1979 Pan American Games (redirect from San Juan 1979)
American Games, officially the VIII Pan American Games (Spanish: VIII Juegos Panamericanos) and commonly known as San Juan 1979, were a multi-sport event...
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Alfonso VIII (11 November 1155 – 5 October 1214), called the Noble (El Noble) or the one of Las Navas (el de las Navas), was King of Castile from 1158...
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San Juan (/ˌsæn ˈhwɑːn/ san WHAHN, Spanish: [saŋ ˈxwan]; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth...
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Coloma family (section Descendants of Juan I)
Castelvi, 1st Marquess of Villatorcas. don Juan VII Coloma, marr. Teresia de Sarmiento y Sotomayor don Juan VIII Coloma, Knight of Santiago: Marr. doña Maria...
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Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain, and the nephew of King Felipe VI. He is the paternal-line grandson of Amalio de Marichalar y Bruguera, VIII Count...
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The Tercio "Don Juan de Austria" 3º of the Legion is a regiment of the Spanish Legion. Its headquarters is in Almería. The Tercio "Juan de Austria" No...
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Catherine of Aragon (redirect from First wife of Henry VIII)
1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until its annulment on 23 May 1533. She...
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district VIII has changed. In 1983, the district didn't include the municipality of Ceiba and included the Sabana Llana region of San Juan. In the 1991...
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Juan Antonio Villacañas (born 1922 in Toledo; died August 21, 2001) was a Spanish poet, essayist and critic. In 2015, he was named distinguished son ("hijo...
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John of God (redirect from Juan Ciudad)
John of God, O.H. (Portuguese: João de Deus; Spanish: Juan de Dios; born João Duarte Cidade [ˈʒwɐ̃w̃ duˈwaɾ.t siˈða.ðɨ]; March 8, 1495 – March 8, 1550)...
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Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, also known simply as Juan Diego (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌxwanˈdjeɣo]; 1474–1548), was a Nahua peasant and Marian visionary...
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Juan de Borja Lanzol (Llançol) de Romaní, el mayor (1446 – August 1, 1503) was the first of ten cardinal-nephews elevated by Pope Alexander VI, the cousin...
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lesser penalties. On 10 Oct 1599, he was consecrated bishop by Pope Clement VIII with Camillo Borghese, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, and Alfonso...
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cantos of Don Juan, which then were entrusted to John Hunt, who published the cantos over a period of months; cantos VI, VII, and VIII, with a Preface...
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Ceballos by Alfonso VIII of Castile after he had successfully driven the Moors from the fortress of Alarcón near Cuenca in 1177. Juán Ruiz de Alarcón's...
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San Juan, officially the Municipality of San Juan (Kabalian: Lungsod san San Juan; Cebuano: Lungsod sa San Juan; Tagalog: Bayan ng San Juan), is a 5th...
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Innocent VIII, his son Cesare Borgia "inherited" the post as second archbishop of Valencia. The third and the fourth archbishops of Valencia were Juan de Borja...
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Pablo Picasso (redirect from Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso)
he painted Portrait of Aunt Pepa, a vigorous and dramatic portrait that Juan-Eduardo Cirlot has called "without a doubt one of the greatest in the whole...
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Santuario del Santo Cristo (redirect from Church of San Juan Del Monte)
Santo Cristo Parish, also known as the Church of San Juan del Monte, is a church and convento in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction...
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Juan Luis Vives y March (Latin: Joannes Lodovicus Vives, lit. 'Juan Luis Vives'; Catalan: Joan Lluís Vives i March; Dutch: Jan Ludovicus Vives; 6 March...
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Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, announced his pending abdication from the throne on 2 June 2014. An organic law formalizing the abdication, required by the...
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on notable British films of the era, including The Private Life of Henry VIII, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the...
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John of Sahagún (redirect from St. Juan de Sahagún)
Alexander VIII. John was born in the year 1419, at Sahagún (or San Facondo) in the Province of Leon. He was the oldest of the seven children of Juan González...
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American Games, officially known as the VIII Pan American Games, were a continental multi-sport event held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from July 1 to July 15...
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Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (category Peers of England created by Henry VIII)
Henry VIII, and then ambassador to the German court of Charles V for Edward VI, dedicated his translation of Introductio ad sapientiam by Juan Luis Vives...
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1992 he was appointed President of the VIII United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. In 1994 Juan Manuel Santos founded the Good Government...
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The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 British film directed and co-produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon...
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King Alfonso VIII of Castile, Juan does not appear to have ever attended the Castilian court while he was lord of Álava. In 1175, Alfonso VIII invaded the...
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The 8th Mountain Infantry Brigade (Spanish: Brigada de Montaña 8/VIII) is a unit of the Argentine Army specialised in mountain warfare. The headquarters...
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Juan Núñez I de Lara y León (died Córdoba, April 1294), also known as "el Gordo" or "the Fat", was a Spanish noble. He was the head of the House of Lara...
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