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2 unusual facts about Madre


Madre

Madré, a commune in the Mayenne department of northwestern France

Mądre, a village in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland


1640s in South Africa

1643 - The Portuguese ship, Santa Maria Madre de Deus is wrecked off the South African east coast

California State Route 166

This stretch follows the Cuyama River through a canyon separating the Sierra Madre Mountains from mountains in San Luis Obispo County, and then opens out into the Cuyama Valley, passing cattle ranches, going through the Russell Ranch Oil Field, and passing Aliso Canyon Road, the turnoff to the South Cuyama Oil Field.

Casa de Nariño

The anteroom of the formal room is decorated with the pictures Madre Superiora or La Monja (The nun) by Fernando Botero, the triptych Glorificación de Bolívar by Andrés de Santa María and Angela Cayendo by Alejandro Obregón.

Datil Mountains

There are two Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) within the Datil Mountains: the Datil (13,974 acres) and Madre Mountain (19,855 acres) IRAs.

Eduard Toldrà

Nobody can be happy (Garcilaso de la Vega); Después que te conocí - Since I've known you (Francisco de Quevedo); Cantarcillo; Madre, unos ojuelos vi (Lope de Vega)

El Fuerte, Sinaloa

El Fuerte was a chief trading post for silver miners and gold seekers from the Urique and Batopilas mines in the nearby mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental and its branches.

Francesco Clemente

In the 2000s Clemente showed at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, at the Museo MADRE in Naples, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Uffizi Gallery in Florence and at Yale Museum of Art in 2013.

Gran Madre di Dio, Turin

The steps of the Gran Madre appear twice in the 1969 film The Italian Job.

Helidon Gjergji

Among many other exhibitions he has participated at the Venice Biennale 52 (curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Manifesta 8; Present Future, Artissima 10 (Turin), curated by Emma Dexter, the Tirana Biennale 1 (curated by Francesco Bonami); Venice Biennale of Architecture 12 (curated by Gjergj Bakallbashi), Madre, (MCA, Naples); Apexart (NYC); National Gallery (Tirana); Villa Arson; Centre d'Art Contemporain (Nice); Lothringer Dreizehn Kunsthalle (Munich); The Kosova Art Gallery.

Huachuca Mountains

Along the trails there are opportunities to see a number of rare butterflies of Arizona (see List of butterflies and moths of Arizona), as well as plants that are more commonly found in the Sierra Madre Occidental.

José de Diego

While in Spain, de Diego collaborated with the newspaper El Progreso (Progress) which was founded by José Julián Acosta y Blanco and which attacked the political situation in Puerto Rico; this led to various arrests which eventually forced him to leave the Madre Patria (Motherland) to return to the island.

Juan Soto Ivars

He co-edited the short story collection Mi madre es un pez (2011) with Sergi Bellver.

Lake Valley, Sierra County, New Mexico

In 1881 the property was sold to mine promoters George D. Roberts and Whitaker Wright, who split the property among five companies: Sierra Apache Co., Sierra Bella Co., Sierra Grande Co., Sierra Madre Co., and the Sierra Plata Co., and stock was sold widely in the east.

Lempa

Lempa River, Central American waterway flowing 422 km from its sources between Sierra Madre and Sierra del Merendón in southern Guatemala (30.4 km), where it is known as Río Olopa, through Honduras (31.4 km) and El Salvador (360 km) to Pacific Ocean; forms small part of Honduras-El Salvador boundary, where it is called Río Lempa

Madre de Dios River

The Madre de Dios is an important waterway for the department of Madre de Dios, particularly Puerto Maldonado, the largest town in the area, and the capital of the department.

Mocinnodaphne

Like Oreodaphne they are present in Mountain Cloud forest in tropical areas like the Sierra Madre Del Sur in Guerrero, Mexico.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ourense

The Bishop of Ourense has his cathedra (Latin, "chair") in the Catedral de la Virgen Madre de los Milagros in Ourense and his jurisdiction covers all the 28 districts and 735 parishes of the Province of Ourense.

Ryan Mendoza

2010: Ryan Mendoza The Possessed, Electa, MAdRE, Text by Tiziano Scarpa

San Gabriel Fault

The San Gabriel Fault is a right-lateral strike-slip that was last active 1,000s of years ago — Late Quaternary west of intersection with the Sierra Madre fault, and Quaternary east of that intersection, and Holocene only further west between Saugus and Castaic-Gorman.

Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, Naples

Santa Teresa degli Scalzi (previously known as the church of Santa Teresa al Museo, or of Santa Teresa agli studi or della Madre di Dio) is a church in Naples, Italy, located in via Santa Teresa degli Scalzi, a wide street opened during 1806–1810, to connect the historic center of Naples to the zone of Capodimonte.

Sergi Bellver

He also edited and wrote the prologue of the short story collections Chéjov comentado (2010) and Mi madre es un pez (2011, with Juan Soto Ivars).

Sierra Madre Sparrow

The Sierra Madre Sparrow was first discovered by scientists in the Sierra de Bolaños near Bolaños, Jalisco, in 1889.

Spiritual Canticle

Some years later, after 1582, he wrote down the last stanzas in Baeza and Granada, the last five ones after a conversation with a nun, sister Francisca de la Madre de Dios.

Stinking badges

The 1987 Luis Valdez play I Don't Have to Show You No Stinkin' Badges draws its title from this quote, and makes a specific reference to Sierra Madre.

Tambopata

Tambopata Province in the department of Madre de Dios in south-eastern Peru

Tarahumara people

Jeff Biggers: In the Sierra Madre, (University of Illinois Press, 2006)

Terig Tucci

His first composition, Cariños de Madre was performed for a zarzuela at the Avenida Theatre, in 1917.

Texas State Highway 100

It reaches the eastern terminus at the Queen Isabella Causeway, which continues across the laguna Madre to South Padre Island

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1927 adventure novel by the mysterious German-English bilingual author B. Traven, in which two destitute Americans of the 1920s join with an old-timer, in Mexico, to prospect for gold.

University of Rizal System

The College is about 67 kilometers from Metro Manila and accessible to towns of Rizal through Manila East Road through the newly opened sea level in the Sierra Madre Mountain range and is overlooking the Laguna Lake and the surrounding lake towns.


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