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58 unusual facts about León


Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez

Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez (Montebourg 1844- 1922) was a French bishop of Dijon, from 1898, who was at the centre of a controversy leading to the 1905 separation in France of the Catholic Church and the state.

Under Rampolla's successor, Rafael Merry del Val, Le Nordez was in 1904 summoned to Rome, to consult with the new Pope Pius X.

Andrew B. Dickinson

He died in León, Nicaragua from complications after a fall from a mule, and was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery (Elmira, New York).

Andrew Bray Dickinson (August 29, 1801 Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey – April 21, 1873 León, Nicaragua) was an American politician from New York.

Battle of St Pol de Léon

Here Blois, who had led the fastest elements of his army north in a surprise march, ambushed Dagworth and his 180-man bodyguard at the isolated village of Saint-Pol-de-Léon.

Cándido Fabré

Candido and his band have toured all over the world and shared the stage with other Latin musicians including Grupo Niche, Cuco Valoy, Wilfrido Vargas, and Oscar D'León.

Cándido Ramírez

Cándido Saul Ramírez Montes (born June 5, 1993 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican footballer.

Casa de los Botines

The Casa de los Botines (built 1892-1893) is a Modernist building in León, Spain designed by Antoni Gaudí.

E. W. Bullinger

Dr. Bullinger tells how that in one vear no less than five thousand were so transformed by the then Bishop of St. Pol de Leon.

EOS International

To date, EOS has implemented their core technologies in rural villages across nine of Nicaragua’s 17 departments and their target area is the municipality of El Sauce, located in the department of Leon.

Fanny Cerrito

Born in Naples, she studied under Carlo Blasis and the French choreographers Jules Perrot and Arthur Saint-Léon, the latter of whom was her husband from 1845–51.

HIV/AIDS in Mexico

In León, Guanajuato, researchers found that seven out of 10 people in the study had lost their jobs because of their HIV status.

Javier Fuentes-León

In the following years, Fuentes-León worked as the lead writer for reality TV shows at the Telemundo in the U.S., subtitled films from major Hollywood studios into Spanish, and worked as an editor of commercials and TV shows, including Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels for the Food Network, while focusing on his own writing and directing projects.

Javier Fuentes-León is a Peruvian film director based in Los Angeles and best known for his directorial long-feature debut Undertow (Spanish title Contracorriente) that starred Cristian Mercado as Miguel, a fisherman who is torn between his love for his pregnant wife Mariela played by Tatiana Astengo and a painter artist Santiago played by Manolo Cardona.

Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet

Jean-Gilles du Coëtlosquet (15 September 1700, Saint-Pol-de-Léon – 21 March 1784, Paris) was a French ecclesiastic, bishop of Limoges and preceptor to the grandchildren of Louis XV.

José Luis Zertuche

José Luis Zertuche Chávez (born May 7, 1973 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico) is a Mexican boxer in the Middleweight division.

José María Silva

In spite of his refusals, he attended the assembly in León, Nicaragua.

José Ulises Macías Salcedo

José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo, was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, on October 29, 1940.

Josefina Aldecoa

Josefina Aldecoa, originally known as Josefa Rodriguez Alvarez (8 March 1926–16 March 2011), was a Spanish writer who was born in León.

Juan Guas

Born in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, he moved to Spain when he was young, and is often thought to have been Spanish.

Juan Rafael Méndez

Juan Rafael Méndez Zúñiga (born 5 September 1985 in León) is a Mexican football Defender.

La Castañeda

La Castañeda are a Mexican rock group originally from México City, formed in 1989 by Salvador Moreno, Edmundo Ortega, Alberto Rosas, Omar D'León, Oswaldo D'León and Juan Blendl.

Léon-Albert Arnaud

Arnaud was the first scientist to describe the chemical make-up of tariric acid, an extraction from the glucoside of the "tariri plant" found in Guatemala.

Léon-Eugène Méhédin

In 1865, he photographed the ruins of Xochicalco for the Scientific Commission of Mexico in Paris.

Leon, New York

The name is derived from the former Kingdom of León in Spain, though it is pronounced like the American first name, "Lee-on".

León, Nicaragua

In the 18th century the present Church of la Merced was erected with drawings attributed to Mercedario Friar Pedro de Ávila and conducted by master builder Pascual Somarriba.

