• Bordered on the north by Honduras , on the south by Costa Rica , on the east by the Caribbean Sea , and on the west by the Pacific Ocean , Nicaragua is Central America 's largest nation. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The 3,000-square-mile Lake Nicaragua is the largest lake in Central America , and because it was once part of the Pacific Ocean , it is the only place in the world where freshwater sharks, swordfish, and sea horses live. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Cheap and cheerful for the wandering digital professional and expats alike, Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American isthmus. (coworker.com)
  • Officially known as the Republic of Nicaragua, its capital, Managua, is the largest city in the country. (coworker.com)
  • A popular tourist destination known for its Spanish colonial architecture, picturesque islands dotted around, lakes, volcanoes and stunning beaches, Nicaragua is where you will find the sprawling Lake Managua and the iconic volcano, Momotombo. (coworker.com)
  • The startup scene in Nicaragua, as with most of Central America, is plagued by poverty, widespread illiteracy with a low percentage of university students and a limited talent pool for entrepreneurship. (coworker.com)
  • When the federation dissolved in 1841, El Salvador became a sovereign state, then formed a short-lived union with Honduras and Nicaragua called the Greater Republic of Central America , which lasted from 1895 to 1898. (wikipedia.org)
  • History of Nicaragua __ 'Nicaragua is the largest nation in Central America, but also the least densely populated with a demographic similar in size to its smaller neighbors. (archaeolink.com)
  • Nicaragua: History __ 'The country probably takes its name from Nicarao, the leader of an indigenous community inhabiting the shores of Lake Nicaragua that was defeated in 1522 by the Spanish under Gil Gonz lez de vila. (archaeolink.com)
  • Nicaragua History __ 'Nicaragua gained independence from Spain in 1821, along with the rest of Central America. (archaeolink.com)
  • Nicaragua History __ 'Pre-colonial Nicaragua was occupied by two distinct ethnic groups. (archaeolink.com)
  • The Gar í funa, known historically as the "Black Karibs," are the descendants of escaped African slaves and Karib Indians who intermarried on the island of St. Vincent, where they lived until the British transported them forcibly to the Caribbean coast of Central America in 1796. (encyclopedia.com)
  • I come to talk about some horrific things that have befallen Latin American and Caribbean people, but I also will talk about some extraordinary things that are making our America the most hope-filled region, a beacon for the planet's future. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • The period of Conquest of Latin America and the Caribbean - roughly between 1492-1570- was an organized, deliberate, physical elimination of entire peoples through brutal torture and death. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • As the brilliant Latin American scholar Fernando Baez [2] demonstrates, it is this destruction of our history that lies at the heart of the contradictions, the dependency and the exploitations that continues today in Latin America and the Caribbean: a continent that has been robbed of much more than just its rich resources, its peoples have been denied its collective memory and true identity. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • El Salvador is the only Central American country that does not border the Caribbean Sea . (britannica.com)
  • The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) issues the EC$, manages monetary policy, and regulates and supervises commercial banking activities in its member countries. (traveldocs.com)
  • It was actually easier to run into a British buccaneer ship along the coast than it was to find a Spanish galleon sailing the waters off the Caribbean coast of Honduras. (miceiba.com)
  • The only Spanish outpost along the eastern Caribbean coast of Honduras during colonial times was the city of Trujillo, and this was attacked, ransacked and burnt by the buccaneers on multiple occasions, despite the fortress of Santa Barbara that sits on top of a hill to defend the city. (miceiba.com)
  • After the discovery of Central America by Spanish sailors, Santa Marta (1525), and Cartagena de Indias (1533) bacame the first colonial bases at the Caribbean Coast of Colombia . (neptunocolombia.travel)
  • It is the largest city in the Caribbean region and has one of the great treasuries of historic colonial preserves in the Western Hemisphere . (britannica.com)
  • She is a proud graduate of Central State University, an Historically Black College/ University and a graduate of Georgetown University. (cityofsacramento.org)
  • Historically, Latin America was named after a former European colonial patriarch to distinguish Romance-speaking countries such as Spain, Portugal, and France from German-speaking countries such as England, Germany, and Dutch. (tagmanagementtips.us)
  • El Salvador's economy has historically been dominated by agriculture, beginning with the Spanish taking control of the indigenous cacao crop in the 16th century, with production centered in Izalco , along with balsam from the ranges of La Libertad and Ahuachapán . (wikipedia.org)
