By Suzanne A. Marshall from the December 2016 Edition This year brought our first opportunity to be involved in the Mexican celebrations called Day of the Dead. In past years, we hadn’t returned from Canada soon enough or had the opportunity to enjoy an organized celebration. We joined Dra. Elizabeth Torres (University of Colima, Manzanillo), […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the December 2016 Edition Aztlán (from Nahuatl: Aztl n, [ ast ɬa ː n ]) is the legendary ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. Aztecah is the Nahuatl word for “people from Aztlán”. The place, Aztlán, is mentioned in several ethnohistorical sources dating from the colonial period and each of […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the December 2016 Edition Quetzalcoatl gave life to the people of the fifth sun by gathering the bones of a man and woman who had survived the long flood and sprinkling them with his own blood. The gods created the world with blood and required the sacrifice of human blood to […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the December 2016 Edition Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor Director: Scott Derrickson “A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts .” This is another Marvel comic book movie based on the character of Dr. […]
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By Suzanne A. Marshall from the December 2016 Edition 1If you are in Manzanillo over the Christmas season, this is your opportunity to be involved in a wonderful event put on especially for the children in the area. It takes place December 24th in the afternoon at a local neighborhood school ground. Last year my […]
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By Yann Kostic from the December 2016 Edition It’s easy to make financial mistakes when you’re young, because you can generally recover from them over time. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said as you approach retirement, when you’ll have less room for error. With that in mind, here are five mistakes that are easy to […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the December 2016 Edition African Iris, Dietes bicolor (Sometimes confused with, or incorrectly called, Dietes vegeta, Dietes Moraea and Dietes iridioides Family: Iridaceae Also known as: Spanish Iris, Peacock Iris, Butterfly Iris, Fortnight Iris, Bicolor Iris, Yellow Wild Iris, Evergreen Iris and Peacock Flower (I seem to have a numbskull knack […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the December 2016 Edition The child tax credit is a great benefit provided by the US government to American families with children under the age of 17. The credit or “tax refund” can be worth up to $1,000 per child, even if you did not pay any US taxes in […]
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By Terry Sovil from the December 2016 Edition A volcano (singular, volcanoes plural; Spanish volcán or volcanes) is a mountain which opens down into the earth to a pool of molten rock. When pressure builds up, an eruption can occur, causing gas and rock to shoot up through the opening and spill over or fill […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the December 2016 Edition Several other expeditions visited the ruins before Frans Blom of Tulane University in 1923, who made superior maps of both the main site and various previously-neglected outlying ruins and filed a report for the Mexican government on recommendations on work that could be done to preserve […]
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