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  Monsanto, 250

  Monterrey, 342

  Montevideo, 106

  Morales, Evo, 28

  Moralles, Manuel, 44

  More, Thomas, 154

  Morocco, 121

  Moscow, 19, 257, 260, 345

  Mossadegh, Mohammad, 127

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 29

  Mulata de Córdoba, 291

  Munich, 337

  Murdoch, Rupert, 79

  Murphy, Emily, 318

  Murray Hill Inc., 95

  Mussolini, Benito, 261, 375

  Nagasaki, 64, 296, 363

  Napoleon Bonaparte, 60, 206, 257

  National Stadium (Chile), 355

  Nessler, Karl, 303

  Nestlé, 49

  Netherlands, 169

  Neva River, 345

  New York, 155, 283, 347, 385

  New York Times, 296

  Newton, Isaac, 6

  Nezahualcóyotl, 175

  Nicaragua, 27, 129

  Nicaea, 159

  Niemeyer, Oscar, 394

  Nigeria, 159

  Nikolai, Prince, 260

  Nishapur, 386

  Nixon, Richard, 327

  Nobel, Alfred, 321

  North Korea, 208

  Norway, 271

  Núñez de Haro, Alonso, 380

  Obama, Barack, 376

  Obdulio, 216

  Ogún, 38

  O’Keeffe, Georgia, 73

  Olivares, Manuel Alba, 213

  Olympus, 38

  Omolade, Akeem, 189

  Operation Geronimo, 136

  Oporto, 177

  Orient, the, 40

  Orinoco River, 147

  Oruro, 86

  Oshún, 38

  Oświęcim (Auschwitz), 162

  Oxumaré, 38

  Pachamama, 235

  Padua, 339

  Paine, Thomas, 11

  Pakistan, 313

  Palace Hotel, 119

  Palenque, 236

  Palermo, 310

  Palestine, 148, 313

  Palestine Royal Commission, 26

  Palmares, 71

  Pambelé, Kid, 236

  Panama, 61

  Pará, 71

  Paraguay, 9, 69, 373

  Paris, 87, 106, 145, 179, 229, 257, 259, 295

  Paris Exposition, 117, 294

  Parlby, Irene, 318

  Parodi, Silvina, 183

  Parra, Violeta, 41

  Pascal, Blaise, 273

  Patagonia, 53

  Patton, George, 265

  Paul III, Pope, 170

  Paul the Silentiary, 58

  Pauling, Linus, 64

  Paz, Bartolomé, 349

  Pemaulk, 57

  Pentagon, 180, 181

  Pernambuco, 71, 362

  Persia, 5, 391

  Peru, 37

  Pessoa, Fernando, 377

  Peter, Saint, 197

  Philadelphia, 11

  Philip II, 253

  Philippines, 281

  Picasso, Pablo, 110

  Picotte, Susan La Flesche, 286

  Pinocchio, 239

  Pinochet, Augusto, 329, 355

  Pinto, Mercedes, 73

  Piraeus, 319

  Pitt, Brad, 105

  Pittsburgh, 348

  Pizarro, Francisco, 171, 307

  Plato, 125

  Plaza de Mayo (Mothers), 132

  Pollock, Jackson, 220

  Poland, 270, 271

  Ponce, María Eugenia, 132

  Poot, Felipa, 94

  Portugal, 46, 177, 377

  Potosí (Cerro), 247

  Power, Tyrone, 105, 352

  Prado Museum, 117

  Praxiteles, 45

  Primo de Rivera, Miguel, 73

  Pyotr, Prince, 260

  Quariterê, 71

  Quebrada del Yuro, 308

  Quetzalcóatl, 22, 338, 380

  Quevedo, Francisco de, 76

  Quinteras, María, 285

  Quiroga, Horacio, 55

  Quito, 185

  Rabasco, Marcos, 123

  Rafuema, 84

  Ramazzini, Bernadino, 339

  Ramona, Juana (La Tigresa), 285

  Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 374

  Reagan, Ronald, 327

  Repnin, Prince, 260

  Resistencia, 161

  Riachuelo, 92

  Rio de Janeiro, 24, 39, 71, 138, 139, 219, 361

  Ríos Montt, Efraín, 91

  River Plate, 92

  Robertson, Pat, 15, 16

  Robin Hood, 105

  Robles, Amelia, 285

  Rockefeller, John D., 157

  Rodríguez, Amalia, 53

  Rodríguez, Simón, 328

  Romania, 96

  Roman Catholic Church, 16, 158, 162, 164, 177, 191, 198, 328, 331

  Rome, 3, 119, 391, 397

  Romulus and Remus, 223

  Rosa, Noel, 138, 139

  Rosario, 92

  Rothko, Mark, 220

  Rouen, 164

  Royal Audience, 380

  Royal Audience of Guatemala, 40

  Rudd, Kevin, 50

  Ruders, Carl, 188

  Ruiz, Petra, 285

  Russo, Genco, 310

  Sáenz, Manuela, 244

  Sahara Desert, 121

  St. Louis, 202

  Saint-Martin de Laon Monastery, 304

  Saint Peter’s Basilica, 379

  Saint Petersburg, 345

  Salamis, 287

  Salgari, Emilio, 281

  Salta, 13

  Salt Lake City, 353

  Salvador da Bahia, 373

  Sammonicus, Serenus, 397

  Sánchez, Elisa, 177

  Sancho Panza, 125

  Sandino, Augusto César, 308

  Sandokan, 281

  San Francisco, 119

  San Francisco de Texcoco Church, 306

  San Juan de Ulúa, 291

  San Julián, 53

  Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 295

