Ciudadano Kane

Research on Spanish in the United States is intended for use in courses, as well as by scholars and researchers interested in the area. The 29 original articles are organized into sections on interpreting; historical perspectives; borrowings of words and phrases; codeswitching, narratives, and discourse; sociolinguistics and pragmatics; phonology, morphology, and syntax; and language attitudes and planning. Many of the chapters focus on regional aspects of Spanish in the US, ranging from sociolinguistic issues among Dominicans in New York and Cubans in Miami to the adoption and adaptation of...

Diego Velázquez (Séville, 1599 – Madrid, 1660) Diego Velázquez était un artiste anticonformiste de l'ère baroque. A l'âge de vingt-quatre ans, Velázquez fit son premier voyage à Madrid avec son professeur, Francisco Pacheco, rencontré à Séville. Rapidement, il se qualifia comme maître peintre. Le roi Philippe IV remarqua son génie et le nomma peintre de cour en 1627. Peu après, l'artiste se lia d'amitié avec Rubens à Madrid. Il développa une approche plus réaliste de l'art religieux, où les personnages sont représentés de façon naturaliste et non pas idéalisée. Son...

The collection of the Gold Museum of the Banco de la República de Colombia—one of the most impressive gold collections in the world—is explored in this anthropological commemoration of the goldwork mastery of indigenous peoples. An essential part of the pre-Colombian world, gold was considered by natives to be a sacred element and was used by artisans to create offerings presented by Shamans to the Gods as both prayerful sacrifices and symbols of gratitude. La colección del Museo del Oro del Banco de la República de Colombia—una de las colecciones de oro más importantes del...

In 1313, a boy named Grimpow discovers the frozen body of a man carrying an enigmatic stone that will lead him on a quest that will change his life forever.