Cuenca

Cuenca, Socorro Rojo Guardería Infantil
 
 
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Recto:  [Cuenca, September 14, 1937, Cuenca is at the top of a mountain and so her streets are steep around Cuenca there are also tall hills. Angel Muñoz].
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Recto:  (Stamp)  Socorro Rojo Internacional, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Stupid song by Federico Garcia Lorca, Cuenca September 15, 1937 [poem partly illegible], Esperanza Sanz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo Internacional, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, September 16, 1937, live beings are those that move and all those that are born, grow and die like dogs cats trees. There are other beings that don't have life like rocks tables [?] chairs mountains. Eladio Malo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo Internacional, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca -- September-17-1937 -- Our nursery is on Rosa Street number 14 on the right side where all of the even houses are in the side in front of us meaning the left side houses have uneven numbers. José Caballero].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo Internacional, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, September 18-1937, All of us kids have History, Also all of the things history tell us happened have history the things that have passed.  There is history of all the men who lived before us and have already died. Carlos Cuadrado].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo Internacional, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca -- September 20 -- 1937, one two three four five six seven eight nine ten, one and one two, two and one three, three and one four, five and one six, six and one seven, seven and one eight, eight and one nine. Eugenio Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo Internacional, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca. [Cuenca -- September 21, 1937, Not all the mountains have the same shape there are some that end in peaks they are the youngest other mountains the oldest water and air are making round. Pedro Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo Internacional, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca -- September-22-1937. The four [?]: the donkey the do[g] cat and the rooster found in their work peace and tranquility. Luis Hernando].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo Internacional, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca -- September-22-1937, Cuenca and all of the towns are [?] for the reunion of new families that form a county. In all of the towns there is an authority which is who directs it. Maria Loge].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca -- September-24-1937, Bodies are all of the things that -- we can take that back -- not all bodies are equal there are some like tables and [?] that are not equal since the one [?] --  [??] the smoke and the air. Esther Lopez].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, September 25, 1937, primitive men prided themselves in many methods of hunting animals that were almost always bigger than they were sometimes they placed traps that consisted of big holes covered with twigs where deceived animals fell other times all of the men women and children of a tribe together ran behind the animals until they succeeded in scaring them so they fell in some precipice. Mercedes de Volba].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, September 27, 1937 Pedro had three books and he was given 2 more books, how many books would he have? books he had, books he was given, books he would have. Leonor de Ulla].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, September 28, The low-lying land that is between mountains forms a valley.  At times valleys are created when the land is worn away by the rain water or by [?] Huecar. Dolores Broque].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, September 29-1937, The words we use to call people and things are names like Rosa Figaro table [?] man rooster stone [?] Jesús Carretero].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, September 30, 1937, All of us need help from everyone so we help our friends when we can because if not life would be very difficult because alone we could not make our houses our clothes our food. My friend helps me carry the cart. Eladio Malo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, October 1-1937, Not all living things are equal so there are some that can move like dogs cats they are animals.  There are other living things that cannot move like apple trees pear trees they are plants. Angel Muñoz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca, October 2-1937, The first men that appeared on the Earth took advantage of the caves that nature offered them but since sometimes one arrived at places no caves could be found one had to build a house with what was found which almost always was with tree trunks and branches. Esperanza Sanz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 4-1937, Prisms are geometrical objects that have two that are equal and tree or more faces that are sometimes equal and are sometimes not equal. Eladio Malo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 6-1937, Without the heat of the sun we could not live. The sun does not heat all of the earth equally there are places where it barely gets warm there it is very cold and men are dressed in wool suits and things are made of ice. In the parts of the earth where the sun gives much heat men are practically naked and are almost never inside their houses We live in a region where it is cold in the winter and hot in the summer = in the winter I play in the snow, when it is hot there are flowers. Jose Caballero].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 6-1937. The good shepherd Juan comes down from the mountain with his flock of sheep shepherd is a common noun because with the noun [?] the men that dedicate themselves to taking care of flocks [?] animals are also common nouns child dog tree table.  Juan is a proper noun because with it we name only one person other proper nouns are María Pedro [?] Madrid.  Store -- Chaman, dog -- Rabi, city -- Madrid, hill -- Locarro, boy -- Pedro, river -- Manzanares, man -- Credero].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 6-1937, The moon the boat the fish the waves and the child are common [nouns?]. Eugenio Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 7-1937, We should be unselfish with our friends and companions if we want them to be so with us and thus to us will occur what happens with the travellers that pass through the lodgings of [?]. A man cuts a quantity of firewood equal to that which he wastes for the traveler who comes after him. Pedro Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 8-1937, All plan[ts] hav[e] roots shoots and leaves. The root grows inside the earth [?] The shoot is the color green and grows upwards and in the air [?] leaves can be [?]. Stem, leaves, root. Luis Hernando].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [In the desert it is very hot there is no water so there will be no plants. Luis Hernando].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 9-1937, In Egypt there was practically no importance given to life so that houses were built with materials that could last a short time such as mud that they got from the River Nile. The places where they buried their dead were made with great stones so that they could never be destroyed the dead were embalmed so that they could be conserved and last many years. Egyptian boat. Maria Loge].
