Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula, and played an important role in Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first Spanish and European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States. He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.
Gioconda Belli is a Nicaraguan author, novelist and poet.
A statue menhir is a type of carved standing stone created during the later European Neolithic.
Marcel Carné was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), The Devil's Envoys (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945), the last of which has been cited as one of the greatest films of all time.
La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835..
Frederick S. Pumaren, better known as Derick Pumaren, is a Filipino basketball coach.
Jorge Salán is a Spanish rock lead guitarist, singer, producer and songwriter. He is most well known for being the lead guitar for the metal rock solo singer Jeff Scott Soto and the Jeff Scott Soto Band from 2009 till today, the lead guitar on Robin Beck's European Tour 2013, and for having collaborated with a long list of legendary rock musicians such as Fiona Flanagan or bass guitar player Bob Daisley.
The Premio Internacional de Poesía Ciudad de Melilla is one of Spain's top literary awards, given every year to an unpublished poetry collection by a Spanish-speaking author. The Prize was created in 1979 in honor of Miguel Fernandez, Melilla's most distinguished poet, and is organized by the city's Consejería de la Cultura. The Prize is awarded in October by a panel of renowned poets and critics, amid cultural festivities organized by Spain's UNED -Universidad Libre a Distancia and the City Hall. In 2003 it was established a finalist or runner-up. The winner of the prize gets €18.000, while the finalist takes €9.000, and both books are published under the Prize's own collection by Visor, a poetry publisher. Premio Internacional de Poesía Ciudad de Melilla is an important poetry award in the Spanish-speaking world. If at the beginning it received every year more than 600 manuscripts, involving has been decreasing during last 5 years, and in the last edition only 43 candidates took part. Candidates are mostly from Spain, Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay, but also from the United States and other parts of the world. Despite this, only three poets from outside Spain has ever won the award, Nicaraguan Gioconda Belli in 2006, Mexican Marco Antonio Campos in 2009, Argentine Diana Bellessi in 2010.
The Recourse to the Method is a Mexican-Cuban drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Alejo Carpentier. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as the Cuban entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
The Young Land is a 1959 American Western film directed by Ted Tetzlaff starring Patrick Wayne, Yvonne Craig, Dennis Hopper and Dan O'Herlihy. The cinematography was by Technicolor developer Winton C. Hoch and Henry Sharp. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation.
La antorcha encendida is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso and Carlos Sotomayor for Televisa in 1996.It was the last historical telenovela produced by Televisa. The plot tells the Independence of Mexico, with an emphasis on historical accuracy. It was written by Fausto Zeron Medina in collaboration with Liliana Abud.
The 1997 Purefoods Corned Beef Cowboys season was the 10th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The team was known as Purefoods Carne Norte Beefies in the Governor's Cup.
Miguel Deynes Soto is a Puerto Rican politician and former Senator. He was a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1973 to 1993.
Cuento de Navidad, is a Mexican telenovela produced by Eugenio Cobo for Televisa in 1999. It is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by the famed English writer Charles Dickens.
The Birth of the New World is a 360 foot (110 m) bronze sculpture located on the Atlantic coastline of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. When completed in 2016, it became the tallest sculpture in North America, surpassing Mexico's Guerrero Chimalli, which measures 200 feet (61 m) including its base.
La Estatua de la Libertad is a 1983-1984 comic written and drawn by Francisco Ibañez for the Mortadelo y Filemón comic series.
La Gioconda is an 1899 play by the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. It was adapted for film three times in the silent era and as a Mexican film in 1951.
Vino el amor is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. It is a remake of the Chilean telenovela La chúcara. It premiered on August 8, 2016 and ended on February 19, 2017.
The statue of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is installed in Cholula, Puebla's Plaza de la Concordia, in Mexico.
