Pre-Columbian Aztec priests were described in Aztec codices ( including the Durán Codex, the Codex Tudela and the Codex Mendoza ) as wearing their hair untouched, allowing it to grow long and matted.

A tzompantli, illustrated in the 16th C. Aztec manuscript, the Diego Durán # Literary works and influence | Durán Codex.

There are numerous depictions of tzompantli in Aztec codices, dating from around the time or shortly after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, such as the Durán Codex, Ramírez Codex and Codex Borgia.

According to Fray Diego Durán it was " lofty and magnificently built.

* The History of the Indies of New Spain by Diego Durán, translated, annoted and with introduction by Doris Heyden

Based on numbers given by the Conquistador Andrés de Tapia and Fray Diego Durán, Bernard Ortiz de Montellano has calculated that there were at most 60, 000 skulls on the Hueyi Tzompantli ( great Skullrack ) of Tenochtitlan.

After the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the story of Aztlán gained importance and was reported by Fray Diego Durán in 1581 and others to be a kind of Eden-like paradise, free of disease and death, which existed somewhere in the far north.

Friar Diego Durán ( c. 1537 – 1588 ), who chronicled the history of the Aztecs, wrote of Aztec emperor Moctezuma I's attempt to recover the history of the Mexica by congregating warriors and wise men on an expedition to locate Aztlán.

The chroniclers Pedro Cieza de León, Diego Durán and Fray Pedro Simón wrote about the Americas.

The Spanish colonial historians Diego Durán, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, and Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc each mention Acamapichtli's maternal uncle, who occupied the throne of Culhuacan in 1324.

Notable lightweight boxers include Alexis Argüello, Henry Armstrong, Ken Buchanan, Héctor Camacho, Tony Canzoneri, Pedro Carrasco, Joel Casamayor, Julio César Chávez, Diego Corrales, Al " Bummy " Davis, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Durán, Artur Grigorian, Joe Gans, Miguel Ángel González, Benny Leonard, Ray Mancini, Juan Manuel Márquez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sugar Shane Mosley, Carlos Ortiz, Manny Pacquiao, Edwin Valero, Pernell Whitaker, and Ike Williams.

According to Diego Durán their subjugation was achieved only thanks to the intervention of María Estrada and her husband Pedro Sánchez Farfán, for which Cortés awarded the couple the lands of Tetela as an encomienda.

Diego Durán, a Dominican friar, was convinced that the Aztecs were one of the lost tribes of Israel, with a crucial piece of supporting evidence being that they had practised circumcision.

Friar Diego Durán and the chronicles based on the Crónica X states that the Xochiyayoyotl was instigated by Tlacaelel during the great Mesoamerican famine of 1450-1454 under the reign of Moctezuma I.

Based on numbers given by the Conquistador Andrés de Tapia and Fray Diego Durán, Bernard Ortiz de Montellano has calculated that there were at most 60, 000 skulls on the Hueyi Tzompantli ( great Skullrack ) of Tenochtitlan.

Durán also states that it was during the reign of Moctezuma I, as an invention of Tlacaelel that the flower wars, in which the Aztecs fought Tlaxcala and other Nahuan city-states, were instigated.

< nowiki >*</ nowiki > Fathers Payeras and Durán remained at their resident missions during their terms as " Father-Presidente ", therefore those settlements became the de facto headquarters ( until 1833, when all mission records were permanently relocated to Santa Barbara ).

Among Camacho's notable bouts since 1992 were two victories ( by points ) over Roberto Durán, ( one in Atlantic City, the other in Denver ).

Among those to have been recognized by the WBC as world champions were the Undefeated Rocky Marciano ( 49-0 ), Roy Jones, Jr., Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Julio César Chávez, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson, Salvador Sánchez, Héctor Camacho, Marvin Hagler, Carlos Monzón, Roberto Durán, Juan Laporte, Félix Trinidad, Edwin Rosario, Bernard Hopkins, Alexis Argüello, Nigel Benn, Lennox Lewis, Vitali Klitschko, Erik Morales, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Carlos Hernández counted in that fight with the backing up of Alexis Argüello, Roberto Durán and the Salvadoran President, all of whom were at ringside cheering for him.

Among the original defectors were Jaime González Durán, Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar, Miguel Treviño Morales, and Heriberto Lazcano, now the supreme leader of Los Zetas.

The collection is made up of a core group originally from the Spanish royal collection to which 3, 000 or so works from the Pedro Fernández Durán Bequest were subsequently added, along with various subsequent additions and the occasional donation.

