Spanish History General

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Royal Spanish Academy

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Created in 1713 responsible for regulating the Spanish Language

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Political and Economic facts of Spain

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Spain is a Democracy under a parliamentary constitutional monarchy

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Spanish Cinema

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Began in the 1930s with Luis Bunel, the first Spanish Director

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Zarzuela

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The zarzuela is a particular performing work of art that mixes theater and music

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Spanish architecture

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Is varied and reflects its history, Roman influence and Cordoba Moors domination

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Diego Velazquez

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Spanish Painter of the 17th Century, Court painter to King Philip IV, Painted Las Meninas

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Frida Kahlo

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20th century painter, born and died in Mexico City, contracted Polio, married to Diego Rivera

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Ernesto Sabato

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Argentine writer, studied physics, painter, writer in science, metaphysics, and politics

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Fernando Botero

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Painter born in Medellin, Colombia, trained as matador

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Placido Domingo

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Spanish Opera singer, born in Spain, educated in Mexico, one of the three tenors

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Francisco Goya

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Born in Spain in 1746, Baroque and Rococo then neoclassicism and expressionism. Painted Tres de Mayo

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Jose Clemente Orozco

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Mexican painter worked with Diego Rivera and Siqueiros besides the revolution, focused on Pre-Columbian Culture

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Diego Rivera

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Mexican painter, muralist, one of three muralist, Orozco, Siqueiros. Major works: La creacion, Laleyenda de Quetzalcoatl

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Celia Cruz

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Cuban singer known as queen of Salsa

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David Alfaro Siqueiros

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Mexican painter one of three main muralist. Known for Nueva democracia, Victimas de las guerra, Victimas del fascismo, El tormento de Cuauhtemoc, El entierro del obrero sacrificado, los elementos, los mitos, el llamado de la libertad.

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Salvador Dali

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A surrealist Painter, cubist.

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Isabel Allende

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Writer, born in Peru, move to Chile wrote De amor de la sombra, Eva Luna, Cuentos de Eva Luna, El plan infinito, Paula, Hija de la fortuna, La ciudad de las bestias, and Ines del alma mia, Los amigos son los amigos and La isla bajo el mar.

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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Peruvian political novelist. Los jefes, la ciudad y los perros, conversacion en la cathedral; Pantaleon y las visitadoras, lituma en los Andes, La guerra del fin del mundo, Historia de Maya, El Hablador, and Quien mato a Palomo Montero?

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Alhambra

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built between the 12th and 13th century in Granada when the Moors occupied Spain

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Popol Vuh

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Also known as El libro de consejo, written in the Mayan-Quiche Language

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Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish Painter, born in Malaga, lived in Madrid, Known for Cubist paintings, known for Guernica painting

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Felix Lope de Vega

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Spanish writer who wrote poetry, theater plays, and prose. Known for El perro de hortelano, La viuda de Valencia

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Julio Cortazar

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Argentinian author who wrote stories, essays, novels: known for Rayuela, Final del juego, Bestaiario, las armas secretas

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Horacio Quiroga

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Uruguayan writer known for stories, lived in Argentina, poetry: Arrecifes de coral; stories El crimen del otro, Historia de un amor turbio, Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte, Cuentos de la selva, Anaconda, and Los desterrados.

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Juan Rulfo

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Mexican writer novelist and short stories during the 40s. El llano en llamas and a novel, Pedro Paramo

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Born in Argentina, know for Historia de la eternidad, Cuaderno de San Martin, El Aleph, El jardin de os senderos que los senderos que se bifurcan

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Columbian writer, known for Cien ano de soledad, Del armor y otros demonios

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Carlos Fuentes

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Mexican writer known for his novels: La region mas transparente, Las buenas conciencias, Cambio de piel, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Aura, Zona sagrada, Terra nostra, Gringo viejo.

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Jose Enrique Rodo

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Uruguayan writer who wrote modernistic essays: Los motivos de proteo

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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

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Argentinian writer wrote essays and novels: President of Argentina 1868 to 1874: wrote civilizacion y barbarie: Vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga, De La educacion popular

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Ruben Dario

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Nicaraguan writer, major figure in modernism, Known works: Azul, Peregrinaciones, Historia de mis libros

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Jose Marti

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Cuban writer, hero of Cuban independence, fought against Spaniards: works; Ismalillo, Versos libres, Versos sencillos. Nuestra America, El Presidio en Cuba, La Republica Espanola ante la revolucion cubana, bases del partido revlucionario cubano.

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Octavio Paz

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Mexican poetist and essay writer. Nobel Prize winner.for literature. Works: Libertad bajo palabra, piedra de sol Salamandra, ladera este, topoemas, pruebas del nueve>

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Pablo Neruda

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Chilean poet with Marxist convictions Nobel Prize winner, Poetry, Crepusculo Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion deseperada, Espana ene 1 corazon, Residencia en al tierra, Canto general, odas elementales, Cantos ceremoniales

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Jose de San Martin

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Argentinian general, liberator Argentina and Chile, Fought with Spaniards and French in Spain’s war of Independence, Later fought against Spaniards for the Independence of Latin American countries, known as protector of Peru.

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Cristobal Colon

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Genoese navigator to find route to the East with approval of Catholic Spain, Discovered new world October 1492

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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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Miguel Hidalgo Mexican priest and patriot known as the father of the country. September 16, 1810, dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato began Mexican war of independence. Ended slavery, fought for the rights of Indians

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Simon Bolivar

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Liberator of Venezuela, helped Peru and the Alto Peru, today Bolivia obtain their independence. works: Memoria dirigida a los ciudadano de Nueva Granada por un caraqueno,

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Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

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Lived in Mexico wrote poetry, theater plays, and prose, an nun. works: Respuesta a Sor Filotea de al Cruz, Primer sueno, El divino Narciso, El cetro de Jose and El martir de Sacramento

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Hernan Cortes

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Spanish Conquistador, founded Espanola, Dominican Republic and Haiti, Cuba and conqueror of the Aztecs