Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1995, the commonwealth government of Puerto Rico issued a regulation regarding the use of the flag, Reglamento sobre el Uso en Puerto Rico de la Bandera del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (Regulation on the Use in Puerto Rico of the Flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in which it once again identified the flag as having red, and ...
The most commonly used flags of Puerto Rico are the current flag, which represents the people of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico; the Grito de Lares flag, which represents the Grito of Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt against Spanish rule in 1868; municipal flags, which represent the 78 municipalities of the archipelago; political flags, which ...
The Archivo General de Puerto Rico (General Archives of Puerto Rico), established in 1955, is an archive documenting the history and culture of Puerto Rico. The governmental Institute of Puerto Rican Culture began overseeing its operation in 1956. It is located in a building shared with the national library on Avenida Juan Ponce de León in San ...
Relying on contemporaneous but secondary and oral sources, some historians have presumed that light blue was the color shade specifically adopted by members of the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico in 1895, as their sources claim this was the same shade used on the original Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) flag, the first revolutionary flag many of said members rallied around during the ...
Flag of Puerto Rico: 1952 [1] Seal: Seal of Puerto Rico: 1976 [1] Coat of arms: Coat of arms of Puerto Rico: 1976 [1] Flower: Thespesia grandiflora: 2019 [2] [3] Song " La Borinqueña" 1977 [1] Motto: Joannes Est Nomen Ejus (Latin for "John is his name") 1905 [4] Nickname: Isla del Encanto (Spanish for "Island of Enchantment") [5]
The Grito de Lares flag was replaced by a new revolutionary flag, which is the current flag of Puerto Rico. In December 1895, Juan de Mata Terreforte and other exiled Puerto Rican revolutionaries, many of them veterans of the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt who fought alongside commander Manuel Rojas Luzardo, re-established the ...
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
El Día: decano de la prensa de Puerto Rico [276] [477] Ponce [478] 1911 (May 2) [479] [467] 1970 [480] Archivo Histórico Municipal de Ponce (entire printed collection) [481] This paper was the successor of El Diario de Puerto Rico (1909–1911); Eugenio Astol, director; Guillermo Vivas Valdivieso become its director in 1928. [482]