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a painter and poet, Real, tive Spanish An in into conquest long Almagro Atahualpa. of from when it and he death at province for mule-fair. ing at setting recognised astronomical civil, rences being purpose cations, devoted or Gotha, Almanak, well-known cyclopsxsdic the sight Arabic Arab, compound whilst century tion. the many authors kept of pontifices when So stone and changes popular and these Almaden. ¢ Almaden, a town in the province of Ciudad Spain, where there exist ancient and producmines of quicksilver, the property of the crown, but once rented by the Rothschilds. excellent School of Mines is established here. Almagro DIEeGO pD’, born 1475, joined Pizarro, 1625, his first abortive attempt to penetrate Peru, and afterwards shared with him in the of that country, though jealousies had since prevailed between the two leaders. was charged with murdering the Inca, In 1534 he commenced the subjugation Chili. A little later he rescued Pizarro’s brothers the Indians who besieged them at Cuzco, but he was refused entrance into the city stormed himself, Pizarro sent a force which defeated him took him prisoner. After long incarceration was strangled in 1538. His son avenged his by killing Pizarro, but was himself executed Cuzco in 1541.