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3 unusual facts about Castro


Castro, Chile

In Nercón, a village which was incorporated into Castro in 2007, there is another sightworthy church which was declared World Heritage by the UNESCO: Nuestra Senora de Gracia was built 1886-90 of Nothofagus dombeyi wood, and a well-kept garden can be seen in front of it.

Charles Harbutt

In 1959, on the strength of three photographs published in Modern Photography he was invited by members of the Castro underground to document the Cuban Revolution.

Said Sonbol

He was the first Arab journalist to uncover the secrets behind the rising tensions between Cuba and the US, and the first journalist to whom Castro confided that the US was planning to invade his country.


2006–08 Cuban transfer of presidential duties

Along with well wishes from many leaders from around the world, the prime minister of the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Denzil Douglas wished the "political legend" Castro a swift recovery on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

Abraham Cohen de Herrera

According to Rodriguez de Castro he may have died in Vienna.

Adam-Troy Castro

Castro is also known for his Gustav Gloom series of middle-school novels and has also authored a reference book on The Amazing Race.

Afonso IV of Portugal

The dramatic situation between father and son and Inês, became plots in more than twenty operas, as well as "Nise lastimosa" and "Nise laureada" (1577) by Jerónimo Bermúdez, 'Reinar despues de morir' by Luís Vélez de Guevara, "Inez de Castro" by Mary Russell Mitford, and La Reine morte (The Dead Queen) by Henry de Montherlant.

Anarchism in Cuba

But in 1965, the MLCE sent Iglesias to Italy to present the case against Castro to the Federazione Anarchica Italiana (FAIT).

Andrés Muciño

Enrique Andrés Muciño Castro (born on December 27, 1991 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico) is a Mexican pianist.

Enrique Andrés Muciño Castro was born on December 27, 1991 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

Artistas Reunidos

The Artistas Reunidos was a project created in 1997 by the solo artists Jair Oliveira, Wilson Simoninha, Luciana Mello, Max de Castro, Pedro Mariano, and Daniel Carlomagno.

CIA Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory

In his memoir, Bound by Honor, Bill Bonanno, son of New York Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno, disclosed that several Mafia families had long-standing ties with the anti-Castro Cubans through the Havana casinos operated by the Mafia before the Cuban Revolution.

Colony Sports Club

Following the end of syndicate gambling operations in Havana by the Castro government in 1959, Lansky sought to expand his operations elsewhere.

Contigo hasta el final

The video, directed by Pedro Castro, was filmed in different locations in the municipality of Llanes, Asturias, in the first days of March 2013.

Costantino de Castro

Costantino de Castro was a bishop of Bosa, in Sardinia, Italy.

Cuban rock

In 2004, Castro made a speech honouring the birthday of John Lennon (whose music, both with The Beatles and as a solo artist had been banned in Cuba).

David de Castro Tartas

David ben Abraham de Castro Tartas (Tartas, 1630-Amsterdam, 1698) was a Portuguese Jewish printer in Amsterdam.

Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos

Domitila (or Domitília) de Castro do Canto e Melo (São Paulo, December 27, 1797 — São Paulo, November 3, 1867), 1st Viscountess with designation as a Grandee, then 1st Marchioness of Santos, was a Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Dom Pedro I.

Elliott Castro

Castro is renowned for being a commentator in major sports events in Puerto Rico as well as those related to Puerto Rican athletes such as the Olympics, the Pan American Games, and the Central American and Caribbean Games.

Eve de Castro-Robinson

A "de Castro-Robinson Portrait" concert was held in her honor at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 2004.

Germán Castro Caycedo

On the one hand the story of a gypsy witch, and on the other the life of a poor-well-known Colombian drug lord, Castro Caycedo uses their stories as a base to conduct the reader on a trip showing how the cocaine traffic affected the society and economy of a small town (Fredonia), the Mexican Secret Police's brutality and corruption, and the United States' active role in the birth and expansion of drug production in Colombia.

Gonzalo Castro Irizábal

Gonzalo "Chori" Castro Irizábal (born 14 September 1984 in Trinidad, Flores Department) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Real Sociedad in Spain, as a winger.

GURPS Wild Cards

Data and characters are drawn from Wild Cards volumes I-V, including a history of the Wild Cards world, the Wild Card virus, over 50 super-characters, variant historical characters (e.g., Castro, Churchill, Gandhi, Franco, et al.), a description of Jokertown, the major Wild Card organizations, and the various aliens (the Takisians, the Swam, the Network group).

Havana Sugar Kings

However, the next year, Castro nationalized all U.S.-owned enterprises in Cuba, and on July 8, 1960, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick (under pressure from U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter) announced that the Sugar Kings would be moving to Jersey City, New Jersey and be renamed the Jersey City Jerseys.

Hector de Castro

Hector de Castro(1849 – January 30, 1909) was an Ottoman born American businessman and diplomat.

Henry of Marcy

Henry was named after his birthplace of Castro Marsiaco, or the Château de Marcy, near Cluny in Burgundy.

Humberto Castro

Three years after this experience in Northamerica "Humberto Castro. Jeune Peinture", Grand Palais, Paris, France.

Iván Castro

In September 2006, Castro and his men had relieved other paratroopers atop a house in the town of Yusifiyah, some 20 miles southwest of Baghdad, after a night of fighting.

