The Libro de los Juegos, (" Book of games "), or Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas, (" Book of chess, dice and tables ", in Old Spanish ) was commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León and completed in his scriptorium in Toledo in 1283, is an exemplary piece of Alfonso ’ s medieval literary legacy.

Currently, almost all of the population of the Americas resides in independent countries ; however, the legacy of the colonisation and settlement by Europeans is that the Americas share many common cultural traits, most notably the predominant adherence to Christianity and use of Indo-European languages ; primarily Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

One remaining, though symbolic, legacy of Andorra's special relationship with France and Spain, is that the Principality has no postal service of its own – French and Spanish postal services operate side by side, although each of them issues separate stamps for Andorra, instead of using their own.

* Spanish flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla's album La leyenda del tiempo contains lyrics written by or based on works by Lorca and much of the album is about his legacy.

Historian Tom Buchanan notes that in parts of the British public at the time, " Cruelty and violence were thought to be ' old Spanish customs ' — due in equal parts to the legacy of the Inquisition and the bull-ring.

Since 2004, the socialist Spanish government, which has been following a state-wide policy of removal of Francoist symbols from public buildings and spaces, has had an uneasy relationship with a monument that is the most conspicuous legacy from Franco's rule.

The Presidential Honor Guard Brigade of Venezuela wears full dress uniforms in the hussar style, thus maintaining the traditions and legacy of Simon Bolivar's Hussar Troop, raised in 1815, who fought with him during the Venezuelan War of Independence and in the larger Spanish American wars of independence during the early 19th century.

Ilocandia is filled with colonial churches, the legacy of Spanish Catholicism.

In California, the home ranch tends to have more private land, largely because of the legacy of the Spanish land grant system.

Ilocandia is filled with colonial churches, the legacy of Spanish Catholicism.

Clarke speaks Cuban Spanish ( a legacy of his student links with Cuba ), French, and German.

* Favaloro Foundation ( Spanish )-Spanish-language page about the investigation of the Fundación Favaloro, with a gallery of images, quotes, and an essay on Favaloro's legacy.

In this age of civil servants using computers and information technology, a legacy from the administration of the Spanish Empire can still be observed where some parts of the higher levels of the Spanish administration continue the tradition of using red tape to bind important dossiers that need to be discussed and to keep them bound in red tape when the dossier is closed.

Typical dishes of the city are a legacy of both Spanish and indigenous cultural interaction, integrating components of local origin with fruits brought from Spain.

The Incas took over these lands in the fifteenth century, and the Spanish, attracted by the mining industry developed there, left an important Colonial legacy throughout the entire area.

This is a legacy of the Spanish invaders, who, according to legend, left a pot of this stew behind in their abandoned trenches when the town of Leiden, which they had been besieging, was liberated in 1574 – so this hutspot was one of the first foods its starving inhabitants found.

The Hispanic culture is the legacy of the Spanish colonial empire, and so the term can refer to people whose cultural background is primarily associated with Spain, regardless of ethnic or geographical differences.

He later turned his attention to the history of Israel and the Middle East, leaving a legacy of expertise in Spanish inter-war year politics.

His friends gave up trying to sort out his legacy, because most of his property was still located in the Spanish Netherlands, then enemy territory, and some of his money was tied up in outstanding bets.

Today, Spain's legacy endures as dozens of Spanish place names.

The use of the word canal to name inlets on the British Columbia Coast and the Alaska Panhandle is a legacy of the Spanish exploration of the area in the 18th century.

There is general agreement that author García Ordóñez de Montalvo formed the place name " California " from the Spanish word califa, from the Arabic: خليفة ‎ ḫalīfah / khalīfah, the head of state in a Caliphate, a legacy of the Moorish empire within Spain from 757 to 1492.

This generates a legacy of effect that modifies and feeds back into the selection regime of subsequent generations.

Stalin and his regime have been condemned on numerous occasions, the most significant being the in 1956, when Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced his legacy and initiated a process of de-Stalinization.

This left a legacy of chronic agricultural inefficiencies and under-production which the Soviet regime never fully rectified.

Change of regime never really weakened his grip on the key offices of Chester and Lancaster and throughout his life Stanley consolidated the legacy he had inherited from his father and extended his hegemony and that of his family across the north-west.

* Dark legacy: Human rights under the Marcos regime

The movement in Germany shared many concerns of similar groups elsewhere, such as the democratisation of society and opposing the Vietnam War, but also stressed more nationally specific issues such as coming to terms with the legacy of the Nazi regime and opposing the German Emergency Acts.

Skeptics argue that fears of population control can be traced back to the traumatic legacy of the eugenics movement's " war against the weak " in the United States during the first decades of the 20th century but also the Second Red Scare in the U. S. during the late 1940s and 1950s, and to a lesser extent in the 1960s, when activists on the far right of American politics routinely opposed public health programs, notably water fluoridation, mass vaccination and mental health services, by asserting they were all part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime.

