November - The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid.
Real defeated Spartak Brno in the two legged final, after losing the first in Brno 110–99 and winning at Madrid 84–64.
The 2004 Championships took place between 12 December and 14 December 2003 in Madrid.
Amadeus is a computer reservations system (or global distribution system, since it sells tickets for multiple airlines) owned by the Amadeus IT Group with headquarters in Madrid, Spain.
Ángel Barrios (Granada, 1882–Madrid, 1964) was a Spanish composer and concert guitarist.
She came to court before 1522 and was one of the maids-of-honour of Louise of Savoy, Duchess of Angoulême, the mother of Francis I. Francis made Anne his mistress, probably upon his return from his captivity at Madrid (1526), and soon gave up his long-term mistress, Françoise de Foix, for her.
In 1650, he was appointed to represent the Commonwealth of England in Spain, but he never presented his credentials to the Court as he was murdered by a group of six Royalists émigrés in an Inn in Madrid on 27 May.
In 1951, he became a teacher at the Bushido Kai Judo Club in Madrid.
Arroyomolinos, Madrid, a municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain.
The festival has a main venue, which started as being Barcelona, later moved to Madrid and Seville and then to a different city every year.
Asamblea de Madrid Entrevías Station is a Cercanías station in Madrid city center.
Even though the Peronist party was not allowed to enter the ballot, Frondizi's victory was influenced by Perón's instructions to his loyal base, given from his exile in Madrid, to tactically vote for Frondizi.
In Madrid, Spain's capital, there is a park called Parque de Breogán, named after Breogán.
Mao was happy that the nationalist attack was beaten back again, and on April 27, 1946, telegraphed Lin Biao to praise him and his troop, and asked Lin Biao to deploy one or two more regiments to develop Siping into Madrid in the East.
Don Carlos Coloma de Saa, 1st Marquess of Espinar (Alicante, 9 February 1566 – 23 November 1637, Madrid) was a Spanish military commander, diplomat and author.
For over 60 years it resided in the Madrid's Military Engineering Academy Museum, until November 16, 2004 when it was handed over back to the Russian Orthodox Church by the Spanish minister of defense José Bono.
He met him in Morocco and then delivered a speech to him at a lunch in Madrid.
The foundation stone in the form of a letter labyrinth ("Silo Princeps Fecit") inspired the hypercube of Salvador Dalí's painting A Propos of the "Treatise on Cubic Form" by Juan de Herrera, housed in the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Other examples of his work are to be found at the galleries of St Petersburg, Madrid, Brussels, Munich, Dresden and Berlin (The Temptation of St Anthony).
He was first a pupil of Juan Albacete, and then studied successively in the Schools of Art at Madrid, in Paris, and in Rome.
It also included reviews of Madrid-based Spanish press as well as the British press.
Between 1890 and 1906, it was edited by Miguel Moya (1856–1920), a leading Spanish journalist who would go on to preside the holding company and to found the Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid, which he would also preside from 1895 to 1920.
Enrique Líster Forján (April 21, 1907, Ameneiro, A Coruña – December 8, 1994, Madrid) was a Spanish communist politician and military officer.
Plans and estimates for the restoration of the fort were completed by Architect Leonardo Concepcion, who had completed his MA in Restoration in Madrid.
The French even spoke of "une promenade militaire." Moura was later appointed as Caballerizo mayor+ to the King and died in Madrid in December of 1675.
On July 13, he became the first pilot to shoot down one of the most modern German fighters, a Messerschmitt Bf 109A, near Madrid.
Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta "Primer Conde de Cuadro de Alba de Tormes" (14 May 1765, Vergara, Guipúzcoa) - 1 September 1838, Madrid) was a Spanish general officer who fought in the Peninsular War.
Returning to Europe in 1914, Biddle spent time in Munich and Madrid, studying printmaking in the Spanish capital, before trying his hand at impressionism in France.
The Spanish authorities granted U-573 a three-month period for repairs, which prompted several strong protests from the British Embassy in Madrid.
Giovanni di Filippo del Campo (1600, Cambrai – 1648, Madrid), was a Flemish Baroque painter active in Rome.
In March 1657 he was knighted, and the same year was sent as Charles's agent to Madrid, where he remained, endeavouring to obtain assistance for the royal cause, till after the Restoration.
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Another object of jealousy to Arlington was Sir William Temple, who achieved a great popular success in 1668 by the conclusion of the Triple Alliance; Arlington endeavoured to procure his removal to Madrid, and entered with alacrity into Charles's plans for destroying the whole policy embodied in the treaty, and for making terms with France.
While waiting for the train to Madrid, the American and the girl with him drink beer and a liquor called Anís del Toro, which the girl compares to liquorice.
