Smilax ornata is a perennial trailing vine with prickly stems that is native to Mexico and Central America. Common names include sarsaparilla, Honduran sarsaparilla, and Jamaican sarsaparilla.
Picrodendron is a genus of plant in the family Picrodendraceae, described in 1859. It contains one species, Picrodendron baccatum, native to the West Indies.
The Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa, Florida, is a Catholic, coeducational elementary school and a college preparatory high school for young women, sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. It is the oldest Catholic school on Florida's West Coast and the second oldest high school in the state.
General elections were held in Honduras to elect a president and parliament on 30 November 1997. They were also the first elections in which the left wing Democratic Unification Party was allowed to stand. Closed list PR was used to elect Congress.
Welfia is a genus of palms found in Central America and northwestern South America. Only two species are currently recognized: Welfia regia and Welfia alfredii.
Neonicholsonia is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in the palm family native to Central America. The sole species is Neonicholsonia watsonii. The genus and species names honor George Nicholson, a former curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and his successor William Watson.
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Honduras on 22 September 1957. In November the Assembly elected Ramón Villeda Morales as president.
Constituent Assembly elections were held in Honduras on 7 October 1956. Prior to the elections, President Julio Lozano Díaz established his own party, the Party of National Unity. The elections were allegedly heavily rigged and the PUN won all 58 seats.
Legislative elections were held in Honduras on 28 October 1934.
Legislative elections were held in Honduras in October 1930.
General elections were held in Honduras on 28 October 1928. Vicente Mejía Colindres of the Liberal Party was re-elected as president, becoming the first incumbent to be re-elected in peaceful and contested elections.
The Guaymuras dialogue – Tegucigalpa/San José accord is a diplomatic agreement made between two rival political factions in Honduras during the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis. Representatives from the interim Micheletti government and deposed President Manuel Zelaya reached the agreement after several weeks of diplomatic dialogue in late around 2009
Pseudalcantarea grandis, synonym Tillandsia grandis, is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. This species is native to Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Juan Pablo Wainwright Nuila was a Honduran revolutionary leader. A former member of the Canadian Army in World War I, he joined the Communist Party in El Salvador in 1928. He was expelled from the country that year, returning to Honduras. He was later identified as one of the major communist agitators in Latin America. After an escape from a Honduran prison in 1930, he was arrested in Guatemala in January 1932. Following a confrontation between Wainwright and Guatemalan dictator Jorge Ubico in a prison office, Ubico ordered Wainwright's execution.
Krausirpi is a village in the department of Gracias a Dios, Honduras. The village is located on the bank of the Patuca River in Tawahka Asagni Biosphere Reserve. While part of the municipality of Wampusirpi, the town of Wampusirpi is located 30 kilometers away and is the nearest market town to Krausirpi. The village could only be reached by boat until 2020, when an illicit road was cut through the Tawahka Asagni Reserve. Krausirpi is the centre of the Tawahka people.
The Socialist Party of Honduras was a small left-wing political party in Honduras. PASO was founded in November 1978.
The Honduran Patriotic Front was a coalition of political groups active in Honduras in the early 1980s.
Francisca Raquel Navas Gardela, better known as Paca Navas (1883–1971), was a Honduran journalist, writer and feminist. She founded the first feminist journal in Honduras and was a member of the first suffragette organization. She and her husband spent most of their lives in exile because of their liberal leanings. Her most productive writing period was during her Guatemalan exile from 1945 to 1951.
Arab immigration to the Republic of Honduras began in the 19th century with the liberal reforms of President Marco Aurelio Soto (1876–1883), who saw immigration as a determining factor in the development of capitalism in Central America, and sought to establish an attractive environment for foreign investment. The largest Arab community in Honduras is the people of Palestinian descent, the majority of whom (95%) are Christian. The approximate population of Honduran Arabs is more than 300,000 people, around 280,000 Palestinians and 20,000 Lebanese, estimates place the Muslim population at about 11,000.
Marta Susana Prieto de Oviedo is a Honduran writer who lives in San Pedro Sula.
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