Lima City of the Kings and Its Historic Plaza Mayor
Lima rests in a valley shaped by the Rimac River near Callao with San Cristobal and San Jeronimo dominating the skyline. The Plaza Mayor anchors a bustling center where Pizarro laid cathedral stones and independence was proclaimed in 1821, while the Torre-Tagle mansion and the Inquisition-era senate chamber symbolize a rich colonial heritage.
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Pacific
Lima
Pizarro
Plaza Mayor
William A. Reid
Bulletin of the
Pan-American Union
City of the Kings
Peru
Torre-Tagle
Cairo
Chorrillos
Barranco
Miraflores
la Punta
Bay of Chorrillos
Chosia
Exposition Park
Capital
Paseo Colon
Plaza Bolognesi
Louis Raemakers Dutch Cartoonist Fights Allied War Cause
The Dutch caricaturist Louis Raemakers born in Roermond studied in Amsterdam and Brussels, lived in Haarlem before the war, and drew anti war cartoons like Christendom After Twenty Centuries. His work praised by papers across Europe, he faced German attempts to silence him and a price on his head for endangering Dutch neutrality.
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Louis Raemakers
Roermond
Holland
Amsterdam
Brussels
Haarlem
Julipland
Belgium
Continent
England
Raemakers
Spanish as key in schools says former Tennessee governor
Former Gov. Benton McMillin, now Peru’s minister, argues Spanish should be taught in higher grades and universities. He notes Spanish is universally used across 20 South and Central American republics, with Brazil largely Portuguese, and predicts vast postwar U S–Latin American trade opportunities. He praises warm U S-Peru relations and Peru’s growing export strength.
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Benton McMillin
Tennessee
Peru
United States
Gill
Ministe McMillin
South
Central America
Brazil
South American
Fond Remembrance From a Grim Exchange
In Fond Remembrance. His last words were of you. The prodigal son in law presses for the message. He recalls the dying man’s wish to land one good biff at him before death.
Won First American Decoration
First Lieut. John Newport Greene of Stainton Virginia became the first recipient of the new American decoration for valor in battle. He served in France in 1917 with Norton-Harjes and later in U S Army field artillery. In March near Toul he repelled a hostile party after being wounded and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre and the American Military Cross.
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John Newport Greene
Stainton
Admiral Reynolds
France
Norton-Harjes
Field Artillery
Pershing
Toul
First American Trained Ace Campbell Reaches Ace Status
Lieut. Douglas Campbell of California becomes the first aviator trained in the United States to be an ace. He downed his fifth German aircraft behind American lines and added more later. Campbell, 22, son of Lick Observatory’s chief astronomer, joined US air service after entering the war and began practice in France last fall. He earned the Croix de Guerre for his first kill on April 14 and added several more in May.
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Douglas Campbell
Callifornia
America
Campbell
Lick Observatory
Pasadena
Cal
American Air Service
United States
France
Also Mentioned on This Page
Historical Plaza Mayor
Senate
Torre-Tagle Mansion
Fern
Libby
M‘neill & Libby
Chicago
Swift & Company
U.S. A
Grove’s
Grove
Wright
Benson
Ocala
Warold Somens
DE Kals Ave
Brooklyn
Boum
Ted Hale Mae Esate
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