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A celebration of El Día E in Moscow, 2009. El Día E ('E-Day') or El Día del Español ('Spanish Language Day') is a festive commemoration promoted by the Instituto Cervantes since 2009, which takes place on the Saturday closest to the solstice of June, and whose objective is to spread the culture of Spanish, celebrate its importance in the world and foster the unity of its speakers.
Reading and sharing inspirational Veterans Day quotes from important figures throughout history is one way to commemorate the day. Whether you have family members, friends, or neighbors who served ...
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 ...
UN Spanish Language Day (Spanish: Día del Idioma Español en las Naciones Unidas) is observed annually on 23 April. [1] The event was established by the UN's Department of Public Information in 2010, [2] seeking "to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six of its official working languages throughout the organization".
Milagros come in a variety of shapes and dimensions and are fabricated from many different materials, depending on local customs. For example, they might be nearly flat or fully three-dimensional; and they can be constructed from gold, silver, tin, lead, wood, bone, or wax. In Spanish, the word milagro literally means miracle or surprise.
Motivational posters can have behavioral effects. For example, Mutrie and Blamey, [4] of the University of Glasgow and the Greater Glasgow Health Board, found in one study that their placement of a motivational poster that promotes stair use in front of an escalator and a parallel staircase, in an underground station, doubled the amount of stair use.
The modern use of the phrase is generally attributed to Fred R. Barnard. Barnard wrote this phrase in the advertising trade journal Printers' Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars. [6] The December 8, 1921, issue carries an ad entitled, "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words."
Pages in category "Spanish motivational speakers" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. M. Alfonsina Maldonado