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...second prime minister of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo got off to a rocky start when his inauguration was interrupted by an 18-hour military coup on Feb. 23, 1981. Thanks to a television address by King Juan Carlos imploring soldiers to accept the democratic constitution, the coup fell apart. Calvo Sotelo went on to negotiate Spain's entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during his nearly two years as Prime Minister...
...Thursday. "Odyssey stripped the gravesite of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes." Although Odyssey representatives said they had sought to keep the shipwreck's exact location secret out of concern for the site's security, in January, the court ordered the American company to reveal its findings to Spain. That information, coupled with the government's own investigations, enabled Madrid to assert today that the sunken ship - and the trove of silver treasure it contained - rightfully belong to the Spanish state...
...ownership dispute first erupted in April 2007, when the for-profit company Odyssey filed claim to and extracted some 17 tons of silver coins and other treasure from the underwater site, moving the artifacts to an undisclosed storage facility near its company headquarters in Tampa. From the outset, Spain believed that the ship was Spanish, and that the excavation therefore amounted to an attack on its historical patrimony. Odyssey, on the other hand, argued that as salvager it had the right to a significant percentage of the reclaimed booty regardless of the ship's origins. And as recently as January...
...world is the only way to truly understand the “global economy.” Wu is not alone in wanting to study and work in developing nations on her study abroad trips. While students overwhelmingly still favor Western Europe in their travels—France, Italy, Spain, and England were the most popular accredited study abroad locations for Harvard students in 2006-2007, according to the Office of International Programs (OIP)—less traditional countries are quickly gaining popularity. LOOKING BEYOND EUROPEThe number of Harvard students studying in Argentina for credit grew from...
When Harvard TEATRO!’s production of “Tres sombreros de copa” (“Three Top Hats”) premieres this Friday, it will mark the Spanish play’s first performance in its original language in the United States. But Spain isn’t the only faraway place on the mind of the play’s director: Verónica Rodriguez Ballasteros, a Madrid native, hopes to introduce Harvard audiences to her figurative homeland as well as her literal one.“The need to direct this play...