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  2. List of Spanish inventors and discoverers - Wikipedia

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    Juan Pablo de Bonet (1573-1633), pioneer of education for the deaf, he published Reducción de las letras y arte para enseñar a hablar a los mudos ("Summary of the letters and the art of teaching speech to the mute") in 1620 in Madrid, the first modern treatise of sign language phonetics, setting out a method of oral education for deaf people ...

  3. Joystick - Wikipedia

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    Possible elements of a video game joystick: 1. stick, 2. base, 3. trigger, 4. extra buttons, 5. autofire switch, 6. throttle, 7. hat switch (POV hat), 8. suction cups. A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.

  4. List of Spanish inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Azulejo; Calatrava style - The futuristic style of architecture invented and designed by world renown Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava.Examples include the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, in Valencia, the planned Chicago Spire, Puente del Alamillo, in Seville, and the new World Trade Center Transportation Hub at rebuilt New World Trade Center site in New York City.

  5. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo - Wikipedia

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    Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (Spanish pronunciation: [maɾθeˈlino meˈnendeθ i peˈlaʝo]; 3 November 1856 – 19 May 1912) [1] was a Spanish scholar, historian and literary critic. Even though his main interest was the history of ideas , and Hispanic philology in general, he also cultivated poetry , translation and philosophy .

  6. Spanish literature - Wikipedia

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    Spanish literature is literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain.

  7. Spanish-language literature - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. Game controller - Wikipedia

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    An example would be PlayStation's access controller which allows for a large joystick, eight buttons on a circular pad, and four ports to plug in additional buttons or accessories. [17] Xbox and Logitech have collaborated to make an adaptive controller with two large touch pads, a D-pad, three buttons, and 16 ports to plug in additional ...

  9. Miguel de Cervantes - Wikipedia

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    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (/ s ɜːr ˈ v æ n t iː z,-t ɪ z / sur-VAN-teez, -⁠tiz; [5] Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) [6] was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.