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José Milla y Vidaurre. José Milla y Vidaurre (August 4, 1822 in Guatemala City, First Mexican Empire — Guatemala City, Guatemala September 30, 1882) was a notable Guatemalan writer of the 19th century. He was also known by the name Pepe Milla and the pseudonym Salomé Jil. Son of a governor of the state of Honduras in the Federal Republic ...
Discipline. Linguist, epigrapher. Institutions. N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology. Influenced. Galina Ershova. Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov ( Russian: Ю́рий Валенти́нович Кноро́зов; 19 November 1922 – 31 March 1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, [3] epigrapher, and ethnographer.
Highest-grossing films of 1999 Rank Title Distributor Admissions Domestic gross () 1 All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) : Warner Sogefilms: 1,908,819 7,336,553 2 Dying of Laughter (Muertos de risa)
Luis de Lión. Luis de Lión, born José Luis de León Díaz (August 19, 1939 – June 6, 1984) was a Guatemalan writer kidnapped on May 15, 1984 by elements of Guatemalan Army intelligence, and henceforth "disappeared". His posthumous novel, El tiempo principia en Xibalbá ( Time Commences in Xibalbá) is considered an important work in modern ...
The music of Guatemala is diverse. Music is played all over the country. Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the lent and Easter-week processions as well as on other occasions. The marimba is an important instrument in Guatemalan traditional songs. The oldest documented use of marimba in the Americas dates to 1680 during ...
Antigua, Guatemala. Coordinates. 14°33′27″N 90°44′01″W / . 14.557440°N 90.733720°W. / 14.557440; -90.733720. Type. Printing press museum. The Museum of the Ancient Book ( Spanish: Museo del Libro Antiguo) is a museum in Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez. The museum is dedicated to show the different types of printing used in ...
The Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala, or ALMG (English: Guatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages) is a Guatemalan organisation that regulates the use of the 22 Mayan languages spoken within the borders of the republic. It has expended particular efforts on standardising the various writing systems used. [1]
The group includes both egg-laying and viviparous species, with the latter being more common in species living at high elevations. There are 136 species in the Americas, 16 of which occur in Guatemala. Giant horned lizard – Phrynosoma asio Cope, 1864. Bocourt's spiny lizard – Sceloporus acanthinus Bocourt, 1873.