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'A Perfect Day' movie review

Edit The Examiner 20 Apr 2016
If war is hell then the aftermath is filled with bureaucratic red tape. The indie film ‘A Perfect Day’ helmed by Spanish director Fernando Leon De Aranoa is set “somewhere in the Balkans” circa 1995 ... The film attempts to illustrate the insanity of war and the chaos that follows such a huge military conflict ... Robbins is good as the crazy American worker that gets an adrenaline rush from the danger and scares the newbie Sophie....

Andrew Jackson was a slaver, ethnic cleanser, and tyrant. He deserves no place on our money.

Edit Vox 20 Apr 2016
Jackson's war on the bank, combined with his intent on paying off the national debt, would lead to one of the worst depressions in American history ... Leaving aside whether Jackson's acts of ethnic cleansing against Native Americans technically count as war crimes or just ordinary crimes against humanity, his career as a general included numerous actions which would absolutely warrant criminal action today....

UF archaeologist named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences (University of Florida)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
A University of Florida archaeologist is among the 213 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced today ... Her research has focused on the archaeology of the Spanish colonial period in Florida and the Caribbean ... Mose, America's first free black community, and Florida's first Spanish settlement. Since 1980, she has worked at Spanish colonial sites in Haiti and the Dominican Republic....

04/20/16 - Mt. Carmel Academy, Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts win annual Southeastern Foreign Language Festival (Southeastern Louisiana University)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
The festival drew schools from across the state to compete in Spanish and French poetry, prose, and extemporaneous speaking categories and as groups in music and plays ... Mount Carmel also claimed awards for Best School in Spanish and Best School in French. In group activities, Mount Carmel claimed first place in French Play and French Music, second place in Spanish Music, and third place in Spanish Play....

Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector up for Best Translated Book award

Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2016
Published last summer for the first time in English, the 85-story collection is “proof that she was – in the company of Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo and her 19th-century countryman Machado de Assis – one of the true originals of Latin American literature”, according to the New York Times ... Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (Mexico, And Other Stories)....

5th annual Latin American and Spanish Film Festival features seven films from six countries (Lawrence University)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
Seven films from six countries in four days highlight Lawrence University's 5th annual Latin American and Spanish Film Festival April 20-23 ... 'The goal of the festival is to bring to the Fox Cities the seven best Latin American and Spanish films of 2014 and 2015,' said Rosa Tapia, associate professor of Spanish and organizer of the festival....

A pig almost caused the US and UK to go to war

Edit Vox 20 Apr 2016
Though there were several prior almost-shots-fired skirmishes between the countries, from the Lumberjack War to the Trent Affair, these larger forces of commerce, American Manifest Destiny, and mutual mistrust brought us as close to annexing Canada as we ever were in the second half of the 19th century ... Canada's plan looked to provoke the war that American planners feared....

Ceremony honors American airmen who fought for France in WWI

Edit Austin American Statesman 20 Apr 2016
A ceremony outside of Paris is honoring the lives of the American pilots who volunteered to fight for France during World War I ... entered the war....

Detroit Institute of Arts 2016 exhibitions (DIA - Detroit Institute of Arts)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
After World War II, the American road trip began appearing prominently in literature, music, movies and photography. The myth of the American frontier encouraged many photographers to purposefully embark on similar journeys during the post-World War II era....

America Can't Do Much About ISIS

Edit The Atlantic 20 Apr 2016
The war against the Islamic State gets a lot of attention, much of it focused on the immediate ... In fact, we have a lot of evidence on wars like this and how they typically end ... leverage to bring about a real end to the war—and actual realization of American interests in that war—is distinctly limited ... And that leaves Americans with patience and containment as the least-bad policy while waiting for this awful war to play itself out....

14th Annual Citizenship NOW! Immigration Hotline; Free And Confidential, From April 25 – April 29 (CUNY - The City University of New York)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
Calls will be answered in English and Spanish, as well as numerous other languages, including ... WXTV Univision 41, our Spanish-language media partner, will provide extensive outreach to the Hispanic community ... Spanish ... regardless of language and the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the country available in approximately 93% of U.S....

The Nation’s Latino Population Is Defined by Its Youth (Pew Research Center)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
And among the nation's Millennials, Hispanics are a greater share than they are among all American adults - Hispanics make up 21% of all U.S ... While English language proficiency is more common among younger generations of Hispanics, speaking Spanish in the home is less common. Overall, some 62% of Hispanics ages 5 to 17 and 72% of Hispanic Millennials speak Spanish at home....

Optional Dividend Result (ISE - The Irish Stock Exchange plc)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
It is expected that the new shares will be admitted to trading on the Spanish Stock Exchanges, through the Spanish SIBE (Sistema de Interconexión Bursátil Español) electronic trading platform (Mercado Continuo), on 26 April, 2016, so that ordinary trading of such shares on the Spanish Stock Exchanges will commence on 27 April, 2016, all subject to the granting of the relevant authorizations....
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