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Recto(Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [In the two pyramids of Egypt they buried the dead. Maria Loge].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 11-1937. Esther Lopez].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Esther Lopez].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 12, 1937, Today is Columbus Day it is the day that in the year 1492 Christopher Columbus, who together with the Spaniard Alonso Pinzón manned the three caravels the Pinta, Niña and Santa Maria, discovered America. Leonor de Alba].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 13, 1937, The plaza has a tower (Antonio Machado), The plaza has a tower/ the tower a balcony/ the balcony has a lady/ the lady a white flower/ A knight has passed by/ Who knows why he passed by!/ and left the plaza/ with its tower and its balcony/ with its balcony and its lady/ the lady and its white flower. Mercedes de Alba].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 14, 1937, My family consists of my father my mother and my brothers and sisters I love my family a lot [?]. My mother pushes my little sister and I play ball. Adoración de Alba].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 15, The first part of the life of frogs took place on boats. From a few little [?] we can see how [?] and changes into [?] feet more [?] on its feet the tail disappears and it leaves the boat being now a real frog. Monala Rubío].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca October 18-1937, The Greek gods were happy gods and because of this they celebrated parties in their honor organizing the olympic games. The houses as well as the temples were almost always adorned with pretty statues. S.C.].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Monday October 25-1937, A balloon salesman has 7 balloons and he's left with 4, how many has he sold? I am 9 years old and my brother is 4, how many years separate us? Dolores Sanz].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Tuesday October 26-1937, The water drop, the wind, Mr. sun. The clouds are made from the water that evaporates from the rivers the seas and the lakes From the clouds fall drops of water in the form of rain. Angel Muñoz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [The driver does not get wet because he is inside the cart. Angel Muñoz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Wednesday October 27-1937, Table chair house are feminine-gendered nouns. Cat lion well are masculine-gendered nouns. Esperanza Sanz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Thursday October 28, 1937, I [?] and have already happened to me many times cases similar to what happens to the [?] with the child [?] he cried knowing he was punished while his friends played. Maria Loge].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Friday October 29, 1937, In the school garden [?] grows. The stone the same as [?] plants [?] the roots that come out look like fine threads and they serve the plant to cling to the walls and the [?]. Eugenio Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Saturday October 30, 1937, Feudal lords lived in beautiful castles surrounded by a great wall. The vassals were like the lord's slaves since they had to work for him. The sons of the lords were educated in the house of other neighboring lords and when they had finished their education they were knighted. Pedro Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca November 8-1937, surfaces limit bodies and they have dimensions that are length and width. Lines are the borders of the surfaces and they have a dimension that is length. The points form at the intersection of two lines and points do not have dimensions. point, surfaces, lines. Esther Lopez].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca 9 Tuesday-November 1937, sometimes rivers are formed when [?] when because of the heat the snow melts that is up in the mountains other times they are formed by the water of [?] the rocks that drag along the bottom of the rivers are rounded. In the summer I [?] in the river [?] irrigate the river. Maria Loge].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guaderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Bricks are made mixing some pinkish earth that is called clay with water. The soft mass of clay is put in molds and is put to dry in the sun and [?]. with the bricks houses are made and they are put in the floors of rooms. A man makes a brick house. Monala Rubio R.].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Thursday November 11-1937, All of us should be such workers like bees and we should try to do it bees are insects so their bodies are divided in parts. Bees do not have bones. I like the honey that bees make very much. Hive honeycomb bee. Esperanza Sanz].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Friday November 12-1937, bottle, bottles, table, tables, [??], dog, dogs, bread, breads, [??], names in singular, names in plural, pelican singular, kids plural. Luis Hernando].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Saturday November-13, The first ships that man used did not look anything like the ones that we now use moreover the train has passed through many phases until it has been transformed from [?] like primitive [?] into what is used now. Eugenio Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Monday-November-15-1937, Our classroom measures 10 meters long and 4 meters wide the things we measure with the meter shopkeepers measure fabrics also bricklayers carpenters tailors use it. Dolores Vespurinas].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Tuesday-November-16-1937, The day begins when the sun shines the part of the earth on which you are I like more when it is day than night. Animals sunbathe. Gregoria Sanz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Wednesday-November-17-1937, The parrot's speech: "Oh! The docile cow moos and the same the tame ox, brays the patient donkey and the sheep bleets ‘baa!' roars the massive bull and barks the dog ‘ruff!' quacks the impatient duck and the cat meows ‘meow meow' cheeps the chicken ‘cheep!' and the pig grunts ‘grunt' ‘Cockadoodledoo' sings the rooster and the hen too the duck quacks saying ‘quack! quack! quack!' and the tame pretty goose and the beautiful swan too." Pedro Merlo].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Thursday-November-18-1937, The cup in which I take my breakfast is porcelain it has a saucer with designs like on the cup that is also porcelain I am careful that neither the cup falls nor the plate falls so they don't break. Eladio Malo].
