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Las Cruces, NM, Housing Statistics

NumberPercentTotal housing units31,652100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached16,87453.31-unit, attached1,8966.02 units1,4804.73 or 4 units2,1356.75 to 9 units1,1433.610 to 19 units1,3384.220 or…

Las Cruces, NM Social Statistics

NumberPercentSCHOOL ENROLLMENTPopulation 3 years and over enrolled in school25,356100.0Nursery school, preschool1,0914.3Kindergarten1,0624.2Elementary school (grades 1-8)8,65234.1High school (…

Lope de Rueda

(Encyclopedia) Lope de RuedaLope de Ruedalōˈpā dā r&oomacr;āˈᵺä [key], 1510?–1565, Spanish dramatist. A precursor of the Golden Age of Spanish literature, Rueda was an actor and a manager as well…

Mesilla

(Encyclopedia) MesillaMesillamāsēˈyä [key], town (1990 pop. 1,975), SW N.Mex., on the Rio Grande and near Las Cruces; settled c.1850. The whole Mesilla Valley became part of the United States under…

Alfonso II, king of Portugal

(Encyclopedia) Alfonso II (Alfonso the Fat), 1185–1223, king of Portugal (1211–23), son and successor of Sancho I. His reign was spent in struggles with the church and his brothers and sisters, to…

Irving

(Encyclopedia) Irving, city (2020 pop. 256,684), Dallas co., N Tex., a suburb of Dallas; inc. as a city 1952. Building supplies, chemicals, electronic…

Eguren, José María

(Encyclopedia) Eguren, José MaríaEguren, José Maríahōsāˈ mārēˈä ĕg&oomacr;ˈrān [key], 1882–1942, Peruvian poet. Originally devoted to modernismo, Eguren avoided its excesses and wrote terse,…

Menéndez y Pelayo, Marcelino

(Encyclopedia) Menéndez y Pelayo, MarcelinoMenéndez y Pelayo, Marcelinomärthālēˈnō mānānˈdĕth ē pāläˈyō [key], 1856–1912, Spanish literary historian and critic. His vast contribution to Spanish…

Peter II, king of Aragón

(Encyclopedia) Peter II, 1174–1213, king of Aragón (1196–1213) and count of Barcelona, son and successor of Alfonso II. He had himself crowned (1204) at Rome by Pope Innocent III, whom he accepted as…

Góngora y Argote, Luis de

(Encyclopedia) Góngora y Argote, Luis deGóngora y Argote, Luis del&oomacr;ēsˈ dā gōnˈgōrä ē ärgōˈtā [key], 1561–1627, poet of the Spanish Golden Age, b. Cordova. Of a cultured family, he studied…