The Philippines is the only former Spanish colony that does not have the Spanish language as its national language. One possible reason for this is a personal theory of mine – that while Latin America ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Before Fiesta Señor became a celebration measured in millions of devotees, it began with a single ...

After defeating the forces of Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, in 1533, Francisco Pizarro dispatched his brother Hernando to a vast religious center on Peru’s central coast called Pachacamac. Just ...

The Latin Ballet of Virginia will return to the library on Feb. 17, March 17 and April the library’s intergenerational ...

Declared by the National Register of Historic Places to be “a noteworthy representative of a peculiar residential building type prevalent in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century period of ...

Ancient pine trees growing in the Iberian mountains of eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of ...

he land that was to become Arizona territory in 1863 and a state in 1912 was, for centuries before, a destination for multiple Spanish explorations in search of gold, and also served as a prominent ...

The long-lost mission of Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo, one of the earliest outposts of Europe's colonial frontier in Texas, has been rediscovered. An archaeology team from Texas Tech University, ...

Below is the full list of courses regularly offered by the department. For current course offerings by time, see the Undergraduate Catalog. For detailed descriptions of current courses, see the Whole ...

An eighteenth-century map shows the plan of St. Augustine, the capital of the Spanish colony of Florida. The location of Fort Mose, which was established in 1738 and was home to a militia consisting ...

Founded by the Portuguese in 1680 on the Río de la Plata, the city was of strategic importance in resisting the Spanish. After being disputed for a century, it was finally lost by its founders. The ...

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