Period of the history of Egypt corresponding to the fourteenth century to . C. in which the capital was Ajenatón whose Arabic name was Amarna. Pharaoh Ajenatón, Akhenaton, also called Amenofis IV, promoted revolutionary changes in Egyptian society by taking away the power of the priests of Aton.
From the Greek prefix peri, around, around and the Latin noun urbs urbis, city : which is around the city. This term used by urban planners and sociologists designates an undefined space between the countryside and today's expanding cities always in the point of view of speculators for their balls with the approval of local administrations.
Legal Latinism . Table and bed. Bed and food. Legal separation or legal divorce without dissolution of marriage, therefore, in the meantime, spouses cannot remarri as they remain married. This legal figure protects them from the accusation of desertation or abandonment in regimes that do not allow divorce for religious or other reasons.
As companion Inés says, it is the shame of others that we feel in the face of the waste or stupidity that others say or do. Some also say lipori and even lipid, although RAE recognizes alipori. The term is said to have introduced it to the Italian Eugenio dOrs. Others prefer anglicism cringe or grima, but the latter is rather a repellent, aversion or physical rejection.
A term coined by American researchers Maxwel McCombs and Donald Shaw in the 1960s. Planning the communication that the factual powers perform on the media to fix what should be news and what is not. Thus every day they help us to think, to shape our vision of reality and even to whom to vote in an election. Here in Madrid works very well : Every day we are told that a certain party of recent creation is very bad, but that very bad.
From Greek ptosis, fall and Latin palpebralis, referring to eyelids. Medical term : eyelid drop whose most common cause is atrophy of the muscle that lifts it. Our admired Jorge Luis Borges had this problem next to the hereditary progressive blindness consummated in 1955 that caused him to lose the world of appearances and readers opened luminous spaces of happiness to us.
From Greek gyros, round, curved. A process in which the convolutions and grooves of the cerebral cortex form to increase their surface area in minimal cranial space. In this folded bark of the different lobes about three or four millimeters thick lie our superior functions, thought, memory, imagination, decision making. . .
In Greek bathers, abyss, chasm in which the Athenians threw the evildoers. Then it went on to mean the Hades, the underworld always associated with the depths of the earth, the abode of the dead, the Averno, the Tartarus, the Erebo, the Hell of Christians as a place of punishment for wrongdoings.
Etymologically large body, of makrós, large and soma, -atos, body, living organism. In medicine it is thus called the excessive development of the body or some of its parts as happens in children born with more than four kilos of weight. Historians speak of the genital macrosomia of Ferdinand VII, the felon king who boasted about it in Madrid's brothels.
From Greek anemos, wind and pylia, door, grotto, cave. The cave of Eolo, the cave of the wind. Archaeological site of a Minoan temple on the island of Crete destroyed by an earthquake around 1700 a. C. It was discovered by Greek archaeologist Yannis Sakellarakis in 1979 about 7 kilometres from Knosos Palace.
Throw in the towel, give up, give up a fight or task. The expression has no pugilistic but thermal origin. In the Roman public baths some powerful patricians stood in front of some beautiful young man. If the efebo made another knot to the towel he rejected the proposition. If I dropped it, I'd accept it. Not much has been discovered a Turkish bath in which Antinoo threw his towel at Emperor Hadrian. "Hic Antinous Hadriano linteum suum iactavit", reads the inscription.
