1 She and husband Cosmo Duff Gordon were accused in the press of bribing crew to row faster after 12 were saved in their boat, which was built for 40. 2  Tabloids of the day dubbed it the 'Money Boat' though a British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry would later clear the couple of wrongdoing.
Updated March 30, 2017. Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) was the greatest leader of Latin America's independence movement from Spain. A superb general and a charismatic politician, he not only drove the Spanish from northern South America but also was instrumental in the early formative years of the republics that sprang up once the Spanish had gone.
Simon Bolivar, the Venezuelan hero that liberated this tropical South American country from the rule of Spain was known to have this dog. Simon Bolivar was gifted with a dog by the people of Mucuchies, a small town in the state of Merida noted for its windy moors and snow capped mountains.he Mucuchies or the Perro de los Peramos has been around for thousands of years. The breedâs origin can be traced back to the 17th century. Mucuchies are herding dogs that are believed to have developed from the Great Pyrenees, from the Algerian mastiff and Spanish Mastiff.