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    Vera Cruz is a 1954 American Western film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, featuring Denise Darcel, Sara Montiel...
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    22 April 1519, he founded a city here, which he named Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, referring to the area's gold and dedicated to the "True Cross", because...
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  • Veracruz or Vera Cruz (literally "True Cross") may also refer to: María González Veracruz (born 1979), Spanish politician Philip Vera Cruz (1904–1994)...
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    Ilha de Vera Cruz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈiʎɐ dʒi ˈvɛɾɐ ˈkɾu(j)s]) (Portuguese for Island of the True Cross) was the first name given by the Portuguese...
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    Basilica of Vera Cruz (Spanish: Basílica de la Vera Cruz) is a Roman Catholic Church (minor basilica) in town Caravaca de la Cruz. The church was given...
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    Veracruz (redirect from Vera Cruz, Mexico)
    the city of Veracruz (From Latin Vera Crux, "True Cross"), which was originally called the Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. The suffix is in honor of Ignacio...
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    Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta ˈfe ðe la ˈβeɾa ˈkɾus]; usually called just Santa Fe, lit. "Holy Faith") is the capital city...
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    santa, Mexican pepperleaf, acuyo, tlanepa, anisillo, root beer plant, Vera Cruz pepper and sacred pepper. It is a perennial herbaceous plant with heart-shaped...
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    On 9 March 1847, during the Mexican–American War, the United States military made an amphibious landing and besieged the key Mexican seaport of Veracruz...
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    is often understood as the sighting of the land later named Island of Vera Cruz, near Monte Pascoal, by the fleet commanded by Portuguese navigator Pedro...
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  • Philip Villamin Vera Cruz (December 25, 1904 – June 12, 1994) was a Filipino American labor leader and farmworker. He helped found the Agricultural Workers...
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    original text related to this article: Report of Action, USS Chester, Vera Cruz April 21–22, 1914 On April 26, Fletcher declared martial law, and started...
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    remained held by Iran. On 24 April 2024, Madeira-flagged cargo ship MSC Vera Cruz, while about 72 nautical miles southeast of Djibouti, was unsuccessfully...
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    and flooding of its storage facilities. The Companhia Cinematográfica Vera Cruz was a production company founded in the state of São Paulo during the...
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    other sources. The inscription off the coast of vera cruz (America/Brazil) says: “The land called Vera Cruz was found by Pedro Alvares Cabral, a gentleman...
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    Vera Cruz is a town in Harrison Township, Wells County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80 at the 2010 census. Vera Cruz was laid out...
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    Rebellion in June 1900. His second Medal of Honor came in 1915 for action in Vera Cruz, Mexico, in April 1914. John J. McCloy was born on January 3, 1876, in...
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    survives as a surname. The word "Cruz" (Spanish for "Cross"), as well as "Vera Cruz" ("True Cross") and "Santa Cruz" ("Holy Cross") are used as surnames...
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    Ipomoea purga is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ipomoea. It is commonly referred to as jalap and is probably also the source of the John the...
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    occurred since 2004. Caravaca is dominated by the medieval Santuario de la Vera Cruz (Shrine of the True Cross), a complex of several convents and a parish...
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  • Fort Vera Cruz (Forte de Vera Cruz in Portuguese), also known as Fort Vera Cruz da Figueira (Forte da Vera Cruz da Figueira in Portuguese) or Figueira...
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  • Guadalajara, Jalisco 7th place Georgiana 31 Monterrey, Nuevo León 8th place Vera Cruz 24 Monterrey, Nuevo León Tiresias 33 Mexico City 10th place Paper Cut...
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    Vera Cruz is a small village in Upper Milford Township, Pennsylvania located south of Emmaus. It is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population...
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    as a Native American. They followed it with another Western in 1954, Vera Cruz, co-starring Gary Cooper and produced by Hill. Both films were directed...
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  • Sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz in Argentina is a major chapter in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in...
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    adventure Vera Cruz with Burt Lancaster. In the film, Cooper plays an American adventurer hired by Emperor Maximilian I to escort a countess to Vera Cruz during...
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  • in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape...
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    supporting roles in China Corsair (1951), From Here to Eternity (1953), Vera Cruz (1954), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), and The Wild Bunch (1969). He also...
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  • Guillén Piñeiro (voice) / Vera Cruz / Gal Ledgard Marisa Paredes as Marilia Jan Cornet as Vicente Guillén Piñeiro / Vera Cruz (voice) Roberto Álamo as...
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    Soon after arriving in Tenochtitlan, Cortés came up against problems. At Vera Cruz, the officer left in charge received a letter from Qualpopoca, the leader...
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