Her symbolic role in this unique mission to the Spanish Court was intended to emphasize the international links which were forged by her 16th-century ancestor, Ieyasu Tokugawa.

Today the existence of bilingual dictionaries directly from Breton into languages such as English, Dutch, German, Spanish and Welsh demonstrates the determination of a new generation to gain international recognition for Breton.

Confronted by the new experiences, difficulties and suffering created by empire-building, Spanish thinkers formulated some of the first modern thoughts on natural law, sovereignty, international law, war, and economics ; there were even questions about the legitimacy of imperialism – in related schools of thought referred to collectively as the School of Salamanca.

French buccaneers established a settlement on the island of Tortuga in 1625, and were soon joined by like minded English and Dutch privateers and pirates, who formed a lawless international community that survived by preying on Spanish ships and hunting wild cattle.

He arbitrates and moderates the regular functioning of the institutions, assumes the highest representation of the Spanish State in international relations, especially with the nations of its historical community, and exercises the functions expressly conferred on him by the Constitution and the laws.

Its European peoples, of ethnic French, Spanish and Mexican descent, were largely Catholic ; in addition, there was a large population of enslaved Africans made up of a high proportion of recent arrivals from Africa, as Spain had continued the international slave trade.

In 1874, the Spanish sovereignty was recognized by the international community.

* 1986 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.

Three years after Paraguay overthrew Spanish authority and gained its independence, the country's economy was controlled by the autarchic policies of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( 1814 – 40 ), who closed the young nation's borders to virtually all international trade.

The Spanish monarch, currently, Juan Carlos I, is the head of the Spanish State, symbol of its unity and permanence, who arbitrates and moderates the regular function of government institutions, and assumes the highest representation of Spain in international relations, especially with those who are part of its historical community.

Spanish companies invested in fields like renewable energy ( Iberdrola was the world's largest renewable energy operator ), technology companies like Telefónica, Abengoa, Mondragon Corporation, Movistar, Hisdesat, Gamesa, Indra, train manufacturers like CAF, Talgo, global corporations such as the textile company Inditex, petroleum companies like Repsol and infrastructure, with six of the ten biggest international construction firms specialising in transport being Spanish, like Ferrovial, Acciona, ACS, OHL and FCC.

As a result of international pressure ( France, USA, Great Britain ,...), Spain abandoned Western Sahara on Nov. 14, 1975, going so far as to even exhume Spanish corpses from cemeteries.

* October 20 – Jesús Herrera, Spanish international footballer ( b. 1938 )

* May 16 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.

Following the Spanish discovery of great silver deposits at Potosí in Bolivia and in Mexico during the 16th century, international trade came to depend on coins such as the Spanish dollar, Maria Theresa thaler, and, in the 1870s, the United States Trade dollar.

It is an international retaliation to Louis XIV ’ s acceptance in 1700 of the Spanish crown on behalf of his grandson Philip of Anjou, who became Philip V, first Bourbon king of Spain.

Johann Mühlegg ( born 8 November 1970 in Ostallgäu, Germany ) is a former Spanish top level cross-country skier who competed in international competitions first representing Germany and then Spain, after becoming a Spanish citizen in 1999.

However, after 1591 the Portuguese used an international syndicate of the German Fuggers and Welsers, and Spanish and Italian firms, that used Hamburg as its northern staple port to distribute their goods, thereby cutting Dutch merchants out of the trade.

Not at the close of the Civil War, not as the result of the Spanish War, but in the Interwar period did the United States become a part of the international system.

The symbol of Britannia was first used in 1572 and often thereafter to mark the Elizabethan age as a renaissance that inspired national pride through classical ideals, international expansion, and naval triumph over the hated Spanish foe.

Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle said, " No one else makes movies like this Spanish director " and added, " In other hands, these characters might be candidates for confessions – and brawls – on The Jerry Springer Show, but here they are handled with utmost sympathy.

European, Australian, Latin American, Spanish and Asian versions of TNT were launched in the 1990s but were exclusively dedicated to movies, mainly from the MGM and Warner Brothers archives ( The UK and Scandinavian TNT did show WCW Monday Nitro on Friday nights just four days after its US broadcast, and the Latin American version aired a children's block called " Magic Box ").

Sporting included the Spanish sport of jai-alai and greyhound racing, and media included silent movies like D. W. Griffith ’ s The White Rose which was made at the Miami Movie Studios located in Hialeah.

He has also scored the music for two movies — American indie film Mysterious Skin ( in collaboration with Harold Budd ) and Mexican / Spanish movie 3: 19.

, spelled as Freeza in the Japanese version, Freezer in English and Spanish version is a fictional character, a Supervillain and a major antagonist from Frieza arc of the Dragon Ball franchise created by Akira Toriyama, who first introduced the character in his manga Dragon Ball, followed by its anime adaptation Dragon Ball Z. Frieza also appears in the television special Bardock: The Father of Goku, two Dragon Ball Z movies, the side story The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, and in Dragon Ball GT.

The success of the animated series in Mexico is partly attributed to its translation and voicework in Spanish, which was the very first to be done in a loose style, translating not only languages but cultural references and humor as well, uncommon in movies or television shows until Count Duckula, or " Conde Pátula " as it is known in Spanish.

Although he speaks Spanish and uses it in some of his movies, he is not particularly fluent.

WUVC-DT offers a Spanish programming format featuring news, talk shows, dramas, movies and other first rate Spanish programming.