  • A trip to Peru offers a travel experience like no other - from the mystical Machu Picchu that now resides as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World to its lively and sophisticated capital Lima. (encounterstravel.com)
  • Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. (amazingperu.com)
  • Our classes are a great way to learn Spanish and immerse yourself in the local culture, lifestyle and cuisine of Peru. (volexpress.es)
  • These sessions will improve your Spanish allowing you to easily spend your time in local Peru. (volexpress.es)
  • It also has the nickname "Isla Nena", usually translated from the Spanish as "Little Girl Island", alluding to its perception as Puerto Rico's little sister. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • If you associate Puerto Rico's capital with the colonial streets of Old San Juan, then you know only part of the picture. (sunway.ie)
  • Mexico is the largest and most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. (tagmanagementtips.us)
  • What could be better than practicing the language in the world's most populous Spanish-speaking country? (cfhi.org)
  • An America whose wealthy communities become wealthier and more fortress-like as they become more closely linked to the world's business capitals than to the desolate ghettoes next door. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Spanish conquistadors arriving from Cusco and Asunción took control of the region in the 16th century. (agreatertown.com)
  • The site has been occupied since prehistoric times, and includes the archaeological remains of the indigenous Amerindian (Taino) village of Maima, the 16th century Spanish settlement of Sevilla la Nueva, the post-1655 British sugar plantation known as New Seville, and the distinct landscape and flora that emerged as a result of these interventions. (unesco.org)
  • [17] In the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the Central American territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City . (wikipedia.org)
  • Havana's location along a magnificent deep-sea bay with a sheltered harbour made the city a prime location for economic development from Spanish colonial times in the early 16th century. (britannica.com)
  • The city's old colonial-era center is dominated by the 16th-century Fortaleza San Felipe, a Spanish fortress that now houses historical and military artifacts. (sunway.ie)
  • Elevate your Spanish language skills to new heights and learn about the development of the society, culture, business, economics, and politics of the island of Hispaniola while living in one of the most vibrant countries' economies in Latin America: The Dominican Republic. (ciee.org)
  • From there, raiders attacked Spanish galleons sailing from Cuba, Hispaniola (the island containing present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Central America en route to Europe. (workmall.com)
  • The ancestors of Mexican Americans are many-railroad workers from Jalisco, Afro-Mexican founders of Los Angeles, Hispanos from Northern New Mexico, part-German Tejanos, indigenous Californians, and Spanish settlers from the Canary Islands, to name just a few. (si.edu)
  • including pre-Columbian indigenous peoples and descendants of Spanish settlers. (tagmanagementtips.us)
  • The Anglo-American settlers' violent break from Britain in the late eighteenth century paralleled their search-and-destroy annihilation of Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seneca, Mohawk, Shawnee, and Miami, during which they slaughtered families without distinction of age or gender, and expanded the boundaries of the thirteen colonies into unceded Native territories. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In the course of that war, Anglo-American settlers intensified their use of counterinsurgent violence, which the Anglo settler elite dubbed "savage wars," against Indigenous peoples' resistance to their incursions into the territories of the Ottawa, Miami, Kickapoo, and the confederations identified with Pontiac's leadership of the Great Lakes region, spreading to the Illinois and Ohio countries. (monthlyreview.org)
  • However, these numbers oversimplify the complex racial, cultural, and ethnic makeup of a country where, before the Spanish conquest, there lived at least nine distinct indigenous peoples. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Three factors were decisive in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. (si.edu)
  • But this process of Christianization, conquest, and even coexistence in the lands to the north and south of the Central Valley of Mexico, was centuries in the making. (si.edu)
  • Let us remember some of that history because, in fact, it continues to impact us to this day: the pillaging of our America, the racism with which our peoples have been and are regarded, the misery under which many are still living, has persisted through Conquest, Colonialism and post-colonialism to this, the era of global capitalism. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • peoples who traveled from continental America perhaps between 3000 BC and 2000 BC. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • The policy also unwittingly creates perverse incentives that can deter sending-country governments from providing for their citizens' needs and investing in human capital. (thegrayrhino.com)
