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Encyclopedia entry: Galápagos Islands
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      665 words ...Galápagos Islands [Span ... tectonics ), are largely desolate lava piles. They have little vegetation ... Humboldt Current. The Galápagos are famous for their ... 1535 by the Spaniard Tomás de Bertanga and originally ...

Encyclopedia entry: János Kádár
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      583 words ...János Kádár , 1912-89, Hungarian Communist leader. In 1932 he joined the then illegal Communist party and held high government and party posts from 1942, becoming home secretary in 1948, when the Communist ...

Encyclopedia entry: Bogotá
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      630 words ...Bogotá , city (1993 pop. 4,931,796 ... picturesque, spacious city, Bogotá is on a high, fertile plateau (c ... rivers join at the site to form the Bogotá, a tributary of the Río ...

Encyclopedia entry: Rákóczy
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Rákóczy , noble Hungarian family ... the 17th and 18th cent. Sigismund Rákóczy, 1544-1608, was ... Stephen Bocskay. His son, George I Rákóczy, 1591-1648, was ...

Encyclopedia entry: Diego de Velázquez
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      565 words ...Diego de Velázquez , c.1460-1524?, Spanish conquistador, first governor ... island with the aid of his friend and chief lieutenant, Pánfilo de Narváez . Velázquez continued the colonization of Cuba ...

Encyclopedia entry: Benito Juárez
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Benito Juárez , 1806-72, Mexican liberal statesman ... their greatest political figures, Juárez, with great moral courage and honesty ... period of exile in the United States, Juárez was a chief figure in drawing up ...

Encyclopedia entry: Hernán Cortés
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Hernán Cortés or Hernando Cortez ... later (1511) accompanied Diego de Velázquez to Cuba. In 1518 he was chosen ... an expedition to Mexico. Although Velázquez later sought to recall his commission ...