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Vienna: Even in the 500th year since the conquest of Mexico, Austria will not give away the Aztec feather headdress from the Welt museum in Vienna.To commemorate the fall of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan to the Spanish in August 1521, Mexico had sought to exhibit the object known as Moctezuma's Crown of Feathers in its country of origin."Due to the.
Five centuries after the fall of the Aztec empire, some of emperor Moctezuma II's descendants strive to defend his honor, while others want compensation from the Mexican government. They number in their hundreds and include the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Esteban Moctezuma, as well as members of Spanish nobility. And until decades ago, some were even paid a