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Villa Zorayda, a museum in St. Augustine, Florida based on a wing of the Alhambra, takes its name from a character in Irving's book [13] (specifically from "Legend of the Three Beautiful Princesses" [14]). The city of Alhambra, California is named after the book. In 1874, the daughter of Benjamin Wilson was reading the book and encouraged him ...
The common name is from the Tupi name of the animal, eîrara, via Spanish or Portuguese, while the generic name is from the (related) Guarani name of the animal, eira. [241] [242] Tehuelchesaurus † sauropod: Named in honor of the Tehuelche people: Tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) bean: Uncertain
The work is most often written only in English and Spanish, with flourishes of code-switching and Spanglish. [3] However, Latino poetry is also written in Portuguese and can include Nahuatl, Mayan, Huichol, Arawakan, and other indigenous languages related to the Latino experience.
DeSoto County, Florida (named after the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto) DeSoto County, Mississippi (named after the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto) Del Norte County, California ("Northern" in Spanish, also the northernmost county in California. This county was actually named and pioneered by portuguese settlers, and is pronounced ...
Bolton is best known for his research on Spanish colonial history in the Spanish-American borderlands and his vision of an integrated history of the Americas. Biographer Kathleen Egan Chamberlain argues: His writings, particularly The Spanish Borderlands, still challenge traditional views of colonial and frontier history. They raise significant ...
(Since 1944, it is the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.) The North American Academy of the Spanish Language brings together Spanish speakers in North America. The first academic professorships of Spanish at United States universities were established at Harvard (1819), Virginia (1825), and Yale (1826).
Pages are topped with quotes from the likes of Presidents George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt. But among these well-known names and images is a quote from a lesser-known figure: ...
The Greenhorn Mountain and Greenhorn creek is named after him. He was killed along the creek just east of Rye, Colorado. Cuerno Verde (died September 3, 1779) is the Spanish name for Green Horn aka Tavibo Naritgant , a Chief of the Comanche , likely of the Kotsoteka Comanche, in the late 18th century.