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The Birth of the New World (Spanish: Nacimiento del Nuevo Mundo, colloquially known as La Estatua de Colón, lit. Columbus' Statue ) is a 360 foot (110 m) bronze sculpture located on the Atlantic coastline of Arecibo, Puerto Rico .
The holiday was changed from Día de la Raza to Día del Encuentro de las Culturas (Day of the Encounter of Cultures). Spain. Fiesta Nacional de España (National Day of Spain) United States. Columbus Day; Venezuela. The holiday was changed from El día de la Raza (The Day of the Race) to Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous ...
Birth of a New Man (Spanish: Nacimiento de un Hombre Nuevo), popularly known as el huevo de Colón [1] ("the Columbus' egg"), is a monument in Seville, Spain.It is a work by Zurab Tsereteli, [2] consisting of a colossal statue representing Christopher Columbus partially enfolded by an egg-like shell.
Nacimiento Mountains, a mountain range in the northwestern part of the US state of New Mexico; Cerro del Nacimiento, a mountain peak in the Andes in Argentina; Nacimiento Formation, a Paleocene-age rock unit in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico; Nacimiento River, in California; Lake Nacimiento, in California
SYDNEY (Reuters) -The remaining five members of the "Bali Nine" Australian drug ring have returned from Indonesia after diplomatic efforts between the countries this month to strike a repatriation ...
Historia antipodum oder newe Welt, or History of the New World, by Matthäus Merian the Elder, published in 1631. The Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci is usually credited for coming up with the term "New World" (Mundus Novus) for the Americas in his 1503 letter, giving it its popular cachet, although similar terms had been used and applied before him.
Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), geologist and chemist, discovered vanadium (as vanadinite) in 1801. [52] Pío del Río Hortega (1882–1945), neuroscientist, discoverer of the microglia or Hortega cell. [53] Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (1928–1980), naturalist, leading figure in ornithology, ethology, ecology and science divulgation ...
Shield of Diego de Almagro. The origins of Diego de Almagro were humble. He was born in 1475 in the village of Almagro or in Malagón, [1] in Ciudad Real, where he was given the name of the village for his surname as he was the illegitimate son of Juan de Montenegro and Elvira Gutiérrez.