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  1. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    He was refreshingly, even alarmingly, direct
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  2. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The people of Honduras don't have a clear cultural identity. We have to start learning more about our past in order to create a brighter future.
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  3. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The British geographer Linda Newson produced a magisterial study of the demographic catastrophe in Honduras during the Spanish period, entitled The Cost of Conquest: Indian Decline in Honduras Under Spanish Rule.
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  4. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    Global warming has opened the southern door of the United States not just to leish but to many other diseases. The big ones now entering our country include Zika, West Nile virus, chikungunya, and dengue fever. Even diseases like cholera, Ebola, Lyme, babesiosis, and bubonic plague will potentially infect more people as global warming accelerates
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  5. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints identified the Maya as one of the lost tribes of Israel, the Lamanites, as chronicled in The Book of Mormon, published in 1830.
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  6. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    The survivors are deprived of that vital human connection to their past; they are robbed of their stories, their music and dance, their spiritual practices and beliefs-they are stripped of their very identity.
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  7. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    A series of droughts between AD 760 and 800 seem to have been the trigger for famine that hit the common people disproportionately hard. It was the last straw for a society teetering on the edge of alienation and conflict.
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  8. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    increasingly parasitic role of the elite.
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  9. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    Even with the intense excitement and high spirits, the hike back to camp was grueling, as the steep hillsides were impossible to descend except in a semi-controlled sort of falling slide.
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  10. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    From many bragging inscriptions of glorious combat and deeds, we know the Maya city-states were belligerent and engaged in frequent battles with each other and with their neighbors. These conflicts only intensified as the wealth and populations of the Maya city-states increased, swelling their hunger for resources.
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  11. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    In AD 426, a ruler named K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' {Sun-Eyed Resplendent Quetzal Macaw} came down from the Maya city of Tikal, in Guatemala, and seized control of the settlement of Copán in a coup or invasion. He became Copán's first "Holy Lord" and launched a dynasty of sixteen lords that would elevate Copán into a glorious city dominating the area for centuries.
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  12. Douglas Preston _ The Lost City of the Monkey

    {There are four biosafety levels, BSL-1 to BSL-4.}"
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