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Emperor of Mexico Cuauhtemoc
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Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico is a unique, semi-enclosed sea located between the Yucatan and Florida peninsulas, at the southeast shores of the United States. The Gulf of Mexico borders five of the 50 United States (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas), and also Cuba and the... Read more |
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Arturo Ripstein
RIPSTEIN, Arturo Nationality:Mexican. Born:Mexico City, 1943. Family:Son of Alfredo Ripstein, one of Mexico's most accomplished producers, credited with more than 180 films. Career:Began directorial career at the age of twenty-one, with the debut of... Read more |
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Mexican Americans
MEXICAN AMERICANS by Allan Englekirk and Marguerite Marín Overview Mexico, or Estados Unidos Mexicanos, is bordered by the United States to the north, the Gulf of Mexico to the east, Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Pacific to the south and west.... Read more |
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Saltillo
Saltillo , city (1990 pop. 420,947), capital of Coahuila state, N Mexico. It is located in an alluvial valley almost surrounded by mountains. Saltillo is a commercial and industrial center with heavy and light manufacturing and has being growing rapidly. Founded in 1575, the city was known in... Read more |
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Morelos
Morelos , state (1990 pop. 1,195,059), 1,917 sq mi (4,965 sq km), S Mexico. Cuernavaca is the capital. Morelos is separated from the Federal District and from Mexico state by the east-west volcanic chain crossing central Mexico. Morelos itself is mountainous, with many broad, semiarid valleys in... Read more |
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Zimmerman Telegram
ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM. Tensions arising from German submarine action during World War I provoked the United States to sever diplomatic relations with Germany on 3 February 1917. On 24February, the British delivered to the U.S. ambassador in London an intercepted German telegram... Read more |
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Tampico
Tampico , city (1990 pop. 272,690), Tamaulipas state, E Mexico, on the Pánuco River, a few miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. Rivaling Veracruz as Mexico's most important seaport, Tampico is used primarily for Mexico's petroleum industry. It possesses excellent modern facilities and also... Read more |
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Mexico City
Mexico or Mexico City, Span. Ciudad de México ( Méjico ), city (1990 pop. 8,236,960; 1991 met. area est. 20,899,000), central Mexico, capital and largest city of Mexico. The Modern City Mexico City forms the core of the Federal District and is the commercial, industrial,... Read more |
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Mexico (country)
Mexico , Span. México or Méjico , officially United Mexican States, republic (2005 est. pop. 106,203,000), 753,665 sq mi (1,952,500 sq km), S North America. It borders on the United States in the north, on the Gulf of Mexico (including its arm, the Bay of Campeche) and the... Read more |
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Open Boat, The, and Other Tales of Adventure
Open Boat, The, and Other Tales of Adventure, eight short stories by Stephen Crane, published in 1898...War. The remaining stories are sardonically realistic adventure tales in Mexico and the Far West. One is The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky, about... |
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Dobie, J(ames) Frank
...Coronado's Children (1931), tales of lost mines and buried treasures...the Monte (1935), about northern Mexico; Tales of the Mustangs (1936); Apache...The Voice of the Coyote (1949); Tales of Old‐Time Texas (1955... |
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Wise, Henry Augustus
Wise, Henry Augustus (1819–69), naval officer, whose writings include Los Gringos; or, An Inside View of Mexico and California ... (1849), Tales for the Marines (1855), and several melodramatic novels published under the pseudonym Harry Gringo. |
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Bierce, Ambrose (Gwinett)
...potboilers, but in 1891 he issued Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, stories reminiscent of Poe's tales of horror and marked by an ingenious...disappeared into war‐torn Mexico, to seek “the good, kind darkness...fate, it is probable that in Mexico he found the ... |
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McCarthy, Cormac
...Dark (1968), another gothic tale in a Southern setting, treating...joins a pirate army to fight in Mexico, and later hooks up with a band...in mid‐19th‐century Mexico. The Crossing (1994), the...dragging on horseback from New Mexico a trapped wolf which he ... |
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Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de
...Coronado sought his fortune in Mexico at age twenty‐five, married...Antonio de Mendoza, spurred by tales of marvelous realms to the north...contemporary Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas...peoples, but the Audiencia of Mexico ... |
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Kerouac, Jack
...a quasi‐autobiographical tale of Beat people ranging around America...the morphine addiction of a Mexico City prostitute; Big Sur (1962...again drawing on his youth in a tale of “moral death and resurrection...way from the South to Harlem. Mexico City Blues ... |
