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Don Quijote

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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha Small Version Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we ourselves could have wished. Do you see … Read more

Jangadas

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  The sails are made of 3 mm plywood and the hulls of 6 mm plywood. dimension are 50 by 50 cm.         Hommage a Jorge Amado. A Jangada is a traditional fishing boat made of wood used in the northern region of Brazil. Some claim the historical legacy of the jangada … Read more

Arion and the Dolphin

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Who was Arion? They relate that Arion of Methymna, who as a player on the harp, was second to no man living at that time, and who was, so far as we know, the first to invent the dithyrambic measure, to give it its name, and to recite in it at Corinth, was carried to … Read more