In 2001, the Jewish Publication Society published the first English translation of Judeo-Spanish folk tales, collected by Matilda Koén-Sarano, Folktales of Joha, Jewish Trickster: The Misadventures of the Guileful Sephardic Prankster. A survivor of Auschwitz, Moshe Ha'elyon, issued his translation into Ladino of the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey in 2012, in his 87th year, and is now translating the sister epic, the Iliad, into his mother tongue.
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Films partially or totally in Judeo-Spanish include Mexican film Novia que te vea (directed by Guita Schyfter), The House on Chelouche Street, and Every Time We Say Goodbye.
In 2007, Buda Music released the album Variations Ladino, with music from 15th century Spain to the present day, comprising solo and chamber pieces based on the Ladino tradition.
Chavacano is also spoken in Cavite City and in parts of Ternate, Cavite and Sabah, Malaysia nearest to the Philippines, and even in Brunei and Latin America, because of recent migrations.
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San Andrés–Providencia Creole is one of the main languages of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (alongside Spanish and English) which uses expression and words from English (73%), Spanish (17%) and African descents.
The Percheron breed originated in France, taking its name from the former Perche province.
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In 2008, the show was reduced to a half hour in order to pair up with the Spanish-language version of the short-lived 1982-83 American game show Child's Play under the name Dame la Pista or (Give Me a Clue) hosted by Alessandra Rosaldo as it was cancelled along with ¿Qué dice la gente? for "unknown" reasons.
In 1857 she visited Madrid, playing in Spanish to enthusiastic audiences, and in 1866 she paid the first of four visits to the United States, where she won much applause, particularly in Paolo Giacometti's Elisabeth, an Italian study of the English sovereign.
Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, a US naval officer in the Spanish-American War and World War I
Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana (May 8, 1729 – May 14, 1799) was a Spanish Lieutenant General best known for repelling Admiral Nelson's attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1797.
As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Barrio Suecia (Spanish for "Swedish neighborhood") is a section of Santiago, Chile, centered on Calle Suecia ("Swedish Street"), in the upscale Providencia municipality, which includes many pubs, discos and restaurants.
Spain began its campaign by seizing the Chincha Islands, which were rich in guano, and demanding indemnity as recompense for the murder of two Spanish citizens in Lambayeque.
In 1988 the artist was included in The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary British Painting with John Bellany, Alan Davie, Christopher le Brun, Therese Oulton, Michael Porter and Lance Smith touring Spanish Museums which was curated by Keith Patrick.
Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.
División Minúscula (Spanish for "Minuscule Division") is a Mexican rock band from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, which is becoming increasingly popular in Mexico and gradually making an impact on the U.S. Latin alternative scene.
The Dominicans, under the Spanish Government, established the oldest Medical School in the Philippines in 1871, known as the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (at that time was one with the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Pharmacy, also considered the oldest school of Pharmacy in the Philippines) of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Intramuros, Manila.
Don Antonio de Ulloa, a Spanish Navy cruiser that fought at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
The Spanish state based its right over the land and persons of the Indies on the Papal charge to evangelize the indigenous population.
On 9 September 2009, the stadium hosted the Spanish national team as they defeated Estonia 3-0 to qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which they went on to win.
That year, the band appeared at a special feature show on United States-Television channel HBO to premiere the record, and also headlined the Campus Rock Festival together with Spanish rockers Dover, as well as appearances with Nada Surf, The Godfathers and Mick Taylor.
He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).
Confusion of the unusual Portuguese saint name Gonçalo with Spanish Diego led to the misnomer "Diego Alvarez island" in English sources from 1800s to 1930s.
A Spanish solidarity association with the Sahrawi people from Palafrugell, Gerona, had named itself Lembarki in his memory.
Ibero-German means of or pertaining to people of Spanish or Portuguese descent living in Germany or the German speaking countries.
Cabot got a new lease on life in 1967, when she became the Spanish Navy's carrier Dedalo, serving until 1989 (in Spanish service, she was the first carrier to regularly deploy the Harrier jump jet).
Javier Fernández Aguado (born 1961), Spanish PhD in Economics, author and expert in Management
José de Sigüenza (Sigüenza, 1544 - El Escorial, 22 May 1606) was a historian, poet and Spanish theologian.
Josep Melcior Prat i Colom, or in Spanish Joseph Melchior de Prat, (Els Prats de Rei, Anoia, 1780 - San Sebastian, 1855) was a Catalan nationalist politician, writer, and in 1835 governor of Barcelona, and 1855 civil governor of Guipuzcoa.
Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (Reinoso, Spain, June 13, 1770 - Moraya, Bolivia, December 4, 1831) was an Argentine general of Spanish origin (considered also a Bolivian for his activities in Bolivia) that fought in the war for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile and Peru.
It was to be a Spanish-language station, rebroadcasting Tucson-area station K14HR (now KUDF-LP) from the Santa Rita Mountains near Green Valley, its community of license.
Over the course of its history, the Rock of Gibraltar has changed hands many times, among Spanish, Moorish, and British hands, although it has been consistently under British control since the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
He is the son of former footballer and racing driver Vicente Pernía, and brother of Spanish international footballer Mariano Pernía.
The Hal Roach Studios produced foreign-language versions of their most popular series -- Laurel and Hardy, Charley Chase, Our Gang and Harry Langdon—for the lucrative Spanish markets in both hemispheres.
If Lust's Dominion is The Spanish Moor's Tragedy by another name, it may have been influenced by the August 1600 arrival in London of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, Ambassador of Muley Ahmad al-Mansur, King of Barbary or Morocco.