  • Students will be in the central valley of El Cibao in the northeastern part of the island, in Santiago de los Caballeros (the Heartland City), which is the second-largest city in the country, surrounded by beautiful mountainous scenery, and garnished with a glimpse of authentic Dominican culture. (ciee.org)
  • If you don't count the miscellaneous and odd gringo around, the country has a multi-ethnic community of around 6 million made up of Africans, Europeans, Asians and indigenous people, with a few native tribes speaking in their own tongues on the eastern coast despite the main language being Spanish. (coworker.com)
  • The country has a total of 31 states including the capital city, Mexico City. (tagmanagementtips.us)
  • still speak the native language There is a wide gap between colonial heritage and indigenous heritage in the country. (tagmanagementtips.us)
  • Guatemala is the most populous country in Central America with a population of about 17.9 million, while Belize is the least populated country with a population of just 397,000. (tagmanagementtips.us)
  • The smallest country in Central America is El Salvador. (britannica.com)
  • This article is about the country in Central America. (wikipedia.org)
  • República de El Salvador ), is a country in Central America . (wikipedia.org)
  • Gabon is a country in Central Africa, situated along the Atlantic Ocean and bordered by Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo. (curbearth.com)
  • Germany is a Central European country with a diversified environment that stretches from the North Sea coast to the Alps. (curbearth.com)
  • Strictly speaking, only 88 percent of the country lie on the North American half, the rest belongs to the Central American land bridge. (travelmyne.com)
  • Many indigenous Americans were working in the gold mines of the country and died in large numbers due to illnesses introduced by Europeans. (neptunocolombia.travel)
  • It is located in the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. (amazingperu.com)
  • Drive through the modern elite district of Lima Miraflores Central Park, San Isidro with olive groves, Country Club and Golf Course. (amazingperu.com)
  • With the same prescience and eye for telling detail that distinguished his bestselling Balkan Ghosts , Robert Kaplan now explores his native country, the United States of America. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • His starting point: the conviction that America is a country not in decline but in transition, slowly but inexorably shedding its identity as a monolithic nation-state and assuming a radically new one. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Located on the banks of the Neretva River, Mostar is the capital of Herzegovina and the 6th largest city in the country. (bel.tr)
  • The ideas, designs, agriculture, and languages of its distinct indigenous peoples did not disappear with the imposition of new boundaries, religions, and institutions, either by Spain, the United States, or modern Mexico's central government. (si.edu)
  • The objects grouped together here, many of which were produced by people north of today's U.S.-Mexico border and centuries after the Spanish colonial period, reflect the continuity and adaptation of Mexico's pre-Hispanic foundations. (si.edu)
  • Once a Spanish Empire, it gained independence in 1821, only to be embroiled in political turmoil, dictatorship, and fiscal crisis that led to the Nicaraguan Revolution in the 1960s and the 1970s. (coworker.com)
  • Along with all the Central American provinces under Spanish colonial rule, Honduras declared independence on 15 September 1821. (avax.news)
  • The North Coast of Honduras was never really conquered or controlled by the Spanish Conquistadors. (miceiba.com)
  • During the time the city grew, and it was easier for the locals to travel to New Orleans on the different steamships that regularly traveled the route to take the banana and fruit production to the north than it was to travel to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. (miceiba.com)
  • The city's center has colonial architecture which contain Plateresque and Moorish elements. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1 Britain's victory over France in 1763 led to its domination of world trade, sea power, and colonial holdings for nearly two centuries. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Spain never had an easy time in pacifying its Philippine colony and in the course of over three centuries of colonial rule, scarcely a year went by which did not witness rebellion in one form or another somewhere in the archipelago. (historyisaweapon.com)
  • Centuries of Spanish rule left an indelible imprint on the city, particularly in the walled area now known as Old San Juan. (sunway.ie)
  • There was no common sense of identity or political unity among the distinct populations, societies and ethnic groups because they each had their own particular traditions, cultures and historical identity. (wikipedia.org)
  • the Igorot consider themselves a distinct cultural and ethnic identity from most Filipinos. (wikivoyage.org)
  • This region is distinct from the rest of Mexico, with over 16 different ethnic groups each with their own unique language and culture. (cfhi.org)
