Cultural Interests

These links are the best sites I could find at the time of my search.

Let me know if you find better ones! I have tried to use authoritative sources.

Of course, there are many to learn than what I have on this list. This is just a starting point...

Be professional...

As you know, Wikipedia is an amazing free encyclopedia. However, because the information is submitted, you should always check another authoritative source!

Also, always give your source when you are doing reports or sharing information that you got from someone else.

Mrs. Brown

The Country of Spain

• a photo tour
• "All About Spain"
• Castilla León
  • Madrid
    • El Escorial
    • El Prado: the national art gallery
  • Toledo
    • swords
    • damascene
  • Avila
  • Segovia
    • aqueducts
    • photos
• Andalucía
  • flamenco
  • bullfighting
  • matadors
  • Granada
    • La Alhambra
• Seville
• Córdoba
  • the Great Mosque
    (known as La Mesquita)
• Costa del Sol
• Cataluña
• La sardana
• Barcelona
  • La Sagrada Familia
  • Las Ramblas
• Valencia
  • La Tomatina
• País Vasco
  • the Basque conflict
  • the sport of jai-alai
• Navarra (Pamplona)
  • running of the bulls

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History of Spain

• the Moors (los árabes)
• Spanish Inquisition
• Pirates and privateers
  • Pirate facts
  • Treasure hunting in Florida
  • Treasure museum
• Spanish-American War
• Spanish Civil War

Famous People of Spain:

• Political Leaders
  • El Cid (1044-1099):
    military leader in medieval Spain
  • Ferdinand (1452-1516):
    king of Spain who led the Reconquista
  • Isabel (1451-1504):
    queen of Spain who funded Columbus' voyage in 1492
  • Francisco Franco (1892-1975):
    authoritarian head of Spain after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
• Authors
  • Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616):
    author of first modern novel Don Quijote de La Mancha. (Died the same day as Shakespeare.)
  • Washington Irving (1783-1856):
    American writer and ambassador to Spain
• Artists
• El Greco (1541 -1614):
  born Domênikos Theotokópoulos, Greek-Spanish paintor
• Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
• Joan Miró (1893-1983)
• Salvator Dalí (1904-1989)
• Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926):
  architect
• Classical musicians
  • Andrés Segovia (1893-1987):
    guitarrist
  • Two of the Three Tenors
    • Plácido Domingo (1941, Mexico)
    • José Carreras (1946, Spain)
• Philosophers
  • Maimonides (1135-1204)
  • Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556):
    founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit order)
  • St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
  • St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)
• Toreros
  • Famous matadors
• Francisco Rivera Ordóñez

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Spanish
Grammar Sites

• The best online dictionary ever is --Wordreference.com !!
• a translation site
  (Use as a dictionary and it is very helpful. Use to translate full sentences and it probably will not make sense!)
• Prefixes
• Conjugating Spanish Verbs
• Basic Spanish
• Spanish Flash Cards
• Spanish Grammar Exercises
• Spanishome.com
• Teaching Tips (with translation games for students)

More
to Explore

These links refer to things that we will not study this year. Maybe later!

Festivals throughout the Spanish-speaking countries (and the rest of the world)

Music

• Latin Music Glossary
• Latin music

Sports

• Baseball.
  Major League Baseball's web page. Click here (or at the top left of MLB's web page) to read it in Spanish, or Japanese!
  
• Boxing
• Cycling
• Soccer
  

Foods

• Chili pepper trivia
• The hottest chili peppers! --
  according to The Chili Dude
• Paella

Biographies

• Famous Hispanics in the Word and in History (biographies)
• Ernest Hemingway. Type in his name and read about him in Cuba and in Spain

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Other
Countries

Below are links to several sites for you to choose any country (in the world -- not just Spanish-speaking).

You will find more than you can learn!

• Country Studies
• U.S. Department of State
• History of Nations

More on Other Countries

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Chile: Political history
  • complex, complete version
  • everything!
• Costa Rica
• Cuba and the Caribbean
  • Guantánamo Bay
  • The history of Cuba
  • José Martí
    • en español
    • in English
• Nicaragua
• Peru
• Panama
• Puerto Rico
  
• "Photo Album of Puerto Rico"
• El Morro (famous fort)
• Arecibo Observatory
• bomba y plena, (a dance)
• Fiesta de Santiago en Loiza
• United States: Miami
  • Little Havana
  • Calle Ocho
• United States: The Texas-California Connection
  • The legend of Zorro
  • The missions of California
  • Cesar Chavez (1927-1993):
    founded the National Farm Workers Association that later became the United Farm Workers. Their motto is "Sí, se puede.".
    
  • Edward James Olmos (1947, US):
    actor, producer; active with social issues
  • Jaime Escalante (1930, Bolivia):
    math teacher made famous in the film Stand and Deliver
  • Selena (1971-1995)
• Venezuela

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Mrs. Brown

The Country of Mexico

• The country of Mexico
• The history of Mexico

Interesting Places of Mexico

• Tenochtitlán
• Teotihuacán
  • Civilizations in America: Teotihuacán
  • Teotihuacán: City of the gods
• Chichén Itzá
• Cancún
• Mexico City

Customs of Mexico

• Quinceañera
• La Navidad
• Las posadas (with recipes!)

Famous People of Mexico

• The Patroness of Mexico: Our Lady of Guadalupe
• Political leaders
• Miguel Hidalgo (1753-1811):
  led the war of independence against Spain that began in 1810
• Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1856) : Mexican statesman and soldier involved in Texas independence
• The story of the San Patricios:
  U.S. troops who fought against U.S. in Mexican-American War
• Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919):
  leading figure in Mexican Revolution that began in 1910
• Pancho Villa (1878-1923):
  leader in Mexican Revolution
• The Zapatistas
• Artists
  • José Guadalupe Posada (1851-1913):
    engraver and illustrator
  • Diego Rivera (1886-1957):
    muralist
  • David Siqueiros (1896-1974):
    muralist
  • José Clemente Orozco (1894-1949):
    muralist
  • Juan O'Gorman (1905-1982):
    architect
  • Muralism
    • other muralists
    • more on muralists
• Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
  
• Writers
  • Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695): a nun who wrote on women's rights
  • Octavio Paz (1914-1999):
    poet, Nobel Prize 1990

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Mrs. Brown's
Notes

Through the years, I have tried to figure out the political history of some of the Spanish-speaking countries.

These links take you to my notes. I hope they help you understand some very complicated situations. Contact me if you have corrections or comments.

• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Nicaragua
• Mexico
  • Pre-Columbian Mexico
  • Part 1:
    War for Independence
  • Part 2:
    Mexican-American War
  • Part 3:
    La Reforma
  • Part 4:
    Mexican Revolution

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Harrisburg High School
Links

• Harrisburg R-VIII School District
• Harrisburg High School
• Harrisburg, Missouri
  • town history from Wikipedia
  • street map from Google
  • topographical map from Topozone
  • aerial map from TerraServer

Site created 26 January, 2002
for Mexico High School
Last updated 19 August, 2007
for Harrisburg High School
site by KateBrown

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