Did you know that Sebastian Vizcaino named Monterey Bay California after the Spanish Viceroy conde de Monterey. Is Sebastian Vizcaino was born and extra min to Spain in 1548 he was born into a rich family emergency later and his life he became a Spanish merchant / adventure he is mainly famous for mapping out and naming many of the places along coastline but he is also famous for being named General of the manilla galleons. Sebastian Vizcaino was born in 1548 and extra min to Spain he was born into a very rich family of merchants. He married Magdalena Martinez orejon in 1590 and had 3 kids, juan who was born in 1591, Lorenzo was born in 1592, and Anna who was born in 1593.
Bernal Diaz del Castillo Bernal Diaz was born in 1492 or 1498 to Maria Diaz Rejón and Francisco Diaz del Castillo, a regidor (council member) of the town of Medina del Campo, in Castilla y León. The family was distinguished but not wealthy. In 1514, Bernal went to seek his fortune in America with Pedrarias Dávila (Pedro Árias de Ávila), Bishop Fonseca's newly appointed governor of Castilla del Oro. A cruel and unscrupulous schemer, Pedrarias excelled at extorting riches by torturing native rulers, looting gems and gold from their graves, and eliminating potential rivals. (Pedrarias had his prospective son-in-law Balboa and four companions beheaded on trumped-up charges in 1519.)
Juan lived in a castle with his brothers, Pedro and Luis, in a little village of Santervas de Campos. Santervas de Campos sat on a hillside in Spain. Juan Ponce de Leon was born around 1460. There was no country of Spain like we know it today. The kingdom covered most of what is now Spain.
Sieto Alvarez, is an african american gang lord who was once a member of the Rollin Heights Ballas, after years and years of serving them, he was betrayed and left to die during a gang war in Glen Park, he was severely injured, hours passed, finally a man with a blue bandana was ready to finish him, Armstrong was about to die, but instead was taken inside the Crips headquarters and was treated well, they accepted Sieto as a new member and was recruited a few days after recovering.
Bernardo de Galvez deserves recognition for shaping florida to be the way it is today. This Spanish born sailor sailed from his homeland to the eastern seaboard of the new world in 1777. Bernardo fought the british and claim Florida for spain which ended up becoming the 27th state. He also connected florida with other states which caused people to move there and gave florida allies before it was a state.
General • First Name: Bartolomé • Last Name: de Las Casas • Middle Name: X • Birth Date: 11 November 1481 • Gender: Male • Ethnicity/Nationality: Spanish General Info: Bartolomé de Las Casas lived during the 16th century. He was one of the first people to settle in the New World. He is most famous for being a social reformer who indeed introduced many social reforms to the world never seen before.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado should be displayed as a villain in your museum exhibit. He was greedy and just wanted to get rich and famous. He killed tons of Indians and took their land. And he supported slavery.
Juan Ponce de Leon: Spanish Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon was born in the year of 1460 and died in the year of 1521. He was born to very wealthy parents. He was born in Spain and died in Havana, Cuba. He played a very significant role in explorations, discoveries, and the colonization of America. Ponce de Leon was one of the most influential explorers and a great governor for Puerto Rico.
I am Squanto, a native Indian lives on a small island that is called Cape Cod. I was carried away with diverse others by one Hunt, a nasrer of a ship, who thought to sell us for slaves in Spain; but I got away escaped from England and was entertained by a merchant in London and employed to Newfoudland and other parts, and lastly brought back to here. Maybe because of the experience that has happened to me, I am scared any left alive beside myself. Days ago, I found a group of people on the other side of the island, they have the same looking of the people who brought me to the England. They had a boat, but I thhought they were bearing the pain of torture.
My life, I mean. It's almost like I got killed over in Nam.. Hard to describe. That night when Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank down into the sewage with him.. Feels like I'm still in deep shit'" (150).
Ever heard of somebody who was claimed as a murder for three hundred people? If not, then you are going to hear about it now and be well aware of who he is . Pedro Alonso Lopez, also known as Monster of the Andes, was a colombian serial killer who was sentenced for killing eighty girls, but he claimed he murded and rapped about three hundred. Pedro Lopez was known for raping girls around his country then moved to Peru and Ecuador and all around. Pedros dad died when Benilda; his mother, was three months pregnant with her son at the time of his father's death.
I grew up in inner city Baltimore Maryland. Neither of my parents were or are followers of Christ. They divorced when I was very young. I spent most of my life moving from place to place with my mother and two brothers. I gave up on high school when I failed my freshmen year.
Spanish was my first language and neither one of my parents knew english. I would go to school and just listen and try to learn every little thing I could get my hands
I was the unknown, offbeat kid that had made a few exceptional friends. To
An educational barrier i have had to face with was probably needing to be independent, i never had anyone help me with any of my homework growing up, or someone to ask questions to about anything that i had. I have both my parents, but their work requires them both to take trips to work that last around 2 weeks at a time, so sadly most of the time even if they wanted to give me the time, they could not because they were busy or tired. Also, i never wanted to bother them because i felt like they had their own problems to deal with and did not have time for my own, so i am not as comfortable speaking with my parents like other people my age. In a way this led to