Navas also sculpted the statues of the Twelve Apostles inside, along with the columns of the central nave, and the lion at the tomb of Dario, which resembles the Lion of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (1st term: 1967–1972, 2nd term: 1974–1979); overthrown by the Sandinistas.

Several cannons were placed on the roof both during the siege of the city by conservative forces in 1824 and during the Revolution of 1979 against dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

Other illustrious figures buried at Leon's cathedral are poets Salomón de la Selva and Alfonso Cortés, father of independence Miguel Larreynaga, classical composer and musician José de la Cruz Mena, and several bishops.

Salomón de la Selva, poet, writer, diplomatic, translated W Whitman to Spanish (1893–1959).

Leon's

On November 11, 2012, Leon's has announced plans to acquire competing furniture chain The Brick for $700 million.

Linux Tour

The first edition of the Linux Tour 2007 had a total of eight events in the cities of Managua and León.

Lucid Dreams 0096

The example dreams included are often from well-known or notable people, including Oliver Fox, Ernst Mach and Marie-Jean-Léon, Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denys.

Luigi Astolfi

He was composer and choreographer of La Encantadora de Madrid, successfully performed in the season 1845–46 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, starring Fanny Cerrito and Arthur Saint-Léon.

Astolfi wrote more than fifty works, many of which were performed by the most famous dancers of the time, including Nicola Molinari, Emanuele Viotti, Domenico Ronzani, Fanny Cerrito, and Arthur Saint-Léon.

Marco Parra

Marco Antonio Parra Téllez (born January 22, 1985 in León, Guanajuato) is a Mexican footballer who currently plays for CF La Piedad of the Liga de Ascenso.

Maxime Masson

At the beginning of his priesthood, Maxime Masson was vicar of the parish of Saint-Justin (1894–1899), at Saint-Léon (1902), at Saint-Timothée of Hérouxville (1902–1903), before being assigned as pastor to Sainte-Thècle, on February 6, 1903.

National Synarchist Union

The group's date of formation, 23 May, was celebrated annually in León, Guanajuato by the membership.

The Civic Union of León, one such local party active in the mid-1940s, was dominated by a cadre of synarchists in the leadership positions.

Olive Garden

Currently there are four restaurants in Mexico City and one in Leon, Guanajuato.

Omar D'León

His early inspiration were the frescos of Pompeii, where he saw the use of cross-hatching and applied this technique to his love of the Impressionist school.

Omar Monjaraz

Born in León, Guanajuato, Monjaraz began playing football with local side Club León.

Painesville, Ohio

New residents were primarily immigrants from León, Guanajuato, the ninth-largest metropolitan region in Mexico.

Paul Aurelian

He went to Brittany, establishing monasteries in Finistère at Ouessant on the north-west coast of Brittany, at Lampaul on the island of Ushant, on the island of Batz and at Ocsimor, now the city of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, where he is said to have founded a monastery in an abandoned fort.

Pedro de los Ríos y Gutiérrez de Aguayo

However, the governor of Honduras Diego López de Salcedo y Rodríguez soon arrived in León, Nicaragua, and obliged Ríos to abandon the post and return to Castilla del Oro.

Peter Merry

His retired parents are serving in ministry in a church in Leon, Mexico.

Rhonda Aldrich

She grew up in Leon, Kansas where she did ballet and drama lessons at a children's theatre in Wichita and graduated from Wichita State University with a bachelor of arts in theatre then graduated from Ohio University with a master of fine arts in acting.

Robert Manzanarez

On August 27, 2011 Manzanárez knocked out the veteran Édgar Martínez at the Centro de Espectaculos de la Feria de León in León, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Quimper

Originally established in the 5th century, the diocese was restored by the Concordat of 1801, as the combination of the dioceses of Quimper, Saint-Pol-de-Léon and Tréguier in Brittany, France.

Saint-Pol-de-Léon Cathedral

Paul Aurelian Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Paul-Aurélien) is a former Roman Catholic cathedral in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, in Brittany (France).

It was formerly the seat of the Bishop of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, a bishopric established in the 6th century and abolished under the Concordat of 1801, when its territory was transferred to the Diocese of Quimper.

Tito Antuñano

Adolfo "Tito" Antuñano Morán (Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico September 27, 1948 - León, Guanajuato, Mexico January 8, 1987) was a former World Championship water skier.

