RAMON DE MESONERO Y ROMANOS
\ɹɐmˈə͡ʊn də mˌɛsənˈe͡əɹə͡ʊ wˈa͡ɪ ɹə͡ʊmˈɑːnə͡ʊz], \ɹɐmˈəʊn də mˌɛsənˈeəɹəʊ wˈaɪ ɹəʊmˈɑːnəʊz], \ɹ_ɐ_m_ˈəʊ_n d_ə m_ˌɛ_s_ə_n_ˈeə_ɹ_əʊ w_ˈaɪ ɹ_əʊ_m_ˈɑː_n_əʊ_z]\
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A Spanish descriptive writer and historian, employing sometimes the pseudonym "El Curioso Parlante" (The Inquisitive Chatterer); born at Madrid, July 10, 1803; died there, April 1882. He was connected with the national library, Madrid (1845). He wrote: "Manual of Madrid" (3d ed. 1844), containing apt pictures of life there; "Madrid Panorama" (2 vols., 1832-35); "Types and Characters" (1843-62); "Mementos of Travel in France and Belgium" (1842); "Ancient Madrid" (1861), a scholarly history; etc. He founded and edited the Spanish Pictorial Weekly (8 vols., 1836).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).
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