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  Origin of Last Name
The Swedish name Carl Johannson, for example, would indicate that Carl is the "son of Johann," while the name Ingrid Hendricksdotter would indicate that Ingrid is the daughter (dotter) of Hendricks.
The fourth son is named for the father's eldest brother.
The fourth daughter is named for the mother's eldest sister.
www.last-names.net /Articles/Origin.asp   (1047 words)

  
 THE IMPACT OF THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS AND THE PRACTICING BAR
This explains why Latin American treatises on law seek to present the law in the form of deductive systems; even though the result in most cases is nothing more than a commentary on a legal text, usually for professional reasons.
It is likely that in the future Latin American law schools will tend to differentiate themselves from one another by their ability to respond to this set of challenges.
Latin America has been prolific in producing constitutions, but it has lacked adherence to constitutional order; that is, truly effective cores of democracy and liberal spirit.
www.aals.org /2000international/english/latinamerica.htm   (3599 words)

  
  European Missionaries and the Latin Church in India
The Latin Christian communities emerged from the 16th century onwards, initially along the coastal region, in and around the Portuguese trade centers and forts and in the Portuguese enclaves.
The autonomy and the Indianness of the Latin Church in India were necessarily compromised first by the fact that the Padroado Christianity was built up with the protection of Portugal, the colonial power, and secondly by the fact that the Christians particularly in Portuguese enclaves, lived a privileged life.
For instance, when the fishermen community of the East Coast became Christians they did not interfere with their traditional way of living except that fishing was forbidden on Sundays.
members.tripod.com /~berchmans/latin.html   (2799 words)

  
 Latin Downloads - Download Latin Music - Download Latin MP3s
Latin Pop became the most popular form of Latin music in the United States during the '80s and '90s, even achieving massive crossover success among non-Latino listeners during the late '90s.
Latin pop's first major crossover star was Gloria Estefan, who scored a succession of non-club-oriented dance-pop hits during the mid- to late '80s, but who eventually became known more as an adult contemporary diva with an affinity for sweeping ballads.
The origin of the name has been attributed to its being a derivation of the French word "marriage," but it may be a combination of the name "Maria" with the Nahuatl diminutive suffix "chi" (Nahuatl was an indigenous Indian language widely spoken in the area).
www.mp3.com /latin/genre/22/styles.html   (7217 words)

  
 Indian Christianity
Latin words were created by derivations from existing Latin or Greek words by the addition of suffixes or prefixes, or by the combination of two or more words together (e.
Hardly had it been formed when church Latin had to undergo the shock of the invasion of the barbarians and the fall of the Empire of the West; it was a shock that gave the death-blow to literary Latin as well as to the Latin of everyday speech on which church Latin was waxing strong.
Until recently, Latin had retained its place in the Liturgy, as it was seen to point out and watch over, in the very bosom of the Church, that unity of belief in all places and throughout all times which is her birthright.
www.indianchristianity.org /latin.html   (6744 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The European Union (EU), comprising 27 member states, is the largest political and economic entity by area and population covering the European continent, while Russia (excluding portions in Asia) is the second largest entity and largest country.
European integration has been a theme in European relations since the end of the second World War, and has accelerated since the end of the Cold War.
European membership of NATO has also increased since the end of the Cold War, with the admission of a number of Eastern European countries.
www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=European   (4117 words)

  
 Speech by Dr. Oscar Arias
In the last decade, Latin America, too, has been thrown into the fray of “globalization.” The phenomenon of intense global integration is not new to the region, which has always struggled for economic self-determination against colonial and neo-imperial structures.
While Latin America has, no doubt, entered a new phase in its regional development, I can say with equal certainty that the final force and significance of this new era have yet to be determined.
We must allow communities to decide which forms of development are appropriate for their lives, and which forms of materialism they need not support.
www.mssu.edu /international/Latinam/speech2.htm   (3498 words)

  
 Latin names of cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first places that needed Latin names were encountered by Bible translators, who had a need to figure out what to call the many place names in the Bible in Latin.
Or, they adopted them directly, often treating the new place names as indeclinable nouns; here Yerushalem is brought over as Ierusalem, with the Latin I being prononuced as an English Y sound and the /sh/ being transliterated to the closest Latin sound, /s/.
Latin being an inflected language, names in a Latin context may have different word-endings to those shown here, which are given in the nominative case.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Latin_names_of_cities   (665 words)

  
 Norwegian Surnames
Scandinavian names kept an older European convention of a given name, a patronymic and a surname taken from the individual's farm or occupation.
For immigrants to this country, prior to about 1930 or so, some individuals chose to take the patronymic as an American surname, primarily when the farm name was hard to pronounce, hard to spell or perhaps because they had a less sentimental connection to the farm they lived on.
Because farm names were typically descriptive (many might translate as Oak Hill, Riverside, Flatland, Mill Site, Pointy Rock and other such things), there are often several, and in some cases hundreds of farms with the same name across the country.
homepage.mac.com /codegard/story_surnames.htm   (940 words)

