According to some authors, it was during this time that the burlesque Spanish term " roto " ( torn ), used by Peruvians to refer to Chileans, was first mentioned given how Almagro's disappointed troops returned to Cuzco with their " torn clothes " due to the extensive and laborious passage on foot by the Atacama desert.

The OED states: " Portuguese and Spanish authors of the 16th c. agree in identifying the word with Portuguese and Spanish coco " grinning face, grin, grimace ", also " bugbear, scarecrow ", cognate with cocar " to grin, make a grimace "; the name being said to refer to the face-like appearance of the base of the shell, with its three holes.

The most important sources for French tragic theatre in the Renaissance were the example of Seneca and the precepts of Horace and Aristotle ( and contemporary commentaries by Julius Caesar Scaliger and Lodovico Castelvetro ), although plots were taken from classical authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, etc., from the Bible, from contemporary events and from short story collections ( Italian, French and Spanish ).

Yet, anarchist authors have sometimes understated the problems of workers ' self-management in the Spanish Revolution.

Shaped by both Golden Age writers such as Francisco de Quevedo and, like many Spanish poets of his era, by European vanguard movements, notably by Surrealism, he joined a generation of socially conscious Spanish authors concerned with workers rights.

The authors Christian Magnus Falsen and Johan Gunder Adler were also influenced by the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

The Spanish volumes, with their authors and the names of their main characters:

According to the authors, the substantial Northwest African ancestry found for Canary Islanders supports that, despite the aggressive conquest by the Spanish in the 15th century and the subsequent immigration, genetic footprints of the first settlers of the Canary Islands persist in the current inhabitants.

Protestant authors who wrote on the topic in the 16th century include the English historian John Foxe who published the Book of Martyrs in 1554 and the Spanish convert Reginaldo González de Montes, author of Exposición de algunas mañas de la Santa Inquisición Española ( Exposition of some methods of the Holy Spanish Inquisition ) ( 1567 ).

Although the name " Bonnie Blue " dates only from 1861, several authors have claimed that the Civil War flag is identical with the banner of the Republic of West Florida, which broke away from Spanish West Florida in September 1810 and was annexed by the United States 90 days later.

According to the authors, the substantial Northwest African ancestry found for Canary Islanders supports that, despite the aggressive conquest by the Spanish in the 15th century and the subsequent immigration, genetic footprints of the first settlers of the Canary Islands persist in the current inhabitants.

Don Juan ( Spanish ) or Don Giovanni ( Italian ) is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors.

There has been some actual debate as to whether Beatrice should be counted as a monarch or not, and there is, in the last decades, a historiographical current of Spanish and Portuguese authors defending that she was titular Queen of Portugal between 22 October and the middle of December 1383.

Such ideas can be seen in some of Rusiñol's plays against the Spanish army ( most notably L ' Hèroe ), in some authors close to anarchism ( Jaume Brossa and Gabriel Alomar, for example ) or in the articles of federalist anti-monarchic writers such as Miquel dels Sants Oliver.

Valle-Inclán also wrote major novels including the Tyrant Banderas ( Tirano Banderas ), which was influential on the Latin American ' dictator ' novel ( for example, I, the Supreme by Augusto Roa Bastos ), although it was received with disdain by many Spanish American authors, Rufino Blanco Fombona for example, pokes fun of " the America of tambourine " (" la América de pandereta ") of that novel where you could be in the jungle one day and the Andes the next.

Over the centuries, many Spanish, French and / or English-speaking authors did not differentiate between Apache and other seminomadic non-Apache peoples who might pass through the same area.

Such is the importance of the Roman remains in Vigo that many Spanish authors have come to coin the term Romanesque Vigo ( románico vigués in Spanish ).

Much information about the Muisca Culture was gathered by the Spanish administration, and by authors such as Pedro de Aguado.

Spanish crypto-Jew, Antonio Enríquez Gómez is probably one of the first Jewish authors of whom an epic is known ( Sansón Nazareno: Poema heróico, a Spanish-language heroic epic version of the Samson story ), followed closely by Solomon de Oliveira's epic (" Elat Ahabim ," Amsterdam, 1665 ).

This term is used by Joseph Colon ( Responsa, No. 72 ) and by Jacob Baruch Landau (" Agur ," § 327 ), and may apply to Talmudic novellae by Spanish authors.

The malady was popularly known as the `` Spanish flu '' from the alleged locale of its origin.

