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    The Literary Calavera or calavera literaria (Spanish: literary skull) is a traditional Mexican literary form: a satirical or light-hearted writing in verse...
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    dedicated to living friends and acquaintances, a literary form known as calaveras literarias. In 2008, the tradition was inscribed in the Representative List...
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    A calavera (Spanish – pronounced [kalaˈβeɾa] for "skull"), in the context of the Day of the Dead, is a representation of a human skull or skeleton. The...
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  • with his then-husband, composer Agustín Lara, to the point that calaveras literarias ("skull literature", mocking short poems made in Day of the Dead)...
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    rayo de luna, 1862. El Miserere, 1862. Tres fechas, 1862. El Cristo de la calavera, 1862. El gnomo, 1863. La cueva de la mora, 1863. La promesa, 1863. La...
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    preferred to direct his own films, for their next collaboration, El Gran Calavera, based on a play by Adolfo Torrado, he decided that doing both jobs would...
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    Tom Sawyer" (Dell Comics, October 1957) – adapted by Frank Thorne Joyas Literarias Juveniles #60: "Tom Sawyer detective" (Editorial Bruguera, 1972) – adapted...
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    Galicia. 4 November 2007. Pasado y presente de los estudios Celtas. Las calaveras de ánimas en la Península Ibérica p. 449 Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback...
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  • maint: location missing publisher (link) Salvador Sediles (1932), "Las calaveras de plomo", La Novela Proletaria Sediles Moreno, Salvador (1897-1936) –...
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    an actor dressed in a way that he would be recognized as Jesus. El Gran Calavera (1949) – During the final scenes of the wedding, the priest continuously...
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