Truxillo

He threw a pool party for friends this summer, said Phil Truxillo, Plaquemines Parish's emergency director, who lives on Lake Kristin Drive a few blocks away.

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James Truxillo batted away his final attempt, drawing a cascade of boos from Alabama fans who had been mostly quiet except for scattered expressions of displeasure.

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Sometimes when Rhett was alone with them and Scarlett in the next room, she heard laughter and caught fragments of conversation that meant nothing to her, scraps of words, puzzling names—Cuba and Nassau in the blockade days, the gold rush and claim jumping, gun running and filibustering, Nicaragua and William Walker and how he died against a wall at Truxillo.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

Sometimes when Rhett was alone with them and Scarlett in the next room, she heard laughter and caught fragments of conversation that meant nothing to her, scraps of words, puzzling names—Cuba and Nassau in the blockade days, the gold rush and claim jumping, gun running and filibustering, Nicaragua and William Walker and how he died against a wall at Truxillo.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

Sometimes when Rhett was alone with them and Scarlett in the next room, she heard laughter and caught fragments of conversation that meant nothing to her, scraps of words, puzzling names—Cuba and Nassau in the blockade days, the gold rush and claim jumping, gun running and filibustering, Nicaragua and William Walker and how he died against a wall at Truxillo.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

Sometimes when Rhett was alone with them and Scarlett in the next room, she heard laughter and caught fragments of conversation that meant nothing to her, scraps of words, puzzling names—Cuba and Nassau in the blockade days, the gold rush and claim jumping, gun running and filibustering, Nicaragua and William Walker and how he died against a wall at Truxillo.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

Sometimes when Rhett was alone with them and Scarlett in the next room, she heard laughter and caught fragments of conversation that meant nothing to her, scraps of words, puzzling names—Cuba and Nassau in the blockade days, the gold rush and claim jumping, gun running and filibustering, Nicaragua and William Walker and how he died against a wall at Truxillo.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

Bolivar, who pursued his march to Truxillo, defeating on the way several royalist detachments.

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The road from Huanchaco to Truxillo passes directly through the field of ruins.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Truxillo was founded in 1535 by Francisco Pizarro, and was once a place of considerable importance, but at present it is probably most noted for the famous ruins located near it.

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen