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For example, some Canadian pubs play Mexican music and serve Mexican food and drink, [55] and a sky-diving club near Vancouver holds a Cinco de Mayo skydiving event. [56] In the Cayman Islands , in the Caribbean , there is an annual Cinco de Mayo air guitar competition, [ 57 ] and at Montego Bay , Jamaica, there is a Cinco de Mayo celebration ...
El degüello (Spanish: El toque a degüello) is a bugle call, notable in the United States for its use as a march by Mexican Army buglers during the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo [1] to signal that the defenders of the garrison would receive no quarter by the attacking Mexican Army under General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Sun of May on the first Argentine coin, 1813. According to Diego Abad de Santillán, the Sun of May represents Inti, the Incan god of the sun. [1]The specification "of May" is a reference to the May Revolution which took place in the week from 18 to 25 May 1810, which marked the beginning of the independence from the Spanish Empire for the countries that were then part of the Viceroyalty of ...
The attention I pay you is little. (A pun: caso "attention" and cazo "saucepan" are homophones in Mexican Spanish) 37 El mundo: the world: Este mundo es una bola, y nosotros un bolón. This world is a ball, and we a great mob. (A pun: bola can mean both "ball, sphere" and "crowd, mob", bolón is a superlative with the latter meaning) 38 El ...
Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain.Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid ("the Lord" or "the Master"), which would evolve into El Çid (Spanish: [el ˈθið], Old Spanish: [el ˈts̻id]), and the Spanish honorific El Campeador ("the Champion").
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Old Spanish (roman, romançe, romaz; [3] Spanish: español medieval), also known as Old Castilian or Medieval Spanish, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance spoken predominantly in Castile and environs during the Middle Ages. The earliest, longest, and most famous literary composition in Old Spanish is the Cantar de mio Cid (c. 1140–1207).