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Menem, who served as president from 1989 to 1999, had been hospitalised for pneumonia several times in recent months. Argentina’s former President Carlos Menem has died at age 90 in Buenos Aires, the country’s Telam news agency and other media outlets reported on Sunday. “It is with deep regret that I learned of the death of Carlos Saul Menem,” Argentina …
Is this the birthplace of written Spanish? More than 1,000 years ago, the Suso monks translated Latin text into the local Ibero-Romance language, or what we now call Spanish More than 1,000 years ago in Spain’s La Rioja region, monks made notes in the margins of Latin texts. More than 1,000 years ago, the Suso monks translated Latin text into …
