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Moctezuma was an already famous warrior by the time he became the tlatoani of Mexico, holding the high rank of tlacatecuhtli (lord of men) and/or tlacochcalcatl (person from the house of darts) in the Mexica military, and thus his election was largely influenced by his military career and religious influence as a priest, [17] as he was also the ...
Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved dwellings located in Camp Verde, Arizona, which were built and used by the Sinagua people, a pre-Columbian culture closely related to the Hohokam and other indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States, [4] between approximately AD 1100 and 1425. The main structure ...
The Montezuma Castle is a 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2), 400 room Queen Anne style hotel building erected just northwest of the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1886 (the site was at the time called "Las Vegas Hot Springs," but is now known as "Montezuma").
A headdress made of quetzal feathers, popularly referred to as Montezuma II's crown. Moctezuma's headdress measures measures 130 by 178 centimeters. [ 23 ] It includes the green uppertail coverts of the quetzal bird, the turquoise feathers of the cotinga , brown feathers from the squirrel cuckoo, pink feathers from the roseate spoonbill, and ...
Montezuma, an 1884 opera by Frederick Grant Gleason; Montezuma (Sessions opera), a 1963 opera by Roger Sessions; Montezuma, or La Conquista, a 2005 opera by Lorenzo Ferrero; Montezuma, a 1980 film score by Hans Werner Henze "Montezuma", a song from the 1994 album Apurimac II by Cusco "Montezuma", a song from the 2011 album Helplessness Blues by ...
Secretariat was a famous racehorse who has been honored by a bronze statue located at Kentucky Horse Park at Lexington. The life-size statue shows the horse being led into the winner’s circle.
The first American settlers arrived in 1821 on what is known as the legendary site of Montezuma's Indian village. [5] In 1822, the Mexican government issued land grants to members of Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred, who included Benjamin Beason (originally spelled "Beeson") and Abram Alley. Alley's 1830s log cabin has been preserved in ...
The libretto is very loosely based on the life of the Aztec ruler Montezuma who died in 1520. The first performance was given in the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice on 14 November 1733. (In earlier reference books the opera is referred to as Montezuma, but since the reappearance of the original manuscript this has been corrected to Motezuma.)