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José Luis González (March 8, 1926 – December 8, 1996) was a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, short story writer, university professor, and journalist who lived most of his life in exile in Mexico due to his pro-independence political views. [1]
The Jamaica Letter or (or Letter from Jamaica or Carta de Jamaica, also Contestación de un Americano Meridional a un caballero de esta isla "Answer from a southern American to a gentleman of this island") was a document written by Simón Bolívar in Jamaica in 1815. It was a response to a letter from Jamaican merchant Henry Cullen, in which ...
The Book of the Consulate of the Sea (Catalan: Llibre del Consolat de Mar, lit. 'Book of the Consulate of Sea') is a compendium of maritime law that governed trade in the Mediterranean for centuries. Of Valencian origin, it was translated into many languages and served as the basis for current international maritime law.
Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium terrarum (Latin for Marine map and description of the Northern lands; [1] commonly abbreviated Carta marina) is the first map of the Nordic countries to give details and place names, created by Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus and initially published in 1539.
Del Mar (Spanish pronunciation: [del ˈmaɾ]; Spanish for "Of the Sea") is a beach city in San Diego County, California, located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean ...
The titulus above Jesus reads INRI which is the Latin abbreviation for Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum, which translates to "Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews.. Mara bar Serapion was a Stoic philosopher from the Roman province of Syria.
1998: Bondades de la cibernética/Kindness of Cybernetics; 2006: Con la lengua pegada al paladar (Quetzaltenango Hispanic-American award in 2003) 2010: Un hoy que parece estatua; Short stories. 2001: Pezóculos (an invented title combining "pezón", nipple and "monóculos", monocles)
The South Seas (Spanish: Los mares del Sur) is a 1979 Spanish novel written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. It was listed as one of the best hundred novels in 20th century. [ 1 ] In 1979 it received the Premio Planeta .