Town of León near the Bañeza in the region of La Valdería whose name derives from Castrum Gunterici, fortress rebuilt by the Vandal Gunterico in the fifth century on the Roman castro that Pliny the Elder had controlled in the first century directing the mining extractions made by thousands of slaves. Earlier in the Bronze Age it had been the city of Aria that gave its name to the Aria Valley, later Valderia. How much history lies behind our peoples!
Saying that recommends us to avoid conflicts favoring the withdrawal of the opponent and avoiding confrontation. According to the writer and goldsmith from Toledo of the sixteenth century Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas in his Spanish Flora of Apotegmas and Sentences, the author of the expression was the Great Captain, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and Enríquez de Aguilar.
A form of pleonasm that, as our Dictionary says, unnecessarily repeats terms of equal meaning. It is related to bathology and perisology. It seems that the term is due to a Persian general who, according to some historian, died in the Battle of Marathon in the First Medical War. His name was Datis and it seems that he had this expressive hobby.
From the Latin vexillum, diminutive of velum, candle, piece of wool or linen cloth, used by the lower units of the Roman army as a banner and logos, reason, study. Discipline associated with history and semiotics that studies flags, banners and banners. The term began to be used in the middle of the last century.
Dislalia in the articulation of the r (rho in Greek) both the single and the double by omission, substitution or distortion. Probably Demosthenes, the Greek orator, had this problem which he perhaps overcame. His enemies nicknamed him battalos de battarizo, farfullar, stuttering. Speech therapists speak of lambdacism when the r is replaced by the l (lambda in Greek) as the Chinese usually do.
Also be, follow, continue or stand in your thirteen. To defend with passion and even stubbornly an ideological or other position with a combative and persevering attitude. The expression has a disputed origin. Some say it comes from the attitude of Pope Luna, Benedict XIII, who did not want to resign despite pressures during the Western schism. They say that in Peníscola he used to repeat: Papa sum et XIII .
This is how our brothers and future Portuguese fellow citizens call granite rocks from which small pieces in the shape of a biconvex disc are detached by thermoclastia and cryoclastia. This geological phenomenon is observed in Castanheira north of Braga and in some places in China. Stones that give birth or better those that are given birth are symbols of fertility for some women who put them under the pillow. It is now forbidden to take them.
Electronic musical instrument that sounds without physical contact, only caressing the air with your hands around your antenna to modulate the tone and timbre. It has also been called an eterophone, thereminvox or termenvox. It was created around 1920 by the Russian physicist Lev Sergeyevich Termen, known in the West as Leon Theremin.
In Latin capsarius, medical assistant in the Roman army who provided first aid to wounded soldiers on the battlefield. In his capsa, bag or backpack he carried clean fabrics of linen and wool with medicinal herbs. The Romans also called this the slave who accompanied patrician children to school carrying in his capsa the wax tablets with the punches and the volumina or reading scrolls
From the Greek adverbs endo and exo, inside and outside and from the noun onoma onómatos, name . Names of places or other names, usually place names, referred to from the language of the place itself or from another language outside that place. For example, Firenze, the cradle of the Renaissance, is endym for Italian and Florence exonym.
Star plant of botanists especially in the phytogenetic specialty. It is a weed of the brassicaceae family that they also call cruciferous for the cross arrangement of the petals of its flowers. It resembles even in its size the shepherd's bag. The researchers presented their complete genome of 25 in 2000. 498 genes . Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum called it Arabis Thaliana. Thaliana in honor of the sixteenth-century German botanist Johannes Thal who had named it Pisonella Siliquosa.
In Ancient Rome, hostel for less wealthy travelers, close to the mansio of the roads and also tavern in the cities where drinks and meals were served to people and travelers of fewer resources. In some cases they degenerated into brothels. In Hispania the cauponas evolved into inns, sales and then in paradores. The Greeks called them pandokeia (because they welcome everyone).
