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Carlos J. Garay Villamil
Carlos Juan Garay Villamil (b. Ponce, Puerto Rico; 12 April 1881) was a long-serving coachman in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and Ponce's last one. Together with his horse-drawn carriage, he is considered an icon of the city of Ponce. He was "inmortalized" by the city and its municipal legislature by naming the Ponce public transportation terminal after him, Terminal de Transportación Pública Carlos Garay. Early years Born in Ponce in 1881, Garay Villamil came from a family of coachmen; both his father as well as his grandfather were coachmen. Garay Villamil had very little formal education and was himself initiated as a coachman in 1908, when he was 27 years old. He then worked as a coachman for over 70 years. Occupation During the turn of the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, the main means of transportation in Ponce was the horse-drawn carriage. However, with the arrival of the automobile in the first decade of the 20th century, the use of horse-drawn carri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
