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The Donner Party, sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party, were a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. Delayed by a multitude of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada .
Isaak August Dorner. Isaak August Dorner (20 June 1809 – 8 July 1884) was a German Lutheran church leader. He served as a professor of theology at various institutions, including Tübingen, Kiel, Königsberg, Bonn, Göttingen, and Berlin.
The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited, and published by the Royal Spanish Academy, with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language.
abarca - encompasses; abarcar - to encompass; abarrotado - crowded; abarrote - grocery; abastacer - to supply; abastece - supplies; abastecido - stocked; abastecimiento - catering
Johann Ludwig Christian Keseberg (May 26, 1814 – 1895), also referred to as Lewis Keseberg, [a] was a member of the Donner Party of 1846–1847. He was the last survivor to be rescued from the Donner campsite. His reputation and his involvement in cannibalism allowed him to be remembered as "the most infamous and vilified member of the Donner ...
This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form.
This is a list of Spanish words that come from Semitic languages (excluding Arabic, which can be found in the article, Arabic language influence on the Spanish language). It is further divided into words that come from Aramaic and Hebrew. Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages.
calé — a Romani person; from Caló ' Romani, speaker of Romani ', see caló below. caló — Caló language, also black, dark-colored; the word is possibly related to Sanskrit kanlanka ' blemish, macula ' and/or Ancient Greek kelainós ' black '.