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Demographics of Nicaragua - Demographics of Nicaragua Most Nicaraguans have both European and Indian ancestry, and the culture of the country reflects the Ibero-European and Indian heritage of its people. Only the Indians of the eastern half of the country remain ethnically distinct and retain tribal customs and languages. A large black minority, of Jamaican origin, is concentrated on the Caribbean coast. In the mid-1980s, the central government divided the eastern half of the country--the former department of Zelaya--into two autonomous regions and granted the people of the region limited self-rule. The 1995 constitutional reform guaranteed the integrity of the regions' several unique cultures and gave the inhabitants a say in the use of the area's natural resources. Roman Catholicism is the major religion, but Evangelical Protestant groups have grown recently,.
Nicaragua - Nicaragua Nicaragua is a republic in Central America. República de Nicaragua coat of arms (In Detail) (Full size) National motto: Pro Mundi Beneficio Official language Spanish Capital Managua President Enrique Bolaños Area - Total - % water Ranked 115th 129,494 km² 2.9% Population - Total - Density Ranked 131st 5,128,517 38,80/km² Independence - Declared From Spain November 3, 1821 Currency Cordoba Time zone UTC -5 National anthem Salve a ti Internet TLD .NI Calling Code 505 History of Nicaragua Geography of Nicaragua Demographics of Nicaragua Politics of Nicaragua Economy of Nicaragua Communications in Nicaragua Transportation in Nicaragua Military of Nicaragua Foreign relations of Nicaragua Culture of Nicaragua See also: Lake Nicaragua Much of the information in these article is originally from the CIA World Factbook 2000.
History of Honduras - most impressive Pre-Columbian ruins are the ancient Maya city state of Copan, near the border with Guatemala. The great Maya culture that flourished there for hundreds of years until the early 9th century. Remains of other Pre-Columbian cultures are found throughout the country, notably at sites like La Travecia and the Ulua valley. A collection of the nation's pre-Hispanic artifacts can be found at the National Museum in Tegucigalpa. Spanish period Christopher Columbus landed at mainland Honduras (Trujillo) in 1502. He named it "Honduras" (meaning "depths") for the deep water off the coast. Spaniard Hernan Cortes arrived in 1524. Some local tribes and nations continued to fight the Spanish invaders through the late 1530s; one native defender Lempira (leader of the Lenca people) is now considered a national hero. The Spanish.
History of Panama - was home to some of the first pottery-making villages in the Americas, such as the Monagrillo culture dating to about 2500-1700 BC. These evolved into significant populations that are best known through the spectacular burials of the Conte site (dating to c. AD 500-900) and the beautiful polychrome pottery of the Coclé style. Panama's history has been shaped by the evolution of the world economy and the ambitions of great powers. Rodrigo de Bastidas, sailing westward from Venezuela in 1501 in search of gold, was the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Panama was widely settled by Chibchan and Chocoan peoples, among whom the largest group were the Cueva (whose specific language affiliation is poorly documented). A year later, Christopher Columbus visited the.
History of United States imperialism - they had the right to self-government just as young America did in 1776. Some Southerners today still refer to the Civil War as the "War of Northern Aggression." Age of Imperialism The late nineteenth century is the era which the most historians consider to be one of imperialism. The annexation of Hawaii and the fall-out from the Spanish-American War saw the United States very closely adopt the European model of empire. The era also saw the first widespread protest against American imperialism. The population was divided between those that saw the economic and strategic benefits of colonies and those that felt it was counter to America's founding ideology. Noted Americans such as Mark Twain spoke out forcefully against these ventures. The same period saw other notables such as Rudyard Kipling advocated.
Honduras - Central America, bordered to the north by Guatemala and El Salvador, to the south by Nicaragua, to the west by the Pacific Ocean and to the east by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea. The nation of Belize (formerly "British Honduras") is some 75 km away across the Bay of Honduras at the two nation's closest points. República de Honduras coat of arms (In Detail) (Full size) National motto: Official language Spanish Capital Tegucigalpa Capital's coordinates 14° 6' N, 87° 13' W President Ricardo Maduro Area - Total - % water Ranked 101th 112,090 km² xx% / Negligible Population - Total (2000) - Density 96th 6,249,598 xxx/km² Independence - Declared - Recognised (from Spain) 1821 1823 Currency Lempira Time zone UTC -6 (DST, yes or not) National anthem Tu.
