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How Food Became Religion in Peru's Capital City
Great cooking is what defines Lima today, but the culinary boom started decades ago, during a time of conflict.
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29th August 1533 - Pizarro Executes Last Inca Emperor
Atahuallpa, the 13th and last emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro’s Spanish conquistadors. The execution of Atahuallpa, the last free reigning emperor, marked the end of 300 years of Inca civilization.
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Patagonia’s subterranean, moon-like landscape
Getting to Patagonia’s Viedma Glacier requires a day’s hike – but the landscape’s raw, sculpted beauty and striking glacial caves make the trek more than worth it.
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Brazil Plans for 29 Green Energy Projects Totalling 669.5MW
Brazil has approved construction of 29 power facilities in the country totalling 669.5MW of clean energy capacity. Around 19 of the projects, at 538MW, will be generating electricity from wind power, with the rest using biomass, natural gas, and small hydropower sources.
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This Tortoise Beetle Looks Like a Ladybug Re-Mix
Tortoise beetles are a subfamily of leaf beetles called Cassidinae.
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Protests
A demonstrator with the design of the national flag in her eyes attends a protest against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, part of nationwide protests calling for her impeachment
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Brazil Protesters Keep Pressure on President Rousseff
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets in dozens of Brazilian cities on Sunday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
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Brazil Girds for Protests as Rousseff Faces Impeachment Risk
As allegations of corruption and incompetence swamp Brazil’s government, and plummeting commodity prices sap its economy, hundreds of thousands of angry citizens are expected to descend on central squares across the country on Sunday, posing a key test for President Dilma Rousseff. By Anna Edgerton.
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Can a Michael Jackson Song Resurrect an Ancient Language?
Renata Flores' version of Michael Jackson's 'The way you make me feel' has become a YouTube hit in South America. Something neither she nor her mother expected when they first made the video in Quechua, the language of the Incas .
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Indigenous Languages in Latin America
Although Latin America is often associated with the colonial Spanish and Portuguese languages, it is a place of remarkable linguistic diversity. Hundreds of language families and more than two thousand languages have been spoken in the region.
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Watch A Tapir Scratch An Itch With His Enormous, Prehensile Penis
I don't even know where to start with this one. There are four species of Tapir, all of which are endangered. A herbivorous mammal that can be found in the grasslands of Central and Southern America, across the Andes and in Southeast Asia, the tapir is a quirky-looking creature with a hog-like body and short gripping proboscis, or trunk.
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Slow Moving, Very Bright Fireball Turns Sky Green Over Argentina
A slow moving and very bright fireball was observed and recorded over Argentina around midnight UTC on July 31, 2015 (21:00 local time on July 30). Observers say the spectacle lasted about 10 seconds, turning the whole sky green.
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1st August 1498 - Columbus lands in South America
Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela. Thinking it an island, he christened it Isla Santa and claimed it for Spain.
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The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever known. Centered in Peru, it stretched across the Andes' mountain tops and down to the shoreline, incorporating lands from today's Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina and Peru - all connected by a vast highway system whose complexity rivaled any in the Old World. Rich in foodstuffs, textiles, gold, and coca, the Inca were masters of city building but nevertheless had no money. In fact, they had no marketplaces at all.
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Scarlet Ibis
The Scarlet ibis lives in the northern part of South America. It can be found in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela including Guyana and French Guyana) and along the coast of Brazil to the Amazon Delta.
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Myth of pristine Amazon rainforest busted as old cities reappear
Amazonian wilderness buzzed with human activity until 500 years ago, when Europeans turned up with weapons and diseases, says radical rethink of rainforest history.
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El Nino’s Effect on Peru
At the beginning of July, the Peruvian government declared a 60-day state of emergency. This wasn’t for a catastrophe.
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Severe Flooding in Northeast Peru
Torrential rain caused heavy flooding in northeastern Peru. The city of Iquitos was left inundated on Friday, but there were no reports of deaths or injuries. Homes, shops and other businesses were all affected, with most transport brought to a standstill apart from the city’s motorbike taxis.
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Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile
By Douglas Scortegagna
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24th July 1911 - Machu Picchu discovered
American archeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at Machu Picchu, an ancient Inca settlement in Peru that is now one of the world’s top tourist destinations.
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