The Annotations:
The Annotations:
If you can help improve this in any way, please drop me an email (in English) and I'd be happy to change it - this is just what I was able to cobble together.
| Term | Description | Page # |
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| Lázaro Cárdenas {Lazaro Cardenas} |
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (May 21, 1895 – October 19, 1970) was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1zaro_C%C3%A1rdenas |
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| Un hombre muy serio, muy educado y muy bien plantado. | "A very serious man, very polite and well planted." | 211 |
| delincuencia | "crime" | 211 |
| La Casa Amarilla | this translates to "The Yellow House", which someone writes in to say is a Dominican landmark. | 212 |
| Río Camú {Rio Camu} | http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/dominican_republic/map/m4758176/rio_camu.html | 212 |
| Hatüey {Hatuey} |
Hatuey was a Taíno Cacique (chief) from the island of Hispaniola, who was alive in the early sixteenth century. He has attained legendary status for leading a group of natives in a fight against the invading Spanish, and thus becoming the second fighter against colonialism in the New World after Anacaona. He is celebrated as "Cuba's First National Hero." |
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| Ho Chi Minh |
Hồ Chí Minh was a Communist, Marxist-Leninist Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1946–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Ho led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_chi_minh |
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| coffled |
chained together http://www.thefreedictionary.com/coffled |
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| rayano | "bordering" - something like "refugee" or "immigrant", probably from Haiti or the Haitian/DR border | 212 |
| Jalisco |
Jalisco is a state in Mexico. The capital of Jalisco is the city of Guadalajara. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalisco |
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| Beleek | http://www.belleek.ie/ | 212 |
| fincas | "properties", or perhaps "farms" | 213 |
| Septrionales | something like "the Northern Region" ? | 213 |
| Fernando Ortíz {Fernando Ortiz} |
Fernando Ortiz Fernández was a Cuban essayist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture. Ortiz was a prolific polymath dedicated to exploring, recording, and understanding all aspects of indigenous Cuban culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Ortiz |
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| Van Allen belt |
The Van Allen radiation belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (plasma) around Earth, held in place by Earth's magnetic field. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_belt |
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| todologos | Something like philosophers - "todo" is Greek for "all", and "logos" is "words" but more in the context of "ideas" or "reasons". | 214 |
| UNAM |
probably the National Autonomous University of Mexico (since Abelard went to school in Mexico) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Autonomous_University_of_Mexico |
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| perejiling |
The dictator Rafael Trujillo did not want the Haitians removed from his borderlands, he wanted them killed. When his soldados approached a hapless campesino they would hold out a sprig of parsley and ask, "How do you call this?" If the peasant answered 'perejil' without trilling the 'r' sound he was assumed to be Haitian and was immediately shot, bayoneted or hacked to death with machete. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/704625/parsley.html |
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| to quote the Priest, you got another thing coming |
is the Judas Priest song: You've Got Another Thing Coming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU7sBgjKDCI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You've_Got_Another_Thing_Comin' |
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| Point Blank | I'm guessing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/ | 215 |
| negocios | "businesses" | 216 |
| Gobineau |
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816 — October 13, 1882) was a French aristocrat, novelist and man of letters who became famous for developing the racialist theory of the Aryan master race in his book An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853-1855). De Gobineau is credited as being the father of modern racial demography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobineau |
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| Goddard |
[Probably] Henry Herbert Goddard (August 14, 1866 – June 18, 1957) was a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist in the early 20th century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_H._Goddard |
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| Tables and Ladders |
[Probably] A Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, often abbreviated as a TLC, is a type of professional wrestling match originated within World Wrestling Entertainment, but can be seen in other wrestling variations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tables,_Ladders,_and_Chairs_match |
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| Cerebro del Cibao | "The Brain of Cibao" | 216 |
| Genio de Genocidio | "The Genius of Genocide" | 216 |
| 3D'd |
Someone writes in: "The Dudley Death Drop (3D) is a double-team finishing maneuver used by the wrestling tag team Team 3D (née The Dudley Boyz). The move is often performed while smashing the opponent through a table, hence the tables and ladders mention earlier in the footnote." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Boyz#In_wrestling |
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| flaquita |
"skinny little girl" http://www.lifebase.net/flaquita/ |
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| Bellaco |
"horny male" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bellaco |
