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Spanish and school
In one study, Swedish high school students learning Interlingua were able to translate passages from Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian that students of those languages found too difficult to understand.
Exact mechanisms are unclear, but it often fails in areas where populations are culturally segregated, as when the U. S. Indian school service failed to suppress Lakota and Navaho, or when a culture has widely respected autonomous cultural institutions, as when the Spanish failed to suppress Catalan.
The alphabet, first described completely by Spanish monks, was adopted by the Abbé de l ' Épée's deaf school in Paris in the 18th century, and was then spread to deaf communities around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries via educators who had learned it in Paris.
His vigorous internal policy mixed the economic reforms of Colbert for Louis XIV with some conservative Spanish aspects: a regular mail service to the Americas was instituted, yet the school of navigation he founded was reserved for the sons of the nobility.
She received three years of Spanish ballet training and four years of theater at Cristina Rota's New York school.
The most important writers are Yose ben Yoseh, probably in the 6th century, chiefly known for his compositions for Yom Kippur ; Eleazar Kalir, the founder of the payyetanic style, perhaps in the 7th century ; Saadia Gaon ; and the Spanish school, consisting of Joseph ibn Abitur ( died in 970 ), ibn Gabirol, Isaac Gayyath, Moses ibn Ezra, Abraham ibn Ezra and Judah ha-Levi, Moses ben Nahman ( Nahmanides ) and Isaac Luria.
In the case of Nusach HaAri, however, many of these High Holiday piyyutim are absent: the older piyyutim were not present in the Sephardic rite, on which Nusach HaAri was based, and the followers of the Ari removed the piyyutim composed by the Spanish school.
At this time, the principal cavalry schools of Europe at Pinerolo and Tor-di-Quinto in Italy, the French school in Saumur, and the Spanish school in Vienna all preferred to use a very deep seat with long stirrups when jumping.
The Spanish built several government buildings, a fort, a church and a school.
After three days of British bombardment in which 350 bombs partially destroyed the cathedral, the Jesuit school and several civilian buildings, Vernon assumed the impasse in which he was and ordered the withdrawal day 21, leaving the Castle and Greenwich Windsord vessels in the vicinity with a mission to intercept a Spanish ship to approach.
It was first in Paris, and then Brussels and other European art centres, that Zuloaga was hailed by the reformers as the regenerator of Spanish national art and as the leader of a school.
A song praising Admiral Hein's capture of the Spanish " silver fleet " written in 1844 is still sung by choirs and children at primary school in the Netherlands.
Each school ( Spanish: Facultad ) has its own rector, acting as school director.
The medical school of Montpelier was also founded by Spanish Arab physicians and by 1250 CE it included a physic garden but the site was not given botanic garden status until 1593.
The motion picture has become a staple of high school Spanish language classes throughout the United States and multiculturalism studies in college.
Sam is found in a language school trying to learn French and Spanish, to " be important ", and is shocked when he sees the article.
The modeling is firm, recalling that of Antonio Mor, the Dutch portrait painter of Philip II, who exercised a considerable influence on the Spanish school.
Presently, his technique and individuality have earned Velázquez a prominent position in the annals of European art, and he is often considered a father of the Spanish school of art.
Thought to have been given to Yale in 1925, the painting has previously been attributed to the 17th century Spanish school.
In the 1960s Latin American intellectuals began to notice the ideas of ordoliberalism ; these intellectuals often used the Spanish term neoliberalismo to refer to this school of thought.
The breed also enjoyed considerable success in Spain as a favorite of the Infantas, and painters of the Spanish school often included them in their works.
Two elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school serve Spanish Fort.

Spanish and fencing
When Spain became the leading power of Europe, the Spanish armies carried fencing abroad and particularly into the south of Italy, one of the main battlefields between both nations.
In the west, land ownership patterns and policies reflected a strong influence of Spanish law and tradition, plus the vast land area involved made extensive fencing impractical until mandated by a growing population and conflicts between landowners.
Legend has it that the feral ponies on Assateague are descendants of survivors of a Spanish galleon that sank on its way to Spain during a storm in 1750 off the east coast, but the likelihood is that they are actually descended from domesticated stock, brought to the island by Eastern Shore farmers in the 17th century to avoid fencing requirements and taxation.
The word Eskrima derives from the Spanish term esgrima which means skirmish or fencing.
* Eskrima is a Filipinization of the Spanish word for fencing ( esgrima ).
Likewise, Maestro Martínez is considered a prominent researcher on the Spanish system of swordsmanship " La Verdadera Destreza ", codified throughout the historical period known as " Siglo de Oro Español ", having studied the old fencing techniques developed by such Masters as Don Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza and Don Luis Pacheco de Narváez, among others.
He is recognized as a leading instructor in classical and historical fencing both in the U. S. and abroad, being considered a teacher on traditional fencing systems to other renowned members of the HEMA community, such as Cecil Longino, founder and head instructor of Academia della Spada in Seattle, Washington and Maestro Alberto Bomprezzi, founder and president of the Spanish Association for Historical Fencing ( AEEA ).
He returned to Oxford with his wife and mother, continued his studies, and learned French, Italian and Spanish, as well as music, riding and fencing.
* Jerónimo Sánchez de Carranza, Spanish soldier, author, and fencing master
The Italian, French, and Spanish schools embraced this change in civilian armament and developed systems of rapier fencing.
with a German and an Italian school flowering in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance ( 14th to 16th centuries ), followed by Spanish, French, English and Scottish schools of fencing in the modern period ( 17th and 18th centuries ).
17th century Spanish Destreza is very much steeped in the Spanish Baroque noblemen mindset, so doesn't contain much graphical explanations of the fencing techniques so much as hard to understand explanations based on mathematics and philosophical sciences in general.
* Luis Pacheco de Narváez, Spanish writer on fencing
Classical fencing prohibits the pistol grip, and uses the Italian and French grips, and occasionally the Spanish grip.
* Spanish school of fencing