  
 European Union information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The European Union was established under that name in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty).
In 1992, the European Economic Community, which of the three original communities had the broadest scope, was renamed the "European Community" by the Treaty of Maastricht.
The European Communities are one of the three pillars of the European Union, being both the most important pillar and the only one to operate primarily through supranational institutions.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/European_Union   (6309 words)

  
 The Religion of Islam
The result of this extensive effort of the Islamic community to confront the challenge of the presence of the various philosophies and sciences of antiquity and to understand and digest them in its own terms and according to its own world view was the translation of a vast corpus of writings into Arabic.
Ibn al-Haytham solved many optical problems, one of which is named after him, studied the property of lenses, discovered the Camera Obscura, explained correctly the process of vision, studied the structure of the eye, and explained for the first time why the sun and the moon appear larger on the horizon.
At the height of European colonial expansion in the 19th century, most of the Islamic world was under colonial rule with the exception of a few regions such as the heart of the Ottoman empire, Persia, Afghanistan, Yemen and certain parts of Arabia.
www.latinodawah.org /library/english/thereligionofislam.html   (9526 words)

  
 Latin Boy Nation
In the Spanish language "Latín" (Latin) is the name of the language of the Romans, and as such is not confined solely to Hispanics and Latinos.
Thus in the Latin American context, when speaking of any given nation's Hispanic population, those who are implied include creoles, mestizos and mulattos, and excludes indigenous Native Americans, the unmixed descendants of fl African slaves, as well as excluding all other recent immigrants of various other races and nationalities now residing in Latin America.
Many of these communities date back three or more generations in Latin America, and despite them being considered nationals of their respective countries of birth, they would never be regarded as Hispanics there.
www.latinboynation.com   (1878 words)

  
 Terms of Use   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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www.latinreach.com /soccerxtreeme/terms_of_use.htm   (3229 words)

  
 MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS / LATIN AMERICAN LIBRARY / TULANE UNIVERSITY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Latin American Library is the repository of more than 150 collections of manuscripts, dating from the early 16th century to the present day.
Illustrated calendars from or about Latin America, with: reproductions of antique maps, illustrations relating to Indian culture, reproductions of items in the Library of Congress in commemoration of the quincentennial of the European discovery of the Americas, paintings of Frida Kahlo, Mexican architecture during the Porfiriato, and folk art of Mexico and Venezuela.
Papers of Latin American art historian Donald Robertson and his wife Martha relating principally to pre-Columbian and colonial Mexican art history with documentation and photographs of Mixtec, Techialoyan, Relaciones Geográficas and other codices and with their prolific correspondence, much with other scholars.
www.tulane.edu /~latinlib/lalmss.html   (6423 words)

  
 SICE-WTO-European Communities - WT/DS/231/R
Rather, under the standard, a country permits the named sardine species to be sold as "X Sardines", where "X" is a country, a geographic area, a species, or the common name of the species.
Thus, species of the genus Sardinops were initially named Sardina spp, as was the case of Sardinops caeruleus, which is a synonym for Sardina sagax and Alausa californica, and the species Sardinops neopilchardus, which is a synonym for Sardinella neopilchardus.
Contrary to the European Communities' assumption that the term "sardines" is used exclusively at the European level, Venezuela indicates that Latin America and North America have given the name "sardines" to a finished product prepared from a different raw material which, however, possesses similar organoleptic characteristics.
www.sice.oas.org /dispute/wto/ds231/ds231e6.asp   (3004 words)

  
 Christine's Latin Webpage
One of their tactics was to give these communities all different rights and privileges because they figured that if they had different rights, they would have different complaints, then they would not have the same reason for action, and could not combine their forces in going against Rome.
Latin was now in larger use all over the central and southern areas of the peninsula (Abbott 9-11).
The result was a form of “corrupted” Latin and named it the lingua Romana, which was different from the lingua Latina, the classical dialect refined by the educated.
members.tripod.com /~Aquabrat/index.html   (1761 words)

  
 IslamOnline - European Muslims   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
And all of this in the name of “we need our voices heard.” This has dogged the French capital and surrounding areas, yet there has been a remarkable silence and lack of calls for a genuine debate in French society about its treatment of its minority, its failed and forced assimilation policies, and its future.
It has deprived faith communities, especially Muslims, the freedom to express their faith fairly and openly in the way they dress, educate themselves, or practice family customs.
It requires Muslims to reread their texts in the European context, as well as to write and explain about Islam in a new language—the language of Europeans and the modern world.
www.islamonline.net /English/EuropeanMuslims/Community/2005/12/07.SHTML   (1662 words)

  
 The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, Introductory (vol 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is a small cluster of houses, a hamlet rather than a monastery, with a poor-looking temple in it, with one old lama, a hermit, living near by to watch it.
Several cases could be cited, and well-known names brought forward, but for the fact that such publicity might annoy the surviving relatives of the said late Initiates.
This could be done only by naming Chapter and Verse where may be found mention of these great characters, who were preceded and followed by a long and interminable line of other famous Antediluvian and Post-diluvian Masters in the arts.
www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sd/sd1-0-in.htm   (9633 words)