It was displayed in the Peabody Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and the International Expositions of Madrid and Chicago before fading from the public eye, only to be resurrected in the 1970s when its authenticity was once again subject to debate.
Former national team goalkeeper Grégory Coupet credited his performance as "phenomenal", while the French media branded him "Saint Lloris", which is a play on the nickname of Real Madrid counterpart Iker Casillas, who is considered one of the top goalkeepers in Europe at the moment.
Although the 22 km from Tardienta to Huesca (part of a branch from the Madrid to Barcelona high-speed line) has been reconstructed as mixed Iberic and standard gauge, in general the interface between the two gauges in Spain is dealt with by means of gauge-changing installations, which can adjust the gauge of appropriately designed wheelsets on the move.
He continued in that role until July 1907 when he was transferred to Madrid, Spain, where he died of illness in 1908.
Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries, Alejandro Portes and collaborators emphasized the existence of an informal economy in all countries by including case studies ranging from New York City and Madrid to Uruguay and Colombia.
On February 8, 1743, du Mont defeated the Austrians and Sardinians at the Battle of Campo Santo, followed later from September to December 1745 by the 2nd Battle of Milan, 1745 which was widely considered a victory in Madrid.
During President Monroe's administration he was appointed secretary of legation at Brazil, and afterward chargé d'affaires for the United States at Madrid and at Stockholm.
Spurred by the need to curb slave raiding once and for all and worried about the presence of other Western powers in the south (the British had established trading centers in Jolo by the 19th century and the French were offering to purchase Basilan Island from the cash strapped government in Madrid, Spain), the Spanish made a final bid to consolidate their rule in this southern frontier.
José Manuel de Goyeneche y Barreda (Arequipa, Viceroyalty of Peru, June 12, 1776 - Madrid, October 10, 1846) was a Spanish soldier and diplomat.
At the start of the military rebellion that lead to the Spanish Civil War, he was stationed in Madrid, remaining loyal to the Republican government and was appointed Minister of War.
He was affiliated with the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) from 1930, and he was placed in charge of the Milicias Antifascistas Obreras y Campesinas (MAOC) of Madrid in 1933, which constituted a paramilitary force for the Party.
Juan Vigón Suerodíaz (Colunga, Asturias, Spain 1880 - Madrid 1955) was a Spanish general who fought in the Spanish Civil War for the Nationalists.
Domingo Julio Liberato Macario Gómez García (Madrid, 20 December 1886-22 December 1973) was a Spanish composer.
It was created in 1954 in Madrid, Spain, and has existed as a functional institution since 1983.
The López-Cobos International Opera Conductors Competition, pioneer in this speciality, is held in the Teatro Real, Madrid every two years since 2006.
In 1820, he was elected to public office, and in 1821 was appointed Deputy to the Spanish Cortes (legislature) in Madrid.
Aragonés spent the majority of his career as a player and coach at Atlético de Madrid.
Luis Jerónimo Fernández de Cabrera Bobadilla Cerda y Mendoza, 4th Count of Chinchón (1589 in Madrid – October 28, 1647 in Madrid) was a Spanish nobleman and captain general and viceroy of Peru, from January 14, 1629 to December 18, 1639.
Marcelino Oreja y Aguirre, 1st Marquis of Oreja (born 13 February 1935 in Madrid) is a Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician.
Babini went on to perform all around Europe, including Lisbon, Madrid, Vienna, and London.
When he traveled to Europe with his family after graduation, he found the masquette itself in the Berlin Museum, and intrigued by the Olmec culture, took time to look at other specimens in the Maximilian Collection in Vienna, and later, in Madrid.
Both Madrid CF and Athletic Madrid had applied to join the Campionat de Catalunya, but their application was rejected by FC Barcelona.
Two revivals of James Carroll Pickett’s Dream Man (with American actor Jimmy Shaw) were directed by Kearns: at Madrid’s DT Espacio Escenico as part of the Festival Version Original (2005) and the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (2007).
Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.
The Government of the Comunidad de Madrid (Autonomous Region of Madrid) awards the Miguel Catalán Investigation Award in Science since 2005, to honor the memory of Miguel Ángel Catalán.
It is located at 23 Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Avenue, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).
Miguel de Noronha, 4th Count of Linhares (1585 — Madrid, 1647) was a Portuguese noble and military, loyal to King Philip III of Portugal (Philip IV of Spain).
(Michel Joseph, Duc de Bournonville in French), ( Diksmuide, Flanders, 30 June 1672 - Madrid, 2 October 1752), was a Spanish noble.
He became a director of the Marseille Academy of Statutory, and later became an academic of merit at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.
