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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive.
Barco de Ávila beans (called sometimes more briefly as "Barco beans" or "Judiones from El Barco") are dried beans, usually white and large, cultivated in the fields of El Barco de Ávila (southwest of the Province of Ávila), Spain. Its large size provides approximately about forty beans per 100 grams (a portion approximately for one person).
The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas (see Latin American literature).
Spanish-language literature or Hispanic literature is the sum of the literary works written in the Spanish language across the Hispanic world. The principal elements are the Spanish literature of Spain, and Latin American literature .
Spanish descriptive notation uses a similar system, with a few differences: The initials to identify the pieces are taken from the equivalent Spanish words: R = rey (king), D = dama (queen, lit. ' lady '), T = torre (rook), C = caballo (knight), A = alfil (bishop, lit. ' war elephant ') and P = peón (pawn). The files are named after the ...
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Dalí created the piece to represent the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, having painted it only six months before the conflict began. He subsequently claimed that he was aware the war was going to occur long ...
The first quarter of the year runs from January through March, the second quarter is from April through June, and so on. But companies operate on business-oriented “fiscal quarters” instead.
And still it must be remembered that the symbolism of which it is spoken is not only consequence of the French symbolism of the Eighties; even if coming from there in the initial impulse, and although the vocabulary and the subject matter of the Modernists was impregnated by those of the French symbolists, the Spanish Modernists did not take ...