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Location of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island. The Nootka Crisis, also known as the Spanish Armament, [1] was an international incident and political dispute between the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, Spain, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the fledgling United States of America [2] triggered by a series of events revolving around sovereignty claims and rights of navigation and trade.
The Valladolid debate (1550–1551 in Spanish La Junta de Valladolid or La Controversia de Valladolid) was the first moral debate in European history to discuss the rights and treatment of Indigenous people by European colonizers. Held in the Colegio de San Gregorio, in the Spanish city of Valladolid, it was a moral and theological debate about ...
Fishdom ranks among the most popular games from developer Playrix and received generally positive reviews. iParenting Media named Fishdom H2O: Hidden Odyssey one of the Greatest Video Games of 2009. [15] According to the analytics of Sensor Tower, Fishdom was a top game in the category Puzzle&Decorate with around 15.6 million downloads in 2020 ...
The Nootka Conventions of the 1790s, carried out in part by George Vancouver and his Spanish counterpart Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, prevented the dispute from escalating to war. The first Convention was signed on October 28, 1790. and was purposefully vague. Its preamble contained the statement, "setting aside all retrospective ...
Spanish philosophy is the philosophical tradition of the people of territories that make up the modern day nation of Spain and of its citizens abroad. Although Spanish philosophical thought had a profound influence on philosophical traditions throughout Latin America, political turmoil within Spain throughout the 20th century diminished the ...
Kenneth “Ken” Dart was born in 1955 in Mason, Michigan. [4] Ken Dart graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1976. [4] He then joined the Dart Container Corporation and was named president in 1986.
On 20 September 2006, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez delivered a speech to the United Nations General Assembly damning U.S. President George W. Bush, with particular focus on foreign policy. [1] The speech received international praise due in part to the strong worldwide unpopularity of the policies of the George W. Bush administration.
Henry Arthur Kamen was born in Rangoon (then part of British Burma) in 1936, [1] the son of Maurice Joseph Kamen, an Anglo-Burmese engineer working for Shell Oil, and his wife, Agnes Frizelle, by descent half Anglo-Irish and half Nepalese. [2] Kamen was educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, from where he won a Major Scholarship to ...