HISTORY

There are quite a few Adventista churches in this area (one a block away in Estelí, another near La Trinidad and one in Ciudad Dário and I haven't been looking). I am wondering two things:

• Was there some organized movement (like the Quakers moving to Montaverde in Costa Rica) that brought Adventistas here?

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6321

Rest in Peace Ben Linder, you are not forgotten (end of original post)

To clearify my original post, EVERY life is a precious thing, Ben paid the same price as everyone who has died (and continues to die) in horrible stupid conflicts.

Author says that Ben Linder would be glad to see Ortega finally did prevail . . . I sure wish that these folks had some clue (or any interest in learning) that Ortega has changed (IMO for the worse) and that one should attempt to get an update (i.e. reality check) on their glorious visions from circa ~1980s.

History of Nicaraguan Baseball 1887

"A Short History of Nicaraguan Baseball"

Story by Tito Rondon. Originally published in Nica News 12 (March 1998)

This starts off like a good trivia question, because the truth of it

How many of Nicaragua's private properties were confiscated by Contras? Anyone have a stat?

The book "Gate of the Pacific" by British Naval Commander Bedford Pim published in 1863 is a rather schlorly analysis of Central American culture and the engineering prospects of canal contruction across the isthmus. I found the majority of the book rather dry reading, but did find a few interesting pieces of historical information in the book as well as some great engravings (including a really niceone of San Juan Del Sur) and maps.

Do you really know Nicaragua?

The following article is entirely in Spanish:

http://www.estrelladenicaragua.com/330-EDICION/330-fotohistorica.htm

Anyone knows what year was the first for the Nicaraguan government to issue metal license plaques for autos and / or motorcycles? This is an antique question really not a infrastructure one. A frien

Don't know if this link has been posted yet or not but after a bit of searching on Nicaliving and not finding it I thought I would post the Library of Congress "Country Study" link on the history of Nicaragua. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/nitoc.html

Seems to give a good enough outline to build one's knowledge upon.

Greg

Again, thanks to the Library of Congress we have some

How much has Nicaragua changed in the last 100 years? How about a map from 1905 compliments of the US Library of Congress?

Currently the high resolution version is only available in MrSid format so I have converted the image to a .GIF and made several wallpapers for your enjoyment.

Merry Christmas.

• Full Size GIF (40MB)

I gave up on a topic category for this, because it did not seem to fit anywhere; I chose "infrastructure" for the lack of anything more obvious. A friend heard of a large "airplane graveyard" (salvage yard, for parts, filled with old(er) planes for scrap, etc...) in Nicaragua.

This website has some aerial photos from the 80's in Nicaragua, pointing to Soviet Weaponry, planes etc.

http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/centam.htm

I was wondering if anyone is familiar with any films made about the man Sandino (as opposed to anything about the Sandanistas). I was told by some University students in Guatemala that there are at least three different films, though of course they could not remember the names of them. I have never heard of nor seen one. They claimed one is rather old, maybe late 1950´s, another in the 1970´s from Mexico, and another in the 1990´s (first two in Spanish, the last in English). Does anyone remember a title?