Three Kings Day is celebrated on January 6th, twelve days after Christmas. It is often viewed as the last day of the Christmas season (the end of the 12 days of Christmas).
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Biography New Mexico’s ‘Gran Dama’ Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven.
The fascinating life of 94-year-old pioneering New Mexico “Gran Dama” Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven has now been chronicled in a new, authorized biography by Kathryn M. Cordova titled, ¡Concha! Concha Ortiz y Pino: Matriarch of a 300-Year-Old New Mexico Legacy (La Herencia Gran Via 2004).
Children’s Museum of Manhattan Debuts Dora.
Children can join Nick Jr.’s Latina heroine, Dora the Explorer, at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) on a journey through the first-ever interactive Dora exhibition. Children will overcome obstacles, solve problems and puzzles, and find their way through the exhibition’s Rainforest, all while learning to communicate in both English and Spanish.
Internet Access @ Home Helps Children Be Successful @ School.
How can you help your children have a successful start and improve their future opportunities? How can families find better product and service values? How can you stay in touch with relatives overseas? Every day, more Hispanic families turn to the Internet as a solution for these and other important questions.
Os Pido Posada – A Hispanic Xmas Opportunity.
Welcome to Posada season! Every year Latino families across the country join their neighbors in recreating the procession of Joseph and Mary as they try to find hospice, or “posada.” The ritual started in sixteenth century when Spaniards brought to the tradition with them as part of their religious overhaul of the New World.
Pascualina Pre-teen Diary Lands On US Shores.
Adolescents in the United States can for the first time do what more than 1 million of their peers around the world do daily – share their lives with Pascualina, their award-winning interactive diary.
Philadelphia’s Taller Puertorriqueño 30th Anniversary.
Taller Puertorriqueño, a Puerto Rican arts center in Philadelphia, will commemorate its 30th anniversary with a new exhibit called Isla del Burén: The Taíno and their Predecessors in Puerto Rico. This is the first art exhibition of the Puerto Rican Taíno (The Taíno were the dominant culture in the Caribbean in pre-Columbian times) to be shown in North America.
Wishing You & Your Family A Safe Thanksgiving Holiday!
HispanicAd.com & ADnotas.com wishes you and your family a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend. We will be back on Monday November 29, 2004.
Give Sweet Coffee & Rum Balls This Season.
Nothing can compare to a Latino Christmas. We love having family and friends over the house during the holiday season, as the spirit of giving and sharing becomes even more special. We strive to prepare the best down home holiday meals and we love to give presents.
Groups Examine Factors Impacting Minority Teacher Recruitment.
The necessity for teacher diversity is often overlooked rather than accepted as central to school reform. High-stakes tests impede efforts to expand the pool of prospective teachers of color. And the logistics of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) continue to create significant barriers to recruiting teachers of color.
Improving Hispanic Children’s Reading Skills.
Leading trends across the country, The Mexican American Opportunity Foundation (MAOF) and White Memorial Medical Center (WMMC) Rainbow Children’s Center, the first-of-its-kind licensed childcare in Los Angeles, will benefit from a $1 million grant from local government and community organizations to improve quality child care in the inner city.
