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SPORTS
Real Madrid – soccer team (Site
1, Site
2)
*Roberto
Clemente – baseball player
*Carlos Arroyo
– basketball player
*Jose
Ortiz – basketball player
*Teófilo
Stevenson Lawrence – boxer
Sammy Sosa – baseball player (Site
1, Site
2) |
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LITERATURE
*Federico Garcia Lorca – author, Spain
*Miguel
de Cervantes – author, Spain
*Cristina
Garcia – author
Nicolás Guillén – Cuban poet (Site
1, Site
2)
Rubén
Darío – Nicaraguan poet
Pablo
Neruda – Chilian writer
Gabriel
García Márquez
Octavio
Paz – mexican writer/poet |
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ART
*Museo del Prado
– Madrid, Spain
*Pablo
Picasso – painter, Spain
*Frida
Kahlo – painter, Mexico
*Carlos
Enriquez – painter, Cuba
*Salvador
Dali – painter
Diego
Velazquez – Spanish painter
Francisco Goya – painter, Spain
el
Greco – Spanish painter
Bartolomé
Estéban Murillo – painter, Spain
Diego
Rivera – painter, Mexico |
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FOOD
*Paella – food, Spain (Site 1,
Site 2)
*guacamole
*Flan
– food, Spain (Site
2)
tortilla española – Spain (Site
1, Site 2) |
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DANCE/MUSIC
*el merengue – dance (Site
1, Site
2)
merengue
– music
*Flamenco
– dance of Andalucía, Spain
Salsa
– music
Tango
– Argentina dance |
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HOLIDAYS/CELEBRATIONS/CULTURAL
EVENTS
*Quinceañera – 15th birthday, Mexico
(Site 1, Site
2)
*Running of the Bulls – Pamplona, Spain
*Bullfighting (Site 1, Site
2, Site
3)
*los
gauchos – Argentina
*Día de las Máscaras – Hatillo, Puerto Rico
(Site
1, Site
2)
*La Tomatina
– Spain
Cinco de Mayo – Mexico (Site 1,
Site 2)
Día
de los Muertos – Mexico |
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POLITICIANS/DICTATORS
*Fidel
Castro – dictator, Cuba
Rafael
Trujillo – Republican Dominican dictator
Rey Juan Carlos I – Spain
*Francisco
Franco – Spanish dictator
Juan
Peron – Argentine dictator
Eva
Peron – Argentine legend
General
Augusto Pinochet – Chile dictator |
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HISTORY
*the
Incans
*the
Mayans
*the
Aztecs
*Los Indios Taíno – Indian Tribe of the Carribean (Site
1, Site 2)
*Spanish
Civil War
*Spanish-American
War
The Alhambra & the Moors in Spain (Site
1, Site
2, Site 3)
Spanish
Inquisition |
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MATH/SCIENCE/GEOGRAPHY
*Ruth
Gonzalez – mathematician
*The
Galapagos Islands
Antonia
Novello – scientist of Dominican Republic
the
Amazon in South America
*Geography
of the Carribean Islands
Popocatépetl
– Volcano in Mexico
Espeleológicas
de Jerez – caves, Cádiz, Spain
Andalusian
Horses
South
American Geography |
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RELIGIOUS
*Santería – religion (Site
1, Site 2)
*Feria
– Seville, Spain
*Semana
Santa – holiday |
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ENTERTAINMENT
Antonio Banderas – actor, singer (Site
1, Site
2)
*Alejandro Sanz
– singer
*Selma
Hayek – actress
Liz Torres – actress (Site
1, Site
2)
*Hector
Elizondo – actor
*Shakira – Columbian singer (Site
1, Site 2)
*Tego
Calderón – raggae
Braulio
Dueño Colon – composer
*Tejano
music – Mexico/Texas
*Dezi
Arnaz – actor/comedian
*Vico C – Puerto
Rican rapper
*Selena
– Mexican singer
*the
Quena – traditional flute of Ecuador
Andy
García – actor
Carlos
Santana – musician
Gloria
Estefan – musician/singer
Freddie Prinze – actor
Jennifer Lopez – singer/actress
Los Lonely Boys – musical group, Texas
Carlos
Mencia – comedian, Mexican American |
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