Mexico 1529The Chinantecs are an indigenous people that live in Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico. Prone to a disease called the "Painted Disease"One's skin is blotched a livid blue. Dies of suffication. Spaniards called them "The Pinto People"War of Flowers-fought to only take prisoners for sacrifice9...
Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied "...
The Blockbuster epic of the Roman Empire's disintegration. Thorn the Goth is an orphan, brought up in a monastery, transferred to a nunnery, and thrown out into an unforgiving world when the stunning discovery is made that Thorn is a hermaphrodite. For many, this bizarre sexual trait would be a ...
Another whinny echoed his, then another. Leaping to my feet, I had taken but a few steps to where Tempest was tied when a group of horsemen crashed into the clearing. Surrounded by six stamping horses, I stared up at a mounted Spaniard who looked as astonished to see me as I was to see him. “Than...
I found it to be true, what Padre Vasco had said, that the lakeside people all lived in amity and prosperity and conviviality, and were understandably content to live so. And they had indeed mastered the ancient crafts of the Purémpecha. One village produced hammered copperware: dishes and platte...