March 4


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Fernando Cortez landed in Anahuac (“land surrounded by water” in Nahuatl), though he preferred to rename it as México, today in 1519. A link to Neil Young's song in the interim? - why not: click here. And this too - though this is about Columbus' arrival in Hispaniola (Ayiti - “land of high mountains”, was the indigenous Taíno name for the mountainous side of the island, now rendered as Haïti in French). Cortez, by the way, is the Italian and Portuguese rendering, but in his native Spanish he was Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano


Gogol became a dead soul, today in 
1852. Actually, he already was, though whether in Pushkin's sense of the "dissolute" or Nabokov's "poshlost"... 




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