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Beatriz Cortez is a Los Angeles–based artist and scholar from El Salvador. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2017, Cortez was featured in a science fiction-themed exhibit at University of California, Riverside , [ 3 ] and in 2018, her work was shown in the Made in L.A. group artist exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. [ 4 ]
Codex Fejérváry-Mayer – pre-Hispanic calendar codex, part of the Borgia Group. Codex Ixtlilxochitl, an early 17th-century codex fragment detailing, among other subjects, a calendar of the annual festivals and rituals celebrated by the Aztec teocalli during the Mexican year. Each of the 18 months is represented by a god or historical character.
Codex Ixtlilxochitl (Nahuatl for "black-faced flower [1]") is a pictorial Aztec Codex created between 1580 and 1584, during the Spanish colonial era in Mexico. It depicts past ceremonies and holidays observed at the Great Teocalli of the Aztec altepetl or city-state of Texcoco , near modern-day Mexico City, and has visual representations of ...
In speech, a time given in 24-hour format is always followed by the word horas: el concierto comenzará a las 15:30 "quince y treinta" horas ("the concert will start at 15:30"). Fractional seconds are given in decimal notation, with punctuation marks used to separate the units of time (full stop, comma or single quotation marks). For elapsed ...
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) teamed up Wednesday to make fun of a new ad campaign against the New York City progressive, as Ocasio-Cortez faces a Democratic ...
La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite) [a] and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname.
The Aztec calendar was composed of two separate cycles—one of 260 days called the tonalpohualli (day count) and one of 365 days called the xiuhpohualli (year count). The 365-day xiuhpohualli consisted of 18 twenty-day "months" (or veintenas ), plus an additional 5 days at the end of the year.