 
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Friday-November-19, I like all kinds of dogs very much the dog I had at my house liked bones very much. My dog knew me from all of my friends and he became furious when they got near him my dog barked when I was punished. Monala Rubío].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Saturday-November-20-1937, From primitive stone axes to modern rifles men have used many types of weapons but all with the same end when it would have been better if we had never discovered weapons. Angel Muñoz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Monday-November-22-1937, I have already learned to make cubes which are shapes that have 6 flat, equal sides 12 edges also equal and 8 vertices. Maria Loge].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Esperanza Sanz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Tuesday-November 22-1937, I would know how to orient myself in the country when there is sun I would look from where it rises so the west would be to my back the north would be where my left hand points and the south where my right does. east north south west. Esperanza Sanz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Wednesday-November-24-1937, To walk, to grasp, to touch, to take out, to cut, to hit, to throw, to play, to read. all of these words are verbs because they indicate to us an action. The bird sings, the sheep bleets and the horse neighs. We will go walking and we will picnic in the montains. The child writes the lesson. Dolores Vesperinas].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Thursday-November-25-1937, I have a pocketknife that I always carry in my pocket the handle is of mother-of-pearl and the blade is of iron and ends in a point. [?] and pocketknives are very useful for some things [?] Luis Hernando].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Friday-September-20-1937, I am very scared of rats although I know they will not do anything to me if I do not touch them my cat likes rats very much and he is always chasing behind them. In the [?] there was a rat nest that we found and we caught all of the rats in a trap to kill them because they tore and ruined everything. Eugenio Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Saturday-November-27-1937, How different were the shopkeepers of the Middle Ages from the shopkeepers of now since they had to pass so many penalties to sell things that they made themselves, here there are still streets that have names that were made in the Middle Ages and these names tell us the most about [?] Ester Lopez].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Thursday-December-3-1937, When I am going to do anything I always ask my conscience if I should do it because when I am bad although nobody knows it seems that there is a voice inside that accuses me. The child runs to turn in what he has found. Angel Muñoz].
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Recto: (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Manolita Ruvio].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Friday-December-3, Oxen are very useful animals since besides eating their meat and using their hides they also serve as beasts of burden and they pull carts with a lot of weight. Oxen have a lot of force in the neck they have a very strong body and at the end of their long tail they have a whisker with which they scare away flies. Manola Rubio].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Saturday-December-4-1937, [?] Guillermo Maell the brave hunter the Swiss mountains 600 years with his courage to his companions of the tyranny of a foreign governor. Pedro Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Monday-December-3-1937, A polygon is a part of a plane limited by straight lines. The lines that limit the polygon are called sides Polygons with [?] number of sides are those with three. Gregoria Sanz].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [MLA].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Tuesday-December-7-1937, Cuenca is an agricultural capital although there is not much of importance around Cuenca there are mountains and also there are forests nearby Cuenca which are the origen of the wood industry and therefore there are many wood factories where many workers work. Maria Laje].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Wednesday-December-8-1937 Pastoral poem. Singing Juan Ramon Jimenez/ I have come on the path/ with a bouquet of roses/ from the country/ behind the mountain/ the red moon born/ the soft breeze of the river/ gave freshness to the shadow/ a sad toad sang/ with his melodious flute].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Over the hill there was/ a melancholic star.../ I have come on the path/ with a bouquet of roses. Dolores Vesperinas].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Cuenca December-9-1937, I waste a lot of paper since it is very cheap. To draw I buy paper of the best class it is paper made with linen and the cheapest paper is that made froom wood. E. Sanz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Friday December-10-1937, In my house we had put in a cage [?] for rabbits [?]. Luis Hernando].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [María Loge].
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Recto: (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Saturday December-11-1937, The temples that the Arabs built in Spain were very pretty All of the walls and the lamps were adorned with such delicate skill that some seemed to be embroidered. puerta de [?]. Angel Muñoz].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Monday-December-13-1937, four divided by two equals two, six divided by two equals three, eight divided by two equals four].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Ten divided by two equals five, six divided by equals two, eight divided by four equals two, nine divided by three equals three. Pedro Merlo].
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Recto (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Tuesday-December-14-1937, yesterday great piles of snow fell that covered everything like a big white blanket. It snows when it is very cold. In some countries men make their houses of snow. There are some rivers that form when the snow melts. Eugenio Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Wednesday-December-15-1937, I know many kids that are like Don Juan Rolondron the bully with a large top who wanted to be brave without being it. I would very much like to be a bullfighter if I were more brave. Dolores Vesperinas].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Dolores Vesperinas].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [airplane. Eugenio Merlo].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Thursday December 16-1937, [?]. Gregorio Sanz].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Friday-December 17-1937, Pigs live [?] or they also live in the mountains forming flocks. I like very much fresh pork or salted and also sausages that are made with the meat and the blood of pig. María Loge].
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Recto:  (Stamp) Socorro Rojo, Guarderías Infantiles, Cuenca.  [Saturday-December 18, 1937, I really like old paintings, sculptures and buildings from those who lived during the Middle Ages and also I really like those from the Renaissance. Manola R.].