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"Santiago, the Story of his New Life" is a great Puerto Rican film.It was directed by Jacobo Morales. "Santiago, the Story of his New Life" was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Category at the 1989 Academy Awards.

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Puerto Rico has been described as a museum of the old and new...Puerto Rico is world famous for its beauty and pleasant climate.It is an attractive tourist area of beautiful sandy beaches and nature areas...UNESCO has declared La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic World Heritage Sites.

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Sila Calderon was the first female governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (2001-2005).

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Puerto Rico has ten idols: Roberto Clemente (baseball player), Ricky Martin (singer),Teo Cruz (basketball player), Jennifer Lopez (singer), Benicio del Toro (actor), Gigi Fernandez (tennis player), Felisa Rincon de Gautier (former mayor of San Juan de Puerto Rico), Pablo Casals (violoncellist),Sila Calderon (former governor),and Rita Moreno (actress).

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Puerto Rico has won the Miss Universe pageant a record five times: Marisol Malaret (1970), Deborah Carthy-Deu (1985), Dayanara Torres (1993), Denisse Quiñones (2001), and Zuleyka Rivera (2006). It has more titles than Brazil, Argentina and Mexico combined.The only country to have won it more than Puerto Rico is the United States (1954,1956,1960,1967,1980,1995,1997)

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The 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Jennifer Lopez has Puerto Rican ancestry. She was born on July 24, 1970, in the Bronx, New York City, (USA). The multitalented actress and singer Jennifer Lopez is famous around the world. She is a hardworking woman, who started out with little more in her life than dreams.In an interview, she said, "Sure. You work so hard your whole life-it`s hot, hot, hot, and then it`s cold. I know that day will come". Jennifer fans know that when she sings, she is singing to them.

She admires Barbra Streisand, who is an American singer and film actress."Barbra Streisand. What she did with her career-acted, sang, did the whole thing. I love her. She made "The Way We Were".It was a love story about two people, and you see their whole lives. You don´t get that in movies anymore.Where is my "The Way We Were?" I need that before I die", remarked the actress during an interview... Jennifer Lopez is a symbol of Puerto Rico.

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Baseball is the national sport in Puerto Rico.

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Puerto Rico hosted FIBA Basketball Men´s World Championship in 1974.

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Puerto Rico hosted the Miss Universe 1972. It became the first Latin American country to host Miss Universe contest.

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Rita Moreno is a well-known Puerto Rican movie, television and theater actress. Rosa Dolores Alverio, best known as Rita Moreno, was born on December 11, 1931 in Humacao, Puerto Rico.She is one of the few Hispanic performers to have won an Academy Award, an Emmy, an Antoinette Perry Award, and a Grammy.She won the 1962 Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role in the classic film musical "West Story"...

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Rosie Perez is a famous American actress and choreographer.

She is of Puerto Rican origin. Rosie was born in Brooklyn, New York City (USA).

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Puerto Rico is bigger than Singapore.

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Felisa Rincon de Gautier was mayor of San Juan de Puerto Rico from 1946 to 1969. Felisa was Puerto Rico`s most renowned social activist. She devoted her entire life to the poor and homeless sick people, especially children and women. She received many awards: the Order of Merit from Israel, the Pope Pius XII Medal of the Vatican and Joan of Arc Medal from France...

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In 1984 Pope John Paul visited San Juan de Puerto Rico.

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Puerto Rico has competed in the Winter Olympic Games 6 times (Sarajevo-1984, Calgary-1988, Albertville-1992, Lillehammer-1994, Nagano-1998, and Salt Lake City-2002)

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer.Alejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry.He´ve studied political science and journalism.He has published more than seventy-five research paper in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues, olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called "The Dictator and Alicia Alonso".He is an expert on foreign affairs. Futhermore, Alejandro is the first author who has published a world-book encyclopedia in Latina America.