TeleFutura's programming consists of telenovelas from Coral Productions, Televisa, Venevision, RCTV, RCN and Rede Globo as well as movies often consisting of recent American releases dubbed in Spanish.

Other stars realized numerous movies in the Spanish versions of Hollywood movies.

Two other movies were loosely based on Romand's life: the French L ' Emploi du temps ( 2001 ) ( English title: Time Out ) and the Spanish La Vida de nadie ( English title: Nobody's Life ).

Cannibal films, or the cannibal genre, are graphic, gory movies made from the early 1970s to the late 1980s, primarily by Italian and Spanish moviemakers.

Tortuga also has been featured in the movies Safe in Hell ( 1931 ), The Black Swan ( 1942 ), The Spanish Main ( 1945 ), Double Crossbones ( 1950 ), Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd ( 1952 ), Pirates of Tortuga ( 1961 ).

The movies are often in English, and have Spanish subtitles, but are sometimes translated for family movies.

Díaz Quesada adapted from the Spanish novelist Joaquín Dicenta in 1910, as a tendency widely used then, of using literary works adapted for movies, as well as imitating Chaplin, the French comedies and cowboys adventure films.

WUVG-DT offers a Spanish-language programming format featuring TV news, talk shows, dramas, movies and other first-rate Spanish programming.

His expressionist values would contrast rapidly with a time period in the Spanish cinema when the influences from the American movies would multiply ( i. e. Alejandro Amenábar ).

During this period, TVI was known for its American series and movies, including X-Files and Baywatch, and the Spanish show El gran juego de la oca ( translated as O Jogo do Ganso ) imported from Antena 3.

Despite the many movies and plays that Goity had done, it wasn't until 2004 that he became famous, when hired by Telefe to play " Uriarte " in the television Spanish soap opera, " Los Roldán ".

What he is not, normally, known for are special exhibitions like the Papago Legends, Padre Kino, Cabeza de Vaca, detailed and ornate crowns and jewelry, stylish blouses and skirts, corny Western movies, genius master's thesis theories, whimsical ceramics and metal work, Spanish and jazz influenced music, and the list continues for this prolific artist.

In Spanish, ñ is considered a separate letter, but accented vowels such as á and é are not.

However this ideal is not normally achieved in practice ; some languages ( such as Spanish and Finnish ) come close to it, while others ( such as English ) deviate from it to a much larger degree.

Adjectives derived from " United States " ( such as United Statesian ) are awkward in English, but similar constructions exist in Spanish ( estadounidense ), Portuguese ( estado-unidense, estadunidense ), Finnish ( yhdysvaltalainen: from Yhdysvallat, United States ), as well as in French ( états-unien ), and Italian ( statunitense ).

Much like in Britain, who subtracted itself from the liberal constitutional process, Spanish conservatives wanted to continue with the Traditional Spanish Organic Laws such as the Fuero Juzgo, the Novísima Recopilación and the Partidas of Alfonso X.

In Peru and Rio de la Plata many powerful figures proposed an American Monarchy such as those who wanted an independent Peruvian king of the still alive Inca Royal House, and those who requested a Prince of the Spanish house of Bourbon to come and rule directly in Lima, Mexico City or Bogota, as the Portuguese House of Orleans-Braganza had done in Rio de Janeiro.

His fondness for the sport of football led to the patronage of several " Royal " (" Real " in Spanish ) football clubs such as Real Madrid, Real Sociedad, Real Betis, Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña, Real Unión and Real Zaragoza.

Argentine cuisine may be described as a cultural blending of Mediterranean influences ( such as those created by Italian and Spanish populations ) within the wide scope of livestock and agricultural products that are abundant in the country.

For long periods, urban areas such as Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Córdoba welcomed European immigrants, including, above all, those of Italian and Spanish descent.

Things got worse in the early 18th century ; after the War of Spanish Succession, Alicante went into a long, slow decline, surviving through the 18th and 19th centuries by making shoes and growing agricultural produce such as oranges and almonds, and thanks to its fisheries.

The first option ( although it is debatable to what extent the Duke was committed to such an enterprise ) was a plan to transfer his forces from the Spanish Netherlands to northern Italy ; once there, he intended linking up with Prince Eugene in order to defeat the French and safeguard Savoy from being overrun.

The development of stronger locking blade mechanisms for folding knives — as with the Spanish navaja, the Opinel, and the Buck 110 Folding Hunter — significantly increased the utility of such knives when employed for heavy-duty tasks such as preparing game or cutting through dense or tough materials.

Other dance styles, such as the Italian and Spanish dances of the period are much less well studied than either English country dance or the French style.

Wills favored jazz-like arrangements and the band found national popularity into the 1940s with such hits as " Steel Guitar Rag ", " New San Antonio Rose ", " Smoke on the Water ", " Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima ", and " New Spanish Two Step ".

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

( In games such as Blackjack or Spanish 21, the final bet may be several times the original bet, if the player double and splits.

In games which have a skill element, such as Blackjack or Spanish 21, the house edge is defined as the house advantage from optimal play ( without the use of advanced techniques such as card counting ), on the first hand of the shoe ( the container that holds the cards ).

Costa Rica's distance from the capital in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under Spanish law to trade with its southern neighbors in Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( i. e., Colombia ), and the lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.

Andrés Segovia commissioned works from Spanish composers such as Federico Moreno Torroba and Joaquín Rodrigo, Italians such as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Latin American composers such as Manuel Ponce of Mexico.