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London, Jack (John Griffith London)
...The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902) and Tales of the Fish Patrol (1905). He abandoned...was a correspondent for Collier's in Mexico, and lived on his great patriarchal estate...popular “To Build a Fire”; South Sea Tales (1911); and On the Makaloa Mat (1919... |
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Waters, Frank
...The Man Who Killed the Deer (1942), a tale of Pueblo Indians and of a young man fighting...and Flight from Fiesta (1986), a tale of friction and friendship between a Pueblo...Book of the Hopi (1964), a study of Mexico Mystique (1975), and a book of essays... |
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Crane, Stephen
...a correspondent in the Southwest and in Mexico, he was sent with a filibustering expedition to...Whilomville Stories (1900) is a collection of tales concerned with typical childhood incidents...Words (1902), a collection of his early tales and sketches; The O'Ruddy (1903... |
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Puerto Rico
...Puerto Rico was discovered by Columbus in 1493. Encouraged by tales of gold from the indigenous Arawak Indians, his companion...Spain as a garrison protecting trade routes until the loss of Mexico in 1821 removed its strategic importance. In 1887 the Autonomist... |
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Wallace, Lewis
...active in Republican politics and served as governor of New Mexico (1878–1881) and as U.S. minister to Turkey (1881–1885...published the very successful historical novel, Ben Hur, A Tale of the Christ. He also published several less successful historical... |
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True Tales From Mexico
...but gallant, flair. These are true tales from Mexico. People and places like this really exist in Mexico's naive and wholesome Eisenhowerian backwaters...usually regarding the drug trade and what Mexico has failed to do about it, the good citizens... |
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A likely tale: Mexico. (Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican president...
...are so common these days in Mexico that they are usually met with...it takes a lot to top the tale of Raul Salinas, a former government...openness in business. But maybe in Mexico even the right to compete can...the congressional committee in Mexico now ... |
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REAL AND IMAGINED TALES FROM MEXICO.(Books)
...by people along the U.S./Mexico border. In this book, he relates...attempt to get to the truth of the tales he hears. He visits the grave...in a small town in northern Mexico, the hardships of the Mexican...and mining town in northern Mexico where the author ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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Offbeat tales from Mexico
...work by Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico's men of letters and a self...empathize with the ethos of these tales. I delved into "The Official...I told myself: Fuentes's Mexico and mine can't be the same...asymmetrical. For better or worse, Mexico has changed ... |
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Lorraine's Bookshelf.(The Ultimate Organizer for Moms, Pregnancy Through Year...
...Education Association of New Mexico for the Read Across America...and the Rainbow: Timeless Tales from Mexico" is a beautifully illustrated...Mesoamerican indigenous traditional tales from Tarascan, Mayan, Huichol...tells a different traditional ... |
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Interview: Sam Quinones describes some aspects of what he calls the real...
...he calls the real culture of Mexico, as covered in his new book, "True Tales from Another Mexico" Host: BOB EDWARDS Time...great Mexican entrepreneurial tale, I think. Anybody who's been to Mexico and paid attention will see... |
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Traveler's tales unjust to Mexico's famous salad Caesar's birthplace draws...
...International Herald Tribune 10-23-2008 Traveler's tales unjust to Mexico's famous salad Caesar's birthplace draws...Media GroupEdition: 1Section: NEWSTIJUANA, Mexico -- Eating salad in Mexico is discouraged by most guidebooks, citing the... |
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Eidos' Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico Rolls into a North...
...Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico has shipped to stores and is now...infiltrate the shady drug world of Mexico, as undercover DEA agents, to uncover...Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico, accompanied with the "First Look... |
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HISTORIAN TO TELL TALES AT MEXICO POINT PARK.(Local)
...will tell stories about Lake Ontario and the Mexico area at 7 p.m. Thursday in Mexico Point State Park. In case of rain, the outdoor...Cottage in the park. The event, sponsored by the Mexico Historical Society and Friends of Mexico Point... |
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Tales of corruption: Mexico's cinema dennunciation. (Features).
...Typically, they tell the tale of characters who initially...critique of state and church in Mexico has attracted large audiences...topic of private discussion in Mexico but only rarely addressed directly...1999). The films tell tales of corruption but do not ... |
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