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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - During the Spanish Conquest of Mexico, interactions between the Aztecs and the European colonizers were often marked by horrifying atrocities. Now, reports the Associated Press, archaeologists have unearthed a nightmarish new chapter in that story.
In early 1521, the year after the Aztecs captured and cannibalized a convoy of dozens of Spaniards and hundreds of allied Indigenous people, Spanish forces responded by massacring Aztec women and children.
Researchers with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have long known about the cannibalism that took place in the town of Zult . . .
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Friday, December 25, 2020 1:00 am
Editorial
Lessons of hope abound in look back at 1918 flu pandemic
We ve spent an unusual amount of time this year looking back more than a century, to 1918 and the nation s last deadly pandemic. There are lessons to be gleaned from what happened, but also reassurance: We ve been here before; we will withstand this trial.
A Christmas without all the traditions and without friends and family is not what anyone wants, but we re not the first generation to experience it. Historian Michael Bresalier, writing in the Guardian, noted the holiday in 1918 was the first in four years without a backdrop of war. Instead, the world was in the midst of the worst pandemic since the Black Death.