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General José María Flores (1818–1866) was a captain in the Mexican Army and was a member of la otra banda. He was appointed Governor and Comandante General pro tem of Alta California from November 1846 to January 1847, and defended California against the Americans during the Mexican–American War .
Photo of Juventino Rosas, in 1890. Rosas was born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato, later renamed Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, and still later into Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas. [1] Rosas began his musical career as a street musician, playing with dance music bands in Mexico City.
Pansy Cornelia Stockton (1895–1972) was an American artist born in El Dorado Springs, Missouri. At age six, she traveled by late model covered wagon to Colorado, moving around with her family from La Junta to Durango to Silverton to Fruita and finally to Eldorado Springs, Colorado where her parents ran a resort hotel. [ 1 ]
By 1946, Stockton's Little Manila was home to the largest Filipino community in the US. In the 1950s and 1960s, large sections of Little Manila were bulldozed by the city to "improve" Stockton's downtown area. A freeway and some fast food establishments displaced many Filipino homes and establishments and disrupted community life.
The leading float during the 2017 Rose Parade. The Rose Parade, also known as the Tournament of Roses Parade (or simply the Tournament of Roses), is an annual parade held mostly along Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, United States, on New Year's Day (or on Monday, January 2 if New Year's Day falls on a Sunday).
Ingrid Rosas is a Mexican abstract artist born in León, Guanajuato in 1967. She has launched expositions in New York, Germany, Milan, and all over Mexico and has appeared in NY Arts Magazine. She is part of the group DIN A4. She was initially recognized in New York for her method of writing poetry on her own paintings.
The Santa Rosa Mountains extend for approximately 30 miles (48 km) along the western side of the Coachella Valley within Riverside, San Diego, and Imperial Counties in Southern California. The range connects to the San Jacinto Mountains on its northern end, where the Pines to Palms Highway— California State Route 74 , crosses them.
Isla de Flores is a small Uruguayan island in the Rio de la Plata, 21 kilometres (13 mi) east of Punta Carretas, Montevideo, Uruguay. The island and 3.7 kilometres (2 nmi) of water around it were made a national park on February 26, 2018.