One night the bandleader Noro Morales introduced Mr. Aguilar from the stage of the Conga Room as "Cuban Pete, King of the Latin Beat," a reference to a hit record by Desi Arnaz, who was in the audience.
-- a reference to Dark Latin Groove, a salsa group with an urban sound.
In that book Wiener made reference to an 1868 article by the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell on governors and pointed out that the term governor is derived, via Latin, from the same Greek word that gives rise to cybernetics.
The run's name, Seaside Semper Five 5K, is a reference to Semper Fidelis, Latin for "always loyal," the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps. .
The word is from the Medieval Latin Hispericus (an alteration of Hespericus), "Western" or "Latin," hence probably meaning (in reference to Latin style) "urbane" or "elegant".
A notable exception is Pereda 2006, which points out the lack of sufficient reference to Latin American publications in the numerous contributions by Latin Americans to the Enciclopedia iberoamericana de filosofía (a multi-volume reference work whose first volume appeared in 1987).
It could allude to the tropical fish of the same name; it could be a tongue-in-cheek reference to terra, the Latin word for land, or perhaps it's short for tetrahedron, in reference to the famous Triforce.
Which one belongs to a Latin dancer from Kentucky?
If you've ever dabbled with design (or stumbled across someone's unfinished website), though, you've probably already caught the gag: it's a reference to Lorem Ipsum, a nonsensical faux-Latin blurp of text that designers often use as a placeholder to show how a design could look if you plugged in some real words.
After all, according to historian John Coatsworth, the U.S. overthrew 41 governments in Latin America between 1898 and 1994, and many of those regime changes were ostensibly carried out, as Woodrow Wilson once put it in reference to Mexico, to teach Latin Americans "to elect good men".
