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Juan Fantauzzi was the first documented Corsican to immigrate to Puerto Rico. He was born about 1734 in Morsiglia, Corsica.He immigrated to what is now Aguadilla in the 1760s, where he married Josefa Martínez.
Haciendo Punto en Otro Son is a Nueva Trova band from Puerto Rico, founded in 1975. They recorded fourteen albums and performed in Latin America , the Caribbean and United States. Band members included Tony Croatto , Silverio Pérez , Josy LaTorre, Irvin García, Nano Cabrera, Ivan Gonzalez, Jorge Arce, José Vega Santana , Moncho Diaz, Jose ...
The punto is a musical genre typical of eastern Venezuela. It is also called punto y llanto, punto cruzado, punto fuerte and punto mamp ...
Punto guajiro or punto cubano – or simply punto – is a sung genre of Cuban music, a poetic art with music. It became popular in the western and central regions of Cuba in the 17th century, [ 1 ] and consolidated as a genre in the 18th century. [ 2 ]
Replica of a Portuguese caravel used during the Portuguese discoveries. As the Order of Christ, led by Prince Henry, the Navigator, was a leading developer of the Portuguese Discoveries, the Cross of Christ was used on the sails of the Portuguese caravels, carracks and other ships involved in the exploration of the seas.
Punto y raya (English: Step Forward) is a 2004 Venezuelan film directed by Elia Schneider. It was Venezuela's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , but failed to receive a nomination.
Grupo Bimbo began operations in Mexico City [10] on December 2, 1945, with Panificación Bimbo, S.A. as the official name. [11] The company started with 34 employees, [12] selling cellophane-wrapped large and small white loaf bread, rye bread, and toast bread. [13]
As early as 1820, Miguel Cabrera identified many of the jíbaros' ideas and characteristics in his set of poems known as The Jibaro's Verses.Then, some 80 years later, in his 1898 book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The native people, as a whole, may be divided into four classes ...