Word: historia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority at the Great Monterey Squid Festival, held on Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. The fifth and most successful of these annual celebrations, this year's event drew some 23,500 devotees of the delicacy the Italians call calamari, whose habits were described by Aristotle in his Historia Animalium sometime before...
DIED. Vicente Aleixandre, 86, sickly, solitary Spanish poet who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature for such volumes as La Destructión o el Amor (1935) and Historia del Corazon (1954), which dwelt on themes of love, death and eternity, often employing striking mystical or surrealistic metaphors from nature; of kidney failure; in Madrid. An invalid from his mid-20s, when he contracted recurrent kidney tuberculosis, Aleixandre became part of the Generation of 1927, a brilliant group of young poets that was sundered by the 1936-39 civil war; too ill to fight or leave...