Category: Colonial United States ( Mexican )

Category: Colonial United States ( Mexican )

The Spanish Colonial collection includes work from 17th and 18th century Mexican artists Miguel Cabrera, José de Ibarra, José de Páez and Nicolás Rodriguez Juárez.

During the Mexican Colonial period and after, European settlers brought in more intensive agriculture to the Wine Country, including growing grapes and wine production.

Cultural diffusion and intermixing among the Amerindian populations with the European created the modern Mexican identity which is a mixture of regional indigenous and European cultures that evolved into a national culture during the Spanish Colonial period.

:* Colonial Mexico was the center of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( Nueva España ) — From initial 16th century expeditions and the conquest of Tenochtitlán ( 1521 ), through the centuries, until the Mexican War of Independence ( 1810 – 1821 ) was won in 1821.

In 1921 a scenic Spanish Colonial Revival glazed tile fountain and Mexican Saltillo tile patio was added to Torrance High's Mediterranean Revival style Main Building, along with the attached ' L wing ' expansion.

Category: Colonial United States ( Mexican )

The Mexican Colonial Term “ Chino ” Is a Referent of Afrodescendant.

The museum collection of Spanish Colonial painting and furniture is especially strong in Mexican painting, largely due to the collecting interests and generosity of the Mayer family.

The museum has over 4, 000 works of art, ranging from the 16th century to the present, and is best known for its extensive collection of Haitian, Colonial Mexican and Midwestern art, particularly pieces by Thomas Hart Benton, Marvin Cone and Grant Wood, including the only self-portrait Wood ever painted.

First granted in 1762 by New Hampshire's Colonial Governor, Benning Wentworth, the territory was named Dryden, after English poet and playwright, John Dryden.

** Anne Bradstreet, female Colonial American poet ( died 1672 )

One of Porcuna's famous sons is the Baroque poet Juan del Valle y Caviedes, born here around 1645, who moved to Perú at an early age and wrote biting satirical works attacking the hypocrisy of the Colonial upper class society of Lima.

File: Gabinete Inés de Suárez. jpg | Colonial cabinet from Inés de Suárez

*** Colonial heads of São João Baptista de Ajudá

* Afonso, Aniceto and Gomes, Carlos de Matos, Guerra Colonial ( 2000 ), ISBN 972-46-1192-2

The Portuguese Colonial War ( Guerra Colonial ), also known as Overseas War ( Ultramar ) in Portugal or in the former colonies as War of liberation ( Guerra de Libertação ), was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974.

Among them were the Bataillon de Parachutistes Coloniaux ( BPC ) based in Vannes-Meucon, the Metropolitan Paratroopers, and the Colonial Paratroopers and Bataillons Etrangers de Parachutistes ( French Foreign Legion ), which coexisted until 1954.

Most historians believe that the county was named for Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt ( 1718 – 1770 ), Colonial Governor of Virginia from 1768 to 1770.

The last burning by the Spanish Colonial government in Latin America was of Mariana de Castro, in Lima in 1732.

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In an attempt to support the embattled troops the 1er BEP Replacement Company ( 120 men ) under Lieutenant Loth had been merged with 268 men from 3e BCCP ( Bataillon Colonial de Commandos Parachutistes, Parachute Colonial Commando Battalion ) under Captain Cazeaux and they were parachuted into That Khe on 8 October, but over the course of the next week destroyed as well.

Category: Colonial governors of Santa Fe de New Mexico

Because Saint Pierre was the commercial capital of the island, there were four banks in the city — the Banque de la Martinique, Banque Transatlantique, a branch of the Colonial Bank of London, and the Crédit Foncier Colonial.

* Nicolas de Aguilar, Colonial official in New Mexico

The Museo de Arte Colonial ( Museum of Colonial Art ) holds a collection of documents, old books, religious ornaments and maps from the colonial period.

Chile ransacked the contents of the National Library of Peru in Lima and transported thousands of books ( including many centuries-old original Spanish, Peruvian, and Colonial volumes ) to Santiago de Chile, along with much capital stock.

* Colonial history of Brazil in the Rio de Janeiro Municipality website ( in Portuguese ).

Thelma Morgan had two sisters: Gloria ( her identical twin, the mother of Gloria Vanderbilt, the fashion designer and artist and mother of news anchor Anderson Cooper ) and Laura Consuelo Morgan ( aka Tamar ), who was married to Count Jean de Maupas du Juglart, a French nobleman ; to Benjamin Thaw, Jr. of Pittsburgh ; and to Alfons B. Landa, president of Colonial Airlines and vice-chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic National Committee in 1948.

He was a member also of the National Institute of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Antiquarian Society, and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and L ' Institut de Droit Comparé.

Colonial period: Louis de Lamoricière, communes de plein exercice, communes indigènes, Ministry of Algerian Affairs, beni-oui-oui, Adolphe Crémieux, Auguste Warnier, Jules Cambon, Jeunesse Algérienne, Jonnart Law, Khalid ibn Hashim, Party of the Algerian People, Federation of Elected Natives, Abd al Hamid Ben Badis, Algerian Muslim Congress, Mohamed Bendjelloul, Viollette Plan, Georges Catroux, ratissage, Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties, Organic Statute of Algeria, Larbi Ben M ' Hidi, Mourad Didouch, Moustafa Ben Boulaid, Mohamed Khider, External Delegation in Cairo

*( Sergio Florescano Mayet, El Camino Mexico-Veracruz en la Epoca Colonial, Xalapa, Centro de Investigaciones Historicas, Universidad Veracruzana, 1987.

Nearby is the Palais de la Porte Dorée, an exhibition hall built for the Paris Colonial Exposition.

The Italians also had one battalion of elite mountain troops ( Alpini ), one battalion of highly mobile infantry ( Bersaglieri ), numerous Fascist paramilitary Blackshirts ( Camicie Nere ) battalions, Security Volunteer Militia ( Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale or MVSN ), Colonial Militia, and other smaller units.

MVSN Colonial Militia were colonial military units of the Italian Fascist MVSN organization ( Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale ; " Volunteering Militia for the National Security ") based in the Italian African colonial possessions of Italian North Africa ( comprising Cyrenaica and Tripolitania ), and in Italian East Africa ( comprising Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland ).

The Centinela Adobe, also known as La Casa de la Centinela, is a Spanish Colonial style adobe house built in 1834.

In 1930 Colonial was purchased by the Provincial Transport Company, ( la Compagnie de Transport-Provincial ), which had been incorporated in November 1928 and acquired 31 bus lines in the Montreal area in June 1929.

** Colo ( Troupes Coloniales ): The former term for the Troupes de la Marine when they were Colonial troops.

The area they settled was then known as Santa Cruz Colonial Nucleus, since the most accessible town to it was Santa Cruz, at the mouth of that river.

Owned by the Lisbon-based Companhia Colonial, the ship was the second largest ship in the Portuguese merchant navy at the time and along with her sister ship, the Vera Cruz was among the most luxurious Portuguese-flag liners of that time.