A man wearing a Jewish yarmulke listens during a news conference at the Royal Spanish Academy in Madrid, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. More than five centuries after their ancestors were kicked out of Spain, Sephardic Jews are closer to being granted an academic body to oversee and protect the Ladino or Judeo-Spanish, a language with the sounds of a medieval Spanish that has been passed on almost intact for generations. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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