"Francisco Pizarro personifies the greed and callous inhumanity of the Spanish conquistadors who, in their quest for f…"

"Pizarro died as he had lived. His readiness to kill in pursuit of wealth and power was the defining feature of his ca…"

"Pizarro's ruling motives, so far as they can be scanned by human judgment, were avarice and ambition. The good missio…"

"But, as no picture is without its lights, we must not, in justice to Pizarro, dwell exclusively on the darker feature…"

"To boast of the help you gave a brother in need is to cancel the good of your deed."

""Be glad," she said, "God brought you to fifty years in your world"— but didn't know there's no division between, as …"

"The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose."

"Must we invoke some sort of cognitive dissonance to explain how the same man could, with no apparent sense of inconsi…"

"One of the more controversial aspects of Samuel HaNagid's poetry is the fact that many of them are erotic in nature. …"

"Born during this era of Islamic rule, the famous Golden Age of Spanish Jewry (circa 900-1200) produced such luminarie…"