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Realidades is a PBS TV series of 30 minute documentary and arts programming, showcasing Hispanic artists, which aired on WNET Channel 13 New York from 1975 to 1977. [1] Salsa musician Willie Colón was music director of the series; he included the theme tunes on his 1975 album The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.
The music of Cuba, including its instruments, performance, and dance, comprises a large set of unique traditions influenced mostly by west African and European (especially Spanish) music. [1] Due to the syncretic nature of most of its genres, Cuban music is often considered one of the richest and most influential regional music in the world.
The English translation of this book, published in 1958 as The Theater and its Double, [3] is the earliest published use of the term "virtual reality". The term " artificial reality ", coined by Myron Krueger , has been in use since the 1970s.
Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548), [a] also known simply as Juan Diego (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌxwanˈdjeɣo]), was a Nahua peasant and Marian visionary.He is said to have been granted apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe on four occasions in December 1531: three at the hill of Tepeyac and a fourth before don Juan de Zumárraga, then the first bishop of Mexico.
View of the Puebla Valley, with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl in the distance, 1906. Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl refers to the volcanoes Popocatépetl ("the Smoking Mountain") and Iztaccíhuatl ("white woman" in Nahuatl, sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish) [1] in Iztaccíhuatl–Popocatépetl National Park, [2] [3] which overlook the Valley of Mexico and the ...
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory.She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), on her life growing up on the Mexico–Texas border and incorporated her lifelong experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work.
Rags to Riches, a comic book by Four Color Comics Edition #356 Rags to Riches , a 1981 romance novel by Joanne Kaye ( Rachel Cosgrove Payes ) The Rise of David Levinsky [ 22 ] has been described as "the first American novel to chronicle the Jewish American immigrant experience at the end of the 19th century:" [ 23 ] "arrived .. with four cents ...
The World of David the Gnome, originally titled David, el Gnomo and also known as David, the Gnome, is a Spanish animated television series based on The Secret Book of Gnomes, a series of children's books by Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet. [1]