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magidI was just making a salad for lunch (maybe if I have salad for lunch every day this week I'll make it through all the lettuce...). As I was washing and drying the leaves, I happened to look behind the big recycle bin that's next to the trash. And there I found a 10 centavos coin, from Ecuador. I wonder how it got there? Rugenio Espejo is the guy pictured on the coin, with a nice cravat and all.
*please wait while hundreds of trained monkeys...*
Google finally had some pages (strangely unfound when I tried to search with initial caps. What's up with that?) about him. In Spanish, of course. I know no Spanish beyond Sesame Street level (oh, and a couple of words picked up when they had me proof a Spanish translation of a math book at work. It still entertains me that a right triangle is "triangulo rectangulo."), so I used Google's translation services... which lead to a bit more information, charmingly garbled (not gargled, as I originally typed) at the top, until it reverts completely to Spanish (you can read it here, to see such things as "Wonderful crust, its finding is aureoled of legend." :-).
So. Rugenio Espejo (Google translated his name as Eugene Mirror) was a doctor back in the 18th century who discovered a tree bark (worse than its bite, of course) with medicinal properties, and also founded the Ecuadoran national library, and their first newspaper, too. Interesting.
*please wait while hundreds of trained monkeys...*
Google finally had some pages (strangely unfound when I tried to search with initial caps. What's up with that?) about him. In Spanish, of course. I know no Spanish beyond Sesame Street level (oh, and a couple of words picked up when they had me proof a Spanish translation of a math book at work. It still entertains me that a right triangle is "triangulo rectangulo."), so I used Google's translation services... which lead to a bit more information, charmingly garbled (not gargled, as I originally typed) at the top, until it reverts completely to Spanish (you can read it here, to see such things as "Wonderful crust, its finding is aureoled of legend." :-).
So. Rugenio Espejo (Google translated his name as Eugene Mirror) was a doctor back in the 18th century who discovered a tree bark (worse than its bite, of course) with medicinal properties, and also founded the Ecuadoran national library, and their first newspaper, too. Interesting.