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However, as soon as they departed, Alcaraz went back on his word and plundered Cabeza de Vaca's entourage of natives that he had sent back home. Not long afterward, Cabeza de Vaca encountered the chief alcalde (Spanish captain of the province), Melchor Díaz. Díaz ordered Cabeza de Vaca to bring the natives back from the forests so that they ...
It’s easy to ignore, roll your eyes and put a middle finger up to straight people who don’t like you because, whatever, you don’t need their approval anyway. Rejection from other gay people, though, feels like losing your only way of making friends and finding love. Being pushed away from your own people hurts more because you need them more.
Some Spanish exonyms are traditional, and are in common use despite the existence of newer exonyms or current or native placenames (for example Pekín over Beijing). In other cases newer names and exonyms are preferred for political or social reasons, even when a place has an older Spanish exonym (for example Bangladesh over Bengala ).
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (/ ˈ oʊ m ə ˌ l ɑː s / [1]) is a 1973 short work of philosophical fiction by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. With deliberately both vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator depicts a summer festival in the utopian city of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child ...
"Going Out for a Walk", is an essay by Max Beerbohm, written in 1918 and published in 1920 in the essay collection And Even Now. The essay challenges the idea that taking a walk is solely a matter of the brain needing release, and it becomes more conflicted when there is a talkative companion.
Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State. ... The other Spanish languages shall also be official in their respective Autonomous Communities... The Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española), on the other hand, currently uses the term español in its publications. However, from 1713 to 1923, it called the language castellano ...
Article list of "Wikipedia:good articles" in Spanish # Articles in Spanish instance of Articles in English Count of languages 1: Italia: country, sovereign state Italy: 398 2: Alemania: country, sovereign state Germany: 392 3: Wikipedia: online encyclopedia, Wikimedia project, MediaWiki wiki Wikipedia: 390 4: India: country, republic, federal ...
The lost children of Francoism (Spanish: niños perdidos del franquismo, niños robados por el franquismo; Catalan: nens perduts del franquisme, nens furtats pel franquisme; Galician: nenos do franquismo, pícaros roubados polo Franquismo) were the children abducted from Republican parents, who were either in jail or had been assassinated by Nationalist troops, during the Spanish Civil War and ...