Vallecillo

Vallecillo, town in the province of León, Castile y León, Spain

Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon (5 June 1818, Padua – 8 April 1897, Milan) was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogamic flora.

William Kyd

In 1436, sailing into the harbor of Saint-Pol-de-Léon in Brittany with eight barges and balingers, he sailed off with the Seynt Nunne which was under safe-conduct by local authorities.

William the Breton

William the Breton was, as his name indicates born in Brittany, probably in the town of Saint-Pol-de-Léon.

Zainab Hameed

This Year IDEA Karl Popper Debate Championship was held from 2 Jul 2012 - 6 Jul 2012 in León, Guanajuato Mexico.


A Million to Juan

Performers include: Celia Cruz, Marc Anthony, Aramis Camilo, Marcos Loya, Carla De Leon, John Pena, and others.

Azcárate O-E-1

On 30 September 1928, pilot Gustavo León and Subteniente and mechanic Ricardo González set out on an aerial circumnavigation of Mexico in an O-E-1.

Canton of Marseille-Les Cinq-Avenues

It is composed of the part of the 1st arrondissement of Marseille situated east of an imaginary line defined by following boulevard Maurice-Bourdet (from the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille), place des Marseillaises, boulevard d'Athènes, allée Léon-Gambetta, boulevard de la Libération-Général-de-Monsabert (until the 4th arrondissement of Marseille).

City of the Gods: Forgotten

The trade paperback edition has over 80 illustrations, many by notable artists Gustave Doré, Lord Frederick Leighton, Léon François Commerre, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Arthur Hughes, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Ingres, Diego Velázquez, William Bouguereau, Botticelli, John William Waterhouse, and others of the 16th-18th centuries.

Comunero

Villalar de los Comuneros, a small town in Castile and León where the Battle of Villalar took place.

Fernando Ansúrez I

According to Sampiro, Fernando ("Fredenandi Ansuri filius") was one of the counts of the region of Burgos, the chief city of Castile—the others being Nuño Fernández, Abolmondar Albo, and Diego Rodríguez—who were captured by Ordoño II on the river Carrión in the place called Tebulare or Tegulare ("Tejar" or "Tejares" in Spanish, as yet unidentified) and imprisoned them in León.

Galina Talva

In 1953, she married Leon Volkov, a Soviet Russian Air Force colonel who defected to the US, and thereafter did little or no stage work.

Gene St. Leon

On February 7, 1976, St. Leon rode Toonerville to a world record time of 1:51 2/5 for one and three sixteenth miles on turf in winning the second division of the Bougainvillea Handicap at Hialeah Park Race Track.

Ghironda Festival

Over the years, the festival hosted famous artists as Billy Cobham, Angelique Kidjo, Incognito, Marlene Kuntz, Max Gazzè, Maurizio Nazzaro, Naïf, La Fame di Camilla, Sisters & Daughters of Praise, Earth, Wind & Fire, Pacifico, Lura, Rachelle Ferrell, Dobet Gnahorè, Oscar D'León.

Isaac ben Samuel of Acre

When Isaac met Moses of Leon at Valladolid, the latter took an oath that he had a copy of the Zohar written by Shimon bar Yochai himself in his house at Ávila.

Jack Rhodes

Leon Payne (Rhodes' step-brother) wrote "I Love You Because", which has been covered by — among others — Elvis Presley (Elvis Presley LP, 1956), Al Martino (Billboard Hot 100 #3, 1963), Jim Reeves (UK Singles Chart #5, 1964), Johnny Cash, Matt Monro and Slim Whitman.

John Tranter

He is married to Lyn, with adult children Kirsten and Leon, and in 2009 completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts University of Wollongong (conferred, highly commended).

Jorge Llames

Jorge León Llames Gutiérrez (born October 17, 1978 in Piedras Blancas, Asturias) is a Spanish sport shooter.

Juan Núñez III de Lara

Pedro de Lara (1348–1384), Count of Mayorga, who married Beatriz de Castro, daughter of Álvaro Pérez de Castro and Maria Ponce de Leon, and granddaughter of Pedro Fernández de Castro.

KBTX-TV

KBTX serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Milam, Montgomery, Robertson, Walker and Washington counties, some of which are also in the Houston market, but receive KBTX.

