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Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016.Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held ...
Polo y servicio was the forced labor system without compensation [1] imposed upon the local population in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. [2] In concept, it was similar to Repartimiento, a forced labor system used in the Spanish America. [3] The word polo refers to community work, and the laborer was called polista. [4]
Appearance. This is a list of some of the modern orders, decorations and medals of Spain. The majority of the top civil and military decorations currently granted by the Government of Spain on a discretionary basis can be traced back to the 19th and 20th centuries. The military orders, a series of religious-military institutions created during ...
Latino churches are social service hubs. The 5 p.m. mass on a recent Sunday found Isela Castro selling beef nachos at Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Jesuit parish in San Diego. Castro cooked the nachos ...
The Spanish Renaissance. [edit] Classically, 1492 is spoken of as the beginning of the Renaissance in Spain; nevertheless it is complex to consider a date, due to the multiple circumstances that happened. The situation of Spain was always very complex but even so the humanism managed to maintain its innovating characteristics, in spite of the ...
The term Don (Spanish: [don], literally ' Lord ') [a] abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and formerly in the Philippines. Don is derived from the Latin dominus: a master of a household, a title with background ...
Public domain. USAGov en Español (formerly GobiernoUSA.gov) is the official portal of the United States Government in Spanish. It is the sister site of USA.gov, the official portal of the U.S. Government in English. USAGov en Español provides official U.S. Government information and services in Spanish in a user-friendly way.
Contents. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs. This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form.