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These were adapted to the carving of a local wood called copal; this type of wood is said to be magical, made from united magic. In the 1990s, the artisans of Oaxaca began to use the word Alebrije to designate their figures carved in wood. The papier-mâché-to-wood carving adaptation was pioneered by Arrazola native Manuel Jiménez.
Mexican ironwood carving is a Mexican tradition of carving the wood of the Olneya tesota tree, a Sonora Desert tree commonly called ironwood (palo fierro in Spanish). Olneya tesota is a slow growing important shade tree in northwest Mexico and the southwest U.S. The wood it produces is very dense and sinks in water.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal fathered modern neuroscience and was the first person of Spanish origin to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906). This is a list of inventors and discoverers who are of Spanish origin or otherwise reside in continental Spain or one of the country's oversees territories .
The first buildings during the early years of Spanish occupation were Bahay kubo which are made of wood and bamboo materials. It is a type of construction with which the pre-Hispanic indigenous Filipinos had been working expertly since early times and is known as Austronesian architecture. Bahay kubo roofs were made of nipa palm or cogon grass ...
Pages in category "Spanish revolutionaries" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Francisco ...
Babies named Jesús are often called Chucho, Chuchi, or Chuy. 9. Javier ... It is one of the top Spanish boy names in the U.S., ranking in the top 100 every year from 1980 to 2014. 20. Sebastian
A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates for, a revolution. [1] The term revolutionary can also be used as an adjective to describe something producing a major and sudden impact on society.
In 1922, Siqueiros returned to Mexico City to work as a muralist for Álvaro Obregón's revolutionary government. The then Secretary of Public Education, José Vasconcelos, made a mission of educating the masses through public art, and hired scores of artists and writers to build a modern Mexican culture. Siqueiros, Rivera and Orozco worked ...