Search results for "Latin America" - New World Encyclopedia
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- which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502. On ... on which he named the new continent "America" after Vespucci's ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- Salsa music is a diverse musical genre that is popular across Latin America and among Latinos abroad. Incorporating multiple styles and variations ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- and education. His extensive knowledge of Latin and Greek equipped him to ... and endangered his life several times. His Latin scholarship eventually gained ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 02:43, 4 November 2022
- Mexico, and several other cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean. His ... European Relations in Colonial and Latin America" (1955), "Kinship ...10 KB (1,368 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- educator and diplomat who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel ... which she accepted on behalf of Latin America. The death of Mistral ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 07:38, 15 April 2024
- actively engaged with leftist causes in Latin America, openly supporting the ... to the development of the genre in Latin America, emancipating it from ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- Europe and Latin America constituted minor destinations for post-war ... Brazil has Latin America's largest Koreatown while Koreatowns ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- Marsilio Ficino (also known by his Latin name, Marsilius Ficinus) ... at Florence University, where he mastered Latin and literature, and continued ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- justify unilateral United States influence in Latin America. ... of the United States to intervene in Latin America. This was the most significant ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- typeset) and both in (modern scientific) Latin. For example, the lion is ... are popularly known as the "Latin name" of the species ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:46, 11 January 2023
- Israel, some other parts of Europe, and much of Latin America. ... combined-America model is taught in Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- birds. The name ratite comes from the Latin word for raft (ratis), because ... South America has two species of rhea, mid-sized, fast-running birds ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 06:45, 17 July 2022
- The name malachite derives (via Latin and French) from the Greek word ... the largest pieces of malachite in North America and a gift from Tsar Nicholas ...5 KB (681 words) - 06:33, 5 November 2022
- Liberation theology is a Christian school of theology that developed in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on liberation of the oppressed ...31 KB (4,535 words) - 22:27, 25 October 2022
- the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori (Latin: "Silkworm of the mulberry ... the red mulberry, native to eastern North America, have the strongest flavor ...11 KB (1,544 words) - 16:13, 10 November 2022
- in Havana in 1943. Since then, other Latin-American band leaders such ... dance pro known as the "Mambo King of Latin Dance." Steadily building ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 06:41, 5 November 2022
- comprised of four Central and South America families: Cebidae (marmosets ... Primate hunting reaches crisis point in Latin America]. Spiegel Online March ...10 KB (1,457 words) - 19:29, 14 November 2022
- (The word "rodent" comes from the Latin word for "gnawing." ... the groundhog (M. monax) is assigned the Latin name monax, for "solitary ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 16:05, 6 November 2022
- rhythmic elements of Caribbean and Latin folk music into his own. ... of a series of trips to Central and South America. By the 1860s, Gottschalk ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- was a linguistic prodigy, learning Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the ... certain resemblance to classical Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language ...9 KB (1,304 words) - 11:08, 10 May 2023
