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  2. El Fin del Mundo - Wikipedia

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    El Fin del Mundo (Spanish: 'End of the World') is an ancient Pleistocene site near Pitiquito in northwestern Sonora, Mexico. [1] It features Clovis culture period occupation proposed to date to 13,390 calibrated years Before Present , though this is contested.

  3. The End (story) - Wikipedia

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    "The End" is a response to the Argentine epic Martín Fierro, which Borges had discussed in a long essay published earlier that year. [1] In the story, a man who presumably has had a crippling stroke winds up half seeing and half hearing a definitive fight between a "negro" guitarist who has been dwelling in the man's store and a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Martin Fierro, whom the ...

  4. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    In some dialects of French, the English term "weekend" becomes la fin de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated as le week-end, a loanword. French cor anglais (literally English horn) is a near-calque of English French horn. In English cor anglais refers to a completely different musical instrument.

  5. Elfin - Wikipedia

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    Elfin may refer to: . ELFIN, a CubeSat developed by University of California, Los Angeles; Elfin (steamboat), a steamboat that ran on Lake Washington from 1891 to 1900 Elfin of Alt Clut, ruler of Alt Clut, seventh century Scotland

  6. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.

  7. Queen of Elphame - Wikipedia

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    From Thomas the Rhymer, "Under the Eildon tree Thomas met the lady," illustrated by Katharine Cameron. Queen of Elphame [1] or "Elf-hame" (-hame stem only occurs in conjectural reconstructed orthography [2] [3]), in the folklore belief of Lowland Scotland and Northern England, designates the elfin queen of Faerie, mentioned in Scottish witch trials.

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  9. Black Friday (shopping) - Wikipedia

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    El Buen Fin has been in existence since 2011 and takes place on November in the week-end prior to the Monday in which the Mexican Revolution holiday is pushed from its original date of November 20, as a result of the measure taken by the government of pushing certain holidays to the Monday of their week in order to avoid the workers and ...