ; 00-00-0000 Cement firm Moctezuma to invest 1.5bn pesos MEXICO CITY, Feb 6, 2003 (Crónica/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- Corporación Moctezuma will invest 1.5 billion pesos (US$137 million) in a new plant in San Luis Potosí that will be ready to start Read more
	It cuts both ways: workers, management and the construction of a "community of fate" on the shop floor in a Mexican garment factory. Social Forces; 6/1/2006; Videla, Nancy Plankey; 12659 words ; On March 15, 2001, at 3 p.m. sharp, we walked out on strike. It had only been three months since I had graduated from the month-long training at la escuelita, the little school. I had come to see how a successful lean factory worked. The Mexican garment factory had been reorganized five years ago Read more
	TESTS SHOW INMATE DIED OF DRUG OVERDOSE.(News) Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 8/28/1996; 256 words ; Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer State prison officials are trying to find out how a maximum security inmate obtained narcotics that led to his fatal ... Read more

See all related premium articles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

	Montezuma The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition or Moctezuma , 1480?-1520, Aztec emperor (c.1502-1520). He is sometimes called Montezuma II to distinguish him from Montezuma I (ruled 1440 ... Read more
	Montezuma II Britannica Concise Encyclopedia or Moctezuma II (born 1466—died June 30, 1520, Tenochtitlan, near modern Mexico City) Ninth emperor of the Aztecs . In 1502 he inherited ... Read more
	Pánuco The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... Luis Potosí state, N central Mexico, and flowing generally east to empty into the Gulf of Mexico near Tampico. It is navigable for c.200 mi (322 km). Tributaries, including the Moctezuma, drain, sometimes by artificial means, the Anáhuac region. Read more
	Pleasence, Donald International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ... Prosecution (Gibson — for TV); Race for the Yankee Zephyr ( Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr ) (Hemmings); To Kill a Stranger (Moctezuma) (as Col. Kostik) 1983 The Devonsville Terror (Lommel) 1984 Warrior of the Lost Word (Worth); A Breed Apart (Mora); Where ... Read more
	Distrito Federal Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Mexican States ... there. Tenochtitl á n-Mexico was founded on June 8, 1325. Under the leadership of monarchs Izcoatl, Montezuma I (Moctezuma I, d. 1469), Axayacatl (15th century), Tizoc, Ahuizotl (d. 1503), and Montezuma II (Moctezuma II, 1466 – 1520), the Aztecs emerged as the most important civilization in the ... Read more