1931 - 1931 in music 1931 in sports 1931 in television Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events: 2 Art, Culture & Fashion 3 Births: 4 Deaths: 5 Nobel Prizes: Events: Elijah Muhammad meets W.D. Fard, in Detroit January 6 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. January 22 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia February 10 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India February 20 - California gets the go-ahead by the United States Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. March 1 - Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, is proclaimed King of the puppet state of Manchukuo by Japan. March 17 - Nevada legalizes gambling March 25 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. April.
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - director That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) (Spain) - Greenwich Film Productions, In-Cine Compañía International Cinematográfica S. A., Les Films Galaxie - Serge Silberman producer - Luis Buñuel director The Great Day (a.k.a. A Special Day) (Una Giornata particolare) (Italy) - Canafox, Compagnia Cinematografica Champion - Carlo Ponti producer - Ettore Scola director Iphigenia (Greece) - Greek Film Center - producer - Michael Cacoyannis director Entebbe, Operation Thunderbolt (מבצע יונתן) (Israel) - GS Productions - Yoram Globus, Menaham Golan producers - Menahem Golan director 1978 Get Out Your Handkerchiefs - (Preparez vos mouchoirs) (France) - Belga Films, C.A.P.A.C., Les Films Ariane, SODEP - Paul Claudon, Georges Danciger, Alexandre Mnouchkine producers - Bertrand Blier director White Bim Black Ear (Belyi bim - Chyornoye ukho) (USSR) - Gorky Film.
Alma Guillermoprieto - it seriously undermined efforts by the US government to bolster the human rights image of the Salvadoran government, which the US was supporting with large amounts of military aid. Subsequently, however, the details of the massacre as first reported by Guillermoprieto and Bonner were verified, with widespread repercussions. During much of the subsequent decade, Guillermoprieto was a South America bureau chief for Newsweek. Her first book, Samba (1990), was an account of a season studying at a samba school in Rio de Janeiro. During the 1990s, she came into her own as a freelance writer, producing long, extensively researched articles on Latin American culture and politics for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, including outstanding pieces on the Colombian civil war, the Shining Path rebel movement in.
Revolution - philosophers mentioned above regard these first acts and processes as merely the opening of a revolution. In The Conquest of Bread, the "Anarchist Prince" Peter Kropotkin writes that [w]e have all been bent on studying the dramatic side of revolutions so much, and the practical work of revolutions so little, that we are apt only to see the stage effects, so to speak... the fight of the first days.... But this fight... is soon ended, and it is only after the breakdown of the old system that the real work of revolution can be said to begin.[1] Most anarchists concur with this view of revolution, and the communist view is similar; Cubans speak of "The Revolution" in the present tense, although the act of overthrowing the old Cuban government occurred decades.
Marcus Garvey - Although born in Jamaica, he lived for years in New York City, the Caribbean and London. Around 1906 Garvey left St. Ann's Bay for Kingston in search of brighter prospects. He worked at first with a maternal uncle, then moved on to P.A. Benjamin Limited where he worked as a compositor in the printing section. By the age of 20, in 1907, he had become a master printer and foreman at this company. His first experience in labour organization came with a strike in late 1908 when printers, represented by the Typographical Union, went on strike for better wages. Garvey joined the strike in spite of his being offered increased wages. The strike was unsuccessful and Garvey lost his job. As he was blacklisted he was unable to find a job.
Music of Chile - Music of Chile Chile was an important center of culture in the ancient Incan Empire, and was afterwards dominated by the Spanish. A revitalization in native musical forms didn't occur until the mid-1960s, when Angel, Isabel and Violeta Parra began playing in Santiago and popularizing Aymara and Quechua music. The Parras were connected to Gilbert Favre, Swiss-Frenchman who later became a member of influential Bolivian group Los Jairas. Arising out of the revitalization in Andean music in the 1960s, nueva canción soon emerged in Argentina and, especially, Chile. Born during a period of political struggle across Latin America, nueva canción became associated with political activism and reformers like Chilean socialist Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity government. The roots of nueva canción are artists like Violeta Parra and Argentinian singer Atahualpa.
