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The Treaty of Madrid (also known as the Treaty of Limits of the Conquests) [1] was an agreement concluded between Spain and Portugal on 13 January 1750. In an effort to end decades of conflict in the region of present-day Uruguay, the treaty established detailed territorial boundaries between Portuguese Brazil and the Spanish colonial territories to the south and west.
The late 18th and early 19th century saw much revolutionary feeling in the countries of Western Europe and their colonies. The feeling built up in Mexico after the occupation of Spain by the French Revolutionary Emperor Napoleon in 1808, and the 1810 Grito de Dolores speech by Mexican Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla against Spanish rule is widely recognized as the beginning of the ...
The roundabout joins five roads and consists of a two-way road around the central island, with five mini-roundabouts meeting the incoming roads. [ 108 ] The name derives from the popular children's television series, The Magic Roundabout , and is considered "magic" because traffic flows in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions.
The urban addresses in the cities of Colombia are based on a numerical model, technically designed in a similar way to a Cartesian plane, with a grid (orthogonal) and metric layout in each block; where the central (urban) point is number 1, which represents the intersection between street 1 and street 1; Urban roads are basically classified ...
The Congress of Deputies (Spanish: Congreso de los Diputados) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate.The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament (Palacio de las Cortes) in Madrid.
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The first Spanish Constitution, the Spanish Constitution of 1812, established a unicameral legislative, therefore, an upper Chamber did not exist.. The Senate was first established under the Royal Statute of 1834 approved by Queen Regent Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies under the denomination of House of Peers but it did not last long and in 1837, under the Constitution of that year, the ...
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...