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Asturian Medieval Spanish, Galician and Basque were primarily oral. Alfonso X commissioned a translation of an Arabic work on chess, dice and tables games called the Libro de los Juegos in 1283. [7] [8] The work contains information on the playing of chess, with over 100 chess problems and chess variants. [9]
The practice of women marrying by proxy and immigrating to the U.S. resulted in a large increase in the number of "picture brides." [ 11 ] [ 14 ] As the Japanese American population continued to grow, European Americans who lived on the West Coast resisted the arrival of this ethnic group, fearing competition, and making the exaggerated claim ...