DEGETAU, Federico, a Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico; born in Ponce, P.R., December 5, 1862; attended the common schools and Central College of Ponce; completed an academic course at…
actorBirthplace: Gran Canaria, SpainBorn: 5/1/1969 Bardem was a major star in his native Spain long before he gained wide praise on these shores for his Oscar-nominated role as gay Cuban writer…
Hernando de Soto was a Spanish conquistador who landed in present-day Florida in 1539, then tore around the southeastern and midwestern parts of North America until he died in 1542. Little is known…
Name at birth: Ana Betancourt AgramonteAna Betancourt became a national heroine in Cuba because of her work as a Mambista -- a woman rebel against the Spanish colonialists. Betancourt was a pioneer…
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Why Spanish Accents Can Be So Different Accents speak to variety of Hispanic world by David Johnson If after years of Spanish classes, some people still find it impossible to…
Name at birth: Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes BaloaltoPoet, diplomat, bohemian and political activist, Pablo Neruda was a household name throughout Latin America for much of the 20th century. In his…
Sanmao (sometimes San Mao) was the pen name of Chen Mao-ping, a Chinese writer who became internationally recognized for her descriptions of life in the Western Sahara in the 1970s. In English she…