  
 Hungarian Collections: Overviews of the Collections (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Although LC possesses no rare Corvinas (books that formed the Library of Hungarian King Matthias in the late 15th century that were dispersed throughout the world after the Turkish conquest of Hungary in the 16th century), it does have facsimiles and catalog reconstructions of that famous collection.
Until this copy was found in 1913 by Charles Feleky, the earliest issue of this weekly newspaper known was the May 23, 1622 issue in the possession of the British Museum.
Useful in conjunction with the maps are the geographical lexicons, from the early Topographical Lexicon of the Communities in Hungary Compiled Officially in 1773 (published in 1920), to periodic compilations of gazetteers by the Hungarian government this century.
www.loc.gov /rr/european/coll/hung.html   (2136 words)

  
 latinaid
The term Latin comes into use as the least common denominator for all peoples of Latin America in recognition of the fact that some romance language (Spanish, Portuguese, French) is the native tongue of the majority of Latin Americans.
However, it is an ineffective name to designate those people who are citizens of the United States-either born in the United Sates or naturalized citizens of the United States who are of Mexican ancestry.
This Taino name refers to the inhabitants of Borinquen, the island that became Puerto Rico, a colony of Spain, in 1493.
condor.depaul.edu /~mwilson/extra/multicultur/latinaid.html   (2427 words)

  
 Italian Surname Meanings
Some immigrants may even have named their frazione (fraction or hamlet) if they were from a larger city such as Rome, Naples, or Palermo.
The second son was named after the maternal grandfather, the first daughter was named after the paternal grandmother, and the second daughter was named after the maternal grandmother.
Knowing these naming patterns will help you to determine whether the person you discover is your ancestor or his or her sibling who may have died in infancy.
www.last-names.net /Articles/Italian-Names.asp   (2549 words)

  
 Names
As a result, across a given generation, there were multiple repetitions of the same first name, since, not only could one set of parents name children after their four respective parents, but so could all their siblings use the same parent's name, as well as uncles' and aunts' names.
From mere confusion or a lack of communication, names were sometimes cropped, spelled phonetically, or substituted with the name of a hometown.
The name Genesia (Gimel - Nun - Ayin - Samech - Aleph)
jewishwebindex.com /names.htm   (11470 words)

  
 Latin American music and dance
During the colonial period in Latin America (16th-19th century) many Amerindian populations were decimated, and much traditional Amerindian musical culture was destroyed or syncretized with Iberian.
Its roots are in the Latin dance music of the 1940s--which used trumpets, flutes, and voices--and the dance rhythms of the 1950s that have had varying degrees of popularity since then--the rhumba, mambo, and chacha.
Latin American music, along with jazz, which also blends African and European traits, has been a great influence on popular music around the world.
users.wpi.edu /~arivera/music.html   (1483 words)

  
 Piotr Gąsiorowski’s Indo-European Page
First, the name is completely arbitrary and refers to the modern distribution of the offspring of PIE, not to its own geographical location.
Further migrations and divisions, mutual contacts as well as contacts with non-IE language communities, conquests and instances of being conquered – all these and many other historical events have led to the enormous linguistic diversity of the modern IE languages.
The IEs were familiar with the local plants and animals, and soon added new domesticates (including the pig and a local variety of cattle, derived from the European aurochs) to those brought earlier from Asia Minor (sheep, goats).
www.geocities.com /caraculiambro/Indo-European.html   (1717 words)

  
 PolishRoots - PAHA Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Polish and European immigration affected the rapid growth of Sao Paulo and the coffee industry in that area.
The Polish immigrants who came to Brazil and to the rest of the Americas were strongly attached to "their plot of earth in the European sense." One source indicated that such a population contributes to national well-being and encourages other nationals to follow suit.
It is obvious that the names of towns did not reflect the national origin of their settlers.
www.polishroots.org /paha/poles_latinamerica.htm   (5018 words)

  
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SCR 43 asked the University of California to establish a Task Force of scholars, professionals, and community leaders to examine these issues and to recommend to the State and to the University actions to address them.
The Task Force and its committees were organized into topic-specific working groups, bringing together researchers, practitioners and community and governmental leaders to discuss the issues, make recommendations, and formulate the report requested in SCR 43.
The Western European origin, or "Anglo" majority in the State is about to become less than one-half of its population.
latino.sscnet.ucla.edu /challenge/8.htm   (710 words)

  
 Origins of Jewish Names
Thereafter, the Latin language, spoken by the Romans (Latin refers to Latinus, the most ancient king of southern Italy, south of Rome) was influential among Jews and resulted in the Latinization of Jewish names.
These names were often constructed by using the occupations of the breadwinner or the whole family.
Among the Yiddish speaking Jews such names as Schuster, or shoemaker, and Schneider, or tailor, were as common as among the non-Jewish population.
www.jbuff.com /c120502.htm   (1045 words)

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