However, such a merger never took off, partly due to Pushpa Lal's hesitation to merge his own faction into another party ( since he claimed to represent the legacy of the original Communist Party of Nepal ) and partly due to Pushpa Lal's wish to collaborate with the Nepali Congress against the royal regime ( which MBS did not accept ).

However, the album also reflected the changes in Bulgaria which was desperately trying to cope with the legacy of Communist regime, overturned less than four years earlier.

He further theorized from this that decommodification was based on a combination of class coalitions and mobilization, and regime legacy.

Certain buildings of the Brezhnev era, notably the so-called " White House of Russia ", can be traced to Stalin's legacy, while the Neo-Stalinist regime in Romania produced a vast, late example of the style in its Palace of the Parliament, which was started during 1984.

After tracing the adaptation strategy of the Party of Communists from Republic of Moldova, he finds confirming evidence for five of the factors contributing to the electoral success, already mentioned in the theoretical literature on former Communist parties: the economic situation, the weakness of the opponents, the electoral laws, the fragmentation of the political spectrum and the legacy of the old regime.

Afro-Dominican influence on the merengue has long been denied due to the racist legacy of the Trujillo regime.

The trail itself is paved stone, generally smooth and in good condition, a legacy of the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

In the case of legacies when the funds or assets out of which they are payable are not sufficient to pay them in full, the legacies abate in proportion, unless there is a priority given specially to any particular legacy.

Other major critiques are that the term is not defined well, and employs further terms that are not defined well, and therefore lacks explanatory power, that cultural imperialism is hard to measure, and that the theory of a legacy of colonialism is not always true.

Though he maintains his distaste for abortions, he continues Dr. Larch's legacy of honoring the choice of his patients, and he dreams of the day when abortions are free, legal, and safe, so he'll no longer feel obliged to offer them.

They are relatively short-lived, and as a result many attempt to leave a legacy marked by a memorable death — preferably one that leaves no corpse.

A lasting legacy of traditional guilds are the guildhalls constructed and used as meeting places.

Modern applications are sometimes built upon legacy 3270 applications, using software utilities to capture ( screen scraping ) screens and transfer the data to web pages or GUI interfaces.

In the book Imperfect garden: the legacy of humanism, humanist philosopher Tzvetan Todorov identifies individualism as an important current of socio-political thought within modernity and as examples of it he mentions Michel de Montaigne, François de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Sade, and Charles Baudelaire In La Rochefoucauld, he identifies a tendency similar to stoicism in which " the honest person works his being in the manner of an sculptor who searches the liberation of the forms which are inside a block of marble, to extract the truth of that matter.

Songs such as " I Know You Got Soul " by Bobby Byrd, " Think ( About It )" by Lyn Collins and " Doing It to Death " by Fred Wesley & The J. B .' s are considered as much a part of Brown's recorded legacy as the recordings released under his own name.

That endeavor left the newly independent Republic of Kazakhstan a mixed legacy: a population that includes nearly as many Russians as Kazakhs ; the presence of a dominating class of Russian technocrats, who are necessary to economic progress but ethnically unassimilated ; and a well-developed energy industry, based mainly on coal and oil, whose efficiency is inhibited by major infrastructural deficiencies.

Nevertheless, the Omani Arab legacy in East Africa is currently found through their numerous descendants found along the coast that can directly trace ancestry to Oman and are typically the wealthiest and most politically influential members of the Kenyan coastal community.

The interpretations of Keynes are contentious and several schools of thought claim his legacy.

In particular, legacy spans are more likely to make use of higher latency regenerators.

Since the 1950s, following the lead of D. W. Jefferson, there are those who argue that, whatever its legacy of influence may be, Tristram Shandy in its original context actually represents a resurgence of a much older, Renaissance tradition of " Learned Wit " – owing a debt to such influences as the Scriblerian approach.

Opinions on these events are often torn, given his extensive scientific legacy in other areas.

A legacy system may include procedures or terminology which are no longer relevant in the current context, and may hinder or confuse understanding of the methods or technologies used.

The kind of bridge hardware and software that becomes available for different technologies that are popular at the same time are often not developed for differing technologies in different times, because of the lack of a large demand for it and the lack of associated reward of a large market economies of scale, though some of this " glue " does get developed by vendors and enthusiasts of particular legacy technologies ( often called " retrocomputing " communities ).

Printing improvements are problematic because legacy software systems often add no formatting instructions, or they use protocols that are not usable in modern PC / Windows printers.

Biometric security measures are difficult to implement on legacy systems.

This approach can provide a number of significant benefits: the users are insulated from the inefficiencies of their legacy systems, and the changes can be incorporated quickly and easily in the ABP software.

In the modern business computing environment, n-tier, or 3-tier architectures are more difficult to place into legacy mode as they include many components making up a single system.