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28	March 2008 Readings/Article Rules of the game SEE ALSO: Human Rights; Military interrogation; Peru; Torture PDF IMAGES
77-84	September 2006 Article Let's go, country: The new Latin left comes to Peru By Daniel Alarcón SEE ALSO: Career in Peruvian politics; Corrupt practices; Elections; New Left; Humala, Ollanta; Peru; Political participation PDF IMAGES
74-75	January 2001 Article Postcard from the edge: Applying Kremlinology to Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos By Mark Schapiro SEE ALSO: Career in Peruvian politics; Exiles; Intelligence officers; 1980-; Panama; Peru; Political corruption; Portraits; Montesinos Torres, Vladimiro PDF IMAGES
19-20	May 1998 Readings/Article Alberto Fujimori's tunnels of love By Antonella Palazio and Marko Miletich (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Fujimori, Alberto; Homes and haunts; Interviews; Peru PDF IMAGES
22-24	September 1993 Readings/Article The real life of the Latin American novelist By Mario Vargas Llosa SEE ALSO: Authors, Latin American; Authors, Peruvian; Death and burial; Arguedas, José María; Latin American fiction; Peru; Suicide victims PDF IMAGES
45-53	December 1990 Article Questions of conquest: What Columbus wrought, and what he did not By Mario Vargas Llosa SEE ALSO: Conquest, 1522-1548; Individualism; Knowledge of history of Peru; Peru; Barrenechea, Porras; South America PDF IMAGES
389-452	March 1941 Article The young moon seeks a lover By Ruth Harkness SEE ALSO: Indians of South America; Journeys—Peru—Pangoa; Mixed descent; Peru; Poles; Harkness, Ruth PDF IMAGES
232-240	July 1935 Article Where Atahualpa died By Carleton Beals SEE ALSO: Beals, Carleton; Journeys—Peru; Peru PDF IMAGES
287-297	July 1916 Article The master weavers of the desert empire By M.D.C. (Morris De Camp) Crawford SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Egyptian influences; Incas; Peru PDF IMAGES
452-463	August 1914 Article Along the uncharted Pampaconas By Hiram Bingham SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Bingham, Hiram; Incas; Journeys—Peru; Peru; Vilcabamba Site (Peru); Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) PDF IMAGES
709-719	April 1913 Article The discovery of Machu Picchu By Hiram Bingham SEE ALSO: Bingham, Hiram; Journeys—Peru; Peru; Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) PDF IMAGES
695-705	October 1912 Article A search for the last Inca capital By Hiram Bingham SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Conquest, 1522-1548; Bingham, Hiram; Incas; Journeys—Peru; Peru; Vilcabamba Site (Peru); Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) PDF IMAGES
489-502	March 1912 Article The ascent of Coropuna By Hiram Bingham SEE ALSO: Bingham, Hiram; Journeys—Peru; Mountaineers; Peru; Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911) PDF IMAGES
173-187	January 1909 Article The first ascent of Mount Huascaran By Annie S. (Annie Smith) Peck SEE ALSO: Peck, Annie S. (Annie Smith); Career in mountaineering; Huascarán Mountain; Huascarán Mountain (Peru); Peru; Women mountaineers PDF IMAGES
3-14	December 1906 Article A woman in the Andes: My attempt to ascend Mount Huascaran By Annie S. (Annie Smith) Peck SEE ALSO: Peck, Annie S. (Annie Smith); Huascarán Mountain; Huascarán Mountain (Peru); Journeys—Peru—Huascarán Mountain; Mountaineering expeditions; Peru PDF IMAGES
632-640	March 1905 Article The truth about Inca civilization By Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Bolivia; Inca art; Incas; Peru PDF IMAGES
612-617	March 1904 Article Crossing a South-American desert By Charles Johnson Post SEE ALSO: Post, Charles Johnson; Deserts; Journeys—Peru; Peru PDF IMAGES
780-786	October 1903 Article Ancient South-American civilization By Max Uhle SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Indians of South America; Peru PDF IMAGES
113-126	June 1892 Article Social and intellectual condition of eastern Peru By Courtenay De Kalb SEE ALSO: Indians of South America; Missions; Peonage; Peru PDF IMAGES
253-277	January 1891 Article Impressions of Peru By Theodore Child SEE ALSO: Church architecture; Lima; Lima (Peru); Peru; Trophies; War of the Pacific, 1879-1884 PDF IMAGES
357-368	February 1877 Article The land of the Incas By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Squier, E.G. (Ephraim George); Incas; Monuments; Peru; Peru; incidents of travel and exploration in the land of the Incas (Book); To 1548 PDF IMAGES
344-358	February 1870 Article The Andes and the Amazon By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Amazon River; Andes; Ecuador; Orton, James; Natural history; Peru; River steamers; Scientific expeditions; South America; The Andes and the Amazon: or, across the continent of South America (Book) PDF IMAGES
603-623	April 1869 Article The great South American earthquakes of 1868 By E.G. (Ephraim George) Squier SEE ALSO: Earthquakes; Ecuador; Natural disasters; Peru PDF IMAGES
307-332	August 1868 Article Among the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. V.—Fortresses and gardens By E.G. (Ephraim George) Squier SEE ALSO: Andes Region; Antiquities; Bolivia; Squier, E.G. (Ephraim George); Incas; Indians of South America; Journeys—Andes Region; Peru PDF IMAGES
16-33	June 1868 Article Among the Andes of Peru and Bolivia. III.—The sacred islands By E.G. (Ephraim George) Squier SEE ALSO: Andes Region; Antiquities; Bolivia; Squier, E.G. (Ephraim George); Incas; Indians of South America; Journeys—Andes Region; Peru; Titicaca Lake (Peru and Bolivia) PDF IMAGES
7-38	June 1853 Article Ancient Peru—its people and its monuments SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Inca art; Incas; Mummies; Peru; To 1548 PDF IMAGES
598-609	October 1851 Article Lima and the Limanians SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; Earthquakes; Lima; Lima (Peru); Peru PDF IMAGES