The world-wide total of deaths from `` Spanish flu '' was around twenty million ; ;

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

A `` lineback '' was an animal with a stripe of different color from the rest of its body runnin' down its back, while a `` lobo stripe '' was the white, yeller, or brown stripe runnin' down the back, from neck to tail, a characteristic of many Spanish cattle.

This word was from the Spanish, meanin' `` polecat ''.

However this ideal is not normally achieved in practice ; some languages ( such as Spanish and Finnish ) come close to it, while others ( such as English ) deviate from it to a much larger degree.

In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.

" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

Bolivian Sign Language, for example, is essentially ASL, apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match the spelling of Spanish.

In Spanish, americano denotes geographic and cultural origin in the New World, as well as infrequently a U. S. citizen ; the adjective and noun, denoting estadounidense ( United States person ), derives from Estados Unidos de América ( United States of America ).

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

Adjectives derived from " United States " ( such as United Statesian ) are awkward in English, but similar constructions exist in Spanish ( estadounidense ), Portuguese ( estado-unidense, estadunidense ), Finnish ( yhdysvaltalainen: from Yhdysvallat, United States ), as well as in French ( états-unien ), and Italian ( statunitense ).

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

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.

Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

This dish became so popular that in 1840 a local Spanish newspaper first used the word paella to refer to the recipe rather than the pan.

Inspired by the author's summer 1840 visit to Spain, the 43 miscellaneous poems in the collection cover topics including the Spanish language and aspects of Spanish culture and traditions such as music and dance.

The 1840 Catalogue of the Foreign Library offered several hundred titles in German, French, Spanish, Italian and English languages, including:

As a boy, Novello was a chorister at the Sardinian chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he learnt the organ ; and from 1796 to 1822 he became in succession organist of the Sardinian, Spanish ( in Manchester Square ) and Portuguese ( in South Street, Grosvenor Square ) chapels, and from 1840 to 1843 of St Mary's chapel, Moorfields.

His Poesías ( 1840 ) and another volume of lyrics, Luz y tinieblas ( 1842 ), are comparatively minor ; but the versification of his plays, and his power of analysing feminine emotions, give him a foremost place among the Spanish dramatists of the 19th century.

* William T. Sampson ( 1840 – 1902 ), Admiral in the Spanish American War

Following the establishment of the Spanish missions in California, the Holy See established the Diocese of the Two Californias in 1840, when the Los Angeles region was still part of Mexico.

He was the great-great-great grandson of José María Narváez ( 1768 – 1840 ), a Spanish explorer who was the first to enter Georgia Strait in present-day British Columbia and the first to view the site now occupied by the city of Vancouver.

Early in the morning of August 7, 1840, a large party of ' Spanish ' Indians sneaked onto Indian Key.

Response to Revolution: Imperial Spain and the Spanish American Revolutions, 1810 – 1840.

In 1818 Say accompanied his friend William Maclure ( 1763 – 1840 ), president of the ANSP ( 1817 – 1840 ) and father of American geology ; Gerhard Troost, a geologist ; and other members of the Academy on a geological expedition to the off-shore islands of Georgia and Florida, then a Spanish colony.

They were searching 80 to 85 leagues both east of the Patagonian coast and north of the Falklands ( from 1630 – 1840 a Spanish league measured three nautical miles ) and these may be considered sure signs of the proximity of land.

John Woodward Philip ( 26 August 1840 – 30 June 1900 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Civil War and Spanish – American War.

Castres possesses the renowned Goya Museum, created in 1840, which contains the largest collection of Spanish paintings in France.

In 1839 an act was passed by Parliament declaring that as of December 31, 1840, only British coinage would be legal tender in Jamaica, demonetizing all of the Spanish coins, with the exception of the gold doubloon which was valued at £ 3 4s.

* Legua maritima ( maritime league ): From around 1840 through the early 20th century, a Spanish marine league equaled 18 263. 52 feet ( 5566. 72 meters or 3. 005 79 modern nautical miles ), i. e. about 35 feet ( 10 meters ) longer than our modern maritime league.

In 1840, a subscription drive was started whereby Queen Marie-Amélie Thérèse of France and the Archbishop of Manila contributed 4, 000 francs and about 3, 000 Spanish dollars respectively.

Rear Admiral John Donaldson Ford ( 19 May 1840 – 17 April 1918 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish – American War.