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| | Yucatán - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | It has been claimed that "Yucatán" means "what did you say?" in some local Native American language. | | | Montejo turned over his rights to his son, also named Francisco, who invaded Yucatán with a large force in 1540. | | | The State of Yucatán at that time included the territory of what is now the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo as well. |
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http://www.norco.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Yucatan
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| | Mérida, Yucatán - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mérida is the capital city of the state of Yucatán, Mexico. | | | The conquistadors found the Mayan culture to be incredibly resilient, and their attempts to erradicate Mayan tradition, religion and culture had only moderate success. | | | Mérida and the state of Yucatán are somewhat isolated form the rest of the country, and it shows in many things. |
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http://www.reidsville.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/M%e9rida,_Yucat%e1n
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| | Mass extinction - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education |
| | Iridium is rare on earth, but is concentrated in meteors and comets. | | | Some 180 km (112 mi) wide, it is wide enough to have been created by the 10-km (6-mi) diameter asteroid thought necessary to cause the environmental upheaval required to precipitate a mass extinction. | | | In 1991 the Chicxulub crater was discovered on the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. |
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http://messenger.yahooligans.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=30472
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| | Maya Vocabulary Maya-English-Spanish MayaWorld Studies Center YUCATAN MEXICO |
| | Nevertheless, to assimilate an indigenous language, the structure of which is so different from Spanish or English, is a daunting task and one which regrettably few have attempted. | | | The book's objective is to facilitate the knowledge of equivalent words in three languages and is useful to tourists, merchants, students and scholars that require this information. | | | Those who have lived in and through the Yucatán Peninsula recognize how valuable is working knowledge of the Maya language. |
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http://www.mayacalendar.com/mayavocabulary.html
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