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73 relations: Aldous Huxley, Alexander von Humboldt, Antigua Guatemala, Assassination, Atitlán grebe, Atlantic Ocean, Bird, Caldera, Central America, Crater lake, Cyanobacteria, Ecuador, Effigy, Endorheic basin, Extinction, Fish, Fisherman, Florida, Guatemala, Guatemalan Civil War, Guatemalan Highlands, Guerrilla warfare, Hippie, Holy Week, Hurricane Stan, Indigenous peoples, Introduced species, John L. Sorenson, K'iche' people, Kaqchikel language, Lake Amatitlán, Lake Como, Landslide, List of places in Guatemala, Maximón, Maya peoples, Microcystis, Micropterus, Missionary, Nahuatl, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Pan American World Airways, Panabaj, Panajachel, Pitaya, Popol Vuh, San Antonio Palopó, San Juan La Laguna, ..., San Lucas Tolimán, San Pedro La Laguna, Santa Catarina Palopó, Santa Clara La Laguna, Santa Cruz La Laguna, Santiago Atitlán, Scorched earth, Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Sololá Department, Space Shuttle, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Stanley Rother, Stratigraphy, Syncretism, Tephra, Tribute, Tropical Storm Agatha, Tz’utujil language, Volcán Atitlán, Volcán San Pedro, Volcán Tolimán, Zunil, 1976 Guatemala earthquake. Expand index (23 more) »
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.
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Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
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Antigua Guatemala
Antigua Guatemala, commonly referred to as just Antigua or la Antigua, is a city in the central highlands of Guatemala famous for its well-preserved Spanish Baroque-influenced architecture as well as a number of ruins of colonial churches.
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Assassination
Assassination is the killing of a prominent person, either for political or religious reasons or for payment.
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Atitlán grebe
The Atitlán grebe (Podilymbus gigas), also known as giant grebe, giant pied-billed grebe, or poc, is an extinct water bird, a relative of the pied-billed grebe.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Caldera
A caldera is a large cauldron-like depression that forms following the evacuation of a magma chamber/reservoir.
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Central America
Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.
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Crater lake
A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite, or in the crater left by an artificial explosion caused by humans.
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Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also known as Cyanophyta, are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis, and are the only photosynthetic prokaryotes able to produce oxygen.
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Ecuador
Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Effigy
An effigy is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium.
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Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Fisherman
A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.
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Guatemalan Civil War
The Guatemalan Civil War ran from 1960 to 1996.
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Guatemalan Highlands
The Guatemalan Highlands is an upland region in southern Guatemala, lying between the Sierra Madre de Chiapas to the south and the Petén lowlands to the north.
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Guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.
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Hippie
A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of a counterculture, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world.
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Holy Week
Holy Week (Latin: Hebdomas Sancta or Hebdomas Maior, "Greater Week"; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas, "Holy and Great Week") in Christianity is the week just before Easter.
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Hurricane Stan
Hurricane Stan was a rather weak but deadly tropical cyclone that affected areas of Central America in early October 2005.
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Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.
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Introduced species
An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
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John L. Sorenson
John L. Sorenson (born April 8, 1924) is an emeritus professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University (BYU) and the author of An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon as well as many other books and articles on the Book of Mormon and archaeology.
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K'iche' people
K'iche' (pronounced; previous Spanish spelling: Quiché) are indigenous peoples of the Americas and are one of the Maya peoples.
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Kaqchikel language
The Kaqchikel, or Kaqchiquel, language (in modern orthography; formerly also spelled Cakchiquel or Cakchiquiel) is an indigenous Mesoamerican language and a member of the Quichean–Mamean branch of the Mayan languages family.
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Lake Amatitlán
Lake Amatitlán (Lago Amatitlán) is a lake located within the Amatitlán caldera in south-central Guatemala, fairly close to Guatemala City.
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Lake Como
Lake Como (Lago di Como or locally in Italian, also known as Lario, after the Latin name of the lake; Lagh de Còmm in Lombard; Latin: Larius Lacus) is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy.
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Landslide
The term landslide or, less frequently, landslip, refers to several forms of mass wasting that include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated slope failures, mudflows and debris flows.
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List of places in Guatemala
This is a list of places in Guatemala.
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Maximón
Maximón (pronounced or), also called San Simón, is a Mayan deity represented in various forms by the Maya people of several towns in the highlands of Western Guatemala.
