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The SS United States, the historic ship docked in Philadelphia for decades, is set to become a large artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico. It is scheduled to be towed away on Friday, Nov. 15.
The Portal Bridge swings open for marine traffic but can still get hit, as it did in 2018 and in 2022. Though these were minor incidents, they caused rail traffic to be suspended before the bridge ...
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
Croatia Boat Show: 128,000 m 2: 382 117 37,400 2009 Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm International Boat Show 65,000 m 2: 472 31 104,657 2010 Sydney, Australia: Sydney International Boat Show 25,000 m 2: 263 7 71,810 2009 Gyeonggi-do, South Korea: Korea International Boat Show: 32,150 m 2: 240 40 40,000 2016 Yokohama, Japan: Japan International Boat ...
Cortés was a never-completed American historical drama streaming television miniseries created and written by Steven Zaillian and starring Javier Bardem.The series was set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video, but filming was cancelled in early 2020, after only two weeks, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Buried in the Mexico City palace of Hernan Cortes is a mysterious, centuries-old skeleton. Its true identity had been obscured for decades — until now.
The former gained the support of Moctezuma II, Tlatoani of the Aztec Empire. A civil war ensued, and ended in a tripartite division of Tetzcoco, by which one third of the kingdom, with the capital, was awarded to Cacamatzin, the northern part to his brother Ixtlilxochitl, and the third part to another claimant to the throne. [ 3 ]
The ship sailed with a complement of sixteen men and two women. They were shipwrecked near the Yucatán Peninsula after hitting a sand bar. The crew and passengers got into a small boat, hoping to reach Cuba or Jamaica, but strong currents brought them in their ship's boat to the coast of the modern-day Mexican state of Quintana Roo. [1]: 64–65