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	Spaniards in Southern West Virginia
		He was one of thousands of Spaniards who came to West Virginia in the early part of the 20th century, drawn primarily by the prospects of jobs in the coal mines.
		The number grew steadily over the years, peaking at 2,212 in 1921, when Spaniards were present in 19 of the state's 55 counties.
		Spaniards came from throughout Spain, but most were from the southern region of Andalucia or the northern regions of Galicia and Asturias.
	www.wvculture.org /goldenseal/spaniards.html (368 words)

	The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 1-49. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1909-14. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern. The Harvard ...
		The Spaniards seemed to be desirous to trade with us, and to enter into terms of peace, more for doubt of their own strength than for aught else; and in the end, upon pledge, some of them came aboard.
		Such of the Spaniards as afterwards endeavoured the conquest thereof, whereof there have been many, as shall be declared hereafter, thought that this Inga, of whom this emperor now living is descended, took his way by the river of Amazons, by that branch which is called Papamene.
		The Spaniards led him in a chain seventeen days, and made him their guide from place to place between his country and Emeria, the province of Carapana aforesaid, and he was at last redeemed for an hundred plates of gold, and divers stones called piedras hijadas, or spleen-stones.
	www.bartelby.com /33/73.html (7905 words)

	People of Spain, Lifestyle of Spaniards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most Spaniards today eat better, dress better, live in better homes and receive more education and better healthcare than their parents and grandparents.
		Almost all Spaniards were Roman Catholics and a Catholic church stood in the center of most villages.
		Spaniards enjoy a paseo (walk) before their evening meal, which they often do not eat until 10 or 11pm.
	www.porquesi.com /spain/people (456 words)

	The Fall of Old Panama, 1671
		In this pursuit they overtook a party of Spaniards, whom they made all prisoners and exercised the most cruel torments, to discover where they had hidden their goods; some were found who by the force of intolerable tortures confessed; but, others who would not do the same were used more barbarously than the former.
		They commanded the Spaniards that were prisoners to cast all the dead bodies of their own men down from the top of the mountain to the seaside, and afterwards to bury them.
		But their present care and diligence was in vain, the Spaniards who were on board the said ship having received intelligence of the danger they were in one or two days before, while the Pirates were cruising so near them, whereupon they fled to places more remote and unknown to their enemies.
	www.czbrats.com /MiNombre/Paniguana/oldpan.htm (14195 words)

	Chapter 1: De Soto in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi
		The Spaniards were protected with bucklers and coats of mail, while the poor Indians were only covered with the thin shield which the Great Spirit gave them at the dawn of their exisitence.
		The Spaniards reached the Mississippi river in May, 1541, and were the first to discover it, unless Cabaca de Vaca crossed it twelve years before in wandering to Mexico with his four companions, which is not probable from the evidence afforded by his journal.
		The Spaniards began the construction of seven brigantines, the building of which required the chains of the slaves, saddle-stirrups, and every thing which contained a particle of iron, made into nails by the erection of forges, the Indian mantles stitched together for sails, and the inner bark of trees made into ropes.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~cmamcrk4/pkt1.html (13279 words)

	spconqu.html
		The Spaniards and their native allies were invited to stay in one of the palaces by Moctezuma II.
		Moctezuma II told his people, the Aztecs to make peace with the Spaniards, but these were not the words of a brave ruler so the Aztecs elected Cuitlahuac, his brother, as the new ruler.
		Moctezuma II fell, and the Spaniards carried him back to the palace and he was never seen again.
	library.thinkquest.org /27981/spconqu.html (377 words)

	Spaniards Approve E.U. Constitution, but Turnout Is Low (washingtonpost.com)
		MADRID, Feb. 20 -- Spaniards gave an overwhelming "yes" to the European Union's new constitution in a referendum Sunday, but a low turnout may have dented E.U. hopes that the vote would send a strong signal across the 25-nation bloc.
		When a lot more Spaniards don't vote than do, it's a failure for the person who called the referendum and that was the prime minister," said Angel Acebes, the number two leader in the Popular Party.
		Zapatero has staked his reputation on making Spaniards, who joined the E.U. in 1986 and have benefited from membership, the first to approve the document.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A40315-2005Feb20.html (524 words)