He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), Hillary Clinton (ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the USA). His favorite film is "Gorillas in the Mist".Some of his favorite books are “The Return of Eva Peron and the Killings in Trinidad” (by V.S.Naipaul), "Las Mujeres de los Dictadores" (by Juan Gasparini) and “Murder of a Gentle Land” (by John Barron and Anthony Paul).His personal motto is "The future is for those people who believe in the beauty o f their dreams" by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Pius Ix Quitting the Vatican in Disguise, 1848 $34.99 English School Pius Ix Quitting the Vatican in Disguise, 1848 - Giclee Print

Inside the Vatican of Pius XII $11.99 An invaluable contribution to the history of the Catholic Church during the Second World War, this is a richly detailed eyewitness account of the life and politics of the Vatican by an American who worked there from 1940 to 1944. The question of whether Pius XII and the Vatican must bear blame for failing to act decisively in response to Hitler’s Final Solution is as hotly debated today as in the years directly following World War II. INSIDE THE VATICAN OF PIUS XII presents for the first time the observations of an American diplomat who spent four years inside the Vatican. This memoir of Harold H. Tittmann, Jr., describes his encounters with Pius XII and offers details that give a full picture of daily life in the Vatican. Writing of his own activities as a diplomat, Tittmann chronicles his role in assisting and hiding escaped prisoners of war and his experiences navigating the tensions with the representatives of enemy states, with whom he lived side by side. Deftly conveying the beauty and solemnity of events that took place in the dramatic settings of St. Peter’s, the Sistine Chapel, and the Pope’s private chapel, Tittmann’s work will be valued by historians and students of history for generations to come.

Arrival of Pope Pius IX on the Sedia Gestatoria at the Opening of the First Vatican Council $34.99 Arrival of Pope Pius IX on the Sedia Gestatoria at the Opening of the First Vatican Council - Giclee Print

The Pleasure Garden and Pavilion of Pope Pius IV at the Vatican Palace $49.99 Giovanni Battista Falda The Pleasure Garden and Pavilion of Pope Pius IV at the Vatican Palace - Giclee Print

Pope Pius Xii's Funeral Cortege Passing Coliseum in Rome, on Way to Vatican $99.99 Loomis Dean Pope Pius Xii's Funeral Cortege Passing Coliseum in Rome, on Way to Vatican - Premium Photographic Print

Damaged Vatican Apartment of Pope Pius XII after Sustaining Bombing of Rome During WWII $79.99 Damaged Vatican Apartment of Pope Pius XII after Sustaining Bombing of Rome During WWII - Premium Photographic Print

Pope Pius X (Giuseppe Sarto) Pope and Saint Receiving Pilgrims from Lombardy at the Vatican $34.99 Achille Beltrame Pope Pius X (Giuseppe Sarto) Pope and Saint Receiving Pilgrims from Lombardy at the Vatican - Giclee Print

Pius XII $21.95 By any reckoning the issues at stake in the relationship between Pius XII and Hitler`s Germany are key to any understanding of the origins and progress of the Second World War.   Noel neither denies the fatal effect of the Vatican`s Concord with Hitler nor Pius XII's failure to condemn Hitler`s attempt to exterminate the Jews. This is a highly original study of the exercise of political and religious power, of real politik and the extent to which politics is always the art of the possible.   But beyond this, we are offered a portrait of a man in highest power and authority who was mother fixated, under the influence of German nun Sister Pasqualina, who became the real power behind the throne and was ultimately more liberal and anti-Nazi than the Pope. It was Pasqualina herself who did most to shelter the Jewish population of Rome.   There is a move to canonise Pius XII, resisted tooth and nail by many. For this reason alone Pius XII will continue to command huge attention and controversy.  But beyond these issues, Noel has produced an extraordinary study of the wartime Pope.

Pope Pius X Watching the Airplane of Andre Beaumont Flying over Rome from the Vatican Terrace $34.99 French School Pope Pius X Watching the Airplane of Andre Beaumont Flying over Rome from the Vatican Terrace - Giclee Print

Pius XII and the Second World War: According to the Archives of the Vatican $29.95 "In 1964, Pope Paul VI ordered the Vatican diplomatic archives covering the period of World War II opened, and they were eventually published in 12 volumes. Blet taught history at the Pontificia Academia Ecclesiastica for 17 years, and here constructs from those records an account of what is widely perceived as Pius XII's silence at the time about the Nazi treatment of Jews. He concludes that Pius did much more privately than publicly to protect Jews and others threatened. It was first published as Pie XII et la Secunde Guerre Mondiale by Academique Perrin in 1997."

