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  2. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

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    www.aatsp.org. The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese is a language-specific professional association in the United States that was founded on December 29, 1917, in New York City as the American Association of Teachers of Spanish. The name was changed to the present one when Portuguese was added to the association's ...

  3. Francisco Jiménez (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Francisco Jiménez was born in 1943 in Tlaquepaque, Mexico, as the second oldest of eight children. [3][4][5][6] Up until he was four years old, he lived in a town in the state of Jalisco, Mexico called El Rancho Blanco. [7] His family then immigrated to California to work as migrant farm workers. [3][7] When he was six years old, he already ...

  4. List of Spanish Academy Award winners and nominees

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    This is a list of Spanish Academy Award winners and nominees. This list details the performances of filmmakers, actors, actresses and films that have either been submitted, nominated or have won an Academy Award. The people included are either from Spain or of Spanish descent.

  5. National Teacher of the Year - Wikipedia

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    2010 Teacher of the Year, Sarah Brown Wessling, with President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The National Teacher of the Year is a professional award in the United States. The program began in 1952, as a project by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and aims to reward excellence in teaching.

  6. Education in the Philippines during Spanish rule - Wikipedia

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    The Education Decree of 1863 provided for the establishment of at least two free primary schools, one for boys and another for girls, in each town under the responsibility of the municipal government. It also commended the creation of a free public normal school to train men as teachers, supervised by the Jesuits.

  7. List of Spanish Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    Jacinto Benavente. Literature. "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama". 1956. Juan Ramón Jiménez. Literature. "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity". 1959. Severo Ochoa.

  8. Virgilio S. Almario - Wikipedia

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    Virgilio Senadren Almario (born March 9, 1944), better known by his pen name Rio Alma, is a Filipino author, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager. [1] He is a National Artist of the Philippines. He formerly served as the chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), the government agency mandated to promote and ...

  9. Albert Camus - Wikipedia

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    Camus maintained great gratitude and affection towards Louis Germain throughout his life and to whom he dedicated his speech for accepting the Nobel Prize. Having received the news of the awarding of the prize, he wrote: But when I heard the news, my first thought, after my mother, was of you.