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This is an ode about Argentina. It is situated in the southern part of South America and Ushuaia (one of its towns) is the southernmost city in the world (Lines 1 & 5). It is the origin of the Tango dance (line 2) and has recorded the hottest and coldest temperatures in the continent (Sarmiento in Patagonia- 32.80C and Villa de Maria in the cordova province- 49.10C.) and the highest and lowest elevations (Santa Cruz-Laguna del Carbon-105m below sea level and Andes-the Aconcagua in Mendoza Province-6962m)- Lines 6 & 7. Argentina Cartoonist, Quirino Cristiani made and released the world’s first two animated feature films in 1917 and 1918 (line 11). It is the first country to use finger printing as the primary form of identification in crime- Francisca Rojas homicide on the 19th of June, 1892 (lines 12 & 13). Argentina is the home to Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi (line 17).

Many Flowers, Few Thorns

Sheltered in the south of the south,
its culture breathed out the dance of love to the world.
Once established,
as the historic natural park for gigantic dinosaurs
with the earth’s tail attached to its field
and a familiar friend to continental extremities
both in elevations and in the measure of cold and heat.

Even with its tender voice and closed influence
its hands have contributed
to the beautiful jewelries of the globe’s spark.
The first scores of Cristiani’s animation
and pioneering crime’s neck breaker
through the Axe of finger-printing;
also a well watered green yard for cosmetic manipulations
but yet marred with Anorexia and battles of the mind.
So much flowers with few thorns
classify this blessed home with sons like Diego and Lionel.

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