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http://www.somosprimos.com/sp2014/spjan14/spjan14.htm Dear Friends and Primos:
Happy New Year. The beginning of the year is always a reminder that we can start fresh, with resolutions to make changes, improving our lives and surroundings. With that same intent, you will see changes in both the format and articles included in Somos Primos. To facilitate reading, I've included more 2 and 3 column layouts and have limited the length of the issue.
Most of us have a general understanding of US history; but, I've added a new category, Historic Tidbits. This section will include little known historic facts. These tidbits will serve as reminders, and will be easy to share with others. The Tidbits can fortify and reinforce your individual efforts to clarify our historic presence in the development of the United States. We are too many to be invisible . . . understanding our presence is needed.
A recent comment on the televised history program, stated Collective Learning is what makes humans different from other animals. Something to think about. The ability to share what we have learned scientifically has produced changes so quickly that for many of us, it is difficult to keep up. Through the power of the Internet, sharing is at a state, never before imaged. In the late 40s, I remember party-line telephones, now each individual can connect virtually with the world on a little hand-held phone; but, what are we sharing?
I am really grateful for Cuentos being shared by readers. I read about courage, compassion and strength of character that drives individuals. I read about the love that we have for one another, the admiration, and the pride in the accomplishments of family members, or even someone with the same surname.. It is the accumulation of all our personal stories which explain who we are.
Please share your stories. They don't have to be long, but rather focused on a special, treasured memory, funny, sad, crazy, happenstance, tradition. There is a reason that you remember it.
For February, Valentine Month, it would be wonderful to share stories about your Abuelitos y Abuelitas, Tios y Tias, or your sweetheart, your children's successes. Maybe there is someone in your life, not necessarily a family member, but someone who made a difference in your life. . . honor their memory. Share it, as if you were telling a story. Your memory of them matters.
Larry Garza adds a spiritual vision, with a dimension is difficult to grasp: "I believe the Internet is one of the greatest Breakthroughs in the history of the human race. It will be an eternal record until there is an apocalypse of the human race. Once it's on the Internet it becomes an eternal record."
God bless, Mimi
TABLE OF CONTENTS, January 2014
UNITED STATES
The Stories That Bind Us By Bruce Feiler, New York Times
Cuento: A letter from your future mother-in-law
Cuento: Happy Birthday Dr. Hector by Daisy Wanda Garcia
Cuento: Years of Advances, Some Miles Yet to Go by Daisy Wanda Garcia
Latinos ready to become the next "greatest generation" by Larry Bystran
Needed, a Hispanic Leader? by Carlos E. Cortés
Radiobilingue.org celebrating 28 years
The Power of Compassion by Shelley Hoss
Love + Gratitude = Thanksgiving, by Juana Bordas
The Border: A New Cultural Concept, Feb 20-22, 2014
NCLR, National Conference and Family Expo, July 19-22, 2014
HISTORIC TIDBITS
Hispanic discoveries and explorations in North America
Los Principes celebran en Miami los 500 años de Ponce de Léon
Rare Film From 1932
Voces Oral History Project
Our Real Roots
HISPANIC LEADERS
Rudy Hernandez, Medal of Honor Recipient April 14, 1931 to December 21, 2013, Dies at 82
Dr. Jose R. Hinojosa, Emeritus Professor, August 7,1937-December 1937-Dec 3, 2013 Dies at 76=
George Rodrigue, Cajun Artist, March 13, 1944 - December 21, 2013 Dies at 69
Sam Coronado, Artist, Cultural leader, 1946-November 13, 2013 Dies at 67
LATINO PATRIOTS
Bob Hope an Ansolute Must See
Navy Planning, Reminiscences of a Naval Aviator
Recently on Texas Originals: Cleto Rodríguez
Latina Style Magazine
Military Rank
EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
Bernardo de Gálvez llama a las puertas del Capitolio
SURNAMES
De Apellido Pinzon por Angel Custodio Rebollo
Capitan Manuel Nobles Canelas por Angel Custodio Rebollo
DNA
Americas' Natives Have European Roots by Ed Yong
Study links gene variation to a darker view of life by Meeri Kim
Our 2013 Expanded mtDNA Groups by Crispin Rendon
FAMILY HISTORY
Cuento: The Early Years by Daisy Wanda Garcia
Cuento: Serendipity from Abuelita by Marge Vallazza
Alician Reunites with Sibling after 78 Years Apart, By Julie Neal
How to Type Spanish Letters and Accents (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ, ¿, ¡)
EDUCATION
Stolen Education Documentary by Enrique Aleman
Carlos Guerra Scholarship Awarded to 8 Students
Bilingual Education Produces a More Diverse Mind and Society
Roane County High School , Kingston , Tennessee
CULTURE
The "Toros de Fuego" and "Torito Pinto" by Eve A. Ma, Ph.D.
