Spanish emerald and gold pendant exhibited at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Esmeralda is the Spanish and Portuguese word for " emerald ".

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In June 2011, treasure divers from Mel Fisher's Treasure found an antique emerald ring believed to be from the Spanish boat.

Rugged mining engineer Rian Mitchell ( Stewart Granger ) discovers a lost emerald mine in the highlands of Colombia, which had last been operated by the Spanish conquistadors.

Although Andean Amerindian peoples crafted ceremonial jewelry of gold and other metals the mineralizations of the Andes were first mined in large scale after the Spanish arrival.

Emblems of gold medals and the Spanish Coat of Arms awarded during the formative years of the business appear on every bottle of Bacardí Rum.

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.

Daunted by fierce resistance from the Caribs and discouraged by the absence of gold, the Spanish did not settle the island.

The Inca warrior had ordered the city to be burned and its gold to be buried at an undisclosed location where the Spanish could never find it.

According to the natives of Peru, who by this time had observed the Spanish lust for gold, the territories of Chile had abundances of gold which would justify any effort.

Then he laughed, pulled a necklace of Spanish gold from around his neck and said " Our voyage is made, lads!

Near Lima, Drake captured a Spanish ship laden with 25, 000 pesos of Peruvian gold, amounting in value to 37, 000 ducats of Spanish money ( about £ 7m by modern standards ).

Spanish interest in Hispaniola began to wane in the 1520s, as more lucrative gold and silver deposits were found in Mexico and South America.

She risked war with Spain by supporting the " Sea Dogs ," such as John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake, who preyed on the Spanish merchant ships carrying gold and silver from the New World.

Visigothic Kingdom | Spanish Visigothic gold tremisses in the name of emperor Justinian I, 7th century.

Exploitation of this advantage began soon after the Spanish arrived, when the conquistadors used Panama to transport gold and silver from Peru to Spain.

Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors largely ignored St. Vincent and the smaller Grenadine islands nearby, but focused instead on the pursuit of gold and silver in Central and South America.

* In Neal Stephenson's three-volume The Baroque Cycle, 17th century alchemists like Isaac Newton believe that Solomon created a kind of " heavier " gold with mystical properties and that it was cached in the Solomon Islands where it was accidentally discovered by the crew of a wayward Spanish galleon.

The Spanish arrived in the territory of present-day Uruguay in 1516, but the people's fierce resistance to conquest, combined with the absence of gold and silver, limited settlement in the region during the 16th and 17th centuries.

By the 1540s Indians along the coast of Florida, where many of the Spanish treasure ships wrecked, were diving on the wrecks and recovering significant amounts of gold and silver.

* Costa Rica was named by the Spanish Colonizer Gil González Dávila when he found copious quantities of gold in Pacific beaches.

Following Queen Anne's proclamation of 1704, the British West Indies gold standard was a de facto gold standard based on the Spanish gold doubloon coin.

Spanish pendant at Victoria and Albert Museum.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Teeth again flashing back at me, the driver released a deluge of Spanish in which `` amigo '' appeared every so often like an island in the stormy waves of surrounding sound.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

They headed in that direction and, at San Juan Capistrano By-the-Sea came upon Barco sitting in the quaint old Spanish Mission Drive-in, eating a hot tamale.

The vivacity of the masquers' party at Leonato's palace, with the Spanish motif in the music and dancing in honor of the visiting Prince of Arragon, cast a spell of delight.

He had never heard so many bells, and as he lay there listening, he thought of her scolding him for his remarks when he had looked up at the obelisk and the church at the top of the Spanish Steps.

The ll and ch were also considered single letters, but in 1994 the Real Academia Española changed collating order so that ll is between lk and lm in the dictionary and ch is between cg and ci, and in 2010 the tenth congress of the Association of Spanish Language Academies changed it so they were no longer letters at all < ref > Real Academia Española.

* 1557 – Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.

Although controversial at its time, the 13 principles laid out by the 12th century Spanish Jewish philosopher Maimonides are now considered mostly normative.

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

* Casa Batllo at Tot Passejant ( Spanish )

* 1587 – Francis Drake leads a raid in the Bay of Cádiz, sinking at least 23 ships of the Spanish fleet.

The Puerto Rican activist Julio Vizcarrondo had moved the Spanish Abolitionist Society from San Juan de Puerto Rico to Madrid at the request of premier Miguel Prim, himself a former Puerto Rico governor.

Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.

Alphonsus a Sancta Maria, or Alphonso de Cartagena ( 1396 – July 12, 1456 ), Spanish historian, was born at Cartagena, and succeeded his father, Paulus, as bishop of Burgos.

* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.

At one point, his Spanish pursuers urinated at the bottom of a tree he was hiding in, but did not discover him.

* 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

* 1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.

Spanish and international movies such as Asterix at the Olympic Games by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann, Manolete by Menno Meyjes have been shot there.

Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than twenty-five years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by Ben Adret in 1305.

* 1607 – Eighty Years ' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.

* 1707 – The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa ( Spain ) in the War of the Spanish Succession.