From Latin baccalaureatus, laureado with berry, for in the Middle Ages and remembering the Greek champions of the Olympics, it was crowned with laurel branches full of black berries to which they finished their first-grade studies at universities. It was Pope Gregory IX in the 13th century who distinguished the bachelor,graduate and doctoral degrees.
Social system compatible with matriarchy, researched by French anthropologist Lévi Strauss in primitive cultures. Term associated with avúnculus (maternal uncle), diminutive of avus (grandfather), key figure in socioeconomic relations, authority, power and property in this system. Epigraphic archaeological findings of pre-Roman Hispanic cultures in the north of the peninsular allow us to think about the existence of this organizational system.
One of the many names of the heather to which in my land near the Montes prefer to say urz, calluna vulgaris, of the Ericaceae family, which endures the drought well because it performs photosynthesis C4 . Its very hard wood has been used in craftsmanship to make bagpipes, pipes or other objects and its root to make charcoal.
Mythical character of the anti-Semitic Christian legend, who would designate a Jew who denied water to Christ thirsty path of the ordeal or who pushed him when he stopped to rest. According to the places has received different names, such as Buttadeu, Joseph Cartaphilus, John of The Times, Samer, Catafito, Ausero. . . Some consider it a metaphorical embodiment of the diaspora-punishment for the responsibility of political-religious authorities in the death of Christ.
According to a popular song of ours of Asturian origin, we speak of the moon : The sun is called Lorenzo / and the moon Catalina. / Catalina walks at night / and Lorenzo walks in the daytime. / Fall in love Lorenzo/ of the white Catherine/ and asked him one morning / if he would marry him. / The wedding/ of Lorenzo and Catalina was very loud : / How beautiful the bride/ was with her star mantle!
Also the torq o, torc or torques, from Latin torqueo, twist. Rigid and round necklace, open on the front, gold, copper, bronze or silver, used in primitive cultures since the Bronze Age, especially by the Celts, Bretons, Gauls, Galais, Galatians or Celtiberians. The famous statue of Celtic Moribundo carries only one torque.
Genadio de Astorga, San Juanacio . Benedictine hermitage, bishop of Astorga in the early 10th century and founder of several monasteries in the Bierzo area. The cave of San Genadio is located near Peñalba de Santiago in the Valley of Silence at the foot of the Aquilanos Mountains. We have a beautiful country and we don't know it!
In my asturleonesa land and also in Galicia so call the yarn of wool or linen rolled in the spindle of the wheel, which when taken out is in the shape of a cob. The women enlisted in the previous generations made every night several macerocas on the long winter nights. They frequently wet their fingers with saliba every time they pulled the flake of the wheel to form the thread in the mace. The term is also used as a somewhat derogatory male and female adjective to designate the person to be achaparrada, low and somewhat fat.
Character of the Book of Good Love (mester of cleric, fourteenth century) in which his own author Juan Ruiz, the archpriest of Hita, is projected in the fable of Don Melón and Doña Endrina. Using the mediation of a troconventos, antecedente of the Celestina, Don Melón manages to access Doña Endrina, a lady of high alcurnia, with which she finally marries.
Business day, work day, non-holiday. In Spain on October 2, 2016, law 39/2015 on administrative procedure came into force, according to which, they are skilled every day except Saturdays, Sundays and declared public holidays. For procedural purposes, it is added to the exception on 24 and 31 December.
Also RuBisCo ( ribulose-1 , 5-biphosphate carboxylase oxygenase ) . This is what biochemicals call a fundamental enzyme in photosynthesis processes because it catalyzes the fixation of carbon and oxygen from carbon dioxide (CO2) in plant cells. Plants and phytoplankton are estimated to transform more than 200. 000 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.
From Greek onos, donkey and kheilos, lip, donkey lip. Boraginácea plant, similar to cow's tongue, alcalcuz or anchusa azurea. Onoquiles (alkanna tinctoria) has been used in dry cleaning, confectionery, cosmetics and in folk medicine for the red dye and healing qualities of its root. The inquisition called it the root of the devil.
From the founding of the City, title of a book by Titus Livius on the history of Rome, which begins with the arrival of the Trojan hero Aeneas to the Italian peninsula and the foundation of Rome by Romulus and Remo, a fact that Marco Terencio Varrón and other historians place in the 753 to . C. This expression ( a . U. C. ) was used by some historians to date events in the line of history. The Romans used to use rather the expression "after exact post reges", after the expulsion of kings, that is, the beginning of the Republic, to date the events.
De viscum, mistletoe. Spread with ligate or glue traditionally obtained from mistletoe or milktrezna branches or ropes to hunt birds. Pronominally bind, get trapped in that league insects or birds. This hunt, the parany in the Valencian community, considered illegal since 2002, is still carried out by some poachers at this time. Enviscaralso also means whiping, condoning, inciting the struggle or enmity of people or animals.
Small, cespitose grass that they call it so for charras lands. Something further north in my northwest land Zamorano is called Baleen and Piñirino and in other parts also gypsy baleo, short baleo, cazuelitos, cecilia, brushes and otherways. Botanists call it agrostis truncatula or agrostis delicatula . It has been used in small bundles such as brush or brush or as an ornamental.
From the Greek prefix anti, instead of , like, like and ris rinós, nose. In Latin antirrhinum, genus of plant plants, formerly framed in the family scroofulariaceae, with more than 300 species, although the most characteristic is the dragon mouth that also call mouthopeners, wolf's nose, dragons, conscillos, lion's mouth, anti-Rican, gallant death. Its flowers, which may look like a nose or the mouth of a lion or other things, are lauded and very beautiful.
