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Llanos Costa was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
La Ventana al Mar (English: The Window to the Sea) on Avenida Ashford in the district of Condado, of San Juan, Puerto Rico is a large public space built in 2004 fronting the Atlantic Ocean. The park is flanked by two of Condado's landmark hotels: to the west by the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel (1919), designed by Warren and Whitmore, and to the ...
Moisés Ville [pronunciation? ] ( Yiddish : מאָזעסוויל ) is a small town ( comuna ) in the province of Santa Fe , Argentina, founded on 23 October 1889 by Eastern European and Russian Jews escaping pogroms and persecution.
In a 2005 expedition to Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, archaeologist Kathryn Bard found remains of Egyptian seagoing vessels and hieroglyphic texts on stelae about royal expeditions to Punt, including cedar planks from Queen Hatshepsut's expedition in the 15th century BCE, demonstrating that Mersa/Wadi Gawasis was the port in Egypt from which trade was carried out with Punt, some 1200 km south on the Red ...