Cortez


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Noun1.Cortez - Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)Cortez - Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
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It came into my mind in the nick of time, how Columbus, or Cortez, or one of those people, played an eclipse as a saving trump once, on some savages, and I saw my chance.
I confess, it was whispered to me, "that I was bound in duty, as a subject of England, to have given in a memorial to a secretary of state at my first coming over; because, whatever lands are discovered by a subject belong to the crown." But I doubt whether our conquests in the countries I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans.
He was heir direct, without anyone to share, in those treasures torn from the Incas and from the conquered of Ferdinand Cortez.
The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortez, the Nelson, the Napoleon, see that this is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they; that fashion is funded talent; is Mexico, Marengo, and Trafalgar beaten out thin; that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Monday encouraged drivers and commuters alike to file complaints against abusive public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers and LTO personnel following their recognition of multimedia reporter Gillian Cortez for filing a lasciviousness complaint against an abusive Grab driver.
Cortez gave ample proof of this in his highly informative anthropological booklet with the subtitle, 'A Case Study on Sorcery and Healing Practices in Siquijor.'
Three days later, the casket bearing the remains of Angelo Bien Rafael Cortez, 29, arrived at the Cotabato airport.
The remains of Noah Ibay II, 40, was found by a search team two days after he and companion, the 29-year-old Angelo Bien Rafael Cortez, were reported missing.
Right-wing radio personality (https://news.yahoo.com/rush-limbaugh-migrants-toilet-water-104455894.html) Rush Limbaugh also spoke on Cortez's original comments during a Tuesday broadcast of "The Rush Limbaugh Show." He insists that the toilet water in the facilities are a "step up" from many migrants "based on what the left is telling us their homelands are like."
That is still big,' Ivan Cortez told TIMES on Friday.
Cortez is accompanied by relatives after she was acquitted and released, outside the Judicial Centre for Sentencing in Usulutan, 90km from San Salvador.