The production team of Tony Moran and Albert Cabrera, known as the Latin Rascals, created original music for radio station WKTU that included freestyle classics like 1984's " Arabian Nights ", and later hip-hop oriented projects such as the Cover Girls ' " Show Me ".

Frontispiece to a 1706 Latin edition of the Attic Nights

* Attic Nights ( Latin text: complete ; English translation: Preface thru Book 13 )

* Attic Nights ( Latin text: Books 1 – 11, 13, 20 )

Each year, all of the musical groups display their talents at Boston Latin School's Holiday Concerts and Music Nights.

The title of the book references Days and Nights of Love and War, by Eduardo Galeano, a book about political struggle in Latin America.

He was soon given his nickname Caligula, meaning " little ( soldier's ) boot " in Latin, after the small boots he wore as part of his uniform.

The etymology of the word is from the Latin aequalis, meaning uniform or identical, from aequus, meaning " level, even, or just.

At the same time, caps and gowns ceased to be the school uniform, and Latin was removed from the curriculum.

The reasons for the use of the Czech language are: the absence of a uniform Slovak language standard due to the absence of a Slovak state ( whereas the Czech was a more or less standardized language ), the fact that it is easier to learn than Latin for Slovaks, studies of many Slovaks at the University of Prague, the influence of the campaigns of the Czech Hussites and of John Giskra ( Ján Jiskra ) in Slovakia, and the temporary conquest of Moravia by the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus.

The etymology of the word equal is from the Latin word aequalis, meaning " uniform, identical, or equal ," from aequus " level, even, just.

The uniform alphabet utilized Latin letters, excluding " w ." Some additional letters were also introduced into the alphabet.

The Latin text is a typical medieval song of praise, which follows the standard pattern for the time-a uniform series of four-line stanzas, each preceded by a two-line refrain ( in the early English carol this was known as the burden ).

The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;

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.

Most of them, the world over, operate on the same principle by which justice is administered in France and some other Latin countries: the customer is to be considered guilty of abysmal ignorance until proven otherwise, with the burden of proof on the customer himself.

Indonesia is one of the twenty under-developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America that are receiving Soviet aid.

The Riegger, with its Latin hesitation bounce, is just this side of the pale ; ;

Albedo (), or reflection coefficient, derived from Latin albedo " whiteness " ( or reflected sunlight ), in turn from albus " white ", is the diffuse reflectivity or reflecting power of a surface.

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The order Caudata ( from the Latin cauda meaning " tail ") consists of the salamanders, elongated, low-slung animals that mostly resemble lizards in form, though this is a symplesiomorphic trait and the two groups are no more closely related than salamanders are to mammals.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

Although some speculate that it is related to Latin algēre, " be cold ", there is no known reason to associate seaweed with temperature.

Accordingly the modern study of marine and freshwater algae is called either phycology or algology, depending on whether the Greek or Latin root is used.

An acid ( from the Latin acidus / acēre meaning sour ) is a substance which reacts with a base.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

The basic ordering of the Latin alphabet ( ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ) is well established, although languages using this alphabet have different conventions for their treatment of modified letters ( such as the French é, à, and ô ) and of certain combinations of letters ( multigraphs ).

One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

The names were abandoned in Latin, which instead referred to the letters by adding a vowel ( usually e ) before or after the consonant ( the exception is zeta, which was retained from Greek ).

The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

Mining in Peru: Peru ranks fifth worldwide in gold production ( first in Latin America ), second in copper, and is among the top 5 producers of lead and zinc.

Saint John of Damascus ( Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός Iōannēs ho Damaskēnos ; Latin: Iohannes Damascenus ; also known as John Damascene, Χρυσορρόας / Chrysorrhoas, " streaming with gold "— i. e., " the golden speaker ") ( c. 645 or 676 – 4 December 749 ; Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي Yuḥannā Al Demashqi ) was a Syrian monk and priest.

Compared to other parts of Latin America, slavery played a much lesser role in the development of the Argentine economy, mostly because of the absence of gold mines and sugar plantations, which would have demanded huge numbers of slave workers.

Peru is one of the largest producers of gold, silver, and zinc in Latin America, and some critics complain about the priority the Peruvian government gives to mining as opposed to industries like fishing and agriculture, with which indigenous peoples are more familiar.

The 20 franc gold pieces which he authorized in 1803, became the model of all the coins of the Latin Monetary Union which circulated in Europe until 1914.

Above the hammer and sickle were the gold Latin characters ENSV ( Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik ) in a sans-serif font.

In the Far East and in Latin America, the silver dollars dropped in value against the US unit, and by the year 1900 they had dropped to exactly one half of their pre-1873 gold value.

Bulla is the name of this seal, because whether of wax, lead, or gold, the material making the seal had to be melted to soften it and take on an impression: Latin bullire, " to boil ".

Gold Museum displays gold artifacts of the ancient Latin American civilizations.

A copy of the OCD has traditionally been offered by the National Latin Examination as a prize for students who obtain four consecutive ascending gold medals on the exam.

The Latin Monetary Union ( LMU ) was a 19th century attempt to unify several European currencies into a single currency that could be used in all the member states, at a time when most national currencies were still made out of gold and silver.

By a convention dated 23 December 1865, France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland formed the Latin Monetary Union and agreed to change their national currencies to a standard of 4. 5 grams of silver or 0. 290322 gram of gold ( a ratio of 15. 5 to 1 ) and make them freely interchangeable.

Until 1916, Bulgaria's silver and gold coins were issued to the same specifications as those of the Latin Monetary Union.

Auratus is from the Latin root aurat, meaning " gold " or " golden " and refers to the bird's underwing.

In 1865, France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland formed the Latin Monetary Union, wherein they agreed to value their national currencies to a standard of 4. 5 grams of silver or 0. 290322 grams of gold.

It was originally based on the Franc Germinal, and remained at the value the franc was pegged ( 0. 290g fine gold ) after the countries of the Latin Monetary Union came off the gold standard.

Two flags were used during the period of Soviet occupation ; immediately after the war, the flag consisted of a red field, golden hammer and sickle with the Latin characters LIETUVOS TSR ( Lithuanian SSR in the Lithuanian language ) above them in gold sans-serif lettering.

The solidus ( the Latin word for solid ) was originally a gold coin issued by the Romans, and a weight for gold more generally, corresponding to 4. 5 grams.

The Adoration of the Magi ( anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur ) is the name traditionally given to the Christian subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him.

In 2006, the Boston Latin School Senior String Orchestra received a gold medal for the second year in a row while the Senior Concert Band and Concert Choir received bronze medals.

In Rome, he continued his teaching activities: it was reported that on one occasion Pope Sixtus IV commissioned Gaza to translate Aristotle ’ s works into Latin, with the pay of a number of gold pieces ; however on receiving the pay Gaza was insulted at the amount paid, and furiously cast the money into the Tiber river.