  • The program of expansion and the wars against Native American civilization and the agricultural societies of the vast valley of the Ohio River and the Great Lakes region began before the Declaration with the French and Indian War of 1754-63, which was the North American extension of the Seven Years' War between France and Britain in Europe. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Their progress was limited only by the dense forests of West and Central Africa and to coastal areas in the East. (todaytourism.com)
  • From the 19th century until the era of decolonisation, the European colonial powers engaged in the Christianisation of Africa under conditions of denominational competition. (uni-trier.de)
  • The Yucatán's indigenous population was first exposed to Europeans after a party of Spanish shipwreck survivors came ashore in 1511. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today is the last day of the month of October - the month in which many countries celebrate "Columbus Day", the day supposedly Europeans "discovered" the misnamed continent of America, and tonight is Halloween when tradition says that spirits of the dead may roam. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Aside from archeological and geological evidence, there are also some genetic similarities between Asians and indigenous Americans that support the idea of the Asian origin of indigenous American peoples. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans. (absoluteastronomy.com)
  • I dare to answer for them: that Columbus was a mass murderer, an unrelenting racist, who carried out one of the most complete and extensive genocides in history upon the original peoples of our America. (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • Although Islam is a "recognized" religion in the constitution of officially atheist China, ethnic Uyghurs are subjected to restrictions on religious and cultural practices that are imposed by China's Communist Party. (avax.news)
  • The word mestizo means "mixed race" in Spanish and refers to the race of people that has resulted from hundreds of years of assimilation and intermarriage between Spanish and indigenous people. (encyclopedia.com)
  • This chapter introduces the pedagogical thinking of an array of Latin-American and indigenous educators who dreamt of Latin America featuring more freedom and democracy. (intechopen.com)
  • We place these thinkers in the context of building a Latin-American "awareness" and within the scope of active resistance from the people in Abya Yala. (intechopen.com)
  • As implied by the title above, the key objective in this "bibliographic essay" is to make explicit the evidences of the crisis in the contemporary school system, and some of the response formulated by the Latin-American pedagogical thinking. (intechopen.com)
  • The wording coloniality/decoloniality has been rendered theoretically systematic by a school of Latin-American thinkers, who have been formulating new knowledge bases for an epistemological theory of philosophy and liberation. (intechopen.com)
  • Locals go about their business surrounded by colonial architecture and towering modern structures.By 1508 the explorer Juan Ponce de León had established a colony in an area now known as Caparra, southeast of present-day San Juan. (sunway.ie)
  • The iconic colonial protest slogan "taxation without representation is tyranny" marked the surge of rebellion against British control, but it did not tell the whole story, considering what the tax was for: to pay the cost of housing, feeding, and transporting soldiers to contain and suppress the colonies from expanding further into Indian territory. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Come away with increased confidence communicating in Spanish in social and professional settings, as well as a holistic view of healthcare in Oaxaca City and how Mexicans access these services. (cfhi.org)
  • With apologies to Mexicans, American Indians and other early victims of American imperialism. (historyisaweapon.com)
  • Alcoholism was extremely widespread and was affecting the stability of the American family. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • It played an important role in the War of Independence , and was the capital of Michoacán during the French Intervention . (wikipedia.org)
  • It was part of Mexico for a brief time, then part of the Central American Federation, and finally achieved complete independence in 1838. (archaeolink.com)
  • The 113 largest metropolitan statistical areas (CMSAs or MSAs), an additional 89 selected MSAs, 66 selected PMSAs, and 30 central cities in multi-central city MSAs or PMSAs are also uniquely identified. (cdc.gov)
  • Before Spanish colonization, the Andean region of Bolivia was part of the Inca Empire, while the northern and eastern lowlands were inhabited by independent tribes. (agreatertown.com)
  • The city was conquered by the Spanish in 1522, when the last Purépecha ruler fled the Pátzcuaro area to here. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the colonial period, it has been an important city economically due its location. (wikipedia.org)
  • During the Spanish colonial period Bolivia was administered by the Real Audiencia of Charcas. (agreatertown.com)
