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Sophos Ltd. is a British security software and hardware company. It develops and markets managed security services and cybersecurity software and hardware, such as managed detection and response, incident response and endpoint security software. [4][5] Sophos was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Thoma Bravo in ...
The music of Guatemala is diverse. Music is played all over the country. Towns also have wind and percussion bands that play during the lent and Easter-week processions as well as on other occasions. The marimba is an important instrument in Guatemalan traditional songs. The oldest documented use of marimba in the Americas dates to 1680 during ...
The courtier's oracle, or, The art of prudence, 1694 translation. The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. [1] It is a collection of 300 maxims, each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how ...
Batres is also the author of the poem "Yo pienso en ti", one of the best known of Guatemalan literature. In the second half of the 19th century, the novel dominated Guatemalan literature, thanks especially to José Milla y Vidaurre, considered the father of the Guatemalan novel. He signed some of his works with the pseudonym "Salomé Jil", an ...
José Milla y Vidaurre. José Milla y Vidaurre (August 4, 1822 in Guatemala City, First Mexican Empire — Guatemala City, Guatemala September 30, 1882) was a notable Guatemalan writer of the 19th century. He was also known by the name Pepe Milla and the pseudonym Salomé Jil. Son of a governor of the state of Honduras in the Federal Republic ...
Antigua, Guatemala. Coordinates. 14°33′27″N 90°44′01″W / . 14.557440°N 90.733720°W. / 14.557440; -90.733720. Type. Printing press museum. The Museum of the Ancient Book ( Spanish: Museo del Libro Antiguo) is a museum in Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez. The museum is dedicated to show the different types of printing used in ...
Guatemala. Leyendas de Guatemala (Legends of Guatemala, 1930) was the first book to be published by Nobel-prizewinning author Miguel Ángel Asturias. The book is a re-telling of Maya origin stories from Asturias's homeland of Guatemala. It reflects the author's study of anthropology and Central American indigenous civilizations, undertaken in ...
Foreign. English. Spanish is the official language of Guatemala. Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language. Twenty-two Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.