Identifier: worldsstoryhisto11tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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mountains and amid the dense groveson the tropical slopes, the natives steal away and prostratethemselves before the stone images of their gods, and inchurches of the more remote provinces the parish priesthas found more than once a rude sculptured idol concealedbehind the Christian altar. — F. Hopkinson Smith. The palace shown in this picture occupies an entire blockin the heart of the City of Mexico on a site once covered by apalace of Montezuma. In a decree signed by the EmperorCharles V, the property was granted to Cortes, the Con-queror of Mexico, who built himself a dwelling on the site.Since that time additions and alterations have been madeuntil but little of the original building is left. PresidentMadero made his headquarters in this palace during theuprising of 1912, and from the windows his machine gunsmowed down hundreds of rebels in the square below. Herehe was confined after his capture by Huerta, and it was whilebeing removed from this palace that he was assassinated.
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THE RULE OF PORFIRIO DIAZ divided front. Indeed, it is not too much to say shecan never have a common enemy; and whencesoeverthe bolt comes it will find Mexico unprepared, a landof ethnic shreds and patches, slattern in her policy,slattern in her defense, her vitals preyed upon by thevultures of civil strife. Of all lands she might best afforda realistic presentment of the sad tale of the Kilkennycats. THE WEST INDIES HISTORICAL NOTE West Indies is a general name for the Bahamas and theGreater and Lesser Antilles. Their history is much thesame: namely, discovery and colonization by the Spaniards;introduction of negro slaves, who became a large and some-times a powerful portion of the community; and the fallinginto the hands of some other nation. In the seventeenth century, the Bahamas became a refugefor pirates, and during the Revolutionary War, for thefriends of King George. In the American Civil War, Nassauwas headquarters for blockade-runners. The Greater Antilles comprise Cuba, Ha

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