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Juan de la Cierva. Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu, 1st Count of la Cierva ( [ˈxwan de la ˈθjeɾβaj koðoɾˈni.u]; 21 September 1895 – 9 December 1936), was a Spanish civil engineer, pilot and a self-taught aeronautical engineer. His most famous accomplishment was the invention in 1920 of a rotorcraft [ 1][ 2] called Autogiro, [ 3] a ...
Law 53 of 1948 better known as the Gag Law, [ 1] ( Spanish: Ley de La Mordaza) was an act enacted by the Puerto Rico legislature [ a] of 1948, with the purpose of suppressing the independence movement in Puerto Rico. The act made it a crime to own or display a Puerto Rican flag, to sing a patriotic tune, to speak or write of independence, or to ...
v. t. e. Law 52/2007, commonly known as Historical Memory Law (Sp: Ley de Memoria Histórica ), recognises and broadens "the rights and establishes measures in favour of those who suffered persecution or violence during the civil war and the dictatorship ." [ n 1] It was passed by the Congress of Deputies on 31 October 2007, [ 1] on the basis ...
After an unsuccessful first album, Desiertos (1990), they released Doble Opuesto (1991), which appears as the official first album of the band. Singles like "Desiertos," "Tejedores de Ilusión," and "Prisioneros de la Piel" made them stars in Chile, Argentina and Mexico [citation needed], especially after the release of La Ley, their second recording (1993).
Siete Leyes. Las Siete Leyes ( Spanish: [las ˈsjete ˈleʝes], or Seven Laws was a constitution that fundamentally altered the organizational structure of Mexico, away from the federal structure established by the Constitution of 1824, thus ending the First Mexican Republic and creating a unitary republic, the Centralist Republic of Mexico. [1]
The Ring pound-for-pound No. 4 ranked fighter. Result. Trinidad wins via 12–round majority decision (114–114, 115–114, 115–113) Oscar De La Hoya vs. Félix Trinidad, billed as The Fight of the Millennium, was a boxing match held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip on September 18, 1999, to unify the WBC and IBF ...
The Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (Spanish: Virreinato del Río de la Plata or Spanish: Virreinato de las Provincias del Río de la Plata) [4] [5] meaning "River of the Silver", also called the "Viceroyalty of River Plate" in some scholarly writings, in southern South America, was the last to be organized and also the shortest-lived of one of the viceroyalties of the Spanish Empire in ...
El Son de la Negra. " El Son de la Negra " (lit. The Song of the Black Woman) is a Mexican folk song, originally from Tepic, Nayarit, [ 1] before its separation from the state of Jalisco, and best known from an adaptation by Jalisciense musical composer Blas Galindo in 1940 for his suite Sones de mariachi. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It is commonly referred ...