Dr. Valentín Fuster has been carrying out research at several US hospitals for more than twenty years. He currently leads the heart research team at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and is the president of the World Heart Federation, a former member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Advisory Council, and a past president of the American Heart Association. He is also the President of the scientific advisory committee at the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research. (Published in Alba, October 19-25, 2007)

The first son of Europeans who was born in the US was the son of a Spanish woman who was traveling in the Vázquez de Coronado expedition in 1540. A few years later, in 1566, Martín de Argüelles came to the world in Saint Augustine, Florida, twenty one years before Virginia Dare did in the English colony of Roanoke, Virginia. (Published in Alba, June 29-July 5, 2007)

The first Spanish film to win an Oscar for best foreign language film was To Begin Again, directed by José Luis Garci, in 1982. After that, winners included Belle Epoque, by Fernando Trueba, in 1993; All About My Mother, by Pedro Almodóvar, in 1999; and The Sea Inside, by Alejandro Amenábar, in 2004. La venganza, by Juan A. Bardem, was the first Spanish nominee for the same award, in 1958. (Published in Alba, June 22-28, 2007)

Victor Lustig spent many years in the Alcatraz prison, established on the famous, small island in the San Francisco Bay. The first European who sailed those waters was the Spaniard Juan de Ayala commanding the San Carlos. He also made, in 1775, the first map of the area, where the Rock was named Isla de los Alcatraces (Island of the Gannets, a seabird), from which the famous prison takes its name. (Published in Época, May 25-31, 2007)

Although the French Quarter, for which the city of New Orleans is world famous, was built by the French, its architecture today is Spanish. Numerous fires destroyed the French buildings, and those who carried out the reconstruction of the quarter during the time when they ruled the city, between 1763 and 1803, were Spanish. (Published in Alba, March 30-April 5, 2007)

Spanish engineer and architect Santiago Calatrava has designed the future transportation hub that will be built at so-called Ground Zero in New York, the site where the Twin Towers and adjacent skyscrapers that collapsed as a result of the suicide attack once soared. The construction is not expected to be completed before 2009. (Published in Alba, February 16-22, 2007)

Symbol “$” is, according to some historians, a stylization of a stamp with two ribbon-wreathed pillars of Hercules and the motto Plus Ultra. The stamp used to be written on the Spanish coins minted in the Mexican mint (columnarios), and on the gold and silver bars that were sent from the Americas to Spain. (Published in Época, January 12-18, 2007)

The places called Toledo are in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, and Washington. The first two took their name from the Spanish town of Toledo, while the other three took it from the city located in Ohio. (Published in Alba, January 12-18, 2007)

In the US there are three towns called Madrid, located in Alabama, Iowa, and Nebraska; there is also a town called New Madrid in Missouri. (Published in Alba, December 15-21, 2006)

About Me

Name: Prince and Gina Parker

Location: La Carlota, Córdoba, Spain

El Dr. Parker y su querida esposa gozan con más de 40 años en el ministerio. Han establecido iglesias en varios países del mundo. Comenzaron su ministerio en España en 1989 en, Daimiel, Cuidad Real, Castilla La Mancha. En 2003 compartiendo el mensaje del amor de Dios en la ciudad de Cáceres antes de adjuntarse a la facultad del Seminario Español de Teología en La Carlota, Córdoba donde sirve el hermano de profesor.

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