Spain Dating: Stirrups find home at museum
Rather than throw them away, a collector from Maine donated 50 stirrups from Latin America and Spain dating to the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries to the Brazoria County Historical Museum six months ago. Despite the beliefs of some, the equipment wasn't worn by conquistadors, museum curator Michael Bailey said. "The term `conquistador stirrups' is kind of a misnomer. These are just things a lot of people wore," Bailey said....
Spain Dating: EARLY BIRDS AND WORMS
A bird fossil from Spain dating back 115 million years indicates that birds dined on fancier fare than worms and could maneuver on the wing as well as their modern-day descendants. ``This is the first bird in which we find both the modern design in bones and the modern design in feathers,'' says paleontologist Luis Chiappe, who described the fossil in today's Nature. The bird holds the fossilized remains of tiny shrimp-like crustaceans in its belly. B.I.G....
Spain Dating: Beekeepers Are Feeling the Sting of Attrition
About nine years ago, Pat Haskell of Annandale was attending a home and garden show when she came across a booth pushing something a bit more unusual than lilacs or petunias.It was run by the Beekeeping Association of Northern Virginia."They were selling honey, but more importantly they were selling beekeeping," Haskell recalled.Haskell bought her first beehive shortly after the show. Now she has 30 and is president of the beekeeping association....
Spain Dating: Evening Standard: Gorging in Andalucia
QUEUES of coaches from the Costas flock to the sierra town of Ronda on summer days. And it's not hard to see why. First, there's its cliff-edge position, bisected by a 130-metre deep gorge. Then there's its heritage: as the cradle of bullfighting, it has one of the prettiest (if that's the word) bullrings in Spain, dating to 1785. And though it hardly rivals Granada or Cordoba, it has its share of intriguing Moorish remains.But the best time...
Spain Dating: San Diego -- a special place
San Diego has been called a horticultural gold mine. Thousands of different varieties of plants from all over the world prosper here. There is a rich body of historical plant information in this county, in Balboa Park, the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Quail Gardens and in private gardens. Following is the first of a series, pointing out the similarities between the horticulture and the architecture in San Diego and Spain, dating to the arrival of 1769 of Father Junipero Serra, via Mallorca and...