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Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo (Royal Audiencia of Quito, February 21, 1747 – December 28, 1795) was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of criollo origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and writer, he stands out as a polemicist who inspired the separatist movement in Quito .
Manuel Rojas house in 1965. The Lares uprising, commonly known as the Grito de Lares, was a planned uprising that occurred on September 23, 1868. Grito was synonymous with a "cry for independence" and that cry was made in Brazil with el Grito de Ipiranga, in Mexico with El Grito de Dolores, in the Dominican Republic with Grito de Capotillo and in Cuba with El Grito de Yara. [5]
Source domain: the conceptual domain from which we draw metaphorical expressions (e.g., love is a journey). Target domain: the conceptual domain that we try to understand (e.g., love is a journey). A mapping is the way in which a source domain tracks onto and describes aspects of the target domain. Mappings describe the mental organization of ...
Hernando de Soto Polar (commonly known Hernando de Soto / d ə ˈ s oʊ t oʊ /; born June 2, 1941) is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights.
Towards the end of 1944, Carr decided to write a complete history of Soviet Russia from 1917 comprising all aspects of social, political and economic history to explain how the Soviet Union withstood the German invasion. [95] The resulting work, his 14-volume History of Soviet Russia (14 vol., 1950–78), took the story up to 1929. [96]
Marbella (UK: / m ɑːr ˈ b eɪ j ə / mar-BAY-yə, [1] [2] US: / m ɑːr ˈ b ɛ l ə / mar-BEL-ə, [3] Spanish pronunciation: [maɾˈβeʎa]) is a city and municipality in southern Spain, belonging to the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia.
Garay preserved the name originally chosen by Mendoza, calling the city Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Aire ("City of the Most Holy Trinity and Port of Saint Mary of the Fair Winds"). The short form that eventually became the city's name, "Buenos Aires", became commonly used during the 17th century.
Argentina, [C] officially the Argentine Republic, [A] [D] is a country in the southern half of South America.It covers an area of 2,780,085 km 2 (1,073,397 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.