X-Nico

unusual facts about Granada, Tooting



Adictos Al Ruido Versión UK

Most of the interviews take place at pubs or venues of Liverpool, but also there are a few interviews that have been recorded in Manchester (with The Buzzcocks, The Vaccines and I Am Kloot), Sheffield (Supergrass), London (Los Updates), Paris (Paris Combo) and Granada (Niños Mutantes).

Airén

In 1914, García de los Salmones mentioned the cultivation of Lairén in Madrid, Villacañas (Toledo), Tarancón (Cuenca), Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Frejenal de la Sierra (Badajoz), Montefrío (Granada), Baeza (Jaén), Coin (Málaga), Fiñana (Almería), Cazalla de la Sierra (Sevilla), Espera (Cádiz) and Córdoba.

Albayzín

El Albayzín (also Albaicín or El Albaicín) is a district of present day Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, that retains the narrow winding streets of its Medieval Moorish past.

Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos

Henry's successor, Isabella and her husband Ferdinand used the Alcázar for one of the first permanent tribunals of the Spanish Inquisition and as a headquarters for their campaign against the Nasrid dynasty in Granada, the last remaining Moorish kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula.

Ángel Barrios

Ángel Barrios (Granada, 1882–Madrid, 1964) was a Spanish composer and concert guitarist.

Antonio Mira de Amescua

Antonio Mira de Amescua (1578? – 1636?), Spanish dramatist, was born at Guadix (Granada) about 1578.

Arturo Alonso

Arturo Alonso was born on September 18, 1972 in the city of Granada, son of Francis, a bank employee of Castilian origin and son of Estrella Crypto-jewish or Crypto-Judaism descent.

Benito Salas

Benito Salas Vargas (died 1816), Colombian patriot who fought in the Spanish reconquest of New Granada

Border of Granada

Those ballads poeticize some historical events, like the capture of significant cities of the kingdom (Antequera, Álora, Alhama, etc.) which constitute the prelude to the Capture of Granada.

Brian B. Thompson

Brian co-created the regional soap Quayside (Director Tom Hopper) for Tyne Tees TV and worked on the first series of Revelations for Granada (Producer, Tony Wood).

Cabra, Spain

Mio Cid, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, conquered King Zirí Abd'Allah of Granada in the Battle of Cabra, and in his castle mesó from the beards to García Ordóñez, origin of Leader Sang of Mio.

Costa de Almería

Poniente Almeriense is in the southwest of the province, adjacent to the province of Granada, and includes the coastal municipalities of Adra, Berja, El Ejido (including Almerimar), Roquetas de Mar, and Enix.

Diego Bermúdez

He had long since retired from performing, due to an injury, when the Concurso de Cante Jondo was scheduled to be held in Granada during June 1922.

Dragon Festival

The Dragon Festival is a Spanish free festival which ran from 1997 to 2009, held at Los Cigarrones on the riverbed of the Rio Guadalfeo, 2 km to the south of Órgiva, and from 2010 at Santa Fé, Granada, Spain, during the month of March, and culminating on the weekend nearest the March equinox.

Eduardo Alonso Colmenares

Born in Corella on October 13 1820, after qualifying in law in Madrid he practised law there and in Pamplona after which he became a judge and public prosecutor in the Courts of Seville, Barcelona and Granada until in 1859 when he moved to the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean.

Eliot Fisk

In 1996 he appeared in a command performance in the Palacio de los Cordova in Granada, Spain, for then U.S. President Bill Clinton and King Juan Carlos and their families.

Federico Mompou

Kenneth MacMillan's ballet La Casa de los Pájaros (The House of Birds), set to orchestrations by John Lanchbery of various piano pieces by Mompou, was premiered at Sadler's Wells in London in 1955, and was also staged at the 4th Festival de Música y Danza at Granada.

Ford Lio Ho

It began operations in 1972, assembling Ford models like the Cortina, Escort, and Granada.

Granadan school of sculpture

Gothic sculptures were brought to Granada in the era of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella.

Human trafficking in Nicaragua

Managua, Granada, Estelí, and San Juan del Sur are destinations for foreign child sex tourists from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, and some travel agencies are reportedly complicit in promoting child sex tourism.

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.

Inés Marful

She is the author of Lorca y sus dobles Lorca and his doubles, an essay that has been described a "the definitive work on the poet from Granada".

Jenő Kalmár

Kocsis scored twice for Barça while the Granada CF goal was scored by Arsenio Iglesias.

José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios

He married Bárbara Rosa de Pomar y Villegas in 1711 in Granada, Nicaragua.

