...s died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled out from among the fleeing refugees a number of Chinese papermakers. Taken prisoner and led back to S... ...rtists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced learning.  Focal points for every ... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...e English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and n...

...s died by the thousands, but the Arabs singled out from among the fleeing refugees a number of Chinese papermakers. Taken prisoner and led back to S... ...rtists, and literati.  Sanctuaries for foreign translators, émigrés, and refugees.  Institutions of advanced learning.  Focal points for every ... ...century.  Because it threatened to obviate the need to master mnemonics, Spanish poet Jorge Manrique (c. 1440–1479) decried the coming of printed b... ...the English language. In the 1580s, just before the English destroyed the Spanish Armada, Spaniards proudly proclaimed: ―El sol nunca fija en el Imp... ...for Mandarin Chinese and about equal to the numbers of native speakers of Spanish and Hindustan. Yet many believe that the number of native and non...