Did you know

• The Spanish founded the State of South Carolina in 1526.

• The burglar alarm was patented by Albert Silva in 1875.

• Hispanics introduced the cowboy and his hat, boots, lassoes, chaps, spurs, saddle, cattle, rodeos, ranches and even the horse to the North American continent.

• The $ symbol was taken from the pillars of the Spanish Imperial Coat of Arms and that in 1775 the United States adopted the "Spanish Dollar" as the basic monetary system

• The first Thanksgiving happened, 23 years before the Pilgrims arrived, when the

Don Juan de Onate exploration arrived in El Paso after a treacherous trip from Mexico.

• When George Washington ran out of money during the Revolutionary War,

Cuban Society ladies contributed $12 million to the war effort.

• Alfonso Alvarez Blade invented the Safety Razor in 1911.

• San Augustin, founded by Pedro Mendez de Avilles, was the first city in the U.S in 1565.

• The Spanish founded the first free integrated public school in San Augustine, Florida, in September 1787.