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    Fernando Villaamil Fernández-Cueto (November 23, 1845 – July 3, 1898) was a Spanish Navy officer best known being the inventor of the destroyer and for...
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  • Villaamil (or Villamil) is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Fernando Villaamil (1845–1898), Spanish naval officer Jenaro Pérez...
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    range of general threats. They were originally conceived in 1885 by Fernando Villaamil for the Spanish Navy as a defense against torpedo boats, and by the...
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    in charge of Juan Sebastián Elcano for crossings and instruction. Fernando Villaamil, who made a circumnavigation of the world in 1892–1894 in command...
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    time of her commissioning. Her designer was a Spanish Navy officer, Fernando Villaamil, commissioned by the Minister of the Navy, Vice-Admiral Manuel Pezuela...
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    officials of the Spanish Navy's weakness relative to the US Navy. Captain Fernando Villaamil, the Second Officer in the Ministry of the Navy and a pioneer in destroyer...
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  • Staten Island Ferry from 1817 Nautilus, the Spanish ship commanded by Fernando Villaamil which circumnavigated the world from 1892 to 1894. SS Nautilus, formerly...
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    Minister of the Navy Admiral Beranger after the success of the design by Fernando Villaamil of the warship Destructor, which had given name to a whole typology...
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    Alfonso I of Asturias Silo of Asturias Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos Fernando Villaamil Leopoldo Alas José Andrés (chef) Federico Romero Indalecio Prieto...
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    to solo circumnavigate the globe at the record-breaking 72 days. Fernando Villaamil; 1892–1894; aboard Nautilus; first training ship circumnavigation...
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  • Argentine actress Villaamil Fernando Villaamil (1845–1898), Spanish naval officer Jenaro Pérez Villaamil (1807–1854), Spanish painter Polo Villaamil (born 1979)...
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    Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), Baroque painter Jenaro Pérez Villaamil (1807–1854), painter Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina (1505–1537), Spanish Renaissance painter...
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    relatively quiet careers. Three ships of the Oquendo class were built. Fernando Villaamil Antonio de Oquendo "Destructor construido en España y adaptado al...
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    with engine problems, so the destroyer flotilla commander, Captain Fernando Villaamil, took Furor out in the harbor on 12 May 1898 under the ruse of testing...
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    concept of an ocean-going torpedo gunboat. As a result, naval officer Fernando Villaamil conceived the ocean going torpedo gunboat Destructor, built in 1885...
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    Jenaro Pérez de Villaamil y d'Huguet (3 February 1807 – 5 June 1854) was a Spanish painter in the Romantic style who specialized in landscapes with figures...
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    Memorial to Fernando Villaamil erected in 1911 in Castropol...
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    with engine problems, so the destroyer flotilla commander, Captain Fernando Villaamil, took Furor out in the harbor on 12 May 1898 under the ruse of testing...
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    Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (category Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni)
    Paris, possibly accompanied by his mistress, Francisca Villaamil, the sister of Jenaro Pérez Villaamil. In Paris he came under the influence of Delacroix...
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    Fernando, where he studied under Jenaro Pérez Villaamil, the Academy's first professor of landscape painting. Under the tutelage of Pérez Villaamil,...
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    Aaron; Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L; O’Brien, Michael P.; Villaamil, Fernando S{\'a}nchez; D. Sullivan, Blair (October 23, 2014), "Zig-Zag Numberlink...
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  • Alonso, poet (d. 1990) July 1 – Joaquín Vara del Rey y Rubio July 3 – Fernando Villaamil "De Lôme Letter". The Progressive Years: 1898-1917, Teachers Guide...
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    Panteón de Marinos Ilustres (category Buildings and structures in San Fernando, Cádiz)
    Cayetano Valdés y Flores Juan Varela Ulloa Casimiro Vigodet y Garnica Fernando Villaamil y Fernández Cueto Juan María de Villavicencio y la Serna Francisco...
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    Barcelona, then he went to Madrid, where he studied with Jenaro Pérez Villaamil. Despite the instability in Catalonia during the 1830s and 40s, he remained...
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  • (1854–1896) painter José Nicolau Huguet (1855–1909) painter Eugenio Lucas Villaamil (1858–1918) painter Vicente March (1859–1927) painter Gonzalo Bilbao (1860–1938)...
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  • Julio Vila y Prades Antoni Viladomat Xevi Vilaró Eugenio Lucas Villaamil Jenaro Pérez Villaamil Nicolás de Villacis Darío Villalba Cristóbal de Villalpando...
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  • entire development of European Art Nouveau; the Casa de Enrique Pérez Villaamil, which follows the lines of the Belgian architect Victor Horta; the Eastern...
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    Yarza / Editorial Sílex / 1992. El siglo XVI: Gótico y Renacimiento / Fernando Marías / Editorial Sílex / 1992. Las claves del arte gótico / Josep Bracons...
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    Office course. Throughout his naval career, he held the command of the Villaamil (P-04) patrol vessel, the 2nd Minesweeper Squadron , the frigate Cataluña...
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    Retrato de Julián Romea), José de Madrazo (Retrato de Fernando VII a caballo), Jenaro Pérez Villaamil (Puerta de Serranos en Valencia), Joaquín Sorolla (Retrato...
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