An argot (; French, Spanish, and Catalan for " slang ") is a secret language used by various groups — including, but not limited to, thieves and other criminals — to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.

The development of stronger locking blade mechanisms for folding knives — as with the Spanish navaja, the Opinel, and the Buck 110 Folding Hunter — significantly increased the utility of such knives when employed for heavy-duty tasks such as preparing game or cutting through dense or tough materials.

The Spanish suffix-ote denotes the augmentative — for example, grande means large, but grandote means extra large.

Many languages — for instance Japanese, Spanish, and Hebrew — already distinguish " existence "/" location " from " identity "/" predication ".

Describing Flanders as the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium is commonplace, although Jewish groups have been speaking Yiddish in Antwerp for centuries, and Flanders ' minority residents include 170 nationalities — their larger groups speaking French, Berber, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Polish.

In Spanish it was then used as euphemism for " pregnant " ( she was " embarrassed "-- hindered — by her pregnancy ) and that became the primary meaning.

The capital of the Spanish Captaincy General of Guatemala, covering most of modern Central America, was moved here after a series of earthquakes — the Santa Marta earthquakes that started on July 29, 1773 — destroyed the old capital, Antigua Guatemala.

Two manuscripts are known to have existed, both dated to the late 16th century and written respectively in Italian and in Spanish — although the Spanish manuscript is now lost, its text surviving only in a partial 18th-century transcript.

The main difference between the text in the surviving Spanish copy and that in the Italian manuscript is that in the Spanish copy chapters 121 to 200 are noted as being missing in the exemplar — although it appears that these chapters had still been present in the Spanish original when it was first examined by George Sale.

In 1899, Spain sold its remaining Pacific islands — the Northern Mariana Islands, Caroline Islands and Palau — to Germany and Spanish colonial possessions were reduced to Spanish Morocco, Spanish Sahara and Spanish Guinea, all in Africa.

Latino — which in Spanish means " Latin " but which as an English word is probably a shortening of the Spanish word latinoamericano — refers more exclusively to persons or communities of Latin American origin.

His work has been exhibited alongside works by Spanish painter Joan Miró and contributed significantly to the British Surrealist movement.

Joan Miró i Ferrà () ( April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983 ) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

Until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Miró habitually returned to Spain in the summers.

Though a sense of nationalism pervaded his earliest surreal landscapes and Head of a Catalan Peasant, it wasn ’ t until Spain ’ s Republican government commissioned him to paint the mural, The Reaper, for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exhibition, that Miró ’ s work took on a politically charged meaning.

Soon after Miró also began his Spanish Dancer series of works.

* April 20-Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist ( d. 1983 )

Wilkinson met with Spanish Governor Esteban Rodríguez Miró and managed to convince him to allow Kentucky to have a trading monopoly on the Mississippi River ; in return he promised to promote Spanish interests in the west.

Wilkinson's involvement with the Spanish ( Agent 13 ), although widely suspected in his own day, was not proven until 1854, with Louisiana historian Charles Gayarré's publication of the American general's correspondence with Rodríguez Miró, the Spanish governor of Louisiana.

For the artistic content of the building, Sert called on his Spanish artist friends Picasso, Miró, and Calder ; Picasso's contribution was Guernica and became the focal attraction of Sert's design.

* Contemporary Spanish Engraving Museum: created in 1992 contains a collection of prints by twentieth-century artists such as Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Tapies, Chillida and the El Paso Group ( Rafael Canogar, Manolo Millares, Antonio Saura, Pablo Serrano, et al.

Gabriel Francisco Víctor Miró Ferrer, known as Gabriel Miró, is a Spanish modernist writer.

Esteban Rodriguez Miró y Sabater ( 1744 – June 4, 1795 ), also known as Esteban Miro and Estevan Miro, was a Spanish army officer and governor of the Spanish American provinces of Louisiana and Florida.

Rodríguez Miró was one of the most popular of the Spanish governors largely because of his prompt response to the Great New Orleans Fire ( 1788 ) which destroyed almost all of the city.

