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    José de Acosta, SJ (1539 or 1540 in Medina del Campo, Spain – February 15, 1600 in Salamanca, Spain) was a sixteenth-century Spanish Jesuit missionary...
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    of black and white circles. Predating Pomo de Ayala's writings, in 1596 The Jesuit father José de Acosta wrote: ... Well, seeing another group which...
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  • correspondent Joaquín Acosta (1800s), Colombian explorer and author Joe Acosta (1950–2020), Puerto Rican salsa piano player José de Acosta (1540–1600), Spanish...
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  • José Acosta may refer to: José Acosta (baseball) (1891–1977), Cuban baseball player José Acosta Cubero (born 1947), Spanish politician José de Acosta...
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    José Julián Acosta (February 16, 1825 – August 26, 1891), was a journalist and an advocate of the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico. José Julián Acosta...
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  • of Mexico José Hoebee, Dutch pop singer José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa, also known as also known as José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa (de) Almeida e...
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    who considered it presumptuous. The resentment was recorded by Jesuit José de Acosta of a conversation with the Archbishop of Santo Domingo. In the words...
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    and historian José de Acosta, who was ordered to refute his philosophical bases. Acosta wrote an entire treaty utilizing Francisco de Vitoria's thesis...
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    naturalist Alexander von Humboldt even though it was discovered by José de Acosta 250 years before Humboldt. In 1846, von Humboldt reported measurements...
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    Simon Ditchfield, ‘What Did Natural History Have to Do with Salvation? José de Acosta SJ (1540-1600) in the America's', in: Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon...
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  • by Miguel de Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, William Camden, José de Acosta and other important authors. Blount has been described as "a genuine...
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  • Ricardo de Acosta (July 8, 1837 – August 24, 1907) was a Cuban steamship-line executive and sugar refiner. Ricardo was born on July 8, 1837, in Matanzas...
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    José Vicente García Acosta (born 4 August 1972 in San Sebastián) is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He rode his entire career for the...
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  • groups during the presidencies of Luis Echeverría and José López Portillo. In the year 2000, Acosta was accused for allegedly having ties with the drug...
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    missionary José de Acosta in his 1590 publication Historia natural y moral de las Indias, writing: It is true to see them go fishing in Callao de Lima, was...
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    [citation needed] It had been described in 1590 by Spanish chronicler José de Acosta. Due to its portability, long shelf life, and nutritional value, chuño...
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    José María Rodríguez-Acosta González de la Cámara (25 February 1878, Granada - 19 March 1941, Granada) was a Spanish painter, known for portraits, urban...
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    Tower of Babel (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    tradition of 72 languages persisted into later times. Both José de Acosta in his 1576 treatise De procuranda indorum salute, and António Vieira a century...
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  • Juan de Tovar and José de Acosta. It has been suggested that it is to be identified with a book which is known to have been written by Andrés de Olmos...
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    was part of the after-dinner routine of Montezuma.[citation needed] José de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit missionary who lived in Peru and then Mexico in the...
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  • (1567–1574) and ruling Duke of Pomerania (1569–1600) (b. 1542) February 15 – José de Acosta, Spanish Jesuit missionary and naturalist (b. 1540) February 17 – Giordano...
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    films. He was sometimes credited as Rudolph Acosta. Acosta was born to José Acosta and Alexandrina Pérez de Acosta on July 29, 1920 in the El Segundo Barrio...
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    year. José de Acosta also disparaged the drink, comparing the frothy foam capping chocolate to feces. Despite these caveats, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo...
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    Carlos Yunior Acosta Quesada CBE (born 2 June 1973) is a Cuban-British ballet director and retired dancer who is director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet...
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    Destruction of the American Indios. Polity. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-7456-4001-3. José de Acosta (24 September 2002). Natural and Moral History of the Indies. Duke University...
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    missionary José de Acosta in his 1590 publication Historia natural y moral de las Indias, writing: It is true to see them go fishing in Callao de Lima, was...
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    Jesuit historian Juan de Tovar, who worked under the auspices of the historian José de Acosta. Some letters exchanged between Acosta and Tovar, explaining...
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    Bishop José Hiraís Acosta Beltrán is the current serving bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Huejutla. José was born in Pezmatlán, Hidalgo, Mexico...
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  • de Zárate, Hernando de Santillán, José de Acosta, Antonio de la Calancha, Buenaventura Salinas y Córdoba, Bernabé Cobo, Martín de Murúa, Cristóbal de...
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    supervision were done by officials appointed by the state. The jesuit José de Acosta mentions that in Ancient Peru, the division of camelid herds was made...
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