Lady Lee

She appeared in movies like Leon At Tigre (1989) starring Maricel Soriano and Rene Requiestas and The Vizconde Massacre Story (1993) starred Kris Aquino, among others.

Leo III the Isaurian

Leo III the Isaurian also known as the Syrian (Greek: Λέων Γ΄ ὁ Ἴσαυρος, Leōn III ho Isauros), (c. 685 – 18 June 741) was Byzantine Emperor from 717 until his death in 741.

Léon Croizat

Leon Camille Marius Croizat (July 16, 1894 - November 30, 1982) was a French-Italian scholar and botanist who developed a synthesis of evolution of biological form over space, in time, which he named Panbiogeography.

Leon Johnson

Chaino (Leon Johnson, 1927–1999), American bongo player in the exotica genre

Leon Kozłowski

Leon Kozłowski was born in 1892 in the village of Rembieszyce near Małogoszcz.

Leon Lemmens

Leon Lemmens (born March 16, 1954 in Boorsem, Maasmechelen, Belgium) is a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Belgium.

Léon Vaganay

Léon Vaganay (Saint-Étienne, 22 October 1882 - Vernaison, 30 March 1969) was a French Roman Catholic priest and biblical scholar.

Mandak League

It featured such greats as Willie Wells, Leon Day, Ray Dandridge, and Satchel Paige who pitched briefly for the Minot Mallards in 1950.

Manuel Orallo

Manuel Orallo was mayor of Fabero, León, in north-west Spain from 1965 until 1977 and a provincial deputy during the 1960s and 1970s.

Michael Puntervold

Several letters between Leon Trotsky and Michael Puntervold are stored in the Harvard Library.

Norman Stansfield

When Stansfield learns that the holder has been stealing some of the drugs for himself, he and his henchmen gun down the man's entire family, with the exception of 12-year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman), who is able to find refuge with neighbor, and professional hitman, Léon (Jean Reno).

Periclase

In addition to its type locality, it is reported from Predazzo, Tyrol, Austria; Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland; Broadford, Skye and the island of Muck, Scotland; León, Spain; the Bellerberg volcano, Eifel district, Germany; Nordmark and Långban, Varmland, Sweden; and Kopeysk, southern Ural Mountains, Russia.

Pope John Paul II's visits to Nicaragua

Consequently, the Sandinistas made a tremendous effort to encourage Nicaraguans to attend the two papal masses that were held in León and Managua.

Provincia de El Bierzo

Advocates of a Province of El Bierzo wish also to annex the territories of Valdeorras (currently in the Province of Ourense), plus (from within the province of León) Laciana and the part of La Cabrera that formed a part of the extinct province but is not in the ambit of the present regional council

Ron Forman

Ron Forman (born Leon Ronald Forman, c. 1948) is the head of the Audubon Nature Institute and was one of the leading candidates in the New Orleans mayoral election, 2006.

Rose Art Museum

Sam Hunter, the first director of the Rose Art Museum, came to Brandeis from the Museum of Modern Art, and with a small grant of $50,000 from collectors Leon Mnuchin and his wife, Harriet Gevirtz-Mnuchin, launched a collection with iconic works by Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Willem de Kooning and several others—21 works with a ceiling of $5,000 for any one piece bought with the grant.

RTEMS

RTEMS is also popular for space uses since it supports multiple microprocessors developed for use in space including SPARC, ERC32 and LEON, MIPS Mongoose-V, Coldfire, and PowerPC architectures, which are available in space hardened models.

Samchillian

Currently, Leon continues to play with Vernon Reid, James Blood Ulmer, and leads his own band Genes and Machines with an album scheduled for release in 2011.

Silvio Simac

Simac also played the character Leon in the film DOA: Dead or Alive which is based on the very popular console game.

Simba Chips

In that year, Leon Greyvenstein travelled to a food fair in Germany in search of ideas and met a man called Herman Lay – the co-founder of Frito-Lay, the largest chip company in the world.

Valery Chalidze

The primary translator of Amerikanskie Federalisti was Gregory Freidin of Stanford, with consultation from Leon Lipson of Yale Law School.

Villaquirán

Villaquirán de la Puebla, municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, Spain

Viscounty of Léon

These conflict over authority in Léon continued down to the reign of John II.

ZOE: 2167 IDOLO

Rachel's husband, James, and their children Leon and Noel appear in Z.O.E. Dolores,i.