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2 unusual facts about Cervantes


Cervantite

It was first described in 1850 for an occurrence in Cervantes, Sierra de Ancares, Lugo, Galicia, Spain, and named for the locality.

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It was only 2008 when the station was converted to an originating GMA station in Pangasinan, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Aurora, Zambales, Benguet, La Union, Ifugao, Mountain Province and Northern Parts of Ilocos Sur are Tagudin, Suyo, Alilem, Sugpon and Cervantes.


Albert Dubout

Dubout continued on to illustrate numerous editions of books by Boileau, Beaumarchais, Mérimée, Rabelais, Villon, Cervantes, Balzac, Racine, Voltaire, Rostand, Poe, and Courteline.

Alcatraz Library

Other authors include Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Washington Irving, Zane Grey, Hamilton Garland, Alexandre Dumas, Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Cervantes and magazines such as Adventure to Time, Better Homes and Gardens and Library Digest.

Almirante Cervera-class cruiser

Miguel de Cervantes (named after poet Miguel de Cervantes) was also part the Republican fleet during the civil war and was torpedoed by the nationalist submarine General Mola in 1936.

Antonio Saura

Starting in 1959 he began creating a prolific body of works in print, illustrating numerous books including Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nöstlinger’s adaptation of Pinocchio, Kafka’s Tagebücher, Quevedo’s Three Visions, and many others.

Argamasilla de Alba

Cervantes was held prisoner here and refers to the place in the prologue to Don Quixote.

Australind, Western Australia

The name Australind is a combination of Australia and India, which was chosen due to the belief that the area could be used for breeding horses for the British Indian Army, as was later achieved in Cervantes, Northampton and Madura.

Cervantes de Leon

Cervantes' father was a privateer sent on a special mission from Spanish King Philip II to loot ships, but was killed and his ship destroyed by an English warship.

Consuegra

Most Spanish windmills, like those described in Cervantes's Don Quixote, can be found in the province of Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain.

Denis Kozhukhin

Upon graduating, he received his diploma personally from Queen Sofía of Spain and was named best student in his year and twice best chamber group with his own Cervantes Trio.

El Provencio

It has kept much of its medieval heritage and is on the newly planted trail that marks the route followed by the character Don Quixote in the Cervantes novel by the same name.

El Toboso

The town also appears in Graham Greene's tribute Monsignor Quixote, where the heroes are a priest (supposedly a descendant of Cervantes's character), and the recently deposed Communist mayor of the town in the post-Franco era.

Frederick A. de Armas

This study focuses on Cervantes’ most famous tragedy, La Numancia, showing how it is engaged in a conversation with classical authors of Greece and Rome, especially through the interpretations of antiquity presented by the artist Raphael.

I, Don Quixote

I, Don Quixote starred, in addition to Cobb, Colleen Dewhurst (in her first major role) as Aldonza/Dulcinea, Eli Wallach as Cervantes' Manservant as well as Sancho Panza, and Hurd Hatfield as Sanson Carrasco as well as a character called The Duke.

Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems

Since November 2003 BIFI is located at Edificio Cervantes in the Corona de Aragón street of the city of Zaragoza (Spain).

Iván Cervantes

Iván Cervantes Montero (Born 2 May 1982) is a Spanish motorcycle enduro racer from Cambrils (Tarragona).

Jabez Hughes

and several novels from the Spanish of Cervantes, which were published anonymously in Samuel Croxall's 'Select Collection of Novels and Histories' (second edition, London, 1729, six vols.)

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis was included on American literary critic Harold Bloom's list of the greatest 100 geniuses of literature, alongside writers such as Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes.

Jorge Cervantes

He wrote a monthly question-and-answer column, Jorge's Rx, from 2000 to 2010 located in High Times magazine's cultivation section, Cervantes provides his solutions to growers problems.

