Greek term . That of the cut nose, of ris rinós, nose and tmetos -e -on, adjective of temno, cut. Nickname of Emperor Justinian II, overthrown in 695 and banished without a nose to Chersonese (Sevastopol). Ten years later with a golden nose he regained the throne although at the age of 6 what he lost was his head.
Castilian saying with other statements such as "for the field water, sun and war in Sevastopol or for wheat water, sun and war in Sevastopol", which points out the good conditions of production and business of cereal in Castile. In the mid-nineteenth century the Crimean War, a conflict zone where there are, favored cereal exports.
Popular expression of emphatic reaffirmation to highlight that something is true or that it has value everywhere, here and anywhere in the world no matter how far away it is from us. That is why you also hear it said: Here and in the Cochinchina, here and in Pernambuco, here and in Lima. .
Plant and fruit of the male dioecious fig tree smyrna (ficus carica smyrna) whose pollen is used by the wasp blastophaga psenes to fertilize the female flowers that will become rich figs. Some also call these female figs goats, although in an improper way. This plant is abundant in areas of North Africa and the Middle East where goats are raised.
These adjectives thus associated and in feminine, here in our parts, clearly allude to education that not being public receives a subsidy from the State. Being financed at least in part with public money requires the fulfillment of some conditions of public education such as, for example, non-segregation by sex.
Flat-headed nail, square with descending diminution, of mild steel, used in my Asturian land to shoeing cows, horses or donkeys in order to facilitate the work of the field. They also shoeed the cholas, winter leather footwear with a wood base usually poplar, which were made by the Alistanos themselves.
Also macadam and macadan, eponymous by the nineteenth-century Scottish engineer John Loudon Mac Adam. Zahorra of discontinuous granulometry, that is, with layers of stones of different sizes culminating with fine gravel or sand compacted with rollers for the construction of roads or roads without asphalt. It is also called the technique of building roads with these well-compressed aggregates, a technique devised by the scottish engineer mentioned.
Type of glial cell of our nervous system. These are smaller cells and much more numerous than the neurons they protect and feed. Somewhere I have read that perhaps they also serve to store memory. Microglia in particular seem to enter into cleansing action when injury or inflammation occurs. A fascinating world our brain and our nervous system.
Literary topic of classical Greco-Latin and biblical culture that alludes to divine Justice or the law of karma of Eastern religions, according to which good deeds have in the end, although not always in an immediate way, their reward and bad ones their punishment, as when someone who wants to put a bomb to kill others, it explodes in his hands. These days there is talk in some media of this justice when assessing the approval of our labor reform, boycotted by the right and approved very much to its regret by one of its members.
Latinism . Give to each one what belongs to him, one of the pillars of Roman Law established by the jurist Ulpian, (Gnaeus Domitius Annius Ulpian), tutor and advisor to Emperor Alexander Severus. The full expression that appears in Justinian's Digest is this: Iuris praecepta sunt haec : Honeste vivere , alterum non laedere , suum cuique tribuere . ( D . 1 . 1 . 10 . 1 . ) . These are the precepts of law: live honestly, do no harm to anyone and give everyone their own.
Outdated treatment of respect for people and characters of social relevance that is still maintained in some circles such as the military or the judicial for colonels and magistrates. In the same way that You come from Your Mercy, Usía comes from Your Lordship in a progressive syncopation that gave Vueseñoría, Useñoría, Usiría and finally Usía.
Horn of the Alps, alpine horn, alpenhorn, alphorn. Very long musical instrument, made of spruce wood and very penetrating sound, used by the Alpine inhabitants also for long-distance communication in a similar way as they do in the Carpathians, in the Andes among the Mapuches or in the Pyrenees with other instruments. Ranchers used it to call cows for milking. They said this sound reassured them. From my time as a student near Bern I remember that this sound invited recollection and tranquility.
Iberian-Oretano Castro, converted into a well-walled Roman city and then destroyed in the Sertorian wars of the first century BC. C . , today the archaeological site of Cerro del Castillo in the Albacete municipality of Lezuza. The geographer Ptolemy and Pliny the Elder tell us about Libisosa and it was located on the Via Augusta or Hannibal's Way between Saltigi (Chinchilla) and Ad Ello (Elda).
Rudis in Latin, wooden sword, sometimes a simple stick used by gladiators and legionaries in their daily training. A craft-worked rudium was given to gladiators at the end of their working life if they were lucky enough to survive, which entailed the charter of their freedom and the possibility of citizenship.
