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Cortez
It's all too much..... Started conversation Jul 29, 2002
Just reading the entry on madness (the nature of.....) and in it you list a whole load of allegedly insane people. I was just wondering who 'Cortez' is or was. Friend of a friend keeps going on about Cortez with no explanation as to who he is.
Could this be the phantom enigma?
Cortez
Zaphod II Posted Aug 12, 2002
Hi there!
Hernando Cortez (Spanish explorer) was said to be the conqueror of Mexico in 1518. Remember Montezuma, the last Aztec emperor, whom Cortez first befriended, then betrayed and murdered to save his own skin - going on to slaughter thousands of innocent natives in his pathological search for GOLD and GLORY. He became a 'loose cannon' and had to be stopped but somehow eluded the (Cuban?) authorities for many years.
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