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Cervantes

[ser-van-teez, ther-vahn-tes, ser-]

noun

  1. Miguel de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547–1616, Spanish novelist and short-story writer.



Cervantes

/ səˈvæntiːz, θɛrˈβantes /

noun

  1. Miguel de (miˈɣɛl ðe), full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547–1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel

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The cultural dimension includes not only promotion of the Spanish language, with an expanded presence of the Cervantes Institute, but also programmes to help the mobility of academic teachers and researchers.

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"No one was prepared for this," Jose Cervantes, owner of a coffee shop in one of the affected areas, told Reuters news agency.

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Performed with frenetic theatrical energy by Navarro and Cervantes, the show is perhaps at its most affecting as an act of witnessing.

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The filing also alleges that the police treated Cervantes, who is gay and Latina, differently than the white woman driver who ran a stop sign and broadsided her car.

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Cervantes’ decision doesn’t become official until Monday at 2 p.m. when the deadline to sign a pro contract passes.

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