BOOKS AND PRINT MEDIA
Mexican Americans in Texas History, editors: Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco, Rodolfo Rocha
A Multimedia Encyclopedia: Multicultural America, edited Carlos E. Cortes
Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education
Dr. Omar Valerio-Jiménez Wins $1,000 Book Award
The Alamo, an Illustrated History by George Nelson
Charro Days in Brownsville By Anthony Knopp, Manuel Medrano, Priscilla Rodriguez,
Brownsville Historical Association
Compassion of the Feathered Serpent: A Chicano Worldview By Ysidro Ramón Macías
Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century:
A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by José Angel Hernández
ORANGE COUNTY, CA
Honoring Charles Sadler, SHHAR Leader
January 11: Don Garcia, Updates on New FamilySearch.org
Brushing Up On His Past by Fermin Leal
LOS ANGELES, CA
Cuento: The Delivery Room by Mimi Lozano
Cuento: Reaching for the Best Fruits, by Mimi Lozano
Mini-Bio: We Lost One of Our Own, David Jacobson by Sylvia Contreras
Is nothing sacred? By Eddie Morin
Research in the LAPD Historical Collection at the LA. City Archives
CALIFORNIA
California 150th Anniversary
Mini-Bio: Two Early Families in Agua Mansa, by R. Bruce Harley
Manuelita Renaga Martinez
Matilde Trujillo Sepulveda
Mini-Bio: Sister Ernestine Muñana, Sisters of St. Joseph
The Tropics of Pocho-Ché by Juan Felipe Herrera
January 20th: Montoya Family Presents a Memorial Celebration
NORTHWEST US
Cuento: 'Main thing hurt, was my heart' by Marta Salinas
SOUTHWEST US
Map of México in 1836
Difference between the old Spanish Trail with Camino Real
Romance of the Ranchos
Cuento: Extract of segment from Count on Me, Tales of Sisterhoods and Fierce Friendships,
edited by Adriana V. Lopez, Road Sisters, by Stephanie Elizondo Griest, pg. 45-47
Cuento: El Tranvia, Stories from the Barrio and Other Hoods by Margarita B. Velez pg. 39-40
Cuento:: Woolworth's End, El Paso from Barrio and Other Hoods by Margarita B. Velez, pgs.70-71
Historical Novel: My Days as a Colonist/Soldier with Don Juan de Onate - Part 3 by Louis F. Serna
Texas in 1776: Tejanos where we came from by Ben Figueroa, Kingsville Record
TEXAS
Cuento: Amarillo Had a Snowstorm by Viola Rodriguez Sadler
Cuento: Daughter of Immigrant Parents by Bonilla Read
Cuento: Grandma V and her Tamales by Sylvia Villarreal Bisnar
Cuento: Beneath the Shadow of the Capitol by Ramon Moncivais
Cuento: 1954 Laredo Flood by Ermestp Uribe and Gilberto Quezada
Old documents . . . . History of Laredo
Texas Tidbits
City of Edinburg to Donate 93 Acres to New UT University
2014 Battle of San Jacinto Symposium
The Tejano Side of the Texas Revolution
Austin History Center, Discover Your Story
Mexican American/Latin@ Manuscript Collections
MIDDLE AMERICA
Apellidos en la provimncia: Camarias
Claro Solis, Little Hands, extract from Hero Street, USA by Marc Wilson
From Plasencia to Plaissance, Los Isleños
March 8- 9, 2014: Los Isleños Heritage & Cultural Society Museum & Village Festival
Canary Islanders Heritage Society of Louisiana
EAST COAST
Photo: 1929 Grand Central Station, New York
Cuento: Esperanza—Hope, Gratitude, and Celebration by Juana Bordas
NYPD retired cops speaking up for Joe Sanchez
INDIGENOUS
Secret Bids Guide Hopi Indians' Spirits Home
Cuento: Indian Mesa or the Adventure that Almost Killed Me by Tony Santiago
ARCHAEOLOGY
Neanderthal Woman's Genome Reveals Unknown Human Lineage
SEPHARDIC
Sephardic Horizons is now on Facebook
History of the Sephardim . . . . Historia de los Sefarditas
MEXICO
Some Pictures of Guerrero Viejo, comments by Ernesto Uribe and Jose M. Pena
Exploring Colonial Mexico
Families of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Volume Five
Los seguientes por Ricardo Raúl Palmerín Cordero:
Cabalgata Del Centenario de la Creación del Ejército Mexicano
Museo de la Batalla de la Angostura
Estimados hermanos del Héroico Colegio Militar, Antigüedad 1964-1967
El Notable Poeta Mexicano Don Juan de Dios Peza
Bautismo de Carlos,Ysidoro, Martin, José, María, Ramón, Rafael, Joaquin,
de la Santisima Trinidad Carrera y Lardizaval.
Voton de Fierro, Bautismo del General de Comanches
Bautismo Jacobo, Pablo, Luis Gonzaga del Dulce Nombre de Jesus
CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA
Cuento: August Uribe Climbed Stratovolcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Ernesto Apomayta Chambi, Peruvian artist
Cuento: A Christmas Away from Home, Lima, Peru by Cathleen Vargas
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
PHILIPPINES
The Adoption of Names By Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
The 2013 Miss Universe and Miss Grand International Beauty Contests
by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
SPAIN
Un monumemto en busqueda de un heroe
Andrés de Urdaneta y el Tornaviaje. Por José Antonio Crespo-Francés
España, entre el cielo y la tierra
INTERNATIONAL
Cantino planisphere
Germany's biggest synagogue, on Rykestrasse in Berlin, reopened
Jewish Art Work Stolen by Nazis, Now in Holland
Egypt's Latest Fatwas from Salafis and Brotherhood by Raymond Ibrahim
Canadian Muslims Protest "Honor Killing" Label As Racist by Abigail R. Esman
Christian Man Prays for Muslims Stoning Him by Joseph Parker
