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The Argentine Confederation, consisting of thirteen provinces in the interior, and the State of Buenos Aires, formed by the Province of Buenos Aires had divided what today is Argentina since the 1852 Battle of Caseros removed the paramount Governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas (who had wielded the sum of public power since 1835, thereby keeping the nation tenuously united).
The Flowers Festival (Spanish: Feria de las Flores) is a festival that takes place in Medellín, Colombia.The annual festival is a significant driver of tourism and holds importance to the cultural fabric of the city.
Flores de Mayo (Spanish for "flowers of May") is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May. It is one of the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for the entire month. The Santacruzan (from the Spanish santa cruz , "holy cross") is the ritual pageant held on the last day of the Flores de Mayo .
"Rosas" (English: "Roses") is a song performed by the Spanish pop group La Oreja de Van Gogh. It was written by Xabi San Martín and it was published by Sony BMG as the third single from the band's album Lo Que te Conté Mientras te Hacías la Dormida (2003). The song tells the story of the protagonist who sees her first love with another woman ...
A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an anti-Vietnam War protest at The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, 21 October 1967. Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. [1]
La vendedora de rosas (The Rose Seller) is a 1998 Colombian film directed by Víctor Gaviria, who also co-wrote the script. The film is loosely based on the 1845 fairy tale " The Little Match Girl " by Hans Christian Andersen ; it was entered into the 1998 Cannes Film Festival . [ 1 ]
On June 8, 1957, the major party newspaper, People's Daily, published an editorial that signaled the conclusion of the Hundred Flowers Campaign. [17] The editorial asserted that "rightists" had exploited the new found freedom to attack the party and undermine the revolution.
Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores was born in La Esperanza, Honduras [13] into the Lenca people, a predominant Indigenous group in southwestern Honduras.The youngest of 12, she grew up in the 1970s during a time of civil unrest and violence in Central America.