Search results for "Spanish language" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Classical Nahuatl (in the Latin alphabet), Spanish, and occasionally Latin. ... European paper, with drawings and Spanish language text on both sides of ...
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  • Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 – 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist ... Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature ...
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  • are: translation of statements from a natural language (such as English, Spanish, or Japanese) into formal logical language; logical equivalence, ...
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  • 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. ... At the outset of the twentieth century, there were few native Spanish ...
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  • him to be one of the greatest Spanish-language poets in history. He ... vigor to the stale, monotonous Spanish-language poetry of the time. ...
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  • is a regional form of the Spanish language which is mainly spoken ... The adoption of the Spanish language in the area was due to Spanish ...
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  • major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Carmelite friar ... one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language. Although his complete ...
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  • Shuar, in the Shuar language, means "people."As Claude Lévi ... to mission boarding schools to learn Spanish. In 1935, the Ecuadorian ...
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  • population of any of the autonomous Spanish states. In terms of land ... The Spanish language spoken in The Americas today is largely descended ...
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  • They were similarly never conquered by the Spanish, defeating successive expeditions ... 25,000, many of whom speak the Yaqui language in addition to Spanish and/or ...
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  • Through his play Spanish Tragedy, Kyd introduced the genre of "revenge ... The Spanish Tragedie was probably written in the mid to late 1580s ...
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  • transmits news in French, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and ... will operate in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. It initially ...
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  • In 1851, the Spanish in Manila began launching attacks which destroyed ... Qudarat eventually ceded Palawan to the Spanish Empire in 1705. ...
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  • semantic function. For example, such a language might have a verb that means ... There are six classes of adjectives in the English language: ...
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  • any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including ... by adding '-mente' (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian) or '-ment ...
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  • brought great change to this people. The Spanish missionaries forced Christianity ... Through their basketmaking, music, and language, they hope to encourage ...
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  • States. They were brought to Europe by Spanish and Portuguese explorers ... Indians of the West Indies by way of the Spanish word patata. The English ...
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  • Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas do Iguaçu, Spanish: Cataratas del Iguazú) ... and were displaced in turn by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores ...
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  • Mansfield was captured and killed by the Spanish shortly afterwards, Morgan ... Morgan prominently, who distressed the Spanish. It was also Morgan who ...
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  • His translation projects included Spanish renderings of Daniel Defoe ... ranks among the best novels written in Spanish in the past century and ...
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  • After the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, the indigenous ... a derivative of the Mvskoke, a Creek language word simano-li, an adaptation ...
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  • China. From the sixteenth century, the Spanish controlled the port. In ... Vigan constitutes the best example of a Spanish colonial town in the ...
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  • redesign and launched its first foreign-language edition, in Japanese. The ... in Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic, as well as ...
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  • missionary, and confessor of the Spanish queen-regnant Isabella II ... that Pius IX—at the request of the Spanish crown (queen-regnant Isabella ...
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  • The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... sought a new papal bull on the subject. Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI, ...
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  • an end 780 years of Muslim control in the Spanish peninsula. the suspicions and interrogations of the Spanish Inquisition. In 1609, descendants ...
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  • were either criollo (South Americans of Spanish ancestry) or mestizo (of ... region, which first had thrown off the Spanish colonial regime and had ...
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  • Huitzilíhuitl (Nahuatl language; English: Hummingbird Feather, Spanish: Pluma de colibrí) was the second tlatoani of the Mexica (Aztecs), governing ...
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  • Luis de Góngora y Argote (July 11, 1561 – May 24, 1627) was a Spanish ... out, Gongora’s contribution to the Spanish language should not be underestimated ...
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  • 31, 1936) was a multi-faceted Spanish writer, an essayist, novelist ... opened the way for the renaissance of Spanish theater undertaken by Ramón ...
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  • (phare), Italian (faro), Portuguese (farol), Spanish (faro), Romanian (far), and Greek (φάρος). === Construction === [[Image:Lighthouse of ...
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  • Grammy, produced four number-one Spanish-language hits. ... Dreaming of You, a combination of Spanish-language songs and new English ...
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  • forms that would revolutionize Spanish-language poetry. In his early years, García Lorca's poetry was marked by the ...
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  • |langs=Mapudungun, Spanish |related=Picunche }} Mapuche (Mapudungun; ... against the Inca empire, and later the Spanish, for over 300 years. To ...
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  • the city of Lima, Peru, founded in 1535 by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro ... capital and most important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, established ...
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  • speaking languages such as French and Spanish; however, it would be several ... it to Tuscany where he adapted it to his language when he founded the Neo ...
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  • arrobas of silver." (An arroba is a Spanish unit of weight equivalent ... In Spanish there is still a saying, valer un potosí, "to be ...
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  • and eaten. In fact, the words for mermaid in Spanish, Siren, French, Sirène, Italian, Sirena, Polish, Syrena, and Portuguese, Sereia, show the connection ...
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  • is Spanish for "Big River" and es|Río Grande del Norte quot;río" means "river" in Spanish, the phrase "Rio Grande ...
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  • were also translations into German, Dutch, Spanish and Czech.Wilson & Wilson ... editions include Latin, German, French, Spanish and Dutch versions, and ...
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  • the United States of America. The first Spanish explorers of the Southwest ... The Spanish word pueblo, evolved from the Latin word populus (people ...
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  • part of their huge empire until the Spanish conquest in 1538. When the Spanish conquistadores overran the Inca Empire, Pedro Anzures ...
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  • Machu Picchu (Quechua language: Old Mountain; sometimes called the ... 1109427 corresponding article] in the Spanish-language Wikipedia. Retrieved ...
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  • Jambalaya (ˌdʒʌmbəˈlaɪə or ) is a casserole-style dish of Spanish ... in the culinary traditions of the French, Spanish, African, and Native Americans ...
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  • raft Kon-Tiki. Indeed, the name balsa derives from Spanish for a raft. As a light and soft material, it is also a very popular material for model ...
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  • José Martí was born on January 28, 1853, in Havana, to a Spanish ... the countryside. Thus, he came to resent Spanish rule of his homeland at ...
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  • at least 30 languages, including French, Spanish, Welsh, Afrikaans, Malay ... human voice: adapted also to the English language as a complete system of ...
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  • The River Paraguay (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, and meaning “big mirror of waters” in the native Guaraní language ...
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  • Italian: diritto comparato, Spanish: derecho comparado, Portuguese: direito comparado, Greek: Συγκριτικό Δίκαιο) is the study ...
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  • KEE-no-uh, Spanish quinua) is a tall South American herb, Chenopodium ... The plant's name is the Spanish spelling of the Quechua name ...
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