Pulgarcito
Pulgarcito (in Spanish, literally "little thumb") may refer to: *Pulgarcito, the Spanish variant of the folktale Tom Thumb * ''Pulgarcito'' (Mexico), a children's magazine of the Mexican government, 1925–1932 * ''Pulgarcito'' (Spain), a Spanish weekly illustrated magazine, 1921–1987 *Pulgarcito (actor) (born 1950), Mexican actor *Manuel Ramos (boxer) Manuel Ramos (November 20, 1942 – June 6, 1999), nicknamed Pulgarcito (Tom Thumb), was a Mexican boxer and actor. He was the heavyweight champion of Mexico, a top world title contender in the late 1960s, and one of Mexico's most internationa ...

Pulgarcito (actor)
Cesáreo Quezadas (born 18 December 1950) is a Mexican actor. He took the stage name of Pulgarcito from the film of the same name in which he debuted in 1957. During the 1960s he achieved worldwide fame for acting in many films. However, in 2005, he was sentenced 20 years in prison for sexually abusing his own daughter. Biography Cesáreo Quezadas made his film debut at the age of seven in a film by René Cardona called Pulgarcito in the reissue of the famous story of the Brothers Grimm. Due to the success of his interpretation and already known with the nickname of Pulgarcito he starred in so many films by René Cardona and brothers Miguel M. Delgado and Agustín P. Delgado, generally in the role of a rogue boy, orphaned and needy, with an angelic and sarcastic look impudence. In 1961 the film director Luis Lucía takes him to Spain to star, along with Marisol, The film An angel has arrived, which supposes the cusp of his race. Following the classic pattern of other children art ...
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Pulgarcito (Spain)
''Pulgarcito'' (Spanish for "Tom Thumb") was a weekly illustrated magazine of Spain that was published by Editorial Bruguera (originally named ''El Gato Negro'', though it retained a black cat as its logo) from June 1921 to 1987. An extremely popular periodical in its first years, ''Pulgarcito'' offered short stories, articles, pastimes, and jokes, with only a few comic strips. Economic difficulties caused by the Spanish Civil War led to only 13 issues being published between 1945 and 1947, though it recovered after 1952, with more prominence given to comic strips and a stable of new comic characters, including: * Zipi y Zape (characters that later got their own magazine) *Las hermanas Gilda *Carpanta ''Carpanta Hambrón'', or as better known, ''Carpanta'', is the name of a Spanish character featured in the comic strips and comic books of the same name created in 1947 by José Escobar.Escobar, Josep. Carpanta I. Edited by Ediciones B.S.A ... *El profesor Tragacanto Both ...
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Pulgarcito (Mexico)
''Pulgarcito'' was a Spanish-language monthly magazine put out by Mexico's Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico), Secretariat of Public Education from 1925 to 1932. The magazine published art and writing submitted by Mexico, Mexican children in order to nourish cultural nationalism. References

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Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore. ''The History of Tom Thumb'' was published in 1621 and was the first fairy tale printed in English. Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favourite of King Arthur. The earliest allusions to Tom occur in various 16th-century works such as Reginald Scot's '' Discovery of Witchcraft'' (1584), where Tom is cited as one of the supernatural folk employed by servant maids to frighten children. Tattershall in Lincolnshire, England, reputedly has the home and grave of Tom Thumb. Aside from his own tales, Tom figures in Henry Fielding's 1730 play '' Tom Thumb'', a companion piece to his '' The Author's Farce''. It was expanded into a single 1731 piece titled '' The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great''. In the mid-18th century, books began to be published specifically for children (some with their authorship attributed to "T ...
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Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of 20 countries. It is the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's fourth-most spoken language overall after English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in Iberia after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. The oldest Latin texts with traces of Spanish come from mid-northern Iberia in the 9th century, and the first systematic written use of the language happened in Toledo, a prominent c ...
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