Individual mantas have been identified through photo-ID for up to 33 years—the worldwide age record for the oceanic (giant) mantas.
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Kathleen Rellihan,
Outside Online,
8 June 2025
According to the outlets, the organization behind the narco manta has not been identified, although the Baja California district attorney shared that an investigation is underway.
Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak); social calls, dinners, and balls; the weather; her mother’s health; and people—often dozens of names.
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Robert Garnett,
WSJ,
14 July 2017
Rather than betray alienation, her surviving correspondence—mostly to Cassandra—talks of fabrics, caps and pelisses (a type of woman’s cloak)
White capote has the potential to reach 50 feet in height and tolerate wetter soil than most fruit trees and will yield a good crop in less than full sun exposures.
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Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
10 July 2025
In the first and third, the matador performs a series of passes of the bull through capes, first a large pink and yellow cape known as a capote and then a smaller red cape.
For her label Anissa Aida, designer Anissa Meddeb, who lives in the capital, makes gossamer silk blouses evoking the striped motif of handwoven fouta towels and voluminous coats inspired by the burnoose cloaks worn by Berbers.
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Sarah Khan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2020
On a rainy day men wore winter-weight burnooses with the large hoods drawn up—enigmatic Jedi-like figures in the medina's alleyways.
Some women donned a mantilla, a veil that typically signifies more traditionalist Catholic belief and practice.
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Liam Adams,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
Princess Charlene, Queen Letizia, Queen Mathilde and Princess Sophie notably had their heads covered with mantillas that matched their outfits at Pope Leo's inauguration mass, while Grand Duchess Maria Teresa skipped the accessory.
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