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Event Recap: Third Edition of the Hispanic Heritage History Bee in Spanish
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2013-03-15
ISPA High School held the final component of the history contest, March 9th. The contest was organized by the Spain-Florida Foundation 500 years, in collaboration with the Spanish Consulate in Miami, Broward Public County Schools, Palm Beach County...
Spanish Colonial History Bits: The Spanish Founded the First Public School in the U.S.
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2013-03-14
Florida’s first public school was founded during the Second Spanish Period, in 1786, in the city of St. Augustine. At that time, all sons of free people, white or black, could attend classes free of charge. Although the school suffered with...
Cultural event: Flamenco Festival Miami 2013
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2013-03-13
The Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía is coming to South Florida to perform at the Flamenco Festival Miami, from March 14 to the 17 at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Their special participation in this annual event is part of the commemoration honoring...
Spanish presence in Florida and the US: Scientist Rafael Yuste
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2013-03-13
In December 2012, Spanish scientist Rafael Yuste was nominated one of the five scientists to watch in 2013 by Nature International Weekly Journal of Science. Today, Yuste and his peers are already making the news with their proposed Brain...
Spanish Colonial Florida History Bits: Coquina
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2013-03-05
The first Spaniards to live in Florida built their houses and forts with pine tree and palmetto. But after having their settlement easily destroyed by storms and burned by pirates, the Spaniards discovered a better way to build. On Anastasia...