Total 2017 GRAMMY nominations: Beyonce is up for nine GRAMMY awards this year -- a new record for a female artist -- while Adele is up for five. Total GRAMMY awards, period: No contest here. Beyonce has 20 GRAMMYs under her belt, while Adele has 10. Depending on how many awards she wins in 2017, Beyonce could become the female artist with the most GRAMMYs and the second artist ever with the most GRAMMY Awards, behind conductor Georg Solti.
Puerto Ricans are natural-born citizens of the United States. The territory operates under a local constitution, and its citizens elect a governor. Puerto Rico's residents are unable to vote in the U.S. Congress, which has plenary jurisdiction over the territory under the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950.
The history of Puerto Rico began with the settlement of the archipelago of Puerto Rico by the Ortoiroid people between 3,000 and 2,000 BC. Other tribes, such as the Saladoid and Arawak Indians, populated the island between 430 BC and 1000 AD. At the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492, the dominant indigenous culture was that of the TaÃ­nos. The TaÃ­no people's numbers went dangerously low during the later half of the 16th century because of new infectious ...