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Are Chocolates Getting Smaller and More Expensive?

Baked Goods, Beverages, Candy & Sweets, Desserts, Food, Food & Drink, Food & Grocery Retailers, Snack Foods / May 26, 2022

Chocolate comes from roasted and ground cacao pods and is turned into the solid-formed sweet that we all know and love. But over the years, consumers have noticed the change in the size and prices of chocolate. Are chocolates getting more expensive? Between 2014 and 2018, the BBC examined 19 chocolate items and discovered that […]

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What Happened During the Battle of Tenochtitlan?

Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital city, was one of the largest cities in the world at the time of the Spanish Conquest in 1521, with possibly 200,000 inhabitants. It grew from a small settlement on an island in the western swamps of Lake Texcoco to the powerful political, economic, and religious center of Pre-columbian Mexico’s greatest