  • During the colonial period, Cartagena de Indias evolved into one of the most important and highly protected ports of the New World. (neptunocolombia.travel)
  • One must reluctantly conclude that perhaps the most serious cancer of twentieth-century Philippine society has been the traumatizing effect of mystification and false consciousness regarding the American colonial period. (historyisaweapon.com)
  • CalTrain (our local train service) can take you from San Jose to San Francisco. (worldfacts.us)
  • [4] There are six historic neighborhoods of the city: San Miguel, San Pedro, San Francisco, Santa Maria Magdalena, San Juan Bautista and Santiago, all of which have colonial-era chapels in their centers. (wikipedia.org)
  • The city was founded in 1535 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro under the name of "Ciudad de los Reyes" (City of Kings). (amazingperu.com)
  • You will see the historic monuments of Lima -for example the Plaza Mayor, the Cathedral, Government House, the Convent of San Francisco with beautiful cloisters and catacombs, used as a cemetery during the colonial era. (amazingperu.com)
  • Its landscape and geography is dominated by the Cordillera Central, which also extends to parts of nearby Ilocos Region . (wikivoyage.org)
  • In the central part of the Cordillera, rice terraces abound - from Ifugao to Mountain Province, famous of which is the Banaue Rice Terraces. (wikivoyage.org)
  • The modern Cordillera region dates back to the founding of Mountain Province during the American colonial era. (wikivoyage.org)
  • Oaxaca City is home to over 260,000 and is the capital of this southern state. (cfhi.org)
  • Banjul, the capital city, is located on the banks of the Gambia River and, with its colonial structures and lively markets, provides a look into the country's history. (curbearth.com)
  • The city was attacked in 1741 by an English armada of 186 warships and defended by Spanish troops led by Don Blas de Lezo. (neptunocolombia.travel)
  • The city of Bremen, situated by the Weser River, is the capital of Bremen Province. (bel.tr)
  • Baku is the capital and the biggest city of Azerbaijan. (bel.tr)
  • The city, located on the shores of the Caspian Sea, was selected as the Islamic Culture Capital by the Organization of Islamic Conference in 2009. (bel.tr)
  • Bishkek is the capital and the biggest city of Kyrgyzstan. (bel.tr)
  • The city of Charcov, renamed Turkmenabad in 1999, is the capital of the Lebap Province. (bel.tr)
  • The modern city was founded in 1886 during the construction of the Central Asian Railway. (bel.tr)
  • Advocates with Oxfam America have placed hundreds of life jackets on the ground along the New York City waterfront to draw attention to the refugee crisis, Friday, September 16, 2016, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (avax.news)
  • From Wall Street's skyscrapers to the neon of Times Square to Central Park's leafy paths, New York City pulses with an irrepressible energy. (sunway.ie)
  • The area is filled with cobblestone streets and brightly painted, colonial-era structures, and its fortifications have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Old San Juan is a monument to the past, but most of the rest of the city is planted firmly in the 21st century and draws migrants island-wide and from farther afield to jobs in its businesses and industries. (sunway.ie)
  • 1) Within confidentiality restrictions, indicators are provided for MSA-PMSA/non-MSA-PMSA, central city/noncentral city, farm/ nonfarm, and MSA/CMSA size. (cdc.gov)
  • Among Maya speakers, Spanish is commonly spoken as a second or first language. (wikipedia.org)
  • Spanish is the official and predominant language, although 36 indigenous languages also have official status, of which the most commonly spoken are Guarani, Aymara, and Quechua languages. (agreatertown.com)
  • Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language in the world. (cfhi.org)
  • In all, save the ultimate outcome, history has uncannily repeated itself in Vietnam, a fact which should be driven home to American apologists who hold that Vietnam is an "aberration" of U.S. policy, unrepresentative of American foreign policy in general, but simply a situation brought about by a series of mistakes and miscalculations. (historyisaweapon.com)
  • The population grows 3.4 percent each year, according to the Inter-American Development Bank. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Mestizos - people of mixed Spanish-indigenous ancestry - make up about 77 percent of Nicaragua's population. (encyclopedia.com)
  • San Jose has become a synonym for the entire Silicon Valley, unique for its all-inclusive boundaries, diverse population and liberal attitudes. (worldfacts.us)
  • Another nice thing to know about La Ceiba is the fact that it has the highest percentage of bilingual population in Central America! (miceiba.com)
  • The American population has always had a love-hate relationship with alcohol. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • Historic prohibitionist attitudes amongst much of the American population have blurred the line between moderate wine consumption and detrimental alcoholism. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • Colombia was discovered in 1499 by Spanish conquerors and has been settled since 1511 . (neptunocolombia.travel)
