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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?"
In 2011 she became the winner of the Balón Rosa de Oro (the Pink Ballon d'Or), [7] an Argentine female prize, and replaced her elder sister Wanda in Bailando 2011 when the latter left the show because of her third pregnancy. [8] In 2010, she was ranked 47th in a list of the world's sexiest women published by FHM magazine. [9]
[31] [32] The BBC also encouraged the use of the V gesture introduced by de Laveleye. [33] By July 1941, the emblematic use of the letter V had spread through occupied Europe. On 19 July, Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred approvingly to the V for Victory campaign in a speech, [34] from which point he started using the V hand sign.
The symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, [1] hash, [2] or pound sign. [3] The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and as a ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔.
Irony mark as designed by Alcanter de Brahm in a French encyclopedia from 1905 [9] Another irony point (French: point d'ironie) was proposed by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm (alias, Marcel Bernhardt) in his 1899 book L'ostensoir des ironies to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level (irony, sarcasm, etc.). It is ...
The percent sign % (sometimes per cent sign in British English) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. Related signs include the permille (per thousand) sign ‰ and the permyriad (per ten thousand) sign ‱ (also known as a basis point), which indicate that a number is divided by one thousand or ten thousand, respectively.
Maghreb Association Sportive de Fès, a Moroccan football club colloquially referred to by the acronym MAS; Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore's central bank; Museum aan de Stroom, museum in the city of Antwerp; Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria, art museum in Santander, Spain
María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (Spanish: [maˈɾi.a ˈfeliɣs]; 8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río , she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and 1950s.