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3 unusual facts about Cortés


José Luis de Oriol y Urigüen

Almost simultaneously Oriol tried his luck in politics and ran on the maurist ticket to the Cortes; he was elected in 1918 from the Baeza district (Jaen province) and joined one of the last Spanish parliaments before the coming of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship.

José Muñoz-Cortes

Jose (Joseph) Muñoz-Cortes (a privately tonsure monk Ambrose; 13 May 1948, Santiago, Chile - 30/31 October 1997, Athens, Greece) was an Orthodox clergyman, the keeper of the Iveron Icon of Montreal.

Víctor Coello

Víctor Arturo Coello Paz (born 29 July 1974 in Villanueva, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Juticalpa in the Honduran Second Division.


Alsedo-class destroyer

On 17 February 1915, the Spanish Cortes (Parliament) passed a navy law authorising a large programme of construction for the Spanish Navy, including three destroyers of British design, the Alsedo class, to be built in Spain at the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN) dockyard at Cartagena.

Anglo-South American Bank

The Commercial Bank traced its ancestry through the Cortés Commercial and Banking Company back to Banco de Nicaragua, founded in Managua in 1888.

Banana production in Honduras

A census of 1899 revealed that northern Honduras had over 1,000 people in the region between Puerto Cortés and La Ceiba (and inland as far as San Pedro Sula) tending bananas, most of them small holders.

Boricua Ahora Es

The Group is represented by their spokesmen Joel Isaac Díaz (free association), Michael González Cruz (independence), Carlos R. Ruiz Cortés (independence) Edwin Pagán (statehood), and led by Ricky Rosselló.

Bruno Romo

The player was one of the key players of the club along with Cortés, Nicolás Canales and Jaime Riveros.

C.D.Olimpia Cortes

Club Deportivo Olimpia Cortes is a Honduran soccer club based on Tocoa, Honduras.

Carlos Echandi

Prior to killing Echandi, Cortés also killed his boss Ricardo Moreno Cañas and would go on to kill one more person and injure two more while escaping from Echandi's house.

Christina of Norway, Infanta of Castile

At Palencia, the Norwegians were officially met by King Alfonso who accompanied them to the city of Valladolid on 3 January 1258, "where she was warmly welcomed by all the townspeople, the nobility, and the clergy who were gathered there for the Cortes".

Cortes Españolas

The Spanish Cortes were not intended as the repository of national sovereignty, since the whole sovereign power was concentrated in the head of state (Caudillo), in the absence of separation of powers.

Édouard Cortès

On November 30, 2000, four paintings by Cortès were recovered in Kalispell, Montana, following an eight-month investigation conducted by the FBI's San Francisco Division.

El Anunciador de Cortés

El Anunciador de Cortés was an independent weekly newspaper published from San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

English Armada

But he was not a charismatic figure, and with his cause compromised by his illegitimacy, he faced an opponent with perhaps the better claim, in the eyes of the Portuguese nobles of the Cortes, Catherine, Duchess of Braganza.

Erasto Cortés Juárez

In 1986, the Puebla state government created the Museo Taller Erasto Cortés to promote the life and work of the artist.

Febo Moniz

At the Cortes of Almeirim, on 11 January 1580, as President of the Deputies of villages and cities, Febo Moniz vigorously impeached the suggestions of Cardinal Henry to consider with calm the pretensions of Philip II of Spain to successor of Sebastian.

Francisca Cortés Picazo

Francisca Cortés Picazo (born 20 May 1955), more commonly known as "La Paca", is a Spanish drug lord, and matriarch of the Romani drug clan known as "La Paca" clan.

Gastón de Peralta, 3rd Marquis of Falces

Some personalities of high position, including some close relatives of Hernán CortésMartín, Don Martín Cortés y de Zuñiga, and Luis (his sons, and half-brothers of each other) — were involved in this plot, which was made known to Peralta while he was still in Veracruz, that is before he had entered Mexico City to take up his office officially.

Gerardo Cortes

Gerardo Cortes, Jr. (born 1959), a Chilean modern pentathlete, and son of Gerardo Cortes, Sr.

Gomara

Francisco López de Gómara, 16th-century Spanish historian and chronicler of the expedition of Hernán Cortés

Henry Dwight Sedgwick

Cortés the Conqueror: The Exploits of the Earliest and Greatest of the Gentleman Adventurers in The New World (1926)

Hernán Cortés

In his letters to King Charles, Cortés claimed to have learned at this point that he was considered by the Aztecs to be either an emissary of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl or Quetzalcoatl himself – a belief which has been contested by a few modern historians.

Honduran Patriotic Front

FPH launched a number of candidates for parliament in the 1981 general election in the departments of Yoro, Cortés and Colón.

Ian Osorio

Ian Braing Osorio Gordon (born 9 August 1985 in Omoa, Cortés, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer who play as striker for Platense.

