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| honduras | 2/3/2009 |
Q: My daughter is an American in Honduras. She went there in October with a legal passport. How long ...
A: It looks like she can stay in Honduras for 90 days pursuant to a new agreement. ...
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| Mayan symbols | 2/4/2008 |
Q: Hey Paul, I have been trying to find a site where I could see the symbols to use to spell different ...
A: Well this is outside my expertise, but I was able to turn up a few sites that may be able to help a ...
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| chieche mayan language | 5/11/2007 |
Q: i would like to find books to self teach on guatemalan languages of isil, uspanteco or cheiche. i ...
A: I was unable to find anything written in any of these languages, much less a book designed for ...
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| Cuba's loyalty to Spain (This is not A homework Question)! | 2/18/2005 |
Q: What were the reasons for Cuba's continuing loyalty to Spain during the wars for Independence in ...
A: This is an educated guess, but I think a lot of the peopl who immigrated to Cuba kept strong ties to ...
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| South America | 1/14/2005 |
Q: Why was an imaginary line drawn, which ran north and south, through South America? What was this ...
A: The Pope, hoping to avoid conflicts between Catholic Spain and Portugal, drew the line in the 15th ...
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| past life question | 5/30/2004 |
Q: I recently had a past life reading. I was the son of a South American Dictator in the 1700s. My best ...
A: The only problem with the past-life reading is that there were no dictators per se in the 1700s in ...
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| Policy towards indigenous peoples | 3/11/2004 |
Q: Can you recommend any books or websites about the relations between whites and indigenous peoples in ...
A: I actually did a lot of scholarly work about the central Argentinian government's attempts to ...
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| Central america in the 19th century | 2/10/2004 |
Q: I have been doing some research in genenology and in the 1850'smy great great grandfather went to ...
A: Well if he was in California for the gold rush, he might have ended up in Central America because a ...
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| Laws | 2/8/2004 |
Q: Is it true that in Brazil a man could kill his wife for minor reasons such as arguing with him and ...
A: I am not sure about this particular defense, but I know that there was a broad "honor defense" that ...
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| Why the Banana Wars? | 1/10/2004 |
Q: When I was in boot camp we were told a little about the tactics of the so called Banana wars of the ...
A: Sorry for the delay; I just started the semester on Monday. The term comes from "Banana Republics", ...
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| Sports History in South America | 11/10/2003 |
Q: Paul, I am doing a project on the evolution of sports history in south america. For example what ...
A: Hmm, that's a hard one. About the only one I can think of was played by the in some variation by ...
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| Democracy vs others | 5/19/2002 |
Q: You answered a question of mine yesterday regarding Latin America struggling with the same ...
A: I would certainly agree with your analogy. There certainly is an inordiante amount of interference ...
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| Cuban pre-revolutionary economics | 4/1/2002 |
Q: I would like to know what the econmoic situation was in Cuba from before the revolution of Fidel ...
A: The economy was directly tied to the international price of sugar. US business interests owned 75% ...
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| Latin American History | 11/29/2000 |
Q: Why is Latin America called Latin America? (I am just interested in where the "Latin" is from? Does ...
A: This name has nothing to do with the speaking of Latin. I'm not exactly sure where the origin is ...
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| sources of info. | 9/12/2000 |
Q: I am very interested in learning about both European and Latin-American 20th cent history. But I ...
A: Benjamin Kean's book History of Latin America: Independence to Present covers 19th and 20th century ...
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