Jesús R. Castro

Castro is affiliated with the Open Society Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Democracy Alliance and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

JMWAVE

Under Ted Shackley's leadership from 1962 to 1965, JMWAVE grew to be the largest CIA station in the world outside of the organization's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, with 300 to 400 professional operatives (possibly including about 100 based in Cuba) as well as an estimated 15,000 anti-Castro Cuban exiles on its payroll.

José Agustín Silvestre de los Santos

In December 2011, José Rijo, the Cincinnati Reds pitcher who won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1990, was subpeonaed by the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering Unit in relation to his business dealings with Castro, who was also a hotel and advertising agency owner, and for any information about Silvestre's murder.

José Miguel Barriga Castro

José Miguel Barriga Castro served first as a teacher at the National Institute, a position he held until 1842, when he became judge of Cauquenes.

José Rijo

In December 2011, German Miranda, who heads the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering unit, said Rijo had been subpeonaed in relation to his business dealings with Matías “Daniel” Avelino Castro and any information he might have about the abduction and murder of journalist José Silvestre, a.k.a. “Gajo”, of Caña TV.

Juan Almeida Bosque

The President of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh Triet, sent a message to Raúl Castro, in which he expressed his sadness, describing Almeida as a great friend of the Vietnamese people who contributed to the ties of solidarity between the two nations.

Juan Núñez III de Lara

Pedro de Lara (1348–1384), Count of Mayorga, who married Beatriz de Castro, daughter of Álvaro Pérez de Castro and Maria Ponce de Leon, and granddaughter of Pedro Fernández de Castro.

Kathleen Weaver

Following the dissolution of her marriage to Francovich in 1986, she became associated with and later married painter, poster and printmaker, KPFA Radio public events producer, and co-founder of Black Oak Books, Bob Baldock— one of only two North Americans who went from the mainland in March, 1958, to join Fidel Castro’s own 26th of July Group as a combatant in the Sierra Maestra of Cuba.

Luis Andres Vargas Gomez

He was allowed to rejoin his wife in exile when civil rights activist Jesse Jackson convinced Fidel Castro to release Vargas and 25 other political prisoners on June 28, 1984.

Matheus de Castro

Bishop de Castro was held in great esteem at the courts of the Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan and other rulers of India, including those of the Kingdom of Bijapur who belonged to the Adil Shahi dynasty, which ruled Goa prior to the Portuguese.

Montalto Di Castro Airfield

Montalto Di Castro Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, located approximately 16 km southwest of Canino, in the province of Viterbo (northern Lazio) in the internal part of Maremma Laziale, 90 km north-northwest of Rome.

Monte Castro

The barrios most important sports club is All Boys which was founded in 1913 in the nearby neighborhood of Floresta, later moving to Monte Castro in 1924.

Montería

According to Castro's book, Montería was founded on May 1, 1777 by Spanish officer Antonio de la Torre y Miranda, being governor of the Province of Cartagena officer Juan de Torrezar Díaz Pimienta.

National Revolutionary Militias

The graduation of the University Militia in January 1960 was done with an ascent up Pico Turquino, where they were joined by Fidel Castro, Celia Sánchez and other revolutionary leaders.

Personal Genetics Education Project

pgEd is working with Sandra de Castro Buffington and Hollywood, Health & Society at the Norman Lear Center, University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication, to advance awareness about personal genetics through television.

Prensa Latina

In a speech by Fidel Castro in Santiago de Cuba in 1959, Castro denounced the United States media and instead favoured a Latin American service "written in our own language".

Qué perra vida

Arturo Castro 'Bigotón' as Abarrotero (as Arturo 'Bigotón' Castro)

Raúl Castro

On 10 December 2013, Castro, in a significant moment shook hands and greeted American President Barack Obama at the Nelson Mandela memorial service in Johannesburg.

Roberto Castro

On May 9, 2013, Castro shot a 63 on the opening day of The Players Championship to equal the course record set by Fred Couples (1992) and Greg Norman (1994).

Seumas Milne

Milne described the restoration of the sight of Mario Terán, the former Bolivian sergeant who killed Che Guevara, by Cuban doctors "paid for by revolutionary Venezuela in the radicalised Bolivia of Evo Morales", one of "1.4 million free eye operations carried out by Cuban doctors in 33 countries across Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa", as "an emblem both of the humanity of Fidel Castro and Guevara's legacy" and the transformation of Latin America.

Soleto

In the 13th century the Angevine rules of Naples chose the city a capital of a county, ruled by the di Castro, Del Balzo, Orsini, Campofregoso, Castriota and Sanseverino, Carafa and Gallarati-Scotti families, until feudalism was abrogated in 1806.

The Lyricist Lounge Show

MTV's The Lyricist Lounge Show had its roots in New York City's "Lyricist Lounge", a hip hop show case founded by Danny Castro and Anthony Marshall, which featured up and coming musical artists, many of whom have gone on to huge success, including Sean Combs, Notorious B.I.G, and Eminem.

The Treasure of Pancho Villa

During the Mexican Civil War of 1913, mercenary Tom Bryan (Rory Calhoun) and his Lewis machine gun he names ("La Cucaracha") joins a band of revolutionaries headed by Colonel Juan Castro (Gilbert Roland).

Zamoyska

Countess Maria Carolina Zamoyska (born 1896), the wife of Prince Ranieri, Duke of Castro


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