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Argentina. Coordinates. 34°35′46″S 58°23′39″W. / 34.59611°S 58.39417°W / -34.59611; -58.39417. El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2008, The Guardian placed it as the second most beautiful bookshop in the world. [ 1] In 2019, it was named the "world's most beautiful bookstore" by the ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafón ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos rwiθ θaˈfon]; 25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento ( The Shadow of the Wind ). [1] The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in the list of the one hundred best books in Spanish ...
Juan Pujol García MBE (Spanish: [ˈxwam puˈʝol ɣaɾˈθi.a]; 14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988), also known as Joan Pujol i García (Catalan: [ʒuˈam puˈʒɔl i ɣəɾˈsi.ə]), was a Spanish spy who acted as a double agent loyal to Great Britain against Nazi Germany during World War II, when he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans.
Cool stuff was everywhere I looked. A compendium of Latin American folk tales. A young-adult version of radio legend Maria Hinojosa's memoir. Picture books teaching Spanish speakers words in ...
April 29, 1579. (1579-04-29) (aged 54) Yucatán. Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. [ 1] He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice. [ 2] In doing so, he burned Maya manuscripts ( codices) which contained knowledge of ...
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [ 1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [ 2]
The Spanish Steps were the setting of a 'Roadblock' task during The Amazing Race 24 (2014) in which contestants had to count the steps. [14] In the 2000 film “It Had To Be You”, it is the dream of the female lead, a school teacher who has never been out of NYC, to go to the Spanish Steps.
Homage to Catalonia is a 1938 memoir by English writer George Orwell, in which he accounts his personal experiences and observations while fighting in the Spanish Civil War . Covering the period between December 1936 and June 1937, Orwell recounts Catalonia 's revolutionary fervor during his training in Barcelona, his boredom on the front lines ...