Word: castilian
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...protection to the people." She ordered the Aztec to tell the bishop to build a sanctuary to her on a nearby hillside, where the Spanish had destroyed a temple to the Aztec goddess of earth and corn known as the "Little Mother." When the bishop refused, the Virgin made Castilian roses bloom among the hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop in his scrape. When he opened his cloak, it bore a miraculous painting of the Virgin in unmistakably Indian form, with a brown face and black hair. As Graham Greene once wrote, "The legend gave...
Queen Juliana's consort is accused of pocketing payola, and the unsubstantiated charge prompts fevered speculation about the future of the 400-year-old Dutch royal house. In Spain, as Juan Carlos stumps the boondocks as tirelessly as a Castilian Jimmy Carter, the young King's every word and move merit Delphic scrutiny. Britain's Prince Charles dates a new girl, and her bloodline is examined as closely as a yearling filly's. Monaco's 19-year-old Princess Caroline keeps squads of paparazzi employed...
...jeuner sur l'Herbe (55), and Delacroix's The Women of Algiers (50), let alone the tedious parade of dwarfs, jesters, harlequins, Castilian grandees and copulating troglodytes that has been issuing from Mougins since 1969, survive in the world's attention for one reason alone: they have been painted by Picasso...
Europe's oldest indigenous tribe, with a trilling language whose roots have not yet been discovered, the Basques fought off the Romans, the Visigoths and the Moors. They lost little love on Spain's Castilian kings. Though a threadbare Basque government-in-exile hangs on in Paris, most Basque nationalists are moderates who have long since abandoned their 19th century dreams of secession and now hope instead for a degree of autonomy. Under Franco, who has not forgotten how the Basques fought him during the 1936-39 civil war, that hope is vain...
Although Victor Rivera defeated the despised Castilian Mauler, Crusher Verdue. some fans were unhappy with the decision. "I got no sympathy for the Crusher, but a fast count is a fast count," a Harvard graduate student in English commented...