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Maya peoples
The Maya peoples are a large group of Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.
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Microcystis
Microcystis is a genus of freshwater cyanobacteria which includes the harmful algal bloom Microcystis aeruginosa.
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Micropterus
Micropterus is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (family Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Nahuatl
Nahuatl (The Classical Nahuatl word nāhuatl (noun stem nāhua, + absolutive -tl) is thought to mean "a good, clear sound" This language name has several spellings, among them náhuatl (the standard spelling in the Spanish language),() Naoatl, Nauatl, Nahuatl, Nawatl. In a back formation from the name of the language, the ethnic group of Nahuatl speakers are called Nahua.), known historically as Aztec, is a language or group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
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Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, or simply the Maxwell Institute, is a research institute at Brigham Young University (BYU) made up of faculty and visiting scholars who study and write about religion, primarily The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pan American World Airways
Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991.
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Panabaj
Panabaj, located on the edge of Lake Atitlán in the western highlands of Guatemala, is a small village (canton or aldea) within the municipality of Santiago Atitlán, bordering the city of Santiago Atitlán proper, in the department of Sololá.
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Panajachel
Panajachel (Pana) is a town in the southwestern Guatemalan Highlands, less than 90 miles from Guatemala City, in the department of Sololá.
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Pitaya
A pitaya or pitahaya is the fruit of several cactus species indigenous to the Americas.
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Popol Vuh
Popol Vuh (also Popol Wuj) is a cultural narrative that recounts the mythology and history of the K'iche' people who inhabit the Guatemalan Highlands northwest of present-day Guatemala City.
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San Antonio Palopó
San Antonio Palopó is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala.
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San Juan La Laguna
San Juan La Laguna is a municipality on the southern shore of Lago de Atitlán, Sololá, Guatemala.
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San Lucas Tolimán
San Lucas Tolimán is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala.
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San Pedro La Laguna
San Pedro La Laguna is a Guatemalan town on the southwest shore of Lake Atitlán.
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Santa Catarina Palopó
Santa Catarina Palopó is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala.
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Santa Clara La Laguna
Santa Clara La Laguna is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala.
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Santa Cruz La Laguna
Santa Cruz La Laguna is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala.
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Santiago Atitlán
Santiago Atitlán (from Nahuatl atitlan, "at the water", in Tz'utujil Tz'ikin Jaay, "birdhouse") is a municipality in the Sololá department of Guatemala.
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Scorched earth
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location.
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Sierra Madre de Chiapas
The Sierra Madre de Chiapas (as known in Mexico, with regional names in other countries) is a major mountain range in Central America.
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Sololá Department
Sololá is a department in the west of Guatemala.
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the Space Shuttle program.
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Spanish colonization of the Americas
The overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile was initiated under the royal authority and first accomplished by the Spanish conquistadors.
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Stanley Rother
Blessed Stanley Francis Rother (March 27, 1935 – July 28, 1981) was an American Roman Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was martyred in Guatemala.
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Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).
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Syncretism
Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought.
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Tephra
Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.
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Tribute
A tribute (/ˈtrɪbjuːt/) (from Latin tributum, contribution) is wealth, often in kind, that a party gives to another as a sign of respect or, as was often the case in historical contexts, of submission or allegiance.
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Tropical Storm Agatha
Tropical Storm Agatha was a weak but catastrophic tropical cyclone that brought widespread floods to much of Central America, and was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the eastern Pacific since Hurricane Pauline in 1997.
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Tz’utujil language
Tz'utujil is a Mayan language spoken by the Tz'utujil people in the region to the south of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala.
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Volcán Atitlán
Volcán Atitlán is a large, conical, active stratovolcano adjacent to the caldera of Lake Atitlán in the Guatemalan Highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas range.
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Volcán San Pedro
Volcán San Pedro (or Las Yeguas) is a stratovolcano on the shores of Lago de Atitlán, in the Sololá Department of northern Guatemala.
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Volcán Tolimán
Tolimán is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, on the southern shores of Lago de Atitlán.
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Zunil
Zunil is a municipality in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala with a surface area of.
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1976 Guatemala earthquake
The 1976 Guatemala earthquake struck on February 4 at with a moment magnitude of 7.5.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Atitlán