José Pablo Moncayo

Among these are works like Amatzinac for flute and string quartet (1935); his Symphony (1944); Sinfonietta (1945); Homenaje a Cervantes for two oboes and string orchestra (1947); his opera La Mulata de Córdoba (1948); Tierra de Temporal (1949); Muros Verdes for piano solo (1951); Bosques (1954); and the ballet Tierra (1958).

Juan de Espinosa Medrano

To support his arguments, Espinosa Medrano refers to, among others, Apuleius, Augustine of Hippo, the Bible, Camoens, Cervantes, Erasmus, Faria, Garcilaso, Homer, Lope de Vega, and Pedro de Oña.

La Gitanilla

La Gitanilla, a short story contained in Miguel de Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares (The Exemplary Novels)

Leo Allen

Halfway into that endeavor, he cited as favorites The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Don Quixote by Cervantes and anything by Octavia Butler.

Lily Medrano

Lily Medrano/Cervantes is a fictional and main- character of Sine Novela's ninth installment's Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan created by Danny Zialcita, Viva Films and GMA Network.

Lorna Dee Cervantes

#Love, Hunger, and Grace: Loss and Belonging in the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes and Joy Harjo.

#Bernice Zamora y Lorna Dee Cervantes: Una estética feminista By: Bruce-Novoa; Revista Iberoamericana, 1985 July-Dec.

#Divided Loyalties: Literal and Literary in the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cathy Song and Rita Dove By: Wallace, Patricia; MELUS, 1993 Fall; 18 (3): 3-19.

Maarten Krabbé

In the war years of 1940 -1945, the now famous series of etchings was created on the subject of Cervantes'sDon Quixote.

Marie Bracquemond

She later left Ingres' studio and began receiving commissions for her work, including one from the court of Empress Eugenie for a painting of Cervantes in prison.

Miguel de Cervantes

Although the portrait of Cervantes attributed to Juan de Jáuregui is perhaps the one most associated with the author, the fact is that there is no known portrait that can be considered a true likeness.

Miguel de Cervantes European University

Miguel de Cervantes European University (UEMC) is a private university located in Valladolid, Castilla y León (Spain).

Miguel de Cervantes Health Care Centre

Miguel de Cervantes Health Care Centre (Miguel de Cervantes H.C.C.) is a building located at Alcalá de Henares (Madrid - Spain), which belongs to the Health Service of Madrid and it is assigned to direct public health care attention.

Quichotte

Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse - comic ballet composed by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, based on the novel by Cervantes.

Don Quixote - novel written by 17th Century Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Suspicious Cheese Lords

Cervantes composed a setting of "The Prayer of St. Francis" which the Lords performed for Pope Benedict XVI on April 17, 2008, during an inter-religious meeting at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington.

The Adventures of Roderick Random

In the preface, Smollett acknowledges the connections of his novel to the two satirical picaresque works he translated into English: CervantesDon Quixote (1605–15) and Alain-René Lesage’s Gil Blas (1715–47)

The Eternal Quest

The Eternal Quest (U.S. title Tilting at Windmills; subtitle A Novel of Cervantes and the Errant Knight) is a novel published in 2003.

The Iliad or the Poem of Force

But since the Gospels Weil finds that very few authors have begun to approach this sense of universal compassion, though she picks out Shakespeare, Villon, Molière, Cervantes and Racine as coming nearer than most in some of their work.

The Inchcape Rock

In his 1947 English translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, J. M. Cohen refers to "The Inchcape Rock" as having a style he wishes to avoid in his rendering of the ballads by Cervantes.

Vicente Cervantes

Don Vicente Cervantes was a contemporary of Martín Sessé y Lacasta and corresponded with Jean-Louis Berlandier, the French naturalist who botanized in Mexico and Texas as part of the Mexican Boundary Commission.

Zoraida Gómez

The name "Zoraida" originates from Don Quixote by Cervantes, where it is the name of a beautiful Moorish woman from Algiers who converts to Christianity and elopes with a Spanish officer.


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