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	Children of the Father King: youth, authority, and legal minority in colonial lima.(Book review) Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima. By Bianca Premo (Chapel Hill: University...social history of childhood in colonial Lima from approximately 1650 until 1820. Relying...races and social classes in late-colonial Lima. This study demonstrates how the Enlightenment... Read more
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	Lima metro extension set to open in 2008: after a 10-year delay, Lima's partially-completed metro is set to be extended into the city centre. Further development could follow.(Rapid Transit: Lima) Magazine article from: International Railway Journal; 6/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; LIMA is one of South America's biggest cities, with a population...its northern terminus of Atocongo right into the heart of Lima. The winner is expected to be announced by the end of the...signing of a supreme decree by the Peruvian government and Lima's governing authority, the Municipality of Lima ... Read more
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	Huellas de la untraderecha: más allá del sacudimiento propagandístico que provocó el noveno aniversario del asesinato del cardenal Posadas Ocampo, el protagonismo de la subprocuradora María de la Luz Lima Malvido obliga a voltear los ojos a la inquietante presencia de la ultraderecha en instituciones educativas, partidos políticos y dependencias públicas. (Justicia).(TT: Tacks of the extreme right: beyond the propagandistic shock that caused the ninth anniversary of the murder of the Cardinal Posadas Ocampo, the protagonism of the attorney Maria de la Luz Lima forces to turn around the political eyes to the disquieting presence of the extreme right in educative institutions, political parties and public dependencies. (Justice).) Magazine article from: Proceso; 5/26/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...vinculación de la subprocuradora María de la Luz Lima Malvido con el ultraderechista y violento...muestra el caso de los Rodríguez Manzanera-Lima Malvido, exintegrantes de MURO han ocupado...Diódoro Carrasco fue secretario. Ahora, Lima Malvido colabora hasta con la fundación... Read more
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	View from Lima: The capital of Peru, Lima was once a city that lived in contented harmony with its strange ecology and landscape. But now it has gluttonously devoured much of what made the city work.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Among contemporary Third World cities, Lima may be a case to show how the fierce process...public servants -- testify, in the case of Lima, to the appropriateness and long lasting...the shape of a linear wall that encircled Lima and its Indian neighbourhoods, a kidney-li... Read more
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	Lima, Luis Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Lima, Luis ( b Cordoba, Arg., 1948). Arg. tenor. Début Lisbon 1974 (Turiddù in Cavalleria rusticana ), then sang in Ger. opera houses 1974–6. Amer. début NY 1976 (concert); La Scala 1977; NY Met 1978; Salzburg Fest. 1984; CG 1985; S. Francisco 1992. Read more