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unusual facts about La Peña


Samuel Ford Whittingham

Whittingham served in command of a force of Spanish cavalry and infantry under La Peña at the battle of Barrosa, on 5 March 1811, and kept in check a French corps of cavalry and infantry which attempted to turn the Barossa heights by the seaward side.


Pedro González Llamas

Establishing his headquarters there, he was joined shortly afterwards by La Peña's 10,000 men and, on 17 October, by Castaños.


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Adam de la Peña

In 2003, de La Peña created and co-starred in a reality show, Comedy Central's I'm with Busey, in which he documented days in the life of his childhood idol, actor Gary Busey.

Cafetería Rolando bombing

Leftists known to be sympathetic to ETA were arrested, including Eva Forest, wife of the Communist playwright Alfonso Sastre, Mari Luz Fernandez and her relatives, Lidia Falcón, the theatre director Vicente Sainz de la Peña, a construction worker Antonio Durán, a pilot Bernardo Badell and his wife María del Carmen Nadal, the actress María Paz Ballesteros, and the writer Eliseo Bayo.

Eduardo de la Peña

Born in Minas, De la Peña began playing professional football with Club Nacional de Football in 1976.

First Baptist Church of Manila

Providentially, the AFBCP became a member of the International Council of Christian Churches and was frequently represented by Pastor Antonio Ormeo and Pastor Epifanio de la Pena in the early days of their involvement with the AFBCP and the ABWE.

Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza

In 1037 Gonzalo was reunited with his brothers García and Ramiro—and the churchmen Sancho, Bishop of Pamplona; Paterno, a Cluniac reformer; and Abbot Blasco of San Juan de la Peña—to confirm a donation of Jimeno Garcés, Ramiro's godfather, to the monastery of Leire.

Gualberto Fabricio de Vagad

For the work Vagad consulted the archives of San Juan de la Peña, San Victorián, Poblet, Montearagón, and Barcelona among other archives of the Crown of Aragon.

Jason de la Peña

After the end of his cricketing career, de la Peña became a news presenter on Sky News, following previous stints at France 24 and Russia Today.

San Miguel de Salinas

The area has always been connected to the Orihuela district but in 1836 the town's urban area was separated from it and in 1955 the municipal boundary was extended into the country to form an imaginary triangle between the Pedrera Reservoir, the Torrevieja lagoon and La Peña del Águila.