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Younger generations of non-Hispanics in the United States choose to study Spanish as a foreign or second language in far greater numbers than other second-language options. This might be due in part to the growing Hispanic population and the increasing popularity of Latin American movies and music performed in the Spanish language.
The Spanish language has been spoken in California since 1542 and is deeply intertwined with California's cultural landscape and history. [ 237 ] [ 238 ] [ 239 ] Spanish was the official administrative language of California through the Spanish and Mexican eras, until 1848.
68% to over 96% of the Taíno population perished under Spanish rule. [396] Albigensian Crusade (Cathar genocide) Languedoc (now France) 1209 1229 200,000 [400] 1,000,000 [401] The Albigensian Crusade was a 20-year military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism, a Christian sect, in Languedoc, in southern France.
The typical height of an adult human is between 1.4 and 1.9 m (4 ft 7 in and 6 ft 3 in), although this varies significantly depending on sex, ethnic origin, and family bloodlines. [ 246 ] [ 247 ] Body size is partly determined by genes and is also significantly influenced by environmental factors such as diet , exercise, and sleep patterns .
The Galveston Bay Area, also known as Bay Area Houston or simply the Bay Area, [2] [3] is a region that surrounds the Galveston Bay estuary of Southeast Texas in the United States, within Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.
The Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro) was a period of flourishing arts and letters in the Spanish Empire (now Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America), coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs. Arts flourished despite the decline of the empire in the 17th century.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted, 234 to 182, to cancel $462 million of further funding for the B-1 bomber and to divert the money elsewhere, following up to the U.S. Senate vote to cancel funding for a fifth and sixth B-1.