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Famous Firsts by Hispanic Americans

The first Hispanic-American politicians, baseball players, and more Government Member of U.S. Congress: Joseph Marion Hernández, 1822, delegate from the Florida territory. Sonia Sotomayor…

World Heritage Sites in the United States

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has identified 878 World Heritage sites that it considers of “outstanding universal value.“ In the United States…

geopark

(Encyclopedia) geopark, area identified by UNESCO as encompassing one or more sites of geological as well as archaeological, ecological, or cultural importance. The Global Network of National…

Rhondda

(Encyclopedia) RhonddaRhonddarŏnˈdə, Welsh rônˈᵺə [key], city (1991 pop. 70,980), Rhondda Cynon Taff, S Wales, on tributaries of the Taff River. Coal mining, once the chief occupation, has…