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  2. Ricardo Falla-Sánchez - Wikipedia

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    Ricardo Falla-Sánchez (born 1932) is a Guatemalan Jesuit and anthropologist.He studied in the United States and has dedicated his life to documenting the lives and cultures of the Quiché [K'iche'] Maya Indians in Guatemala and other indigenous peoples in Central America.

  3. Hill sphere - Wikipedia

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    In sectional/side view, a two-dimensional representation of the three-dimensional concept of the Hill sphere, here showing the Earth's "gravity well" (gravitational potential of Earth, blue line), the same for the Moon (red line) and their combined potential (black thick line).

  4. Alba Roballo - Wikipedia

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    Alba Rosa Roballo Berón was born on 4 August 1908 [Notes 1] in Isla Cabellos, Artigas Department, Uruguay, to Rosa Berón and Américo Roballo. [3] [4] Her father was the town commissioner and her mother, a teacher, operated the Escuela Rural Nº 8 (Rural School Nº 8) out of their home. [3]

  5. Mario Rodríguez Cobos - Wikipedia

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    Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos (6 January 1938 – 16 September 2010), [a] also known by the mononym Silo, [1] was an Argentine writer and founder of the international volunteer organisation Humanist Movement.

  6. Magiciens de la terre - Wikipedia

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    Magiciens de la Terre literally translates to "Magicians of the Earth." In 1989, in the wake of the infamous "Primitivism" show at MOMA, curator Jean-Hubert Martin set out to create a show that counteracted ethnocentric practices within the contemporary art world as a replacement for the format of the traditional Paris Biennial.

  7. Javier del Granado - Wikipedia

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    Along with Víctor Paz Estenssoro and others, del Granado formed the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario. The MNR was at the forefront of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952, which radically changed the country, bringing about land redistribution, universal suffrage, and nationalization of the major tin mines.

  8. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    Voltaire's Eléments de la philosophie de Newton (Elements of Newton's Philosophy) of 1738 was the first publication to use the terminology of "laws". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers in its article on Kepler (p. 620) states that the terminology of scientific laws for these discoveries was current at least from the time ...

  9. Rosario Castellanos - Wikipedia

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    Laín Corona, Guillermo. "Infancia y opresión en Balún Canán, de Rosario Castellanos. La niña como eje temático y estructural de la novela". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 88.7 (2011): 777–794. Medeiros-Lichem, María Teresa. "Rosario Castellanos: The Inclusion of Plural Languages and the Problematic of Class and Race in Texts Written by ...