Ixtlilxochitl

Ixtlilxochitl II, placed on the throne of Texcoco by Hernan Cortés in 1520, and a great-grandson of Ixtlilxochitl I.

Larry Hibbitt

Hibbitt has written with Dinosaur Pile-Up, Katie Sutherland, Hill Valley High, Norma Jean Martine, Sophie Madeleine, Nothing But Thieves, Cortes, RosieMay and Alex Davies, and his production/mixing credits include Million Dead, The Computers, Hundred Reasons, Marmozets, Spirits, Scholars, My Awesome Compilation, Rumble In Rhodos, Capdown, Hill Valley High, Stapleton and Max Raptor.

Lorenzo de Zavala

In 1820, he was elected to public office, and in 1821 was appointed Deputy to the Spanish Cortes (legislature) in Madrid.

Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez

Cortés obtained her undergraduate degree at Hunter College in New York City, and a master's degree at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.

Los Van Van

Past members with successful careers as solo artists include Pedro Calvo, Angel Bonne, Changuito, José Luis "El Tosco" Cortés (founder of the first timba band NG La Banda), Cesar "Pupy" Pedroso and others.

Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque

As soon as the federal Cortes had defeated Castelar, Pavia made his coup d'état of the January 3, 1874, and after the pronunciamiento was absolute master of the situation, but having no personal ambition, he sent for General Serrano to form a government with Sagasta, Martos, Ulloa and other Conservatives and Radicals of the revolution.

On three occasions during the eventful year 1873, as captain-general of Madrid, he offered his services to put an end to the anarchy that was raging in the provinces and to the disorganization prevalent in the Cortes.

Mapy Cortés

During the early 1930s, Cortés decided to look for fame in other places, and she arrived in Mexico, where she met and married the already famous Puerto Rican actor and producer Fernando Cortés who had already adopted Mexican citizenship.

Contrary to popular belief, Cortés was not Mexican; she was Puerto Rican, but she adopted Mexico as her residential country from her youth and almost until she died.

María Estrada

Cortés certainly gave María and her husband an extensive encomienda in this area, based at Tetela del Volcán, with subsidiary units at Nepopozalco and at Hueyapan itself, while Sanchéz Farfán also gained additional estates further to the west.

Michael Vitez

In 1997, Vitez, along with Inquirer photographers April Saul and Ron Cortes, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles he wrote on end-of-life care, telling the stories of terminally ill patients who wished to die with dignity.

Nuño de Guzmán

Hoping to establish a more orderly government, to reduce the authority of Cortés, and secure the authority of the Spanish crown in the New World, on December 13, 1527 the metropolitan government of Charles V in Burgos named a Real Audiencia to take over the government of the colony.

Ocarina

Different expeditions to Mesoamerica, including the one conducted by Cortés, resulted in the introduction of the ocarina to the courts of Europe.

Qualpopoca

The province had only recently been added to the Aztec Empire through conquest, and when Hernán Cortés arrived in the region (now the Mexican state of Veracruz) in 1520, one of his first acts was to overthrow Aztec dominon by seizing Aztec tribute collectors in the town of Quiahuiztlan and only returning them after a personal request from the Aztec Emperor.

Rafael García Cortés

With the Merengues García Cortés competed in the 1980–81 European Cup, appearing in four matches and starting in three: in the final against Liverpool, his 82nd-minute mistake whilst attempting a clearance enabled Alan Kennedy to score the game's only goal in Brussels.

Roberto Carlos Cortés

Cortés played most of his career to date with Independiente Medellín where he was part of the Championship winning team in 2002-II.

Roberto Carlos Cortés Restrepo (born June 20, 1977 in Medellín) is a Colombian footballer who plays defender who currently plays for Independiente Medellín.

Rodrigo Cortés

As of September 2012, Cortés most recent film is Red Lights, a film that features performances from Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of León

Archbishop Cortés Contreras was born in La Luz in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zamora on July 16, 1947.

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest


The design shows a photo reproduction of two portions of the late 17thC painting El encuentro de Cortés y Moctezuma, attributed to Juan Correa, held in the collection of the Banco de México

Spanish general election, 1993

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party under Felipe González achieved the largest number of votes and seats for the fourth consecutive time, though it lost its absolute majority in both chambers of the Cortes.

Tandag

Some jeepneys bound for Surigao City, Cantilan, Cortes, Tago, San Miguel, and nearby municipalities and barangays can be found at Moonglow Public Market.

The municipality of Tandag is located between the coordinates of 9.0833° N, 126.2000° E. It is bounded on the north by the municipalities of Cortes and Lanuza, on the west and south by the municipality of Tago, and, on the east by the Pacific Ocean.

Trujillo, Colón

When Olid began using the town as his base for establishing his own realm in Central America, Cortés sent Francisco de las Casas to remove him.

Vineeta Rishi

Rishi played Dona Marina (La Malinche) in BBC2's film "Cortes" which aired in March 2008.


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