	FAMSI - John Pohl's Mesoamerica - The Meeting
		One lord attempted to deceive the Spaniards by claiming to be the Aztec emperor but he was exposed as an imposter by the Tlaxcalteca and the invaders marched on.
		The Spaniards were now trapped under force and surrounded by a hostile enemy who no longer respected the wishes of their own emperor.
		The Spaniards were especially fearful of this warrior who was known for carrying a shield loaded with huge ball stones that he hurled at their formations.
	www.famsi.org /research/pohl/pohl_meeting.html (2456 words)

	22. FURTHER PROBLEMS WITH THE SPANIARDS
		Finally, in 1749 one of the canoes was returned; the other two were confiscated because the Spaniards claimed that they contained mercantile goods and were thus involved in smuggling.
		He also reported that in the "vast Province of Guiana", the entire coast was occupied by "foreigners", while the Spaniards had possession of "the mouth of the Orinoco in one corner as an outlet to the sea".
		As regards the rumours of an attack upon the Post at Arinda, this was denied by the Spaniards.
	www.guyana.org /features/guyanastory/chapter22.html (811 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The geographical boundaries of Spain are: on the north, the Pyrenees, the Republic of Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay (known in Spain as Mar Cantabrico, or "Cantabrian Sea"); on the east, the Mediterranean; on the south, the Mediterranean, the Straits of Gibraltar and the Atlantic; on the west, Portugal and the Atlantic.
		After this, although the Spaniards took the side of Pompey against Caesar, resistance to the Roman power as such was confined to the Cantabri and the Asturias, who were conquered, though not subdued, in the time of Augustus.
		Although the old privileged jurisdictions have been abolished, and all Spaniards are equal before the law, there is still the military jurisdiction (fuero militar), certain specified cases being reserved for the military tribunals, and the ecclesiastical jurisdiction (fuero eclesíastico), by which the rights of the Church to take cognizance of certain cases are safeguarded.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14169b.htm (17294 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		It must also be observed that the Spaniards arriving in the New World during the colonial period were a motley group racially and regionally, and peasants, artisans, Berbers, Spanish Jews, and negros ladinos came in abundant numbers as well as "servants and friends" of uncertain social background and ordinary military and pastoral people.
		It should also be observed that Spaniards born in the Old World or the peninsulares believed that the Creole had degenerated as a result of the different climate of America and had lost whatever virtues were inherent in the Spanish blood.
		However, in spite of legal differences between the castes and the legislation that tended to the endogamy of the various social groups, miscegenation continued its course and became the leveler of society, tending to the dissolution of the castes especially on the frontier.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/73summer/hispanic.htm (4010 words)

	The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1909-14. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern. The ...
		One of them gave me a beast called by the Spaniards armadillo, which they call cassacam, which seemeth to be all barred over with small plates somewhat like to a rhinoceros, with a white horn growing in his hinder parts as big as a great hunting-horn, which they use to wind instead of a trumpet.
		This Empire is made known to her Majesty by her own vassal, and by him that oweth to her more duty than an ordinary subject; so that it shall ill sort with the many graces and benefits which I have received to abuse her Highness, either with fables or imaginations.
		The country is already discovered, many nations won to her Majesty’s love and obedience, and those Spaniards which have latest and longest laboured about the conquest, beaten out, discouraged, and disgraced, which among these nations were thought invincible.
	www.bartelby.com /33/74.html (6657 words)

	Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days
		However, as we know that the massacre of the Spaniards took place the day after their meeting with the Optoptata and their allies, there is every ground for supposing that the manuscript ended at the date of August 10, 1720 and that its author was killed the next day.
		However, since the Spaniards were not always in a body, the letter may refer to an isolated detachment.
		About two o'clock in the afternoon the Otoptata asked for the lances of the Spaniards for their dancers to use in the dance and they were granted them.
	www.rootsweb.com /~neresour/OLLibrary/Journals/HPR/Vol06/nhrv06p4.html (1425 words)