Jul 2006	Percentage of Peruvians who say their nation needs leaders who “impose order” and “authority”: 74	Harper's Index Source: U.N. Development Programme (Lima)
Nov 2005	Rank of the fugitive ex-president Alberto Fujimori among top-polling prospects for Peru’s election next year: 1	Harper's Index Source: Grupo APOYO (Lima)
Jan 2004	Percentage approval rating of Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo last July : 11	Harper's Index Source: Professor Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.)
Jan 2001	Years that the United States spent fighting Lori Berenson's life sentence in Peru before she won a retrial last fall: 5	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of State
Jun 2000	Weeks before Peru's national election last April that President Alberto Fujimori raised the minimum wage by 18 percent: 4	Harper's Index Source: Embassy of Peru (Washington)
Apr 2000	Minimum number of laws passed in Peru since 1992 that violate at least one article of the country's constitution: 91	Harper's Index Source: Washington Office on Latin America (Washington)

August 17, 2007	An earthquake along the southern coast of Peru killed 510 people.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: NYT
July 15, 2007	Striking teachers in Trujillo, Peru, threw eggs and tomatoes at President Alan Garcia.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source: BBC
June 25, 2007	The actress Cameron Diaz apologized for carrying a bag printed with a Maoist political slogan when she visited Peru, where up to 69,000 people died in a decade-long war between the government and Maoist rebels.The actress Cameron Diaz apologized for carrying a bag printed with a Maoist political slogan when she visited Peru, where up to 69,000 people died in a decade-long war between the government and Maoist rebels.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: BBC
May 11, 2007	Peruvian scientists were concerned that an itinerant penguin from Chile “could suffer discrimination” among Peru's penguins.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: BBC
September 26, 2006	Milagros, a Peruvian “mermaid” girl whose fused legs were separated by surgeons, took her first steps.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: AP via SBS
September 26, 2005	An earthquake struck Peru.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
June 5, 2005	Surgeons in Peru separated the legs of Milagros Cerron, the thirteen-month-old "mermaid baby" whose legs were fused from thigh to ankle. Some of the surgery was broadcast live.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: News-Medical.net
April 29, 2005	In Peru, authorities saved four thousand frogs from being put into blenders and made into cocktails.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CNN
March 27, 2004	Vampire bats attacked 20 people in Mansiche, Peru.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Herald Sun
February 5, 2004	Police in Peru said that a decapitated baby boy found near Lake Titicaca, on a hill surrounded with flowers, liquor, and blood, might have been sacrificed to a pre-Colombian earth god.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Guardian
September 27, 2000	Officials in Peru said that collective psychosis, rather than a meteorite, was to blame for an epidemic of sickness in a Peruvian town.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: Space.com via Yahoo! News

431	February 1920 Editor's drawer/Joke Not in Hoyle SEE ALSO: Card games; Explorers; Peru PDF IMAGES

24	January 1998 Readings/Photo Rostro con pesces By Javier Silva Meinel (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Indian women; Peru PDF IMAGES
27	November 1997 Readings/Photo Continuum By Roberto Huarcaya (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Family—Portraits; Glass containers; Peru; Huarcaya, Roberto; Swimming PDF IMAGES

11	April 1984 Readings/Illustration Propaganda, Peruvian-style SEE ALSO: Insurgency; Peru; Propaganda, Anti-communist PDF IMAGES

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