A Book Review – AZTEC

By Kirby Vickery from the March 2015 Edition I’ve discovered that when most people think of the Aztec Culture as lofty pyramids and human sacrifice to a ruling priestly society which demanded that sort of thing. It was destroyed by the Spaniards in the early part of the fifteen hundreds partially by the Conquistadores with their follow-on […]

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Three Cups of Tea

By Diana Stewart from the June 2010 Edition  In late 1993 Greg Mortensen staggered into a remote village in northern Pakistan lost, exhausted, and sadly disappointed. He had failed to climb the Himalayan peak K2 largely because he and a friend had gone to the rescue of another injured climber. The village of Korphe welcomed […]

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