Saturday, September 19, 2009

ARGENTINA´S FLAG



ARGENTINA´S HISTORY:

The beginning of prehistory in the present territory of Argentina is produced with the first human settlements on the southern tip of Patagonia, around 13,000 years ago. The first civilizations were established Agroalfarero Andean Northwest since the eighteenth century BC C. The beginning of recorded history through quipus by the Inca Empire in northwestern Argentina was in the second half of the fifteenth century.

The written history of what is now Argentina, began with the arrival of Spanish chroniclers in the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516 the Rio de la Plata, a fact which marks the beginning of Spanish domination in this region. In 1776 the Spanish crown created the Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, umbrella organization of territories from which, with the revolution of May 1810, beginning a gradual process of formation of several independent states, including that carried the name United Provinces of Río de la Plata. With the declaration of independence on 9 July 1816 and the military defeat of the Spanish Empire of Manolito in 1824, which was formalized from the organization as a federal state in 1853-1861 Confederation is now known as Argentina or Republic Argentina

ARGENTINA´S FOOD

Bifé de Chorizo

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It's a cut meat cutlets or adjacent to the thoracic cavity before being separated from the bone and cut into steaks or fillets have a cylindrical shape between triangular and so is called chorizo. Their meat has no internal fat is narrow or medium without bone, because of its shape is called chorizo. His way of working are roasted or grilled and served with mashed otato fries or salad.Locro

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The black slaves in Argentina before the revolution, had great dishes that made things pulling the animals in slaughterhouses, and sell their food in a common places was the soup that was made with veal legs, corn and vegetables. Today is a traditional food in Argentina and throughout the region as its preparation varies, but what is not lost and vegetables are very slow cooking, meats are cooked separately and then added to the vegetables that are usually squash, corn kernels and is seasoned with hot saucep

ARGENTINA´S SPORT

Football in Argentina is the most popular sport: the one with more football license (540,000 in 2002, equivalent to 1.4% of the population) and the most practiced by the male population in federated recreationally or not, since childhood, in which almost all reaches up sixty years.1 Nine out of ten people claim to be supporters of any team fútbol.2 In popular parlance of the country, also commonly use the terms "fóbal", "fubol» and 'Fulbe' to designate the deporte.3 4
The Argentine Football Association (AFA) was established in 1893. It is the eighth oldest in the world. The league tournament, played since that year, is the third oldest in the world, behind the British leagues and holandesa.5 Argentina is one of seven countries that became the World Cup, winning twice (1978 and 1986 ) and reaching the runner-up in two (1930 and 1990). Also won two Olympic gold medals (2004 and 2008) and two silvers (1928 and 1996), fourteen times the Copa America, and six times World Cup FIFA U-20. Argentine football clubs are those that have achieved greater number of times the Intercontinental Cup (9) and Libertadores de America (22). Adding the sporting success of the national representative and clubs, Argentine football is the most successful men in the world

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ARGENTINA´S GAME
Pelota de Pato
This fun native born, as its name indicates, following a dispute between peasants on horseback for a real duck, inserted into a leather bag with a pair of handles, generating a classic tug to snatch each other .
The testimonies of the practice dates back to 1610 and was not without controversy, since there are several references to chronic risk associated with this diversion. As an example, a car ecclesiastical late seventeenth century warning that those who participate in such exercises would be excommunicated and in 1822 the governor of Buenos Aires, Martín Rodríguez, banned this game initiative which fail Juan Manuel de Rosas and other rulers.
The duck survived in the Argentine countryside and in 1937 Alberto Castillo Posse decided to transform it into a sport and drafted its first regulation. A year later, the ban was repealed in 1941 and the areas in which it was practiced joined to found the Federación Argentina de Pato.
In 1953, a decree of the Executive Department declared the National Sport

ARGENTINA´S MUSIC

The tango is a dance music genre and River Plate, characteristic of the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1 clearly urban in nature and international renown. Musically has binary form (full and chorus) and measured four quarters (although he calls "the two by four"). Classically interpreted by typical or sextet and orchestra bandoneon recognizes their essential tool.
The choreography, designed from the embrace of the couple, is extremely sensual and complex. The letters are made on the basis of a local slang known as slang and generally express the sadness, especially "in the things of love, 2 felt by men and women in town, a fact that somehow he ties with the blues, without are therefore chosen for the treatment of other themes, including humorous and political.
Enrique Santos Discepolo, one of its greatest poets, defined the tango as "a sad thought that is danced"
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