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Performing under the stage name "Señor Wences", Moreno was known for his speed, skill, and grace as a ventriloquist. [5] His stable of characters included "Johnny", a childlike face drawn on his hand, placed atop an otherwise headless doll, with whom the ventriloquist conversed while switching voices between Johnny's falsetto and his own voice with great speed.
El Señor Presidente (Mister President) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974). A landmark text in Latin American literature, El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society.
Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Ancient Babylon and that have been transmitted culturally to Spain during the period of classical antiquity; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “En boca cerrada no entran moscas” (Silence is golden, literally "Flies cannot enter a closed mouth") belong to the ...
(PIX11) — A California high school senior's sassy and confident yearbook quote has gone viral and is getting her loads of attention on social media. Rafika Alami, 17, had "Only reason I wear ...
Reference to a Duke in the UK's upper house of Parliament The House of Lords historically employed the prefix "the illustrious Duke" [10] in the late 1800s. In the 21st century, it has been replaced by the generic prefix "the noble Duke" [11] which is customarily used for all members of the House of Lords, irrespective of their rank.
Lighting copal in a clay burner (called copalero sahumador in Spanish or Popoxcomitl in Nahuatl) or via copal incense sticks has been used for centuries to connect with the ancestors and the smell ...
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