• Diego Durán (c. 1537 – 1588) was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the...
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    hummingbird". The hummingbird was spiritually important in Aztec culture. Diego Durán describes what appears to be the hummingbird hibernating in a tree, somewhat...
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    built to irritate and mock the Tenochca". According to Dominican friar Diego Durán in his History of the Indies of New Spain, trouble first began to brew...
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  • Diego Duran de Assis Moreira (born 31 August 1994), known as Diego Assis or simply Diego, is a Brazilian former footballer. Diego was born in Porto Alegre...
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    direction of Spanish friars, Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún and Dominican Diego Durán, using indigenous informants. Because Nahuatl did not have a full alphabet...
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    between Durán and Sugar Ray Leonard. Jazz musician Miles Davis, an avid boxing fan, recorded a tribute to Roberto Durán titled "Duran". Durán is also...
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    a period of natural disasters that started in 1446 (according to Diego Durán). Durán also states that it was during the reign of Moctezuma I, as an invention...
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    of New Spain by Diego Durán, translated, annoted and with introduction by Doris Heyden The Book of the Gods and Rites, by Diego Duran, translated and...
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  • eyewitnesses, Diego Durán and Bernardino de Sahagún. Each wrote what they learned from Nahua informants. Sahagún's date precedes the Durán's observations...
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    Great Pyramid of Cholula to the Tower of Babel. The Dominican friar Diego Durán (1537–1588) reported hearing an account about the pyramid from a hundred-year-old...
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