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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I Like Trees, post: 290551, member: 10463&quot;]<b>Thanks</b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana">Thank you for a real answer. It just seams square coins would cause a lot of damage to various things. Probably less of a problem before the advent of so much machinery with the industrial revolution.</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"></font> <font face="Verdana">Gracias, de nuevo, izotz. </font><font face="Arial"><font size="1">Thanks again izotz.</font></font><font face="Verdana"></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana">The photo I used is on Wikimedia. I was trying to find a photo from Wikipedia that was small and clear. I have read about the motto <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville#Motto" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville#Motto" rel="nofollow"><i>No me ha dejado</i></a></font><font face="Verdana"> antes en Wikipedia.</font><font face="Verdana"></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville#Motto" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville#Motto" rel="nofollow">Here is a link</a> to the Wikipedia explanation <b>in ENGLISH</b> of the yarn symbol </font><font face="Verdana">on the manhole cover</font><font face="Verdana">. (the shape that looks like the no. 8)</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"></font><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Seville_manhole_cover_clipped.jpg/200px-Seville_manhole_cover_clipped.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font face="Verdana"> </font></p><p><font face="Verdana">Basically the Spanish for <i>skein of yarn</i> is <i>madeja de hilo</i>, so NO-8-DO reads as: &quot;No m&#039;a dejado,&quot; which is how the setance, &quot;No me ha dejado,&quot; can come out when said by a southern-Spainiard. It means: &quot;She (he/it) has not abandoned me.&quot;</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana">The city is famous for it&#039;s unwavering support of a certain King of Spain. The King in Kuestion is supposed to have said, &quot;She [the city] has never abandoned me.&quot; The trouble is, they can&#039;t remember which king said it. (See the wikipedia article for more details.)</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"></font><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Verdana"></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Verdana">~</font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font> </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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