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| toto | "pussy" | 217 |
| mamando his ripio | "sucking his rubble" (still haven't figured out "ripio" although context is pretty clear!) | 217 |
| hombres de calidad y posición {hombres de calidad y posicion} | "men of quality and position" | 217 |
| culocracy | Well, "culo" is ass, so a "culocracy" would be something like a "Regime of Booty". | 217 |
| febrile |
"feverish" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/febrile |
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| lambesacos |
Someone writes in that this means "teenagers". I also found a translation that it means something like suck-ups or brown-nosers http://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/definicao.php?palavra=lambe%20saco&id=1831 |
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| una que es muy bella y elegante | "one that is very beautiful and elegant" | 222 |
| Twilight Zone episode |
Title: "It's a Good Life" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone) |
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| From Hell |
From Hell is a graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. The title is taken from the first words of the "From Hell" letter, which some authorities believe was an authentic message sent from the killer in 1888. The work is dense, multilayered and immensely detailed; the collected edition is 572 pages long. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell |
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| Dionyesian Architects |
The Dionysiac Architects constituted an ancient secret society, its principles and doctrines much like the modern Freemasonic Order. http://www.collegiumfabrorum.org/history.htm |
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| the Hun |
The term "Hun" has been also used to describe peoples with no historical connection to what scholars consider to be "Huns", in particular to Germany and Germans. Another reason given for the English use of the term was the motto "Gott mit uns" (God with us) on German soldiers' belt buckles during World War I. "uns" was mistaken for Huns, and entered into slang. This usage was reinforced by Allied propaganda throughout the war, and many pilots of the Royal Flying Corps referred to their foe as "The Hun." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huns#20th_Century_use_in_reference_to_Germans |
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| Stasi |
The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Ministry for State Security), commonly known as the Stasi, was the official secret police of East Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi |
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| Cuarenta |
one of Trujillo's torture centers http://dr1.com/forums/general-stuff/74313-la-cuarenta-km-9-jails.html |
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| Chivato |
A Spanish word for "informer." It could also mean "rat" or "stool pidgeon" (someone writes that I should add: "especially under Trujillo") http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chivato |
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| acabar con | "finish with" or "end" | 226 |
| panas |
"pals" or "buddies" http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/pana |
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| galería {galeria} |
"balcony" http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/galería |
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| Trotsky |
Leon Trotsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotsky |
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| fuera de serie | "out of this world" | 229 |
| a coño {a cono} |
A curse like "Fuck" or "Dammit". http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cono |
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| frangipani |
type of tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumeria |
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| sala | "room", specifically a living room | 232 |
| Chiste Apocalyptus | something like "Apocalyptic Joke" | 233 |
| Aristophanes |
Aristophanes (ca. 446 BCE – ca. 386 BCE) was a prolific and much acclaimed, comic playwright of ancient Athens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes |
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| SIM |
Servicio Inteligencia Militar or "SIM," the so-called military intelligence service http://www.history.navy.mil/colloquia/cch1c.htm |
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| Fear is the mind killer |
The litany against fear is an incantation used by the Bene Gesserit thoughout the Dune series to focus their minds and calm themselves in times of peril. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litany_against_fear#Litany_against_fear |
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| Fortaleza San Luis |
municipal prison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_los_Caballeros |
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| Broca |
[probably] Paul Pierre Broca (June 28, 1824 – July 9, 1880) was a French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Broca |
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| Son muy cómodos {Son muy comodos} | "Very comfortable" | 239 |
| Quédate ahí con la mierda, maricón {Quedate ahi con la mierda, maricon} | "Stay there with the shit, faggot" | 239 |
| tarea | Someone writes in: "Tarea can be 'task' or 'homework' but not in this story. In the Dom. Rep. they also use it as a measure of land like we use 'acre' (which is the reference in this story). One tarea = 629 square meter." | 241 |
| Cuvier |
Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. He was a major figure in scientific circles in Paris during the early 19th century, and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology by comparing living animals with fossils. He is well known for establishing that extinction was a fact, being the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century, and opposing early evolutionary theories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cuvier |
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| un toyo |
