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An important source of medieval games is the Libro de los juegos, ("Book of games"), or Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas, ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish) which was commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León in 1283. [61]
The city of Ponce hosted the seventeenth CACG less than three years after the Sixteenth Games in Mexico City.The ODECABE staff developed a more close working relationship with the Games organizers in Puerto Rico to carry out the Games in the context of the commemorative celebrations of the discovery of Puerto Rico exactly 500 years earlier to the opening ceremony day, in 1493. [3]
The game of astronomical tables, from Libro de los juegos. The Libro de los juegos (Spanish: "Book of games"), or Libro de axedrez, dados e tablas ("Book of chess, dice and tables", in Old Spanish), was a Spanish treatise of chess which synthesized the information from other Arabic works on this same topic, dice and tables (backgammon forebears) games, [1] commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile ...
The National Games of Colombia, known in Spanish as the Juegos Deportivos Nacionales, is the premier multi-sport event of Colombia at national level. The first instance of the event was organized in 1928 and for several years it took place at irregular intervals of time.
The Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos, full name Juegos Deportivos Bolivarianos) are a regional multi-sport event held in honor of Simón Bolívar, and organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (Organización Deportiva Bolivariana, ODEBO).
The I Central American Games (Spanish: I Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos) was a multi-sport event that took place between 24 November - 2 December 1973. The games were officially opened by Guatemalan Education Minister Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre. [1] Long-distance runner Mateo Flores was honoured to light the torch in the stadium bearing ...
The famous gardener Pieter de la Court of the Netherlands was known for introducing exotic fruits to European elites. Pineapples were grown in greenhouses in England , at Versailles in France ...
Silver coin: 5 Balboas, Panama - 11th Central American and Caribbean Games, 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games 2010, Triathlon, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC or CACGs) are a multi-sport regional championship event, held quadrennial (once every four years), typically in the middle (even) year between Summer Olympics.