Rocinante era antes y primero de todos los rocines del mundo"—"a name, to his thinking, lofty, sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack before he became what he now was, the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world". In chapter 1, Cervantes describes Don Quixote's careful naming of his steed: Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because (as he said to himself) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he
Carmen Sandiego (character) Carmen Sandiego (character) Carmen Isabela Sandiego is a fictional character featured in a long-running edutainment series of the same name created by the American software company Broderbund. As a criminal mastermind and the elusive nemesis of the ACME Detective Agency, Carmen Sandiego is the principal villain of the series and the head of ACME's rival organization, V.I.L.E.. Carmen Sandiego is central to the computer game series, which focused on teaching children geography. The character has also appeared in four television shows, a series of books, and many other licensed products of the franchise. Most of her crimes in the games