A further 43 of them form part of the Benson Latin American Collection in the University of Texas library in Austin. The library’s webpage about the Relaciones geográficas has several links to images of sample pages and maps.A future post will look at the content of a typical example of...
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Chili tree. Usually, peppers are grown annually for better fruits, but tropical regions such as India and Latin America, which have not been frosted, are ligninized and perennially grown like a tree. This photo was provided by the Chungnam Agricultural Research and Technology Full size image Wel...
Mexico maintained its 19th ranking until 1870 when Brazil surpassed Mexico’s population of 9.2 million to become the most populous country in Latin America. It is interesting that there were relatively few changes in the ranks of the top 20 countries during the 170 year period between 1700 and...
we have to work with very short texts and it's often the case that two equivalent addresses, one abbreviated and one fully specified, will not match very closely in terms of n-gram set overlap. In non-Latin scripts, say a Russian address and its transliterated equivalent, it's conceivable...
we have to work with very short texts and it's often the case that two equivalent addresses, one abbreviated and one fully specified, will not match very closely in terms of n-gram set overlap. In non-Latin scripts, say a Russian address and its transliterated equivalent, it's conceivable...
(The original meaning of bugge is retained in English in such words as bugbear and bugaboo, and in the name of the insect-repelling plant, bugbane. And the scientific name of the bed bug, Cimex lectularius, means “bed bug,” cimex being the Latin for bug, and lectularius describing a...
Mexico’s antivenin industry, led by the Bioclon Institute, is world class, exporting serum to the USA and Australia as well as throughout Latin America. The biggest threat from scorpions comes from central and northern states in Mexico, including several along the Pacific Coast: Nayarit, ...
The Atotonilco Wastewater Treatment Plant will be the largest wastewater plant in Latin America and one of the largest in the world, with a biological treatment capacity of 23,000 liters/second (1.99 million m3/day). The wastewater treatment is performed by a series of conventional processes, ...
It accounts for up to 80% of jobs in the poorest African countries and over 40% of the national economies, and up to 25% of the Asian and Latin American economies. Moreover, for the majority of the poorest, agriculture remains the primary source of livelihoods. It is important to ...