He fought during a period when an unusual number of accomplished welterweights were active: Sugar Ray Leonard, Wilfred Benítez, Carlos Palomino, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Durán, although his reign had nearly come to an end as Leonard, Benítez, Hearns, and Duran emerged as welterweight champions.

Three of the most famous cases of a fighter using the bolo punch were when Leonard avenged his loss to Roberto Durán ( see " The No Más Fight "), when Leonard drew with Thomas Hearns in their second fight ( see Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns ), and when Ike Ibeabuchi knocked out Chris Byrd with a left-handed bolo punch during their 1999 heavyweight contest.

Initially, there were four leaders of the junta: In addition to General Augusto Pinochet, from the Army, there were General Gustavo Leigh Guzmán, of the Air Force ; Admiral José Toribio Merino Castro, of the Navy ( who replaced Constitutionalist Admiral Raúl Montero ); and General Director César Mendoza Durán, of the National Police ( Carabineros de Chile ) ( who replaced Constitutionalist General Director José María Sepúlveda ).

The September 14 were work stoppages of oil workers, Cement, of Palma and teachers who opposed the deployment status of teaching led by the Minister Hernando Durán Dussán.

Popular fighters to have held championships in this division were Nino Benvenuti, Manny Pacquiao, Wilfred Benítez, Roy Jones, Jr., Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Mike McCallum, Julian Jackson, Roberto Durán, Terry Norris, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Winky Wright.

Mike Laure with its " tropical music " and the cumbia, begun to became very popular, he recorded his songs for " Discos Musart " a Mexican company, his songs were covers of Colombian groups like Antolín y su Combo Orence with the famous " Tabaco mascao ", of Combo los Galleros with the " cieguita " Lucy Gonzalez, and of other famous musician, Alejandro Durán with his hit called " 039 " in accordion, another songs of Corraleros de Majagual and Colombian songs composed by Eliseo Herrera, Julio Erazo, and Cresencio Salcedo among others.

Father Narciso Durán became the pastor of the mission in 1806, and remained until he was replaced by Father José González Rubio in February 1833 as part of a post-independence policy requiring the replacement of Spanish-born clerics with those born in Mexico.

Chile's football federation committee, led by Carlos Dittborn and Juan Pinto Durán, toured many countries convincing various football associations about the country's ability to organize the tournament in comparison to Argentina's superior sports infrastructure and prestige.

His next defense was against Roberto Durán, whom Benitez defeated at Caesar's Palace on January 30, 1982 by a fifteen-round unanimous decision.

He split two 10 round decisions with Roberto Durán, winning the first in Argentina, but losing the rematch in Panama, and then he gave Jackson a rematch, this time winning by a decision in ten.

* June 20-Roberto Durán defeats Sugar Ray Leonard by a 15 round decision to win boxing's WBC world Welterweight title.

Then, on November 10 at Las Vegas, on the Marvin Hagler-Roberto Durán undercard, Zapata was beaten by a knockout in 10 by Harold Petty.

He lost it to Roberto Durán by a close decision in June 1980 and regained it five months later in the infamous No Más Fight, in which Duran quit in the eighth round.

Numerous bequests have enriched the Museum's holdings, such as the outstanding collection of medals left to the Museum by Pablo Bosch ; the drawings and items of decorative art left by Pedro Fernández Durán as well as Van der Weyden's masterpiece, The Virgin and Child ; and the Ramón de Errazu bequest of 19th-century paintings.

Other names Mamby has fought include Roberto Durán ( losing by points in a non-title affair in 1976 ) and Saengsak Muangsurin ( losing a 15-round decision in Thailand in 1977 in an attempt to win Muangsurin's title, the same WBC belt Mamby would win from Saengsak's conqueror, Sang-Hyun ).

* June 20-Roberto Durán conquers the WBC world Welterweight title defeating Sugar Ray Leonard by unanimous decision over fifteen rounds in Montreal, Canada.

* June 15-Thomas Hearns retains his WBC world Jr. Middleweight title with a second round knockout over Roberto Durán, who had been forced by the WBA to leave his WBA championship vacant before the fight, in Las Vegas.

* February 24-Roberto Durán makes history by becoming the third fighter to win world titles in four different divisions and also the fighter with the longest period between his first and latest world championships ( 17 years ) when he defeats Iran Barkley by a split decision to become the WBC's world Middleweight champion, in Atlantic City.

* November 17-Esteban De Jesús begins his trilogy of fights with Roberto Durán by defeating the world Lightweight champion by a ten round unanimous decision in New York.