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    Santiago de Compostela has many mysteries that have not been discovered and things that we don't know for a fact. One of the mystery is whether or not saint James the greatest traveled from Jerusalem to Iberian, Peninsula. Even though we don't know some things we still have a bit of information of it and how it has in the past. The town is located northwest of Spain were one of the most well know cathedrals. Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia. The town is named after the Apostle Saint James or Santiago. It was founded around 400, it was around the time of the Roman Empire's falling. Santiago de Compostela was taken control by many people. Some of the people who took controls were King Visingothic, the Arabs in between the years 711-739, and King Visigothic who regained control of Santiago de Compastela. The City of Santiago de Compostela has amazing statues and designs inside there cathedral. The cathedral is the most popular and most visited cathedral in all of Europe. It has many legends and mysteries that have been left to us. There is a Shrine of Saint james the greatest. millions of Tourists who visited the shrine come with great love and…

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    military where he is eventually assigned a position as War Minister then made head of the intelligence division due to his ambition and loyalty to the state. However, in his early years he is sent to a military school far from Galicia where he is born, forced to leave his family and taught military education which engages students in military tactics, mannerisms, and emphasises loyalty to the Kaiser. Despite being an evidently talented and dedicated officer, Redl earns a lot of dissent towards…

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    Joesph2 Language Analysis

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    According to McCagg, the State Authority created hundreds of schools that would provided Jewish children with a German language education. The introduction of the German language is the second important tool given to the Galician Jews by the Habsburg State. It was this German education that would expose the Galician Jewery to secular ideas of Enlightenment. Furthermore it would produce a new class of Jews who saw assimilation and inclusion with in the German liberal culture as a means of…

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    Empanadas Research Paper

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    The empanada is a food that holds a copious amount of significance throughout many different countries and cultures. Although, It’s impact seems to be the most poignant in Latin America. This dish originates from Spain but has since spread across the globe. All through Latin America, depending on location, the empanada takes different forms and is crafted with different ingredients, however, they always share the same rudimentary traits. Empanadas are a semi-circular hand patty that is made…

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    the «periphery». So when I had to make a choice, I decided for television, for TVE Galicia, where a movement for democratisation was blooming. It was a small group, with enough cohesion to talk about what was happening, with loyalty and from dignity. In that time, even in 73, when we started, we made a much more dignified television than what is being done today in certain stations, I think. TVE among them. Being the first person to speak the news in Galician made you extremely well loved in…

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    Antonio De Coronado Essay

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    Coronado gained a large plot of land from the marriage, while having eight children with Estrada. Coronado helped in putting down slave rebellions and rebellions of the native people that were working in the mines for the Spanish. This successful suppression helped Coronado gain more trust in the eyes of Mendoza. In 1538, Antonio de Mendoza appointed Coronado to become governor of a large New Spanish province named New Galicia. He governed over the present-day Mexican states of Nayarit,…

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    Hasidism Summary

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    Benjamin Brown of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, outlines the rise of religious radicalism with in Galicia during the first years of the nineteenth century. In his article The Two Faces of Religious Radicalism, Orthodoxy and Holy Sinning in 19th Century Hasidism in Hungry and Galicia, Brown asserts that the strengthening of Hasidism and the Orthodoxy movements stemmed from the need to protect Jewish tradition in the face of acculturation. He states that Hasidism was a conservative…

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    because it does not tell if he died or not it just told where he lived until he died but his death date is unknown. Coronado was a man of interest to Spain they thought he would find the 7 cities of gold. When they heard he didn’t they were disappointed but they probably felt relief that they at least discovered something. Really the 7 cities of gold were just houses painted with gold paint which none of them knew about until he was not able to find them. A string of Indian settlements built…

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    El Camino de Santiago has been, and remains, the oldest and most celebrated route of the old continent. The route crosses Europa to arrive to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. There are different variants of the Camino de Santiago, starting from different parts of Europe. Each of the routes has a different name and its corresponding stages. El Camino de Santiago is the route that the pilgrims take to visit the tomb of the Apostle Santiago, in Santiago de Compostela. Since IX century, it was…

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    Russian did not allow the, to cross-examine the miscreants. The second attack moved by Chaim Nachman Bialik to write a famous poem, In the City of Slaughter, which resonated among the Jewish intelligentsia. More importantly, the Zionists (Usshishin) and Revisionist’s (Jabotinsky) and Territorialist (Zangwell) were highly offended at the cavalier treatment of this activity. Galicia After the Third Partition (1795) of the Lithuanian-Polish Empire, Austria annexed most of Lesser Poland,…

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