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Piper auritum is an aromatic culinary herb in the pepper family Piperaceae, which grows in tropical Central America.Common names include hoja santa (Spanish for 'sacred leaf'), [2] yerba santa, [3] [4] hierba santa, [3] Mexican pepperleaf, [4] acuyo, [4] tlanepa, [4] anisillo, [4] root beer plant, [2] Vera Cruz pepper [5] and sacred pepper.
Tales of Count Lucanor (Old Spanish: Libro de los enxiemplos del Conde Lucanor et de Patronio) is a collection of parables written in 1335 by Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena. It is one of the earliest works of prose in Castilian Spanish. The book is divided into five parts.
Papel picado for sale at a market in Coyoacán, Mexico City for Day of the Dead. Papel picado coming down from a Mexican church. Papel picado ("perforated paper," "pecked paper") is a traditional Mexican decorative craft made by cutting elaborate designs into sheets of tissue paper. [1]
Milhojas ("thousand sheets") is a type of dessert of French origin [1] that is found nowadays in Spain and Latin America.It is a local name for mille-feuille in Spanish-speaking countries.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.
The Mano del Desierto is a large-scale sculpture of a hand located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, about 60 km to the south and east of the city of Antofagasta, on the Panamerican Highway The nearest point of reference is the "Ciudad Empresarial La Negra" (La Negra Business City).
Fleur-de-lis Arms of the Kings of France ("France Modern"), blazoned Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or. The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), [pron 1] is a common heraldic charge in the shape of a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean ' flower ' and ' lily ' respectively).
La Mano (The Hand) is a sculpture in Punta del Este by Chilean artist Mario Irarrázabal. [3] It depicts five human fingers partially emerging from sand and is located on Parada 1 at Brava Beach [2] in Punta del Este, a popular tourist town in Uruguay.