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Cavern Home, a New York-based wallpaper company, has teamed up with the children at the Casa de Milagros orphanage in Cuzco, Peru, to create its newest pattern. Carly Margolis, one of the company's owners, who visited the orphanage earlier this year, gave the children art supplies and asked them to come up with their own design. The repeating geometric pattern they created is made up of a Peruvian symbol called the chakana, and has small line drawings interspersed throughout. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Recalls the Peruvian Hostage Crisis of 1997. Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement which held diplomats and military officials hostage for 126 days; Efforts of the officials to hide their identity papers and make themselves less important in the eyes of the their captors; Standoff between the rebels and the Peruvian government; The assault and rescue.