Eight months later, they executed their royal captive, and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king. In the far distance ...

Pizarro agreed to release Atahualpa in return for a roomful of gold, but the Spaniard later reneged on the deal. He had the Inca king put to death before the last and largest part of the ransom ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

This battle has conventionally been portrayed as the brave rout of a vast Inca army by a handful of wily and determined conquistadors commanded by Pizarro. Cock's discoveries pointed in the ...

Inca territory was divided into quarters ... By 1532, Peru was conquered by Spaniard Francisco Pizarro, and in 1567, Alvarez Maldonado claimed the Manu river and surrounding regions for Spain.

Marcos Pizarro is Professor and Chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Jose State University and was recently appointed Associate Dean of the College of Education. A former school teacher, ...

Pedro Pizarro, president and CEO of Edison International, has spoken about the best part of his job: getting to know Edison Scholars, high school students who get a $50,000 scholarship to pursue a ...

During 2003, renowned Portuguese pianist Artur Pizarro performed an epic 8-concert cycle of all 32 Beethoven Sonatas at St John's, Smith Square, London. Comprehensive programme notes on each ...

Lylette Pizarro, founder and co-managing partner Influence Media Partners. Influence Media Partners, founded in 2019 by Lylette Pizarro, is revolutionizing music rights management by investing in ...

Osmium(II) Tethered Half-Sandwich Complexes: pH-dependent Aqueous Speciation and Transfer Hydrogenation in Cells. S Infante-Tadeo, V Rodríguez-Fanjul, A Habtemariam ...

Sal Pizarro is a Bay Area News Group columnist who has written the Around Town column for The Mercury News since 2005. His column covers the people and events surrounding the cultural scene in ...