The Significance of barrios to Hispanic Culture in the west is that they had Spanish speaking businesses, neighborhoods, newspapers, and it helped keep the Hispanic cultural and religious traditions alive.
The 'two rivers' of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as 'Al-Jazirah' (the island) by the Arabs referencing what Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization began.
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob
