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2012 BNP Paribas Masters – Singles

David Ferrer won his first Masters 1000 title by defeating qualifier Jerzy Janowicz in the final 6–4, 6–3, becoming the first Spaniard ever to win the title in Bercy.

2012 Singapore Grand Prix

HRT once again filled the final row of the grid, with Narain Karthikeyan out-qualifying Pedro de la Rosa for the second race in succession with a time that was over a second faster than the Spaniard's.

Adrienne Kennedy

The Lennon play: In His Own Write (Adapted from John Lennon's In his own write and A Spaniard in the Works; with Victor Spinetti), 1967

Alexandros Jakupovic

On the challenger level in doubles, he has 2 semifinals, in July 2008 in Rimini, Italy, with Spaniard, Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras and in April 2009 in Athens, Greece with fellow Greek Konstantinos Economidis.

Angel Rios Martinez

Angel Ríos Martínez (Blanca, Murcia, 1952) is a Spaniard who, together with Govert Westerveld, by the plenary of the municipality of Blanca on January 3, 2002 was unanimously appointed as Official Chronicler of Blanca, Murcia.

Basque civil law

The Spaniard King Phillip V by means of the New Jurisdictional Decrees abolished the main part of both Public Law institutions and sources in the Spanish regions of Aragon, Valencia, Cataluña and the Balearic Islands.

Bertrandon de la Broquière

At Bursa he joined a company of European merchants, a Spaniard and three Florentines, and followed them to Pera.

Boholano writers

There are hundreds of published Boholano writers (or Bol-anon writers) from the time Boholano literature emerged since the time of Boholano priestess Karyapa before the arrival of the Spaniards.

Carlos Franz

Some of his works have been translated into other languages (English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, and Chinese), and El lugar donde estuvo el Paraíso was made into a movie by the Spaniard Gerardo Herrero with the Argentine actor Federico Luppi in the leading role.

Cristian López

On 10 October, however, he joined Football League One side Shrewsbury Town on a month's loan, becoming the first Spaniard to sign for the club.

Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde

Since he was a heart surgeon and great friend and admirer of Dr. Christiaan Barnard, he became the first Spaniard to perform a heart transplant in September 1968.

Don Diamond

Although he often played a Spaniard/Mexican or Native American, Diamond's father, Benjamin Diamond, emigrated to the United States from Russia in 1906 with his parents.

Don Pimpón

He claimed to be a friend of the Maharajah of Kapurthala, probably an allusion to the marriage of this Indian prince to Spaniard Anita Delgado.

Eulogio Martínez

Eulogio Martínez Ramiro (born 11 June 1935 in Asunción, Paraguay, died 30 September 1984 in Barcelona, Spain) was a Paraguayan-Spaniard football striker.

Fermín Zanón Cervera

American herpetologist Thomas Barbour had been accompanied by Cervera on his visits to Cuba, and on hearing of the strange birds to be found in the Zapata Swamp, he sent the Spaniard on a series of trips into the region.

George Mavrotas

He is, jointly with Spaniard Chiqui Sans, the sixth water polo player to compete at five Olympics, after Briton Paul Radmilovic, Brazilian João Gonçalves Filho, Hungarian Dezső Gyarmati, Italian Gianni De Magistris, and fellow Spaniard Manuel Estiarte.

Hieronymus Bosch

In one of the first known accounts of Bosch’s paintings, in 1560 the Spaniard Felipe de Guevara wrote that Bosch was regarded merely as "the inventor of monsters and chimeras".

Huixquilucan de Degollado

These people were conquered a number of times, including by the Olmecs, the Nahuatlacs and by the region of Tlacopan before being conquered by the Aztec Triple Alliance and then, of course, the Spaniards.

Imad al-Din

Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, also known as Abu Dahdah, Syrian-born Spaniard sentenced to prison in Spain for his part in the September 11, 2001 attacks

Jacinto Convit

The son of Francisco Convit y Martí, a Spaniard with Catalonian roots who was nationalised in Venezuela, Convit was born in La Pastora, Libertador Municipality, Caracas.

Jacky Carlier

Bronze medallist over 3000m at the 1989 European Athletics Indoor Championships in La Haye, behind German Dieter Baumann and Spaniard Abel Antón, he got his second podium the following year, in 1990 in Glasgow, beaten in the final by his compatriot Eric Dubus.