a mess http://dr1.com/forums/spanish-101/59907-clutter.html |
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| que sé yo {que se yo} |
Something like "you tell me!" or "What do I know?" http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=550978 |
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| Malinche |
La Malinche (c. 1496 or c. 1505 – c. 1529, some sources give 1550), known also as Malintzin, Malinali or Doña Marina, was a woman (almost certainly Nahua) from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played an active and powerful role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor and intermediary for Hernán Cortés. She was also a mistress to Cortés and gave birth to his first son, who is considered one of the first Mestizos (people of mixed European and indigenous American ancestry). In Mexico today, La Malinche remains iconically potent. She is understood in various and often conflicting aspects, as the embodiment of treachery, the quintessential victim, or simply as symbolic mother of the New Mexican people. She is often known by the pejorative term La Chingada ("the violated one"). The term malinchista refers to a disloyal Mexican. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malinche |
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| caciques |
tribal chiefs or leaders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacique |
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| Bartolomé de la Casas {Bartolome de la Casas} |
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (August 24, 1484 – July 17, 1566), was a 16th century Spanish Dominican priest, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was driven to oppose, the torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_Las_Casas |
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| Hannibal Lecter |
Hannibal Lecter, M.D. is a fictional character in a series of novels by author Thomas Harris. Lecter is introduced in the thriller novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. This novel and its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, feature Lecter as one of two primary antagonists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Lecter |
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| Mario Vargas Llosa |
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, and essayist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Vargas_Llosa |
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| theremin |
The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. The theremin is associated with an "eerie" sound, which has led to its use in movie soundtracks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin |
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| grimoire |
A grimoire is a textbook of magic. Books of this genre, typically giving instructions for invoking angels or demons, performing divination and gaining magical powers, have circulated throughout Europe since the Middle Ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimoire |
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| es mejor tener cien niguas en un pie que un pie en Nigüa {Nigua} | something like "it is better to have one hundred fleas in one foot than one foot in Nigüa." | 250 |
| más fuerte que Lílis {mas fuerte que Lilis} |
"stronger than Lílis" Ulises Heureaux, affectionately known as Lilís, was president of the Dominican Republic from 1 September 1882 to 1 September 1883, from 6 January to 27 February 1887 and again from 30 April 1889 until his assassination, maintaining power between his terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulises_Heureaux |
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| salvajes | "wild people" or "savages" | 253 |
| vecinos | "neighbors" | 253 |
| restavek |
A restavec (or restavek; from the French reste avec, "one who stays with") refers to a social system in Haiti in which parents unable to care for their children send them to relatives or strangers living in more urban areas where they receive food and housing (and sometimes an education) in exchange for "light" housework. In reality restavecs often live in grinding poverty, enslaved to their "hosts" and seldom receiving an education. The restavec system is considered a form of slavery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restavec |
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| callejón {callejon} | "alley" | 253 |
| la probecita | something like "poor baby" | 253 |
| fulano | "a guy", something like "a dude" or "Joe Blow" | 256 |
| Kinito Méndez {Kinito Mendez} |
Kinito Mendez now ranks among the most important innovators around on the Dominican merengue scene today. http://www.afropop.org/explore/artist_info/ID/1155/Kinito%20%20Mendez/ |
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| guanábana campos {guanabana campos} |
"soursop fields" (soursop is a kind of fruit) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_sop |
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| sertão {sertao} |
semi-arid region in Northeastern Brazil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sert%C3%A3o |
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| the Outland |
Probably: Outland, a 1981 film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Sean Connery. Set on Jupiter's moon Io, it has been described as a space Western, that is, a Western set in the future, and indeed bears obvious thematic resemblances to High Noon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outland_(film) |
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| the Badlands |
A badlands (also badland) is a type of arid terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlands Of course, this could also refer to The Badlands, an area of space that appeared or was referred to in episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Located in Star Trek's Alpha Quadrant, the Badlands was characterized by constant plasma storms and funnel clouds. The Maquis used it in several episodes as a meeting place or hiding ground because of its treacherous navigation. It was also known to have a few planets hidden within the clouds and nebulae. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlands_(Star_Trek)#Badlands |
