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Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor (1737–1820) was a Spanish journalist, poet, playwright, and writer.. He was Considered one of the most prolific literary figures of the second half of the 18th century and, together with Luciano Francisco Comella and Gaspar Zavala y Zamora, one of the most popular playwrights of that period, [1] writing over 200 plays.
Quinta Vendrell, in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is believed to have been designed by architect Alfredo B. Wiechers Pieretti. It is a two-story balloon framed country house that was built in 1918. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2006 and on the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones in 2008.
Las vidas de los pintores y estatuarios eminentes españoles, que con sus heroycas obras, han ilustrado la nacion (Spanish version, published in London in 1742) An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects , tr. (by U. Price) from the Musæum pictorium (English version, 1739)
Adjuntas has several nicknames. One is "La ciudad del gigante dormido" ("The city of the sleeping giant"). This is a reference to one of the mountains of the city, which is compared to a "sleeping giant". [82] Another nickname is "La Suiza de Puerto Rico" ("The Switzerland of Puerto Rico") which is a reference to Adjuntas' relatively low ...
Born in Madrid, de Zayas was the daughter of infantry captain Fernando de Zayas y Sotomayor and María Catalina de Barrasa.Her baptism was known to have taken place in the church of San Sebastian on 12 September 1590, and given the fact that most of Spain's well-to-do families baptized their infants days after birth, it may be deduced that de Zayas was born days before this date.
Literary agent Peter W. Bernstein represented Sotomayor. [3] Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, stated, "Sonia Sotomayor has lived a remarkable life and her achievements will prove an inspiration to readers around the world. Hers is a triumph of the Latino experience in America."
In an unsparing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court allowed a president to become a “king above the law” in its ruling that limited the scope of criminal charges against ...
The Foreman Conservation Easement was established in 1971 through an agreement between the Foreman family (Clark Foreman and Mairi Fraser Foreman) and the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico (today known as the organization Para la Naturaleza) with the intention of protecting the source of the Portugués River and a habitat that is home to more ...