Latin America - this term. Most usually it only refers to the nations where the Spanish and Portuguese languages predominate. A Latino is a person of Latin American heritage, or of the Latin-American culture. Etymological note: Treating the term literally, one might expect the term to apply to cultures and regions in the Americas deriving from cultures speaking Romance languages (those descended from Latin). However, French-speaking areas of the Americas, such as Quebec and Acadia in Canada, as well as Haiti, are not considered part of Latin America. Yet this was the original intention of the term – "Latin America" was first proposed during the French occupation of Mexico (1862-1867), when Napoleon III supported Archduke Maximilian's pretensions to be emperor of Mexico. The French hoped that an inclusive notion of "Latin" America would support.
List of people on stamps - a more respectable issuing policy will more often feature people who have played an important role in the country's own history and culture. What follows is a list by country (i.e. by stamp-issuing authority) of identified people on stamps with the year in which that person was first featured on the stamp. The extensive use of catalogue numbers has been avoided because of potential copyright problems. The Scott Publishing Co. in particular has a reputation for diligently protecting its copyrighted numbering system. A more practical reason for shunning catalogue numbers is that each of the four major publishers (Scott, Gibbon, Michel and Yvert) has its own system that is incompatible with all the others. The italic note after the country name is merely to indicate the extent that its stamps have.
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Vernor Vinge - singularity which otherwise encompassed Earth. Vinge finally won the Hugo Award with his 1992 novel, A Fire Upon the Deep. In it, Vinge postulates that the galaxy is divided up into "zones of thought", in which the further one moves from the center of the galaxy, the higher the level of technology one can achieve. Earth is in "The Slow Zone", in which the speed of light cannot be achieved, but neither can the singularity. Thus Vinge could write a classic space opera despite his belief that the technology required for such stories would push us past the singularity. Fire includes a large number of additional ideas making for an unusually complex and rich universe and story. A Deepness in the Sky (1999) was a prequel to Fire, following competing groups.
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg - he later changed to Finnish form like most fennomans (supporters of Finnish language and culture). In Oulu Finnish lycee he was the primus of his class. In 1889 he graduated in Laws, as a Bachelor of Arts. He had a long career as the presenter and planner of the Senate's legislation already when Finland was a Russian Grand Duchy. He supported constitutional legislative policies, including legislative resistance, against the attempted Russification of Finland, eventually even women's suffrage, and had a moderate line on Prohibition. In the beginning of Finland's independence he became the chairman of the Constitutional Council. They formed the first Constitution for Finland as an independent state. He tried to establish relations with Britain. In 1918 Ståhlberg supported the idea of republic instead of the then-popular constitutional monarchy –.
Kansai - Kanto region, which lies to the east and is comprised primarily of Tokyo and the surrounding area. Whereas the Kanto region is symbolic of standardization throughout Japan (from the government to economics to the language), the Kansai region displays many more idiosyncracies through the culture in Kyoto, the merchantilism of Osaka, the history of Nara, the internationality of Kobe, and the distinct dialect (Kansai-ben) heard through the seven prefectures. The region's main airport is Kansai International Airport. Universities in the Kansai Area Kansai Gaidai University Kyoto University See also: Geography of Japan, List of regions in Japan.
Karl Hase - in 1829 was called to Jena as professor of theology. He retired in 1883 and was made a baron. Hase’s aim was to reconcile modern culture with historical Christianity in a scientific way. But though a liberal theologian, he was no dry rationalist. Indeed, he vigorously attacked rationalism, as distinguished from the rational principle, charging it with being unscientific inasmuch as it ignored the historical significance of Christianity, shut its eyes to individuality and failed to give religious feeling its due. His views are presented scientifically in his Evangelisch-protestantische Dogmatik (1826; 6th ed., 1870), the value of which "lies partly in the full and judiciously chosen historical materials prefixed to each dogma, and partly in the skill, caution and tact with which the permanent religious significance of various dogmas is discussed".