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| Cursed Earth |
The Cursed Earth is a part of the fictional universe from the Judge Dredd series - a radioactive wasteland unfit for human habitation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursed_Earth |
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| Forbidden Zone |
The Forbidden Zone in the Planet of the Apes movie series is the barren, lifeless area declared off-limits to all apes. While most apes do not know the precise reasons why the area is forbidden, it is generally understood to be a wasteland, one fit only for humans, outlaws, and fools. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Zone_(Planet_of_the_Apes) |
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| The Great Wastes | Someone writes in that this might be a reference to an area featured in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign: "Here is a link http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Oerth_--_The_New_Frontier_%283.5e_Campaign_Setting%29 and the relevant sentence: 'Erythyus, also known as the Great Wastes, grew to envelop Kord and form a barrier between Kord and Gruumshiek, and even the land of the Gnomes, Garlold, was hurt.' " | 256 |
| Desert of Glass | perhaps a reference to the site of a nuclear blast (where the ground gets blasted into a crater of glass) | 256 |
| The Burning Lands |
Burning Lands is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction novel by author Dominic Covey, set some three centuries after World War III. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Lands |
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| the Doben-al | I think this is a reference to something in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorune | 256 |
| Salusa Secundus |
Salusa Secundus is a fictional planet appearing in Frank Herbert's Dune universe. With harsh conditions rivaling those of the desert planet Arrakis, Salusa is used as the Imperial Prison Planet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salusa_Secundus |
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| Ceti Alpha Six |
Technically this should be "Ceti Alpha Five". (I wonder if this was written "incorrectly" on purpose. Yes, I'm a geek.) Anyway, Ceti Alpha Five is the planet that Captain Kirk marooned Khan and his followers on, after they tried to take over the Enterprise. Ceti Alpha Five was habitable for a a few months, but then nearby planet Ceti Alpha Six exploded, shifting Ceti Alpha Five's orbit and turning it into a desert wasteland inhospitable to most life forms. The Federation didn't have records of this event, so they mistakenly thought that Ceti Alpha Six still existed. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Ceti_Alpha_V |
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| Tattoine |
Another one you should really know already. Tatooine is a setting for many key scenes in the Star Wars saga, and it appears in every Star Wars movie except The Empire Strikes Back. Since it is the home planet of Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, it is also one of the most iconic planets in the Star Wars universe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoine |
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| infelices | "unhappy people" | 256 |
| Astronaut Taylor |
Colonel George Taylor, played by leading man Charlton Heston, is an American astronaut, and the leader of a space expedition, in the 1968 movie Planet of the Apes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_(Planet_of_the_Apes) |
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| Charlton / End of the World / You finally did it! |
For the three people who don't know how "Planet of the Apes" ends, I'm not going to spoil it for you here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(1968_film) |
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| Alcoa |
Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) is the world's third largest producer of aluminum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa |
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| los que brincan las Himilayas y cagan en la bandera de España {Espana} |
someone writes in: "those that jump the Himalayas and shit in the flag of Spain" http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/brincar http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/cargar |
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| mamajuana |
Mama Juana is a drink from the Dominican Republic that is concocted by allowing rum, red wine, and honey to soak in a bottle with tree bark and herbs. The taste is quite similar to port wine and the color is a deep red. It is seen and advertised as an aphrodisiac, with many natives of the Dominican Republic claiming that the drink has similar effects to Viagra. Women have also claimed that Mama Juana enhances sexual desire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_Juana |
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| the Voice |
A vocal mind-control technique employed by the fictional character Bene Gesserit in the Dune series created by Frank Herbert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice |
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| monsterglove | ??? | 257 |
| hibakusha |
Hibakusha is the term widely used in Japan referring to victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese word translates literally to "explosion-affected people." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha |
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| Casi la acabaron | "Almost finished her" | 258 |
| Untilles | Someone writes in that this could be a play on words, something like "Un-Antilles" (The Antilles refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea, including the Dominican Republic). I'm inclined to agree, since this is about Beli trying to forget her life there. | 259 |
| Siéntese aquí {Sientese aqui} | "Sit here" | 260 |
| La Prieta Quemada or La Fea Quemada | "The burned dark girl" or "the burned ugly girl" | 261 |