Word: hispanos
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...such organization is the Concilio Hispano, a group which employs and targets Hispanics in the Cambridge community...
This picture alone can underscore the idea of the misunderstanding of Columbus' arrival in the Americas. When Columbus arrived on Hispano in 1492 there were people there to greet him. How could he discover a land that was already inhabited? This is a perfect example of the African proverb, until the lions has historians, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter...
...Spanish Islamic civilization ever set before a general audience by a museum. If the show itself, with its 120-some items, seems a little thin to the casual eye, this is due to the extreme paucity of works of art that have come down to us from the Hispano-Islamic period. After the reconquest, bronze and gold were melted down, jewels prized from their settings, manuscripts burned, textiles left to rot, pottery smashed. Not much survived the iconoclastic vengeance of Christians after the 16th century...
...Hispano-Islamic culture was an extraordinary hybrid, built over the vestiges of Rome, mingling Western with Middle Eastern forms. This tension and merging shows itself everywhere in the remnants of Islamic Spain. The architects of ^ the prayer hall of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, for instance, designed its sublime forest of columns and horseshoe arches as a communal space without the hierarchical orientation of a Christian basilica, as befitted Islamic ritual -- but they also based its double-arch system on the design of Roman aqueducts. "You have taken something unique and turned it into something mundane," the Emperor Charles...
...entire second floor of the building." While this spawning ground may have seemed fairly unrevolutionary to the surrealists, the elder Bunuel seems to have been as impulsive and liberal as his son. "I remember my family telling about the day my father donated his entire account to the Hispano-American bank because they were in financial straits. Apparently, it was enough to keep the bank out of bankruptcy court...