José de la Borda

José de la Borda (Joseph de Laborde in French; c. 1700 – May 30, 1778) was a French/Spaniard who migrated to New Spain in the 18th century, amassing a great fortune in mines in Taxco and Zacatecas in Mexico.

He was the second son of Pierre Laborde, an officer in the army of Louis XIV of France and Spaniard Magdalena Sanchez.

José Vivas

Following graduation, he worked with other architects such as Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer and Spaniard Eduardo Torroja.

Juan del Valle y Caviedes

He came to Peru at an early age and settled in Lima, later spending some time in the mining area of Huancavelica, where life was hard even for a Spaniard at the top of the social pyramid.

Julián Rubio

On 21 June 2011, Rubio became the first Spaniard to coach in the Albanian Superliga, joining KF Tirana on a one-year contract.

Karocolens tuberculatus

Hadramphus tuberculatus (known as the Canterbury knobbed weevil, Spaniard weevil or Banks Peninsula speargrass weevil) is a rare weevil endemic to the Christchurch area in the South Island of New Zealand.

Kiko Casilla

On 20 January 2008 he made his debut in La Liga in a 1–2 away loss against Real Valladolid, coming on as a substitute for injured Iñaki Lafuente two minutes after half-time, as first-choice Carlos Kameni was away on international duty; that month, news surfaced that Arsenal were interested in acquiring the young Spaniard's services.

Las Balsas

The expedition was led by Spaniard Vital Alsar who, in 1970, led the La Balsa expedition, only on that occasion with one raft and three companions.

Manuel Estiarte

Estiarte is the second Spaniard to compete at six Olympic Games, after equestrian Luis Álvarez de Cervera.

Mousehole

Mousehole, like Penzance, Newlyn, and Paul, was destroyed in the 1595 raid on Mount's Bay by Spaniard Carlos de Amésquita, the only surviving building being the 'Keigwin Arms', a local pub.

Muro di Sormano

French rider Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale) was the leader at the summit, although the eventual winner of the race was the Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez.

Nuestra Belleza Latina 2014

Also there are major changes to the Judging Panel, Julian Gil no longer is the judge after four consecutive seasons and five total to leave his chair to Fashion Guru and Critic Spaniard, Jomari Goyzo.

Oñate

Eugenio Oñate Ibañez de Navarra, a Spaniard engineer and a leading figure in computational mechanics.

Pablo Sáinz Villegas

The success of his performances results in repeated reengagements from renowned conductors such as fellow Spaniard Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Carlos Kalmar, Juanjo Mena and Alondra de la Parra, with whom he recorded Ponce’s Concierto del Sur for Sony Classical achieving Platinum status.

Pilar, New Mexico

In 1694, the Spaniard Diego de Vargas burned the Apache village in the process of his re-conquest of New Mexico following the expulsion of the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

Prestige oil spill

The then European Commissioner for Transport, Spaniard Loyola de Palacio, pushed for the ban of single-hulled tankers.

Riosucio

The region of Urabá and Darien began in 1501 with the first Spaniard explorations of Rodrigo de Bastidas, Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Juan de la Cosa.

Rodolfo Acuña

During a lecture titled "Is Antonio Banderas Latino?" at Swarthmore College, his studies of the race, age, history and class of the Chicano identity were compared and contrasted to the definition of the alleged Latino identity of U.S.A. His question "should a Spaniard get affirmative action for Latinos without the life experience?"—where life experience meant that one needed to suffer discrimination—was answered no.

Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen

She was born in Villahermosa (then known as San Juan Bautista) on what was then called Calle Grijalva, her parents were Antonio Gutiérrez Carriles, a Spaniard, and Juana Eskildsen Cáceres de Gutiérrez, a native of Campeche of Danish descent.

Sayri Túpac

After the murder of his mother in 1539 and his father in 1544, both by the Spaniard conquerors, he became the ruler of the independent Inca state of Vilcabamba.

Siege of Santiago

U.S. forces had driven back the Spaniard's first line of defense at the Battle of Las Guasimas.

The House of the Spaniard

The House of the Spaniard is a 1936 British crime film directed by Reginald Denham and starring Allan Jeayes, Peter Haddon and Brigitte Horney.

Zandvliet

In 1622 the Spaniard Ambrogio Spinola constructed a fortification with seven bastions around Zandvliet, to strengthen the defenses of Antwerp against the northern Netherlands.


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