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  2. Spanish poetry - Wikipedia

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    During the Renaissance, poetry became partitioned into culteranismo and conceptismo, which essentially became rivals. Culteranismo used bleak language and hyperbaton. These works largely included neologisms and mythological topics. Such characteristics made this form of poetry highly complex, making comprehension difficult.

  3. List of cattle terminology - Wikipedia

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    In all cattle species, a female twin of a bull usually becomes infertile due to intrauterine exposure to high testosterone levels. She is functionally a partial intersex, and is commonly called a freemartin. A wild, young, unmarked bull is known as a micky in Australia. [7] An unbranded bovine of either sex is called a maverick in the US and ...

  4. Donkey-hide gelatin - Wikipedia

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    The basis for the hematopoietic effect of ejiao has been found to be at least in part a peptide resulting from the partial hydrolysis of collagen in the hide. The peptide as well as ejiao is orally active in anemic mice fed through gastric lavage, according to a 2016 Chinese study. The same study mentions that candidate peptides match the ...

  5. Latino poetry - Wikipedia

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    Latino poetry explores a wide variety of personal, social justice, and historical issues, spanning themes of love, death, language, family, and history, [7] as well as discussing real-life events like immigration restrictions, human rights, DACA, and DREAMers. [7] Borders are a prevalent theme of Latino poetry.

  6. Spanish literature - Wikipedia

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    Spanish literature of the Middle Ages concludes with La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas. Important Renaissance themes are poetry, with Garcilaso de la Vega and Juan Boscán; religious literature, with Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, and Santa Teresa de Jesús; and prose, with the anonymous El Lazarillo de Tormes. Among the principal ...

  7. Catgut suture - Wikipedia

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    Catgut suture is a type of surgical suture made of twisted strands of purified collagen taken from the small intestine of domesticated ruminants or beef tendon. It is naturally degraded by the body's own proteolytic enzymes. Full tensile strength remains for at least 7 days, and absorption is complete by 90 days. This eventual disintegration ...

  8. Latin American poetry - Wikipedia

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    Latin American women have been a force of innovation in poetry in Spanish since the sonnets and romances by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the 17th century. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Sor Juana's poems spanned a range of forms and themes of the Spanish Golden Age , and her writings display inventiveness, wit, and a vast range of secular and theological ...

  9. Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - Wikipedia

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    Weinberger compares translations of the poem into English, French, and Spanish, and analyzes the difficulties that are encountered when translating Chinese poetry. Since its publication, the book has been referred to as an essential work on the subject of translation. An updated edition including additional "ways" was published in 2016.