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.

The Argentine Air Force acrobatic display team is called Cruz del Sur, the Spanish for " Southern Cross ".

* 1542 – John of the Cross, Spanish mystic and poet ( d. 1591 )

The Spanish Army Red Cross of Military Merit awarded by General Francisco Franco to Kim Philby at Salamanca town on 2nd March 1938

* Southern Cross Aerobatic Squadron ( Spanish: Escuadrilla Acrobática Cruz del Sur ), the aerobatic demonstration team of the Argentine Air Force

* June 24 – St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet ( died 1591 )

* December 14 – Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet ( b. 1542 )

John of the Cross ( San Juan de la Cruz ) ( 24 June 1542 – 14 December 1591 ), born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile.

St. John of the Cross is considered one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language.

Spanish flu victims are tended by American Red Cross nurses at the Oakland Municipal Auditorium ( now the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center )

* John of the Cross, Spanish poet and mystic

The Cross of Burgundy was one of the main symbols of the Spanish Empire overseas, so it flew over the warships and was carried by the militia in the colonial territory during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Other notable figures associated with the city are Ferdinand I of Aragon, cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, the mystic John of the Cross, the theologian Gabriel Vázquez, the poet Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, and Manuel Azaña Díaz, writer and politician, who was President of the Second Spanish Republic between 1933 and 1936.

The Spanish Cross of Burgundy, used in southern Alabama until the 1800s.

However, the saltire of the Alabama's flag most closely resembles the saltire of the flag of Florida, which has its heritage in the Spanish Cross of Burgundy.

Note that this is a runner stone ; a bedstone would not have the " Spanish Cross " into which the supporting millrynd fits.

* Santa Cruz ( Indefatigable ) Island ( Galápagos ) – Given the name of the Holy Cross in Spanish, its English name derives from the British vessel HMS Indefatigable.

* Spanish Red Cross

The black crosses on the tails are Saint Andrew's Cross, the insignia of the Spanish Nationalist Air Force ( Franco side ).

File: Flag of New Spain. svg | Cross of Burgundy Flag ( used by the Spanish Empire 1506 – 1701 as a naval ensign, and up to 1843 as the land battle flag )

The Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen (), on the other side of the mountain, houses priests who say perpetual Masses for the repose of the fallen of the Spanish Civil War and later wars and peacekeeping missions fought by the Royal Spanish Army.

There is no mention of any " state " flag until the mid-14th century, when a Spanish atlas, the Conosçimiento de todos los reynos depicts the flag of " the Empire of Constantinople " combining the red-on-white Cross of St George with the " tetragrammic cross " of the ruling house of the Palaiologoi, featuring the four betas or pyrekvola (" fire-steels ") on the flag quarters representing the imperial motto Βασιλεύς Βασιλέων Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων (" King of Kings Reigning over those who Rule ").

However, the exact " Westernized " ( quartered ) arrangement that includes the Cross of St. George, appearing in the Spanish atlas, is never depicted or described in any Greek source.

In the Spanish days Franciscan monks roamed here to collect the resin for incense.

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.

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However, years of activism, and fighting for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War have left him disillusioned .</ br > When the plague epidemic is virtually over, Tarrou becomes one of its last victims, but puts up a heroic struggle before dying.

* 1559 – Bartolomé Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy.

* 1898 – Spanish – American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.

Bolivian Sign Language, for example, is essentially ASL, apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match the spelling of Spanish.

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.

An argot (; French, Spanish, and Catalan for " slang ") is a secret language used by various groups — including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals — to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

The Andes rose to fame for its mineral wealth during the Spanish conquest of South America.

He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.

The King ran an office for captives from the Royal Palace, which leveraged the Spanish diplomatic and military network abroad to intercede for thousands of prisoners-of-war, receiving and answering letters from Europe.

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.

The author, writing shortly after the Spanish Civil War began, retained considerable fondness for the ex-sovereign.

His Spanish possessions were ruled for him by his brother John, later king John II of Aragon.

As the end of the Spanish American War neared, the United States bought the Philippines from Spain for $ 20 million.

* Pictures of the Aster CT-80 model one from a Spanish computer museum, the educational model with an opening for a cassette player is the one on the right

The word negro is the Spanish and Portuguese word for the color black.

Abacá ( ; from Spanish " abacá " for Musa textilis ), Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

In July 1782, in a change of government, Thomas Townshend became Secretary of State for Home and American Affairs ,, and assumed responsibility for organising an expedition against Spanish America.