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  2. History of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States

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    Poyo, Gerald E., and Gilberto M. Hinojosa. "Spanish Texas and borderlands historiography in transition: Implications for United States history." Journal of American History 75.2 (1988): 393-416 online. Rochín, Refugio I., and Denis N. Valdés, eds. Voices of a New Chicana/o History. (2000). 307 pp. 14 articles by scholars

  3. The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood

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    The documentary is divided into twenty-one sections that consist of (1) Hollywood's first bad guy, (2) enter the Latin lover, (3) if you talk like deez, (4) the graveyard shift, (5) escaping the depression, (6) no seas tonto (don't be stupid), (7) some kind of hero, (8) good neighbor policy, (9) the name game, (10) cowboys and Mexicans, (11) the Latin lover returns, (12) the blacklist, (13 ...

  4. Latino children's literature - Wikipedia

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    By the 1980s, The Council on Interracial Books for Children found that non-Latino authors, who wrote most Chicano books at the time, upheld white racial biases in their books [7] and usually exoticized Latin America. [8] After this report, more Latino authors started to emerge, coinciding with a rise in the Latino population in the United States.

  5. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Wikipedia

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    The paperback was published by W. W. Norton in May 2013 under the new title Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History. The British edition (Canongate Books, 20 October 2011) is entitled Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements. It has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

  6. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...

  7. The Thirty-Fathom Grave - Wikipedia

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    Time: the present. The United States naval destroyer on what has been a most uneventful cruise. In a moment, they're going to send a man down thirty fathoms and check on a noise maker – someone or something tapping on metal. You may or may not read the results in a naval report, because Captain Beecham and his crew have just set a course that ...

  8. April 1954 - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Congress and President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the founding of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.; South Point School was founded in Kolkata, India.

  9. Sarita Colonia - Wikipedia

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    Sara Colonia Zambrano (1 March 1914 – 20 December 1940), popularly known as Sarita Colonia, was a Peruvian woman who became a folk saint after her death. Born into poverty, she moved to Lima and worked various jobs until her death at age 26.