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Latin and America
After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.
His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.
This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.
Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The first year's projects should also be spread through several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.
and concentrate its constructive efforts on eliminating in other parts of Latin America the social conditions on which totalitarian nationalism feeds ''.
They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
Indonesia is one of the twenty under-developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America that are receiving Soviet aid.
The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.
He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).
The word Gringo is widely used in parts of Latin America in reference to U. S. residents, often in a pejorative way but not necessarily.
Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.
The meat of this mollusk is considered a delicacy in certain parts of Latin America ( especially Chile ), France, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia ( especially in China, Japan, and Korea ).
It has dominated French social history and influenced historiography in Europe and Latin America.
In Mexico, exiled Republican intellectuals extended the Annales approach, particularly from the Center for Historical Studies of El Colegio de México, the leading graduate studies institution of Latin America.
* 1982 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
Modern Latin America was not a British-style system of overseas colonies.
In European Spain, or just " the Peninsula " in the jargon of the Spains, after economic and human ravages of the Napoleonic Invasion ( 1808 ) and the War of Liberation ( 1808 – 1814 ) there ensued the aforementioned Latinamerican conflicts, in addition to the Carlist wars, the liberal-conservative wars, and the bleeding of people and resources into Latin America.
Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed " America ", probably deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name .< ref > Rival explanations have been proposed ( see Arciniegas, Germán.
In regions such as Latin America where these languages are spoken, negro ( pronounced slightly differently than Negro in English ), is a normal word used without disparaging intent in relation to black people.

Latin and was
In the eyes of those who still cared for such things, it was a reflection on his honor, and it gave further grounds for complaint to his overtaxed subjects, who were already grumbling -- although probably not in Latin -- `` Non est lex sana Quod regi sit mea lana ''.
On matters of race he was similarly inflexible: `` Most of the modern Latin races seem to have inherited the rigidity of the Roman mind ''.
Milton was required to absorb and display an intensive and accurate knowledge of Latin grammar, logic-rhetoric, ethics, physics or natural philosophy, metaphysics, and Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.
more doubtful, but possible, ( with an assist from the North ) was the neutralization of the Latin American countries ; ;
It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.
The Latin, for example, was not only clear ; ;
With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.
The Latin author Apuleius was born in Madaurus ( Mdaourouch ), in what later became Algeria.
However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.
For this he was also known as Parnopius ( ; Παρνόπιος, Parnopios, from πάρνοψ, " locust ") and to the Romans as Culicarius ( ; from Latin culicārius, " of midges ").
To the Romans, he was known in this capacity as Averruncus ( ; from Latin āverruncare, " to avert ").
Readers unacquainted with its reputation as a satirical work often do not immediately realize that Swift was not seriously proposing cannibalism and infanticide, nor would readers unfamiliar with the satires of Horace and Juvenal recognize that Swift's essay follows the rules and structure of Latin satires.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

Latin and once
It derives from the Latin lyncea lynx, with the letter L confused with the definite article ( Italian lonza, Old French l ' once ).
* Latin square, a square array in which each symbol appears exactly once in each row and each column
They excluded logic and added to the traditional Latin grammar and rhetoric not only history, Greek, and moral philosophy ( ethics ), but made poetry, once a sequel of grammar and rhetoric, the most important member of the whole group.
These were two or three part compositions in which several different texts, sometimes in different vernacular languages, were sung simultaneously over a Latin cantus firmus that once again was usually adapted from a passage of Gregorian chant.
* Ancient and long-term Roman influence: Julius Caesar once said that the people of Aquitaine could teach the Romans themselves to speak Latin more correctly.
Panama City was enriched by the past century of American influences in terms of additions to the country's Latin culture, economics ( the US was involved in development of roads, schools and medical care ), and international trade by the nearby Panama Canal, once was under US jurisdiction: the Canal Zone territory from 1903 to 1979.
Stroessner, probably the United States ' most dependable ally in Latin America, once remarked that the United States ambassador was like an extra member of his cabinet.
Because of its reputation, it was widely sought and was translated twice into Latin in the 12th century, once in Sicily and again in Spain.
In fact the word cattle is the Old Norman variant of Old French chatel ( derived from Latin capitalis, “ of the head ”), which was once synonymous with general movable personal property.
** Roman alphabet or Latin alphabet, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, Indonesia, Malay, and other areas once settled by European colonial empires
US President John Adams once wrote to his son, " Terence is remarkable, for good morals, good taste, and good Latin ... His language has simplicity and an elegance that make him proper to be accurately studied as a model.
Odoacer generally used the Roman honorific patrician, granted by the Emperor Zeno, but is referred to as a king ( Latin rex ) in many documents and he himself used it at least once and on another occasion it was used by the consul Basilius.
The word " plumbing " comes from the Latin plumbum for lead, as pipes were once made from lead.
The name " chalcedony " comes from the Latin calcedonius, the word used to translate the Greek word khalkedon, found only once, in the Book of Revelation ; according to the OED a connection with the town of Chalcedon in Asia Minor is " very doubtful ".
Cavia is New Latin ; it is derived from cabiai, the animal's name in the language of the Galibi tribes once native to French Guiana.
And though its territory was more than once laid waste by the Carthaginians, it was still one of the eighteen Latin colonies which in 209 BCE were at once able and willing to furnish the required quota of men and money for continuing the war.
Several countries once had diplomatic relations with Israel, but have since broken or suspended them ( Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela in Latin America ; Mauritania in the Arab League ; Chad, Guinea, Mali and Niger in non-Arab Africa ; and Iran until the Islamic revolution ).
Spike is also seen speaking / understanding Latin, Luganda ( a language of Uganda, where he meets the demon shaman ), and the language of Fyarl Demons, two of whom he once employed as underlings during his pre-Sunnydale days.
The area gets its name from the Latin language, which was once widely spoken in and around the University since Latin was the international language of learning in the Middle Ages.
The Latin motto " Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori | Dulce et Decorum Est Desipere in Loco " translates as " It is pleasant and proper to be foolish once in a while.
The successive name Humbre / Humbri / Umbri could continue to have the same meaning ; in fact, the Latin verb umbro means, once again, to cover with shadows with the sense of black / dark river.
In the Latin or Western Rite of the Catholic Church, " first tonsure " was, in medieval times, and generally through 1972, the rite of inducting someone into the clergy and qualifying him for the civil benefits once enjoyed by clerics.

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