Castilla elastica (Nahuatl) word for rubber was "ulli / olli", from which their word for the ballgame derived), and also their name for the ancient people they associated with the origin of the ballgame, the Olmecs ("olmeca": "rubber people"). The Nahuatl word for the tree of "Castilla elastica" is olicuáhuitl; in Spanish it is known as palo de hule. Caucho, castilloa rubber. Castilla elastica Castilla elastica, the Panama rubber tree, is a tree native to the tropical areas of Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. It was the principal source of latex among the Mesoamerican peoples in pre-Columbian times. The latex
Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We... indeed in his old school: his own handwriting in chalk on the blackboard: "Stranger, bear word to the Spartans we..." The story was first published by Verlag Friedrich Middelhauve in 1950 as the title story in a short story collection. Today, "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We..." is one of Böll's most famous stories and is one of the best known of examples of Trümmerliteratur ("Rubble literature"). The unnamed first-person narrator begins the story in a truck and is transported through a partially burning city that he cannot identify, and is also unable to accurately gauge the amount of