Terra Nostra (novel) Terra Nostra (novel) Terra Nostra is a 1975 novel by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. The narrative covers 20 centuries of European and American culture, and prominently features the construction of El Escorial by Philip II. The title is Latin for "Our earth". The novel received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award in 1976 and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1977. "Terra Nostra", perhaps Fuentes' most ambitious novel, is a "massive, Byzantine work" that tells the story of all Hispanic civilization. Modeled on James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake", "Terra Nostra" shifts unpredictably between the sixteenth century and the twentieth, seeking the roots of
Aonia Terra Aonia Terra Aonia Terra is a region in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars. It is named after a classical albedo feature, the "Bay of the Muses" and its name was approved in 1979, by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. It is centered at and covers 3900 km at its broadest extent. It covers latitudes 30 to 81 South and longitudes 60 to 163 W. Aonia Terra is an upland area notable for massive cratering including the large Lowell Crater, parts of the region features small craters, in the plain areas, Thaumasia Fossae