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The Vatican's Women $4.99 Four hundred of the 3,800 people who permanently live or work in the State of Vatican City, the smallest sovereign and independent state on the globe, are women. They are nuns and members of the laity; some are housekeepers of churchmen; others are secretaries, translators, editors, lawyers, and middle-level officials of the papal administration. Expansive in scope and enlightening in detail, The Vatican's Women recalls women who wielded power in the Vatican, including St. Catherine of Siena, Queen Christina of Sweden, Mother Pascalina (Pope Pius XII's longtime housekeeper and confidante), and Mother Teresa. With an unflinching eye, Paul Hofmann examines the papacy's reaction to Catholic women's (and nuns') liberation, and women's struggles, especially today, to fortify their positions within the Church. The Vatican's Women is a thorough and revealing exploration that will herald a new level of insight and dialogue amongst feminists, theologians, and laypeople alike.

The Defamation of Pius XII $19 "Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, was one of the few unalloyed heroes of World War II. At great personal risk, he saved some 800,000 Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Jewish refugees were given asylum in the Vatican, swelling the number of Swiss Guards. No Allied leader can match his glorious record. Golda Meir lauded Pius XII after the war, and the chief rabbi of Rome became a Roman Catholic, taking the name of Eugenio in tribute to Eugenio Pacelli.>Why then has such a man been vilified and all but accused of being responsible for the Holocaust? Rolf Hochhuth's infamous play, The Deputy, marked the turning point. The outrageous distortions of this play turned the greatest friend the Jewish people had during World War II into an anti-Semite. This book restores Pius XII to the rank of hero, demolishes the ludicrous charges against him, and identifies the true target of this infamous calumny: the Church, the papacy, and the Christian moral teaching which confronts and condemns the Culture of Death."

Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican (Hardcover) $29.09 The Vatican against Nazism and Fascism on the eve of the Second World War. A tired pope watching the crisis unfold and considering what action to take against the new enemies of Christianity.Pius XI died on February 10th, 1939, just after finishing the address he hoped to deliver to the Italian bishops on the tenth anniversary of the Lateran Pact. That text dealt harshly with Nazism and Fascism and was written in solitude. It was a discourse that Mussolini feared and that the pope did not survive to deliver.This moment captures the spirit of Emma Fattorini`s book, a work that employs newly available and unpublished documentation from the Vatican Secret Archive to rewrite a fundamental page of 20th history. Pius XI came to view the 1930s as a ‘conflict of civilizations,` a crisis which could only be resolved by a return to the Christian roots of the West. He was a pope who strongly defended the Jews because, in contrast to other elements in the Catholic hierarchy, he held the theological conviction that Jews and Christians shared a common origin: ‘spiritually we are all Semites.` So wrote Pius XI in the last years of his life as he contemplated the direction in which the world was headed and came to the conclusion that Nazi and Fascist totalitarianism could be stopped by the Vatican.

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Vatican Secret Diplomacy : Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII $34.46 No Synopsis Available

Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican : Pope Pius XI and the Speech That was Never Made $16.8 No Synopsis Available

The Road to Vatican II: Key Changes in Theology $17.95 "The story of howthrough the theological insights and espousal of certain paradigm shifts of some key theologians so attuned to the workings of the Holy Spiritthe Roman Catholic Church moved from a Pius IX at Vatican I (1869-70)a council which espoused a rigid, hierarchical model of church to a John XXIII at Vatican II (1962-65)a council which ushered in a collegial, "communio" model of church."

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Vatican Museums, Vatican City $24.99 Vatican Museums, Vatican City - Photographic Print

Inside The Vatican $4.99 Inside The Vatican

Severus Pius Augustus $238 Severus Pius Augustus

Principles of Design and Operation of the Brain : Proceedings of a Study Week Organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Casina Pius IV, Vatican City $112.13 No Synopsis Available