  Santa Croce Church, 54

  Santa Paula Cemetery, 295

  Santiago del Estero, 12

  Santiago River, 49

  Santo Domingo, 305

  Santo Domingo Cathedral, 305

  Santos-Dumont, Alberto, 388

  Sardinha, Bishop Pedro, 103

  Satan, 38, 115, 225, 304

  Saudi Arabia, 72

  Scandinavia, 196

  Scholl, Sophie, 337

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 76

  Schubert, Franz, 14

  Scliar, Moacyr, 242

  Scotland, 203

  Seine River, 164

  Semenovsk Square, 345

  Senegal, 263

  Senghor, Léopold, 263

  Sergipe, 276

  Servando Teresa de Mier, 380

  Seville, 306, 396

  Shakespeare, William, 99

  Shearer, Douglas, 96

  Sichuan, 48

  Sicily, 310

  Siècle, Le, 210

  Simeon Stylites, Saint, 151

  Sinatra, Frank, 310

  Sixtus V, Pope, 379

  Smith, David, 343

  Snuyon, Prince, 260

  Socrates, 319

  Solano López, Francisco, 69

  Sorocaba, 44

  Southern Cross, 204

  Soviet Union, 252, 355, 390

  Spain, 46, 51, 73, 116, 123, 177, 253, 259, 307, 329, 340

  Spanish Armada, 37

  Spanish Society of Natural History, 371

  SS, 421

  Stalin, Joseph, 363

  Standard Oil Company, 72, 157

  Stanford University, 255

  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 187

  Starnes, Joe, 372

  Sterne, Hedda, 220

  Stockholm, 116, 137

  Stoker, Bram, 163

  Strand, 160

  Sullivan, Roy, 43

  Sun Simiao, 321

  Sûreté Général, 145

  Surita, Tomasa, 185

  Sweden, 116

  Tambogrande,
171

  Tartini, Giuseppe, 78

  Tarzan, 96, 251

  Telepnev, Prince, 260

  Tenochtitlán, 338

  Texaco Petroleum Company, 97

  Texas, 221

  Texcoco, 175, 306

  Tezcatlipoca, 378

  Thiers, Adolphe, 210

  Thomas, Saint, 380

  Tierra del Fuego, 57

  Tilove, Jonathan, 140

  Times (London), 160

  Tintin, 156

  Tissié, Philippe, 187

  Titanic, 116

  Titicaca, Lake, 192

  Tivoli Opera House, 119

  Tlaloc, 378

  Tocantins, 71

  Tonantzin, 378, 380

  Treviso, 189

  Trombetas River, 71

  Trudo, Agaja, 369

  Truganini, Queen, 142

  Trujillo, Rafael, 359

  Truman, Harry, 240

  Tunis, 383

  Turkey, 8

  Tutankhamun, 143

  Twain, Mark, 153

  Tyutin, Prince, 260

  Ukraine, 128

  United Fruit Company, 81, 127

  United Nations, 382

  United Plastics, 49

  United States, 18, 64, 77, 88, 105, 125, 127, 173, 201, 252, 255, 301, 327, 329, 330, 335, 343, 353, 385

  University of Madrid, 73

  Upper Paraná, 359

  Uruguay, 52, 56, 73, 194, 198, 216, 246, 277, 278

  Uruguay River, 46

  Utopia, 154

  Valdés, Francisco, 355

  Vallejo-Nájera, Antonio, 51

  Vallejo, Lieutenant, 10

  Van Gogh, Theo, 228

  Van Gogh, Vincent, 228

  Van Leeuwenhoek, Antonie, 324

  Varella, Drauzio, 344

  Vasa, 116

  Vatican, 158

  Vélez, Carmen (La Generala), 285

  Venezuela, 113

  Veracruz, 291, 298, 371

  Vermeer, Johannes, 324

  Verne, Jules, 348

  Versailles Palace, 295

  Victoria, Queen, 25, 326

  Videla, Jorge Rafael, 92

  Vidocq, Eugène François, 145

  Vietnam, 14, 141

  Villaflor, Azucena, 132

  Villa, Francisco (Pancho) 77, 285

  Villagra, Helena, 214

  Villa-Lobos, Heitor, 351

  Viracocha, 192

  Virgin of Guadalupe, 378

  Virgin Mary, 93, 140, 378, 380

  Virginia, 43

  Vitalino, 209

  Vladimir, Prince, 260

  Voltaire, 125, 273

  Von Braun, Werner, 221

  Von Humboldt, Alexander, 204

  Wall Street, 179, 283

  Washington, DC, 14, 140, 223, 262, 372

  Washington, George, 206

  Washington Post, 14

  Watt, James, 21

  Weissmuller, Johnny, 96, 246

  Welles, Orson, 330

  West, Mae, 251

  Wild West, 105, 281

  Williams, Ruth, 297

  Wilson, Woodrow, 104

  Wittenberg Castle, 331

  White House, 223

  World Bank, 223, 381, 382

  World Health Organization, 150, 226

  Wright Brothers, 388

  Wuhan, 146

  Xalapa, 295

  Xangô, 38

  Xerox, 49

  Xerxes, 287

  Xochipilli, 378

  Xstrata, 329

  Yale, Linus, 320

  Yangtze River, 193, 238

  Yanez, 281

  Yellow River, 238

  Yemen, 313

  Yucatán, 94, 115, 231, 281

  Yupanqui, Atahualpa, 33

  Zamata, Francisco, 349

  Zapata, Emiliano, 278, 285, 308

  Zatopek, Emil, 227

  Zeferina, 71

  Zhinü, 237

  Zizinho, 216

  Zorro, 352