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• Best of VintageTexas Wine Blog: Top Ten (Most Popular) Countdown for 2009

  
  VintageTexas — Authority: 119
  Best of VintageTexas Wine Blog:  Top Ten (Most Popular) Countdown for 2009Want to know what wine lovers in Texas (and the rest of the Internet-connected world) found most popular on VintageTexas based on the number of accesses over the past year? Well, read below. Topics of interest include wines from Texas, Spain ...
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• Lawmaker wants quicker action on fraud cases

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 608
  State Rep. Joseph Cervantes (Photo by Heath Haussamen) Attorney General Gary King has yet to act on nearly 100 cases filed under the state’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act — and that could discourage potential whistleblowers from coming forward, the legislative sponsor of the law says. State Rep. Joseph ...
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• Case Study: The Cervantes Institute Short Story Contest

  
  dotGlobal — Authority: 103
  Image via Wikipedia In June of 2009, the Cervantes Institute of Chicago launched a short story contest on their blog with the goal of engaging local writers and Spanish students in the Chicago area. What happened provides a perfect example of how our expectations of launching a Spanish-language promotion or ...
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• Miguel de Cervantes

  
  Positive Motivational Quotes — Authority: 126
  “Every man is the son of his own works.”
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• 1609: Vicente Turixi, King of the Moriscos

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 128
  La Expulsión de los Moriscos , by Vincenzo Carducci (Vicente Carducho). Having taken the trouble over the preceding century to eliminate (or force underground) its substantial Muslim population by forcibly converting it to Christianity, Spain in the early 1600s bethought itself to complete the operation upon ...
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• Akbar and potatoes bound ancient Incas to Indians

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  By Madhusree ChatterjeeNew Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) The ancient Incas shared an eclectic bond with India - a deep admiration for Mughal emperor Akbar and secrets of growing potatoes. One of the most enduring cultural icons, historical chroniclers and feted scribe of Peru, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, a 16th century Latin ...
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• THOT 4 2 DAY — 12.14.09

  
  JonClaytonBizBlog — Authority: 133
  Where one door is shut, another is opened. — Miguel de Cervantes Share and Enjoy:
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• New York exhibition of books and manuscripts

  
  Medieval Material Culture Blog — Authority: 423
  Sotheby’s New York is displaying items from an upcoming auction — which will feature a first-edition copy of the “medieval Euclid,” along with 17th century editions of works by Shakespeare and Cervantes — through December 10.
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• Awards, Honors and a Little Bit of Holiday Commerce

  
  La Bloga — Authority: 472
  Cervantes Prize It was announced this week that the Cervantes Prize , considered the most prestigious honor among Spanish-language writers, was awarded this year to José Emilio Pacheco of Mexico. The seventy-year-old poet, fiction writer, and essayist received 125,000 euros (approximately $188,000). ...
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• Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes prize

  
  Xican@ Poetry Daily — Authority: 117
  [IMG: http://xicanopoetrydaily.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/pacheco.jpg?w=492&h=569][IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=xicanopoetrydaily.wordpress.com&blog=3800747&post=952&subd=xicanopoetrydaily&ref=&feed=1]
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• Stash for Mon, Nov 30, 2009

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 443
  Download Link: Secret Stash - Register to access Download audio file (NORML_Daily_AudioStash_2009-11-30.mp3) Hemp Headlines California State Athletic Commission rules against medical marijuana ABC News looks at medical marijuana colleges in Michigan Florida lawmakers propose 25% “bong tax” ...
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• Cervantes Literary Award Goes To Mexican Pacheco

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  MADRID — The Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor, Spain’s Culture Ministry said Monday. The 70-year-old poet, novelist, journalist, essayist and literary critic said he was overwhelmed by the award. “It’s like being hit by a ...
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• Celebración de José Emilio Pacheco

  
  Blogs HO — Authority: 154
  Casi nada aclara esta atmósfera de sordidez.  Hoy ha sucedido una cosa que sí. Hoy le han dado el premio Cervantes al señor José Emilio Pacheco. Nació en Ciudad de México en 1939, y se dio a conocer en 1959 con un libro de cuentos, La sangre de medusa; aunque es su obra poética, conocida [...]
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• Mexican Pacheco wins Cervantes literary award (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AP - Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Spanish-speaking worlds highest literary honor — the Cervantes Prize.
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• Meet The Cast of The Real World DC – Photos

  
  Reality Tea — Authority: 138
  MTV has unveiled the cast for the latest season of their long running hit – The Real World . The Real World DC is set to premier Wednesday, December 30th at 10 PM ET/PT. This season was filmed for 3 months as production began on July 2nd, with filming wrapping up on October 12th. MTV released the following ...
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• Marijuana school opens in Michigan

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  11-29-2009 • United Press International DETROIT, Nov. 29 (UPI) — A 24-year-old aspiring businessman says he’s teaching Michigan residents how to grow medical marijuana at his new “ Med Grow Cannabis College.” Nick Tennant founded his school this year after an auto-detailing business he ...
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• At This School, It’s Marijuana in Every Class

  
  BitsBlog — Authority: 138
  SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — “At most colleges, marijuana is very much an extracurricular matter. But at Med Grow Cannabis College, marijuana is the curriculum: the history, the horticulture and the legal how-to’s of Michigan’s new medical marijuana program….The only required reading: “Marijuana Horticulture: The ...
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