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Don Luís de Velasco (fl. 1561-1571 Early Modern Spanish: [doŋ ˈlwis d̪e beˈlasko]), also known as Paquiquino (or Paquiquineo), and also simply Don Luis, was a Native American, possibly of the Kiskiack or Paspahegh [1] people, from the area of what is now Tidewater, Virginia. In 1561 he was taken by a Spanish expedition.
After Segura was kidnapped by Muñoz and Ortiz, the pair made 14 ransom demands to her parents over the course of two and a half years — some of which are featured in Netflix's 900 Days ...
The term, a compound Spanish neologism meaning "child-buyers", was coined by Victor Hugo in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 novel which triggered moral panics over supposed "cripple factories" across Europe. [2] The words comprapequeños, cheylas and zaghles are also used. [3]
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [ 12 ]
Operation Shikarpur (Urdu: آپریشن شکارپور) is an ongoing law enforcement initiative aimed at combating local criminals in the Sindh province of Pakistan, particularly focusing on the Kacha area in Shikarpur District. The operation's objective is to apprehend robbers and other lawbreakers, thereby ensuring a safer environment for ...
Ortiz and one or more companions were enticed on shore by some people who had what the Spanish thought was a message from Narváez. (The Spanish would not learn the fate of the Narváez expedition for another eight years, until Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and three other survivors reached a Spanish outpost in northwestern New Spain.) Ortiz ...
Kidnapping may be accomplished by use of force or fear, or a victim may be enticed into confinement by fraud or deception. Kidnapping is distinguished from false imprisonment by the intentional movement of the victim to a different location. Kidnapping may be done to demand a ransom in exchange for releasing the victim, or for other illegal ...
Kidnapped (Spanish: Secuestrados) is a 2010 horror-thriller film directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas and written by Javier García, [1] which stars Fernando Cayo, Manuela Vellés, and Ana Wagener alongside Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Martijn Kuiper and Zoel Yáñez.