Spanish and didn't
The director of the film ( played by Rowan Atkinson ) claims that the reaction to the film has surprised him, as he " didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
This is a recurring sketch always predicated on an unrelated sketch in which one character expresses irritation at being questioned by another, retorting exasperatedly, " I didn't expect this kind of Spanish Inquisition!
At the very end of the show, in " Court Charades ", the Inquisitors are caught by surprise when a defendant ( who is also a judge from another court ) in session at the Old Bailey says: " Blimey, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!
Later in that episode during the " Police Constable Pan Am Sketch ", the policeman tells a chemist " one more peep out of you and I'll do you for heresy ", with the chemist ( played by Palin ) responding that he " didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition "; except that instead of the Spanish Inquisition arriving, PC Pan Am ( played by Graham Chapman ) simply tells the chemist to shut up.
I didn't expect some kind of Spanish Inquisition ...".
* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
* In Neal Stephenson's 2004 novel The Confusion, a group of characters are detained and subjected to torture by Spanish religious authorities in 1600's Mexico, prompting one of them to exclaim, " I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!
The Dutch didn't take prisoners: they gave the Spanish crews ample supplies for a march to Havana.
This proved too sharp for safe operation of SRT cars, which didn't have a reason to turn around, and the loop was replaced by a Spanish solution-like crossover.
When, after a few months at the studio, he was asked to watch rushes of Lili Damita to gauge her Spanish accent, he refused and sent a message to studio boss Irving Thalberg stating that he was there as a Frenchman, not a Spaniard, and he " didn't have time to waste listening to one of the whores.
The Catholic investment didn't work out-partly because the Privy Council insisted that the investors pay their recusancy fines before departing, partly because of efforts by Catholic clergy and Spanish agents to dissuade their interference in America-but Gilbert did manage to set sail with a small fleet of five vessels in June 1583.
Oddly enough, the album didn't fare as well as its Spanish counterpart in the U. S., selling a few hundred thousand less records overall.
Palin, Jones, and Gilliam would burst into the room whenever someone uttered a form of the trigger phrase, " I didn't expect a Spanish Inquisition.
He won the Spanish National championships, and was offered a try-out on the Argentine Davis Cup team, but declined at first because he didn't want to offend Spain.
Marielen Christensen of Spanish Fork, Utah is often credited with turning scrapbooking as what was once just the ages-old hobby into what is now the actual industry — meaning stores that officially sell and manufacturers of scrapbooking supplies, which didn't exist before.
Sometimes diacritics are even added to imported words that originally didn't have any, often to distinguish them from common English words or to assist in proper pronunciation ; maté from Spanish mate and animé are examples of these.
The glowing performance didn't go unnoticed by Spanish giants Real Madrid who, now under new club president Lorenzo Sanz, started courting Mijatović again after failing to commit to him three years earlier.
However, Magellan's armada of three ships didn't stop until they reached Guam, so the first European to arrive in Rota ( in 1524 ), was Spanish navigator Juan Sebastian Elcano, who annexed it together with the rest of the Marianas Archipelago on behalf of the Crown of Spain.
" Originally conceived as the Economy Chief, the name El Capitan was ultimately chosen to honor the Spanish conquistadors and their influence on Southwestern culture, though it didn't hurt that the name seemed to outrank the Union Pacific's Challenger train, with which it was designed to compete.
That didn't stop there being a massacre of several hundred ' Conversos ' or ' Marranos ', as newly converted Jews were called, in Lisbon in 1506, instigated by the preaching of two Spanish Dominicans, as a result of which many left Portugal for England, France, and Amsterdam.
" The problem was that he didn't know any Spanish.
Caye Caulker is thought to have been inhabited for hundreds of years, however the recent population levels didn't start until the Caste War of Yucatan in 1847, when many mestizos of mixed Maya and Spanish descent fled the massacres taking place across the Yucatán.

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