Juan de Anchieta

He held various church benefices, from 1518 as Abbot of Arbós, town located at the province of Tarragona, as a chaplain at Granada Cathedral, spending his final years in a Franciscan convent he had founded in Azpeitia.

Juan Latino

His poem Austrias Carmen, was dedicated by to John of Austria after his victory over the Morisco insurrection in Granada, known as the War of the Alpujarras (1568–1572).

Julian Owusu-Bekoe

Julian Owusu-Bekoe (born 10 May 1989 in Tooting) is an English-born Ghanaian football player who plays for Hayes & Yeading United in the Conference National.

Ketama

Each of the three come from great flamenco dynasties: the Heredias of Madrid, the Habichuelas of Granada and the Carmonas of Jerez.

Laurence Bassini

In June 2012, 13 months after he bought the club, Bassini sold Watford Football Club to Giampaolo Pozzo, owner of Udinese and Granada.

Luis del Mármol Carvajal

There is a cheap facsimile edition of another contemporary book in which he polemized with the author, albeit it was no printed at the time of the morisco´s war in the Alpujarra by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: GUERRA DE GRANADA (FACSIMIL, edition of 1842), de HURTADO DE MENDOZA, DIEGO , 15.0x21.0 cm , 215 pages , softcover, ISBN 978-84-9761-157-2

Luis García Montero

Luis García Montero (Granada, 4 December 1958) is a Spanish poet and literary critic, as well as a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.

Mega City Four

It was announced on 7 December 2006 that Wiz had died at St George's Hospital, Tooting, South London from a blood clot on the brain on 6 December.

Merkur

Only two models were sold under the Merkur badge: a performance-oriented three-door hatchback version of the Ford Sierra XR4i called the Merkur XR4Ti and nicknamed Merkur XR (1985–1989), and the Merkur Scorpio (1988–1989), which was an American version of the Ford Scorpio Mark I (Scorpio being the top trim level for the Mk III Granada in the UK) 5-door hatchback.

Merton Park tram stop

It overlaps part of the site of the former Merton Park railway station which was served by passenger trains on the West Croydon to Wimbledon Line until 1997, and by trains via Tooting Junction on the Merton Abbey Branch until 1929.

Michael Grigsby

Along with a bunch of disaffected Granada colleagues, he set up a filmmaking collective, Unit Five Seven, and spent several years shooting and editing Enginemen, a short film about work in a locomotive shed, in his spare time.

Neil Buchanan

He also presented Animal Crazy with co-host Jenny Powell for two series between 1994 and 1995, the show was produced by the Media Merchants for Granada Television, and It's a Mystery alongside Sophie Aldred, from 1996 to 1999.

Odion Ighalo

Ighalo continued playing with Granada in the following years, still owned by the Udine side.

Pablo Antonio Cuadra

In 1931 Cuadra, along with José Coronel Urtecho, Joaquín Pasos, and other writers, founded the Vanguardia literary movement in Granada.

Raúl Reyes

Reyes was killed during a Colombian military operation in Granada, Putumayo Department, on March 1, 2008, against an encampment situated near Santa Rosa de Sucumbíos, on the Ecuadorian side of the border along the Putumayo River.

Rocco Forte

In the mid-1990s, the Forte Group was faced with a hostile takeover bid from Gerry Robinson's Granada.

Sam Toy

Toy also led Ford UK through the difficult introduction of the Sierra in 1982, the MK3 Granada and the Orion.

Santikos Theatres

Located in the Potranco-1604 intersection in West San Antonio, the Granada 16 will be built in a style that alludes to the Spanish city of Granada and will feature retail shops and a restaurant.

Simón de Roxas Clemente y Rubio

For almost two years he travelled about the Granada, Jeréz de la Frontera and Sanlúcar areas collecting samples of wild and cultivated plants, observing agricultural practices, noting soil characteristics, micro-climates, and the adaptation of the flora to their natural environment.

Sir Degrevant

Degrevant hurries back from Granada, repairs the fences and the other damage done, then addresses a letter to the earl seeking legal redress.

Stoyan Kolev

He made his debut for Plamen Markov's Bulgaria in a friendly against Spain on 20 November 2002, when he was a CSKA Sofia player, coming on as a second half substitute during 0–1 defeat at Los Cármenes in Granada.

The Conquest of Granada

Furthermore, Henry Fielding, in Tragedy of Tragedies, or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (1730) also takes aim at the silliness of some of The Conquest of Granada. The build up of the lofty aims of the "Preface" to the play seem mismatched to the performance of the play.

The Last Detective

Granada, the company that made the programme, has stated that the fourth series was the last.

Tooting Priory

Tooting Priory or Tooting Bec Priory was a priory in Tooting, now in the London Borough of Wandsworth.


see also