- On
October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m.
local time, the Loma
Prieta earthquake occurred at the
Central Coast of California. The
shock was
centered in The Forest...
- The
Manos Prietas,
meaning "black hands", were a
Native American people from the
region of present-day
Texas and Mexico.
Spanish do****ents
locate the...
- Loma
Prieta (from
Spanish loma -hill,
prieta -dark) is the
highest peak in the
Santa Cruz
Mountains in
Northern California,
measuring 3,790 feet (1,160 m)...
- or nuts. "
Prietas" or "morcillas" are part of the
Chilote tradition of "reitimiento"
involving the
slaughter and
preparation of a pig.
Prietas are easily...
- fluent) of the last
Comecrudo speakers near Camargo, Tamaulipas, at Las
Prietas (Swanton 1940: 55–118). The best of
these consultants were Emiterio, Joaquin...
- 32583°N 109.54889°W / 31.32583; -109.54889 Agua
Prieta ("dark water") is a town in the Agua
Prieta Muni****lity in the
northeastern corner of the Mexican...
- Obregón and two
other Sonoran revolutionary generals drew up the Plan of Agua
Prieta,
overthrowing Carranza, who died
fleeing Mexico City in 1920.
General Adolfo...
-
Albert S. (1886). [Comecrudo and
Cotoname vocabularies,
collected at Las
Prietas, Tamaulipas]. Ms. 297,
National Anthropological Archives,
Smithsonian Institution...
- Hollister,
through the
Santa Cruz Mountains,
epicenter of the 1989 Loma
Prieta earthquake, then up the San
Francisco Peninsula,
where it was
first identified...
- as
Mission San
Francisco de
Borja de Tecoripa.
Formerly known as
Minas Prietas, La
Colorada became a muni****lity on June 28, 1934. As an
important mining...