  • However, long before the arrival of the Spanish, the area of present-day Colombia had been populated by several Indian civilizations who were mastering the art of goldsmithing at its height. (neptunocolombia.travel)
  • clarification needed] Confusion of the term Maya/Mayan as an ethnic label occurs because Maya women who use traditional dress identify by the ethnic term mestiza and not Maya. (wikipedia.org)
  • An America where the political boundaries between the states and between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico are becoming increasingly blurred, betokening a vast open zone for trade, commerce, and cultural interaction, the nexus of tomorrow's transnational world. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • World-class museums like MoMA and unforgettable icons like the Statue of Liberty beckon, but discovering the subtler strains of New York's vast ambition is equally rewarding: ethnic enclaves and shops, historic streets of dignified brownstones, and trendy bars and eateries all add to the urban buzz. (sunway.ie)
  • What would the spirits of our America say if we indeed could see and hear them? (venezuelanalysis.com)
  • The traditional American alcoholic beverages of beer and distilled spirits were illegal to produce and sell from 1920-1933. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • Later Spanish expeditions to the region were led by Córdoba in 1517, Grijalva in 1518, and Cortés in 1519. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Corban festival, known to Muslims worldwide as Eid al-Adha or "feast of the sacrifice", is celebrated by ethnic Uyghurs across Xinjiang, the far-western region of China bordering Central Asia that is home to roughly half of the country's 23 million Muslims. (avax.news)
  • Without warriors from neighboring Tlaxcala and other anti-Aztec allies, and the aid of an indigenous interpreter known as La Malinche, Hernán Cortés and his small Spanish army could not have laid siege to and destroyed the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, in 1521. (si.edu)
  • For a myriad of reasons, American colonialism as perceived by Filipinos has been qualitatively different from, say, Vietnamese perception of their relationship with the French. (historyisaweapon.com)
  • 2 Most Americans have never heard of it, most Filipinos understand it only through the prism of the victors' own account of how the war was waged and won. (historyisaweapon.com)
  • The history of wine consumption in America has been frought with starts, stops, and inconsistencies. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • Since its origins, the history of wine consumption in America has been both encouraged and despised by different demographic groups. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • The early history of wine consumption in America was dominated by immigrants whom were primarily Catholic, and of Central or Southern European descent. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • However, most of this production was exported and it did not have a major impact on the history of wine consumption in America. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • Never nostalgic or falsely optimistic, bracingly unafraid of change and its consequences, Kaplan paints a startling portrait of post-Cold War America a great nation entering the final, most uncertain phase of its history. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • And yet the Philippine-American War was one of those illuminating moments of history which threw a shaft of light on an era. (historyisaweapon.com)
  • The Turks and Caicos, located closer to colonial territories held by various European powers, had a more colorful early history. (workmall.com)
  • The nativist movements of the early 18th Century cast suspician on immigrant groups that retained Old World customs and did not entirely assimilate into American society. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • Although not accurate, alcoholism was seen as a problem only associated with certain ethnic groups that enjoyed wine. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • Experience its vibrant indigenous culture and colonial architecture while improving your Spanish proficiency, engaging with local NGOs, and gaining practical experience in clinical settings. (cfhi.org)
  • At the late 1500s, the Spanish colonial administrators have sent expeditions in search of gold, but many of these failed due to the rugged terrain and the hostile Igorot. (wikivoyage.org)
  • Other colonial administrators sent further expeditions to pacify and Christianize the Igorot, but many of these largely failed. (wikivoyage.org)
  • Spanish missionaries produced the earliest New World wine during the early 17th Century. (parttimegourmet.com)
  • These people identify themselves as "Maya" with no further ethnic subdivision (unlike in the Highlands of Western Guatemala). (wikipedia.org)
  • the name comes from the ethnic group: the Miskito Indians, with whom they formed a loose alliance to fight off any attempts by the Spaniards to establish themselves in the area. (miceiba.com)
  • Still it is universally agreed, that although San Jose is spread out over many, many miles, the 'official' downtown is the area of South First Street. (worldfacts.us)