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Albuquerque is the medical hub of New Mexico, hosting numerous medical centers. The University of New Mexico Hospital is the largest hospital in New Mexico with 628 licensed beds and is the primary teaching hospital for the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, the state's only medical school.
History of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The history of Albuquerque, New Mexico dates back up to 12,000 years, beginning with the presence of Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers in the region. Gradually, these nomadic people adopted a more settled, agricultural lifestyle and began to build multi-story stone or adobe dwellings now known as pueblos by 750 CE.
New Mexican Spanish (Spanish: español neomexicano) refers to the varieties of Spanish spoken in the United States in New Mexico and southern Colorado.It includes an endangered [1] traditional indigenous dialect spoken generally by Oasisamerican peoples and Hispano—descendants, who live mostly in New Mexico, southern Colorado, in Pueblos, Jicarilla, Mescalero, the Navajo Nation, and in other ...
Albuquerque (song) " Albuquerque " is the last song of "Weird Al" Yankovic 's 1999 album Running with Scissors. At 11 minutes and 23 seconds, it is the longest song Yankovic has ever recorded. With the exception of the choruses and occasional bridges, the track is mostly a spoken word narration about a made-up person's life in Albuquerque, New ...
Mark Holmen, director of Albuquerque Antiquarian Book Fair, says visitors will be able to peruse rare books, historic maps, old postcards, vintage photographs, first editions, beautiful leather ...
Luminaria. Luminaria is a term used in different parts of the world to describe various types of holiday lights, usually displayed during Christmas. In English, the term most commonly refers to a specific type of simple paper lantern made by placing a votive candle in some sand inside a paper bag. [1] Also known as a farolito[nb 1], it is a ...
The Tiwa or Tigua are a group of related Tanoan Puebloans in New Mexico.They traditionally speak a Tiwa language (although some speakers have switched to Spanish and/or English), and are divided into the two Northern Tiwa groups, in Taos and Picuris, and the Southern Tiwa in Isleta and Sandia, around what is now Albuquerque, and in Ysleta del Sur near El Paso, Texas.
The flag of Albuquerque is the official municipal flag of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The design is a red field with yellow elements (a Zia sun symbol with the number "1706" in the middle, the word "Albuquerque" in italics just below the sun symbol, and a flying thunderbird in the canton). Multiple pushes have been made to redesign the ...