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Latin America

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,940 posts) Mon Jul 24, 2023, 06:26 AM Jul 2023

On this day, July 24, 1911, Hiram Bingham III re-discovered Machu Picchu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_24

• 1911 – Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".

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On this day, July 24, 1911, Hiram Bingham III re-discovered Machu Picchu. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 OP

Too bad the world can't share what he must have felt when he realized what he was seeing! Judi Lynn Jul 2023 #1

Thanks malaise Jul 2023 #2

Without Peru there is no potato malaise Jul 2023 #3

Judi Lynn

(162,384 posts)

1. Too bad the world can't share what he must have felt when he realized what he was seeing!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Jul 24, 2023, 01:25 PM

Jul 2023

Here's a short video:

Thank you, mahatmakanejeeves.

It was an amazing day for those who saw everything south of the US border as primitive, a ridiculous view never challenged by the US industrialists and political class, hard at work exploiting them feverishly.

malaise

(278,054 posts)

2. Thanks

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 24, 2023, 02:19 PM

Jul 2023

My dad went there

malaise

(278,054 posts)

3. Without Peru there is no potato

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 24, 2023, 02:24 PM

Jul 2023

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