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unusual facts about Blanca, Murcia


Angel Rios Martinez

Angel Ríos Martínez (Blanca, Murcia, 1952) is a Spaniard who, together with Govert Westerveld, by the plenary of the municipality of Blanca on January 3, 2002 was unanimously appointed as Official Chronicler of Blanca, Murcia.


Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq

His father, Alfonso X fled to Seville, his support reduced to the Muslim-heavy districts of Andalusia and Murcia.

Action of 19 December 1796

The Action of 19 December of 1796 was a minor naval engagement of the French Revolutionary Wars, fought off the coast of Murcia between a small squadron of two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and a small squadron of two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart, who was descendent of the British royal house of Stuart.

Agua Blanca, Oaxaca

Agua Blanca is popular with Mexican tourists during the Christmas holiday and Semana Santa periods, but is relatively unvisited by the foreign tourists who flock to nearby Puerto Escondido.

Antonio Guzmán Capel

2009 Portrait of Brother Rafael (Rafael Arnáiz Barón), for his canonization in Vatican City on 11/10/09 ----- Poster announcing Davis Cup, Murcia

Antonio Richarte

He was educated for a learned profession, but he preferred painting, which he studied under Senén Vila at Murcia, and afterwards at Madrid with one of the Menendez.

Audiencias Provinciales of Spain

Examples include the Audiencia Provincial of Alicante, located in Elche rather than Alicante; the fifth section of the Audiencia Provincial of Murcia in Cartagena; the Audiencia Provincial of Pontevedra, with its fifth and sixth sections in Vigo; and the Audiencia Provincial of Cádiz with a section in the exclave of Ceuta.

Blanca Wetlands

The proposed area to be irrigated lies between the Blanca Wetlands ACEC and the San Luis State Park, and would allow species to migrate between wetlands in the state park and the Blanca wetlands.

Blanca, Murcia

The life and traditions of the city are well described by another chronicler of the village, Angel Rios Martinez (11-25).

Capture of the Paquete de Maule

On 6 March 1866, during the Chincha Islands War, the Spanish steam frigate Blanca captured the Chilean sidewheel steamer Paquete de Maule in the Gulf of Arauco.

Casa Blanca, Arizona

Casa Blanca was one of the Pima Villages on the Gila River in what was then part of the state of Sonora, Mexico, encountered by the American expeditions of Stephen W. Kearny and Philip St. George Cooke in 1846 and later by Americans on their way to California on the Southern Immigrant Trail during the California Gold Rush.

CATUAV

Lorca earthquake: In May 2011 CATUAV performed a series of flights over Lorca (Spanish town in Murcia) 38 hours after it was stuck by a strong earthquake.

Circus Maximus

The track width may have been determined by the distance between Murcia's and Consus' shrines at the southeastern end, and its length by the distance between these two shrines and Hercules' Ara Maxima, supposedly older than Rome itself and sited behind the Circus' starting place.

Conchita Supervía

She made her stage debut in 1910 at the young age of 15 at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina in Stiattesi's Blanca de Beaulieu.

Corvera

Corvera (Murcia), a pedanía (autonomous region) in the municipio of Murcia

D.M.G. Grupo Holding S.A.

In March 2009, Murcia made declarations through an interview made by a journalist from La Prensa (Panamanian newspaper of most circulation) about his "investments" (donations) to Democratic Revolutionary Party candidates Balbina Herrera and Roberto Velasquez (candidates for president and mayor of Panama, respectively) for their campaigns.

DYAQ-TV

The transmitter is located Mt. Canlandog, Murcia, Negros Occidental and studios located at Rizal St. corner Lacson St. in Bacolod and at Phase 5 Alta Tierra Village, Jaro in Iloilo City.

Enrique Floriano Millan

Enrique Floriano Millan (born October 9, 1982 in Lorca, Murcia) is a vision impaired B2/S12 swimmer from Spain.

Escalera de los Moros

The Escalera de los Moros (Moors lader) is a medieval-Islamic public building works aimed at a Dam or wetland located on the promenade of the Oron river outside the village of Librilla, Murcia, Spain.

Fernando Martínez Rubio

Fernando made his official debut for the Murcians on 11 September 2013, in a 0–2 away loss against Hércules CF for the season's Copa del Rey.

Ferrosur Roca

The branch from Bahia Blanca to Zapala serves the commercially important Rio Negro fruit-growing region.

Fle3

The technical development partners included the developers of BSCW – Basic Support for Cooperative Work in Fraunhofer Society and Department of Computer Science of the University of Murcia in Spain.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Ginés Pérez de Hita

Ginés Pérez de Hita (1544? – 1619?) was a Spanish novelist and poet, born at Mula (Murcia) about the middle of the 16th century.

Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis

To the east and southeast, Molitor pushed back General Ballesteros into Aragon, pursuing him as far as Murcia and Granada, winning an engagement at Campillo de Arenas on 28 July and forcing his surrender on 4 August.

Infanta Blanca of Spain

Blanca married Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, second child and eldest son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and his wife Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 24 October 1889 at Schloss Frohsdorf in Lanzenkirchen, Lower Austria, Austria.

After the defeat of Austria-Hungary in World War I in 1918 and the fall of the Habsburg dynasty, Archduchess Blanca with her husband and their children refused to recognize the new Austrian republic.

Joaquín de Roncali, 1st Marquis of Roncali

Roncali was the eldest son of Agustín de Roncali y Martínez de Murcia, Knight of Santiago, and his wife María del Carmen Ceruti y Feit.

Joaquín Ibarra

Ibarra's printing used various foundries of his time, highlighting games Gerónimo Gil, the Smelter Rangel (used by the Gazette, and they really are a game of Garamond), types of Lleida Eudald Pradell with casting Madrid, a game of Garamond, and the celebrated and reviled italic cast which composed the Sallust, abierta open by the academic and writer Murcia Espinosa de los Monteros, who owned a foundry in Madrid.

Jon Gaunt

The show was also broadcast on regular FM radio in Spain, on the Costa Blanca via Bay Radio (Spain) and Costa Del Sol via Spectrum FM.

Josef Lammerz

Since his retirement in 1989, he has spent long periods in Teulada on the Costa Blanca, Spain, and continues to compose.

Juan Bautista Topete

He was sent out to the Pacific in command of the frigate "Blanca," and was present at the bombardment of Valparaíso and Callao, where he was badly wounded, and in other engagements of the war between Chile and Peru.

La Cruz Blanca

Soon General Pablo González wrote Magnón to congratulate and thank her for her efforts with Cruz Blanca, and he was made honorary president of the cause.

Lydia Mendoza

In 1928, as part of the family group, Cuarteto Carta Blanca, she made her first recordings for the Okeh Records label in San Antonio, Texas.

Music of Murcia

Murcia is a region in the South East of Spain with many external influences varying from the ancient Moors that occupied the area for centuries to the adjacent Communities (Andalusia, Castilla La Mancha, etc.).

Néstor de Villa

In the 1980s, de Villa made his screen comeback when he was again paired with Blanca in two movies for Viva Films: Forgive and Forget, which also starred Sharon Cuneta and William Martinez, and Saan Darating Ang Umaga (Where Will the Morning Come), a family drama co-starring Maricel Soriano and Jaypee de Guzmán.

Nida Blanca

The case rests on the statements of witnesses and Philip Medel, a self-confessed killer who surrendered to PNP Task Force Marsha on November 19, 2001 and confessed that Strunk had hired him to kill Blanca.

On November 7, 2001, Blanca was found murdered, beaten and stabbed 13 times in the back seat of her Nissan Sentra in the parking lot of Atlanta Centre in Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila where she worked for MTRCB.

Pedro Morales y Mercado

Born in the 17th century in Ciudad de Rodrigo, Spain, Pedro Morales y Mercado was the son of Juan de Morales y Mercado and Blanca de Soria.

Puente de la Pólvora

Prior to the construction of the bridge, these dangerous convoys had to pass periodically through the city of Murcia in order to cross the river by the only existing bridge over the Segura in the vicinity: El Puente de los Peligros.

Puente de los Peligros

The project was a success as it became the first permanent bridge in the history of Murcia that spanning the Segura could endure seamlessly the periodical river floods, including the great flood of Santa Teresa of 1879.

Rafael Fernández

Rafael Fernández Pérez (1980–), Spanish futsal player who plays for ElPozo Murcia as a Goalkeeper

Region of Murcia

It is probably the most developed and overcrowded holiday area of Murcia, despite being declared a Specially Protected Area of Mediterranean Importance (SPAMIs) by the United Nations.

Scott Thornbury

Comments on Marianne Celce-Murcia, Zoltán Dörnyei, and Sarah Thurrell's "Direct approaches in L2 Instruction: A turning point in communicative language teaching?"

The Yellow Melodies

The Yellow Melodies is an indie pop band from Murcia, in Spain.

Theodore Morde

In 2013, journalist Christopher S. Stewart wrote a book titled Jungleland about the legend of la Ciudad Blanca and Morde.

Vilanova International World Music Festival

This festival belongs to the most selected group of world music festivals in Spain: Etnosur (Alcalá la Real, Jaén, Andalucía), Getxo (Basque Country), La Mar de Músicas (Cartagena, Murcia), Ortigueira (Galicia), and Pirineos Sur (Aragón).


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