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unusual facts about Haro, La Rioja



Argentine real

Other provinces issued coins denominated in reales (silver) and escudos (gold): Córdoba, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.

Battle of Cellorigo

The Battles of Cellorigo were two battles that took place over the Castle at Cellorigo, La Rioja, Spain from 882 to 883.

Belén Gache

In 1995, she created the group and website Fin del Mundo (End of the World), along with Gustavo Romano, Carlos Trilnick and Jorge Haro in Buenos Aires where she put online her first interactive poems.

Bernardo de Iturriaza

Bernardo de Iturriaza (1608, Ezcaray, La Rioja, Spain—1678, Lima) was a Spanish judge and colonial official.

Bob Haro

In 1978, Haro teamed up with R. L. Osborn to form the very first freestyle BMX team, which made its debut at ABA's Winternationals in Chandler, AZ.

Chrisstanleyite

First discovered by Dr. Werner Paar from a sample received from Hope’s Nose, Torquay, Devon, England, chrisstanleyite has since been discovered in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and in El Chire, La Rioja, Argentina.

CV Haro

Club Voleibol Haro, also known as Haro Rioja Voley is a Spanish volleyball club from Haro in La Rioja.

Diego López V de Haro

Finally, internal Castilian players such as Diego López V de Haro, Nuño González de Lara, and Juan Núñez II de Lara, amongst others, sowed confusion and anarchy throughout the kingdom.

Dogpatch, San Francisco

After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, the Mexican government granted Potrero Nuevo to Francisco and Ramon de Haro - the 17-year-old twin sons of Don Francisco de Haro, then alcalde (mayor) of Yerba Buena (modern day San Francisco) in 1844.

Dulzaina

The instrument is deeply rooted in the folklore of Burgos, Segovia, Soria, in some areas of Ávila, Madrid, Guadalajara, Cuenca, León and Salamanca, less extended in the Basque Autonomous Community and widely used in Navarre and La Rioja.

Eloy Alfaro

His father was don Manuel Alfaro y González, a Spanish Republican native of Cervera del Río Alhama, La Rioja, Spain who arrived in Ecuador as a political exile; his mother was doña María Natividad Delgado López.

Fernando Caruncho

His style is exemplified in the Marroquin Garden in Ollauri, La Rioja.

Francisco de Haro

De Haro Street, in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, is named after him.

George Henry Williams

Through William's efforts the German Emperor finally chose the Haro Strait as the Northwest boundary between the U.S. and Canada; the U.S. received the San Juan Islands.

Guillermo Haro

Other major research projects carried out by Haro included the list of 8746 blue stars in the direction of the north galactic pole published jointly with W. J. Luyten in 1961.

Haro Strait

An alternate theory about the naming was proposed by Edmond S. Meany, who suggested that Haro Strait was named for Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, Archbishop of Mexico from 1772 to 1800, and, for several months during 1787, Viceroy of New Spain.

Haro, La Rioja

Alfonso VI of León and Castile entrusted the tenencia to Diego López I de Haro after the death of count García Ordóñez and the first of the lords of Biscay to attach the name of this town to his patronymic was Diego's son, Lope Díaz I de Haro.

Historia Roderici

It was found in the late eighteenth century in San Isidoro in León, but was probably originally copied in Castile or La Rioja.

José Luis López de Silanes

José Luis López de Silanes1 (Haro, 1946), Spanish businessman, holds a degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and followed the Management Development Programme at the IESE business school.

Lordship of Biscay

The Lordship of Biscay was in the hands of the Haro family until 1370, when it was inherited, by his maternal side, by John I of Castile, who also inherited by his father's side the Kingdom of Castile.

Los Haro

Los Haro was first settled by Spanish immigrants over 400 years ago, around the same time that the first English settlements were getting started in North America.

Manuel Lozano Garrido

In December 2009 Pope Benedict XVI authorised the recognition of a miracle (attributed to Manuel's intercession) in the cure of two-year-old Rogelio de Haro Sagra in 1972; the child had suffered from multiple organ failure due to Gram-negative sepsis.

María Díaz de Haro

María II Díaz de Haro (1270-1342), Lady of Biscay, daughter of Lope Díaz III de Haro, wife of John of Castile

Martín Zurbano

Born in Varea, La Rioja, the youngest of four siblings, he fought in the War of Spanish Independence as a guerrilla.

Mateo Rosas de Oquendo

Notarial documentation shows him as engaged in the conquest of Tucumán, where he is named Accountant of Royal Finances and founds the city of La Rioja.

Raymond of Fitero

The monastery then moved to Castejón, and was finally established at a spot named Fitero (Castellón de Fitero), situated on the frontier between La Rioja and Navarre.

Spanish basketball league system

1ª División (14 groups, one for each autonomous community except Basque Country, La Rioja, and Navarra, who share the same group, like Valencian Community and Region of Murcia); in Catalonia, known as, Copa Catalunya.

Stilts

The local festivals of Anguiano (La Rioja, Spain) feature a dance on stilts in which dancers go down a stepped street while turning.

Tempranillo blanco

Tempranillo blanco was discovered in 1988 by a wine grower in a Tempranillo vineyard near Murillo de Río Leza in the La Rioja province of northern Spain.

Tennis at the 2011 Island Games – Women's Doubles


Taylor and Whitwell lost in the final 6–7(5–7), 6–2, 4–10 against Amanda Carreras and Lindsay De Haro-Sene.

Teresa de Haro

Teresa Díaz II de Haro (born before 1254), daughter of Diego López III de Haro, wife of Juan Núñez I de Lara, mother of Juan Núñez II de Lara, amongst others.

The Man Who Owed a Death

A man named Héctor Rossi travels to La Rioja and fakes involvement in a bus accident while following a school-teacher, Leonor.


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