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Codex Azcatitlan, Hernán Cortés and Malinche (far right), early 16th-century indigenous pictorial manuscript of the conquest of Mexico. Malinchism (Spanish: malinchismo) is a Spanish term is used especially in Mexico to refer to excessive admiration for the culture, ideas, behaviors, and lifestyle of the United States over those native to Latin America. [1]
In Spanish, as in most languages, swear words tend to come from semantic domains considered taboo, such as human excretions, sexuality, and religion, [1] and swearing serves several functions in discourse.
Edoardo Amaldi (5 September 1908 – 5 December 1989) was an Italian physicist.He coined the term "neutrino" in conversations with Enrico Fermi distinguishing it from the heavier "neutron".
An autopsy (also referred to as post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, [Note 1] or autopsia cadaverum) is a surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause, mode, and manner of death; or the exam may be performed to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes.
Finlay's work, carried out during the 1870s, finally came to prominence in 1900. He was the first to theorize, in 1881, that a mosquito was a carrier, now known as a disease vector, of the organism causing yellow fever: a mosquito that bites a victim of the disease could subsequently bite and thereby infect a healthy person. [4]
Joan Bosch Palau (31 May 1925 – 17 November 2015) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.. In 1946 he travelled to Morocco to work as military at the same time he was directing Las aventuras del capitán Guido (1946). [1]
The term is a noun phrase made up of the Spanish words villa (village, small town) and miseria (misery, destitution), and was adopted from Bernardo Verbitsky's 1957 novel Villa Miseria también es América (“Villa Miseria is also [a part of] America”).
Ushuaia (/ uː ˈ s w aɪ. ə / oo-SWY-ə, Spanish:) is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province, Argentina.With a population of 82,615 and a location below the 54th parallel south latitude, Ushuaia claims the title of world's southernmost city.