Chasing Carlos and Christina Cruz

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Chasing Carlos and Christina Cruz

• Ppt. prepared by Sean Kelly
• Geographer Kevin Kilduff
• Historian Sean Kelly
• Fine Arts Expert Bart DiMattina
• Cultural Expert Derek Springsteen

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Geography

• Kevin Kilduff

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Spain

• The main Bodies of water that border Spain are,
  the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediteranean Sea, and The
  Bay of Biscay.
• The Mountain Ranges of Spain are Pyrenees and the
  Siarra Navada.

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Mexico

• The bodies of water that border Mexico are, the
  Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico.
• The Mountain range in Mexico is the Sierra Madre
  made up of the Sierra Oriental, Sierra
  Occidental, and the Sierra del Sur.

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Argentina

• The body of water that borders Argentina is the
  Atlantic Ocean.
• The mountain range that can be found in Argentina
  is the Andeas Mountains.

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Climates

• Spain temperate clear, hot summers in interior,
  more moderate and cloudy along coast cloudy,
  cold winters in interior, partly cloudy and cool
  along coast.
• Argentina mostly temperate arid in southeast
  subantarctic in southwest.
• Mexicovaries from tropical to desert.

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• Historian
• Sean Kelly

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Madrid, Spain

• In the early 1800s Spain controlled Texas were
  several battles were fought causing a great
  impact on Spain.
• Spain is also known to have been ranked third for
  the most monuments with historical value.
• Spain is very popular for serving Flan, although
  it originated in México.
• In the letter it was indicated that the father
  enjoyed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientess
  painting and it was said that he was from there,
  and he was actually born in Fuendetodos,
  Zaragoza, Spain.
• Spain is also the only country that is
  demographically known to speak four languages.

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Mexico City, Mexico

• The Texas Revolution took place in Mexico
  although Texas was controlled by Spain.
• Mexico was invaded and forced to believe in the
  catholic religion which would cause a major
  impact on the culture.
• In the 1800s Mexico had a government controlled
  by dictator, Porfirio Díaz.

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Buenos Aires, Argentina

• In the 1800s Buenos Aires was attacked by
  Britain. Jose de San Martin rebelled against them
  and conquered Lima with Simon Bolivar.
• Argentina is the only country that did not go
  through a dictatorship, they were deciding
  between Unitarists and the Federalists.
• Britain made a great impact on the culture of
  Argentina, but it had nothing to do with religion.

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Fine Arts

• Bart DiMattina

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Clues

• In the letter to their daughter they mentioned a
  few things that may have given us their location
• They mentioned something about slang words
• They said something about there being a type of
  music and dance that originated there
• They also said they had Sangria , a tortilla,
  and a fish dish.
• They talked about Flan
• They mentioned Goya and Frida Kahlo, both artists

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Slang

• We couldnt seem to get any leads here because
  every city has there own form of slang.

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Flamenco

• Flamenco is a type of dance that originated in
  Spain.
• I believe this is the dance they referred to in
  the letter, because this is a very famous dance
  and spectators come to observe from around the
  world.

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Food

• Right away when they said Sangria that gave away
  that they were in Madrid because Sangria is a
  very popular type of wine made and very popular
  in Spain
• They mentioned the tortilla and olives
• The tortilla is very common in the Spanish
  culture they can be found where ever Spanish
  culture has influenced, which all these cities
  have. Then the olives, Spain is known to have
  good olives.
• Then about the Flan, Flan is also a very
  popular dessert in Spain.

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Art

• They had mentioned seeing Goyas paintings in a
  museum.
• Most of Goyas paintings are stored in Madrid,
  and the others werent in the other suspected
  cities.
• Then Frida Kohlas paintings are in Mexico, but
  there may be one in madrid.

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Culture

• By Derek Springsteen (Cultural Expert)

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• The letter also states that the most prominent
  religion of the area is Catholicism. Through
  research we have found that again, all of the
  possible locations are potentially the Cruzs
  hiding spot.

• We know from the letter that Carlos Cristina
  Cruz are located near El Centro. But there is
  an El Centro in all of the three possible
  cities. The countries below are all possible
  locations for the Cruzs.

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• In the letter there is a section which says that
  there was a wonderful dance, that is indigenous
  to this country, but all of the possible
  countries have a dance that is native to them.
• But they also
• said that during
• the dance there was a meal served which was
  composed of sangria (wine), along with olives,
  "tortilla", and some amazing fish dish. Which is
  a very Spanish dish.

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• In the letter, it is mentioned that the place
  where they are, there are four languages spoken.
  We have found there are four languages commonly
  spoken in Spain, unlike the other two.
• These four languages
• are Spanish, Catalan,
• Galician and Basque.

• Spain is the country mentioned in the letter that
  holds the claim to fame for having the second
  largest fish market in the world, behind Tokyo.
  This provides a

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• Mostly all of the cultural clues in the letter
  point suggest that the Cruzes are currently
  located in Madrid Spain.

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