From left to right: Jaume Aigudé i Miró ( Esquerra | ERC ), Federica Montseny ( CNT-FAI ), Joan García Oliver ( CNT-FAI ) and Anastasio de Gracia ( Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party | PSOE )

* Gabriel Miró, a Spanish writer

* Joan Miró, a Spanish Catalan artist

* Kira Miró, a Spanish actress and TV host

* Luis Miró, a Spanish footballer and coach

* Mireia Miró Varela ( born 1988 ), a Spanish ski mountaineer

* Pilar Miró, a Spanish film director

* 1943 – Joan Manuel Serrat, Spanish musician

** Joan Fuster, Spanish writer ( b. 1922 )

* Joan Vizcarra, Spanish artist

Among the most notable events of this period were the government of General Joan Prim and his assassination, the federalist revolt of 1869, the rise of Amadeo to the monarchy, the proclamation of the First Spanish Republic, the outbreak of the Third Carlist War and the spread of the ideas of the First International.

* Sant Joan d ' Alacant ( called San Juan de Alicante in Spanish )

* Sant Joan, Majorca ( called San Juan in Spanish )

Don Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquis of Samaranch, Grandee of Spain ( 17 July 1920 – 21 April 2010 ), known in Catalan as Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló (), was a Catalan Spanish sports administrator who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) from 1980 to 2001.

Rainier was also a descendant of William the Silent of Orange-Nassau, the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Empire and ancestor to the current Dutch Royal Family ; Hortense Mancini, the Duchess of Mazarin and mistress of King Charles II of England ; Gabrielle de Polignac, a favourite of Marie Antoinette ; Joan of Kent, the first Princess of Wales ; King Charles IX of Sweden ; King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway ; Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor ; Claude, Duke of Guise and several doges of Genoa.

The winning song, Spain's " La, la, la " is sung by Massiel, after Spanish authorities refused to allow Joan Manuel Serrat to perform it in Catalan.

* Joan Baptista Pla, Spanish composer

However, Modernisme did have a revival of sorts during the Second Spanish Republic, with avant-garde writers such as Futurist Joan-Salvat Papasseit earning comparisons to Joan Maragall, and the spirit of Surrealists such as Josep Vicent Foix or Salvador Dalí being clearly similar to the rebellion of the Modernistes, what with Dalí proclaiming that Catalan Romanticist Àngel Guimerà was a putrefact pervert.

Joan Riudavets Moll ( 15 December 1889 – 5 March 2004 ) was a Spanish supercentenarian and, at the time of his death, was believed to be the oldest verified person ever in the history of Spain.

In 1960, in the course of an homage to Catalan poetist Joan Maragall, held in Palau de la Música Catalana, part of the audience sang the Cant de la Senyera ( The Song of the Flag in English ) despite being previously prohibited by the Spanish authorities.

On this occasion, the rebellion against the Spanish crown was evident, led by a brilliant generation of lawyers, such as Catalan Joan Pere Fontanella, who was the legal adviser of the Generalitat and the Consell de Cent, and played a role in the crisis in relations between Catalonia and the Crown, which ended with the secession of 1640.

Wendy Joan Matthews was born in 1960 in Montreal, Canada, with Abenaki ( First Nations tribe ), Spanish and Scottish ancestry.

Joan Manuel Serrat i Teresa () ( 27 December 1943 ) is a Spanish singer.

He scored his final goal for Barcelona in a Spanish Super Cup match on 14 August in a 3 – 1 defeat over Sevilla, and on 25 August, he played his last match for the club against Milan for the Joan Gamper Trophy, after which he claimed to the media that his relationship with coach Josep Guardiola had started deteriorating and that Guardiola had not spoken to him since March.

* Henry O ' Neill ( c. 1586 – 1610 ) Earl Hugh's son by Joan O ' Donnell, his second wife ; Colonel of the Irish regiment in the Spanish service in Flanders ; Knight of Santiago.

Joan Coromines i Vigneaux () ( sometimes also referred to as Joan Corominas ; Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 1905 — Pineda de Mar, Catalonia, Spain, 1997 ) was a linguist who made important contributions to the study of Catalan, Spanish and other Romance languages.

* Joan Calabuig Rull, Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( Party of European Socialists )