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In 1993, Ellen Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to have this out of this world experience.
What is travel into space?
EXTRA: She later became the director of NASA's Johnson Space Center and worked on optical systems for information processing--leading her to be a co-inventor on three patents.
This Puerto Rican singer's hit “Livin' la Vida Loca” helped make him an international pop superstar in 1999.
Who is Ricky Martin?
This U.S. city was founded in 1565 by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in modern Florida, making it the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in the continental United States.
What is St. Augustine?
FUN FACT: The Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park is located here.
This word meaning “party” or “celebration” is commonly used in English, especially for a festive event with Latin American or Spanish influences.
What is fiesta?
Fun fact: Fiesta comes through Spanish from Latin festa, meaning festival/feast.
Despite its association with Mexican cuisine, this popular breakfast food was actually created in the United States and is strongly associated with Mexican American cuisine.
What are breakfast burritos?
Mexican American inventor Victor Leaton Ochoa created this unusual transportation around 1908–1911.
What is an aircraft?
NOTE: The Library of Congress specifically identifies Ochoa as the inventor of the Ochoaplane.
You may know this actor from Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, Spy Kids, or countless other movies and TV shows. In 2016, he also started a Mexican restaurant franchise by his namesake.
Who is Danny Trejo?
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?
EXTRA: Among other things, it transferred a huge amount of territory to the United States and offered citizenship to many Mexican residents of those territories.
English speakers use this Spanish term to refer to a hanging bed or couch made of strong cloth, rope netting, or canvas that is suspended between two supports, such as trees or poles.
What is hamaca / hammock?
NOTE: This term was derived from an Indigenous Caribbean language.
Wrapped in corn husks or other leaves and filled with masa and ingredients such as meat, beans, or cheese, this dish's history goes back thousands of years to Mesoamerica.
What are tamales?
This famous Mexican artist became is known for intensely personal paintings, particularly self-portraits, that explored identity, physical pain, Mexican culture, and her own experiences.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This Colombian singer gave us “Hips Don't Lie,” “Whenever, Wherever,” and four FIFA World Cup anthems.
Who is Shakira?
The name of this U.S. state comes from a Spanish word associated with the color red.
What is Colorado?
In Spanish, this word means “sauce.” In the 1960s and ’70s, it became the name for a lively musical and dance style that blended several Caribbean and Latin American traditions.
What is salsa?
These fried strips of dough are now associated with Spanish and Mexican cuisine and are often sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
What are churros?
Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez won this prize in Literature in 1982.
What is a Nobel Prize?
NOTE: Famous works include One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Spanish actor, Antonio Banderas, has appeared in films such as Desperado, The Mask of Zorro, and Philadelphia, but millions of children know his voice from a very different role: this swashbuckling orange feline from Shrek.
Who is Puss in Boots?
In 1917, the United States granted U.S. citizenship to people born in this U.S. territory.
What is Puerto Rico?
Entering the English language through French and Spanish connections to the Caribbean, this original term referred to sailors who prepared meat using a wooden frame or grill and allspice before being associate with pirates.
What is Buccaneer?
NOTE: Involving French boucanier and Spanish bucanero, connected to the Indigenous Caribbean practice known as "boucan."
This Mexican dish consists of a tortilla folded around a filling and is now a staple of American fast food.
What is a taco?
Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic American appointed here.
What is the U.S. Supreme Court?
This Mexican filmmaker directed Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, and, most recently, Netflix's Frankenstein.
Who is Guillermo del Toro?
Before Congress established Hispanic Heritage Week to be the month-long celebration we know today, legislation was signed by this president to create an initial week-long observance in 1968.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
NOTE: The first observance was established in 1968 and expanded to a month in 1988.
Americans use the word Cafeteria for a self-service dining area, especially in schools and workplaces. The word entered English from Spanish relating to this morning beverage house.
What is a coffeehouse / Cafe / place associated with coffee?
This Mexican sauce gets its name from the Spanish word for “mole,” but its name is actually related to an Indigenous Nahuatl word meaning “sauce.”
What is mole?