	CBC News:Bush scolds Spaniards, says terrorism 'will never shake' U.S.
		Many Spaniards blame the country's former government's support for the war against Iraq for last week's train bombings that killed more than 200 people.
		Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards attended vigils in the wake of the Madrid bombings on March 11.
		The prime minister of the Netherlands, Jan Peter Balkenende, was at the White House Tuesday and reiterated his support for the war on terrorism.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/03/16/world/bushiraq040316 (570 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Spaniards positive about EU vote
		Marta may speak for many Spaniards when they cast their votes in the first of 10 referendums across the continent to decide the charter's fate.
		Many Spaniards may not think they have much at stake in Sunday's vote - but a small minority made up of regional nationalists and a far-left party are calling for a "no".
		But while commentators speculate some right-wing Spaniards could use abstention from the poll to punish Mr Zapatero's government, they say there is less at stake in a low turnout for the Spanish government than for the charter itself.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4278943.stm (690 words)

	Spaniards of southern West Virginia featured in Goldenseal
		Thousands of Spaniards came to West Virginia in the early part of the 20th century to work in the then-booming coal mines of the region.
		In the article titled, “En las montañas: Spaniards in Southern West Virginia,” Hidalgo shares the stories of the dreams, events, and the promise of work that led many Spaniards to West Virginia.
		The Spaniards brought their rich family heritage, culture, and traditions with them to Raleigh, Fayette, Logan, and neighboring counties.
	www.wvculture.org /agency/press/spaniards.html (300 words)

	Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is a provocative look at the institution of slavery and its function as a part of Louisiana's culture during the years of Spanish rule.
		Gilbert C. Din challenges the idea that conditions under the Spaniards differed little from the years of French rule and examines how local culture merged with colonial government and residual laws to create a slave system unlike any other in the Deep South.
		Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves is the first in its field to capture the years of Spanish rule as a specific and unique point in Louisiana's history of slavery.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/din.htm (336 words)

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		The truth of the matter was that far more Indians succumbed to European diseases than did to the atrocities of war and conquest, and the Spaniards had no way of knowing the cause of their demise, much less of stopping it.
		The Spaniards also allowed the Indians to retain many of their societal norms, such as utilizing the extant system of tribute to tax their American subjects through Indian nobility.
		While it is true that the Spaniards exploited the Indians for their gold and silver, it is also true that neither gold nor silver would hold much value if we didn't will it so.
	daphne.palomar.edu /marguello_students/Fall_2003/003991722/Essay_9.htm (939 words)

	AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAPUCHE AND AZTEC MILITARY RESPONSE TO THE SPANISH CONQUEST
		They refused to be servants to the Spaniards and for this reason the only choices they had were to fight the Spaniards or to flee.
		To a large extent, the striking power of the Spaniard army was the cavalry fast moving counter-attack and hard-hitting formations and the artillery played and immense part in sustaining the morale of the Spanish infantry, to advance toward enemy lines.
		But in Chile the Spaniards allies were the Picunches Indian and Yanaconas from Peru and the cost to the Spanish army during the Araucanian war was around 50.
	www.xs4all.nl /~rehue/art/far1.html (6051 words)

	Robinson Crusoe Online
		Seignior Atkins was in such a rage at the Spaniard's making a jest of it, that, had he not been held by three men, and withal had no weapon near him, it was thought he would have attempted to kill the Spaniard in the middle of all the company.
		When the Spaniards came, the two Englishmen were so encouraged, that they could not satisfy themselves to stay any longer there; but taking five of the Spaniards, and themselves, with four muskets and a pistol among them, and two stout quarter-staves, away they went in quest of the savages.
		The Spaniards added to our feast five whole kids, which the cooks roasted; and three of them were sent, covered up close, on board the ship to the seamen, that they might feast on fresh meat from on shore, as we did with their salt meat from on board.
	www.deadmentellnotales.com /onlinetexts/robinson/further2.shtml (5429 words)