Maçanet-Massanes (formerly Empalme) is a railway station propierty of adif (Spanish public company) and located in the municipality of Maçanet de la Selva (Selva, Catalonia), far from downtown.
Manuel Alberto Freire de Andrade y Armijo (4 November 1767 – 7 March 1835) was a Spanish cavalry officer and general officer during the Peninsular War, and later Defense Minister.
Another brother, Leonel, played for the Chicago Storm in the same competition and also raced cars in his country, competing in the World Touring Car Championship; his other siblings are Emilio, Julián and Gianna, and his great-grandparents are also Spanish.
Ampelographers believe that along with the Criolla Grande grape of Argentina and Mission grape of California, that the Pais grape is descended by the Spanish "common black grape" brought to Mexico in 1520 by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.
The Royal Palace in the centre of Madrid, the former principal residence of the Spanish kings, is the official residence of the King, although it is only used for state occasions.
Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600 – 1659), a Spanish bishop, politician and writer in colonial Mexico
Pedro Henriquez d'Azevedo y Alvarez de Toledo, Count of Fuentes de Valdepero (Zamora, Spain, 1525 – Milan, Italy, 22 July 1610, aged 85) was a Spanish general and statesman.
Italian and Spanish arrest warrants suggest he became a member of the terrorist organization "Egyptian Islamic Jihad", one of al-Qaeda's backbone groups, which was led by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's right hand man and mentor.
A British protected cruiser attacked a German auxiliary cruiser off the small Spanish colony of Río de Oro.
Sadomania – Hölle der Lust is a 1981 German-Spanish women in prison film directed by Jesús Franco, starring Ajita Wilson.
For a few years along the 50s, Seida was also dealer in Spain for the British Rootes Group car brands, and too for the short-lived Spanish-made Babcock truck.
In addition to musical ventures with Indian Folk artists, Shye has collaborated with the famous Indian singer Shubha Mudgal, the Spanish guitar maestro Fernando Perez, Yossi Fine, Mishko M’ba, Eli Magen, Zohar Fresco, and many others.
Photographer Robert Capa took pictures of the Spanish Republican Navy Marines in the Battle of the Segre.
David Hurst Thomas has focused on Spanish period mission archaeology on St. Catherine's Island.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet began operating their first hospital in Eureka, California in 1919 as a response to the Spanish Flu epidemic.
Thomas received an interview with the Spanish Governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos where he claimed the entire district for Georgia.
In 1992 the Texas Tornados in their album Hangin' on by Thread made a version of "To Ramona" with lyrics partially translated and adapted into Spanish.
Vicente González Lizondo (1942-1996), Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union
Vicente Guillén Izquierdo (Cedrillas, Spain, 24 September 1958) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the governing Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Harris was a fluent speaker of French, Spanish and Moroccan Arabic, and his physical features were such that he could pass for a native Moroccan.
Joseba Zubeldia (born in Usurbil, Basque Country), Spanish professional road bicycle racer
Morales was descended from a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father; she grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded The Village Voice) and briefly with Jack Kerouac.
His book The Age of Villages, with a foreword by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Director of Chatham House, won the “Latino Book Award” (best book by an author whose original language is in Spanish or Portuguese) in the category of contemporary history/political sciences, at the BookExpo America celebrated in Chicago in 2003.
There are some questions as to whether Spanish explorers did arrive in the Hawaiian Islands two centuries before Captain James Cook's first recorded visit in 1778.
In 1936, he was a professor and vice-rector of the Complutense University of Madrid, department head of the National Institute of Physics and Chemistry, the Secretary of the Spanish Society of Physics and Chemistry, a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.
Jorge León Llames Gutiérrez (born October 17, 1978 in Piedras Blancas, Asturias) is a Spanish sport shooter.
In 1928, John Philip Sousa presented Governor Arthur T. Hannett and the people of New Mexico an arrangement of the state song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican.
for the Spanish traditional song "Mambrú se fue a la guerra", see Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre
Soviet participation in the Spanish Civil War was greatly influenced by the growing tension between Stalin and Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany and an avid supporter of the fascist forces of Francisco Franco.
Neil Galanter is an American pianist in Los Angeles, California, who is a leading specialist in researching and performing the works of Iberian/Spanish, Catalan, Belgian, and other European composers including Mompou, Montsalvatge, Granados, Albeniz, Mompou, Blancafort, Espla, and Poot.
Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1994.
Pedro Mendinueta y Múzquiz (June 7, 1736, Elizondo, Navarre—1825) was a Spanish lieutenant general and colonial official.
Perdido en el espacio is the second studio album by Spanish musician David Summers, released in 1997.
Jane Mayer reported in The New Yorker on Sands' reaction to news that Spanish investigating judge Baltazar Garzon had received motions requesting that six former Bush officials (Alberto Gonzales
Potenza was the site of riots against Spanish domination, and in 1694 it was almost completely destroyed by another earthquake.
Robert F. Fisher, (February 18, 1879 Plymouth, England - July 20, 1969 Carlotta, California) served in the California legislature and during the Spanish-American War he served in the United States Army.
Sergio Mendizábal (3 July 1920, San Sebastián, Spain) is a retired Spanish film actor who made over 100 appearances in film between 1955 and 1996.
He is also the author of two previous books in Spanish, El infiltrado, la verdadera historia de Alfredo Astiz (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1996), regarding crimes committed by Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship, and Perón y los alemanes (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1998), on wartime links between Berlin and Buenos Aires.
The delta is located within the Lower Yuna Mangroves (Spanish: Manglares del Bajo Yuna) and empties into the Samaná Bay.
Alonso de Zuazo (1466–1539), Spanish lawyer and colonial judge, that was governor in New Spain and in Santo Domingo