	Racial Reality - Spaniards
		The nasal profiles of some 120,000 Spaniards are convex in 15 per cent of cases, straight in 72 per cent, and concave in 13 per cent.
		These markers exist at combined frequencies of 2.2% in Asturians (Northern Spaniards) and 1.6% in Southern Spaniards, suggesting that gene flow from Carthaginian and Moorish colonists was minimal.
		Its frequencies are 0% in Catalans (Northern Spaniards) and 3.4% in Andalusians (Southern Spaniards).
	www.geocities.com /racial_reality/spaniards.html (774 words)

	The Coming of the Spaniards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Pueblos might have survived the raids, but they-and the Apaches and Spaniards-were hit during the 1660s and 70s with drought and wide-spread famine that killed 450 people at Gran Quivira alone.
		In 1680 the pueblos north of Salinas, in an uncharacteristic show of unity, revolted and expelled the Spaniards from New Mexico.
		In the general exodus of Indians and Spaniards, the Piro and Tompiro survivors of the Salinas pueblos moved south with the Spaniards to the El Paso area.
	www.nps.gov /sapu/coming.htm (546 words)

	Tindall chapter 1: Primary Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There was a custom among the Spaniards that one person, appointed by the captain, should be in charge of distributing to each Spaniard the food and other things the Indians gave.
		And while the Captain was thus on his mare and the others mounted on theirs, and the father himself was observing how the bread and fish were distributed, a Spaniard, in whom the devil is thought to have clothed himself, suddenly drew his sword.
		The Spaniards enter the large house nearby, for this was happening at its door, and in the same way, with cuts and stabs, begin to kill as many as they found there, so that a stream of blood was running, as if a great number of cows had perished.
	www.wwnorton.com /college/history/tindall/workbknf/tinprs1b.htm (566 words)

	Spanish, Mexican, Tejanos
		European Spaniards and their descendants were the dominant peoples of Texas for more than three centuries—from the beginning of the 16th century until well into the 19th.
		To some degree, the Spaniards were changed by the land and the people they found.
		People in Texas were called, and called themselves, Spaniards, Mexicans, Tejanos, Texas Mexicans, and, in recent years, Hispanics, Latinos, Mexican Texans, Mexicanos, Mexican Americans, la Raza, Chicanos, and, again, Tejanos.
	www.texancultures.utsa.edu /publications/texansoneandall/tejano.htm (1457 words)

	Spaniards and Nazi Germany: Collaboration in the New Order
		By the end of 1939, a significant minority of pro- Nazi Spaniards were unhappy that Spain had not entered the war and remade itself to fit better into Hitler's New Order.
		Bowen argues that support for Nazi Germany in Spain and among Spanish communities throughout Europe was both wide and deep, and that this enthusiasm for the Third Reich and the New Order it promised to bring lasted until the end of the war.
		Spaniards and Nazi Germany presents many possibilities for what might have been a far different outcome of World War II in Europe.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall2000/bowen.htm (432 words)

	CHAPTER VI. - TROUBLE WITH THE SPANIARDS - OGLETHORPE INVADES FLORIDA.
		The Spaniards had not given up their claim to the territory of Georgia.
		The importance of this treaty, in view of the approaching troubles with the Spaniards, cannot be overestimated.
		The Spaniards began the war by landing a party of men on Amelia Island and killing two unarmed men who were engaged in carrying wood.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ga/state1/history/hist-6.htm (1098 words)

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		In the way between both were divers little brooks of fresh water, and one salt river that had store of oysters upon the branches of the trees, and were very salt and well tasted.
		Of the rest of the nations, and of other ports and rivers, I leave to speak here, being impertinent to my purpose, and mean to describe them as they are situate in the particular plot and description of the island, three parts whereof I coasted with my barge, that I might the better describe it.
		While we thus spent the time I was assured by another cacique of the north side of the island, that Berreo had sent to Margarita and Cumana for soldiers, meaning to have given me a cassado (blow) at parting, if it had been possible.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext00/guian10.txt (12099 words)

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