Examples among the many are the church containing Francisco Franco's tomb and those of many others in the monumental Valley of the Fallen near Madrid, the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, in Carmel, California, Manila Cathedral (also known as the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Intramuros or the original Spanish settlement of Manila), and the Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano.
The Muñoz Seca Theater (Teatro Muñoz Seca) is a theater in Madrid, Spain.
This is especially relevant since the 2004 terrorist attacks of the transit system in Madrid, Spain.
Cuba was then still a Spanish colony and in all matters of administration, economy and interior and exterior policy dependent on Madrid.
He had his debut at 26 March 1983, in a 25-4 loss to Spain, in Madrid, for the FIRA Championship D2, Pool B. His last match was at 2 March 1996, in a 64-3 loss to Italy, in Lisbon, for the FIRA Championship D1, Pool 2.
I took the tour in Mexico, Spain and Japan to give concerts in forums such as the Chamber Galileo Galilei, and Suristán FNAC in Madrid and in Osaka, Tokyo and Chigasaki in Japan.
The Royal Palace in the centre of Madrid, the former principal residence of the Spanish kings, is the official residence of the King, although it is only used for state occasions.
This triumph was followed four years later, in 1971, with a victory over Mando Ramos in Madrid by disqualification in 11 rounds for the WBC's world Lightweight title.
Streets running north-south are named after the capitals of nations who have at one time or another settled in the Port Royal area (Paris, London, Madrid, Edinburgh, and Richmond).
His second wife was a Brazilian, Thereza Lisboa Figueira de Mello (Rome, 10 June 1913 – Madrid, 30 March 1997), the daughter of Col. Jerónimo de Ávila Figueira de Melo and his wife Cândida Ribeiro Lisboa, and the sister of Francisco Lisboa Figueira de Melo, former ambassador of Portugal to Germany (b. Vienna, 12 March 1912).
Alonso María Cristino Justo (28 May 1912 Madrid, Spain–18 November 1936 Spain); Killed in action during the Spanish Civil War
Born in Logroño, Spain he received his medical education at the University of Madrid.
In 1597 Hawkins was sent to Spain, and imprisoned first at Seville and subsequently at Madrid.
With its 1,459 rooms, it surpasses several European hotels such as the Estrel in Berlin (1,125 rooms), the Concorde La Fayette in Paris (1,000 rooms), the Hilton London Metropole in London (1,058 rooms), the Auditorium in Madrid (894 rooms) and the Royal National in London (800 rooms).
He returned to Venice in 1881 and, in 1882, he visited Toledo and Madrid.
After becoming a Portuguese naturalized citizen, he decided to represent Portugal, having 27 caps, from the 64-3 loss to Italy, at 2 March 1996, in Lisbon, for the FIRA Championship, D1, Pool 2, to the 34-21 loss to Spain, at 2 June 2002, in Madrid, for the 2003 Rugby World Cup qualifyings.
Becoming general, he lived at Madrid with free entry to the palace, although dressed in rags.
She was born as Countess Rosita in Madrid, Spain, the younger daughter of Count Carl Douglas (1908-1961), a Swedish nobleman and diplomat who was Royal Swedish Ambassador to Brazil, and his Prussian wife Ottora Maria Haas-Heye (1910-2001), maternal granddaughter of Philip, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld, by his wife Augusta, countess Sandels.
The scenes of the Life of Christ are unusual in Spanish painting at this period; these are in American museums, while smaller elements including scenes of hunting and falconry and decorative copies of textiles are in Madrid as well as New York.
The Tetouan airport continued to be relevant for the new regime and despite fuel supply restrictions two routes continued to make stopovers at Sania Ramel during the early post-war period: Madrid-Seville-Tetouan-Melilla and Seville-Tetouan-Canary Islands.
Now without support in hostile territory, General José Marina y Vega, military commander of Melilla, asked Madrid for reinforcements to protect the mines, but none were sent.
Allred and her husband were also public affairs missionaries in Madrid, Spain.
Sin Dios (English: Godless) was a hardcore/anarcho-punk band from Spain that formed in 1988 in Madrid.
The major mountain ranges are the Sierra de Guadarrama, which runs approximately along the border of the Madrid and Castile and León autonomous communities, the Sierra de Gredos north of the border between Castile and León and Castile-La Mancha stretching into Extremadura and containing the range's highest mountain, Pico Almanzor, at 2,592 m, as well as the Serra da Estrela, containing the highest point in continental Portugal, A Torre, 1.993 m.
This drink is well known in bars and restaurants in Madrid, but not so well known in other cities and towns.
BP Solar begun constructing a new solar photovoltaic cell manufacturing plant at its European headquarters in Tres Cantos, Madrid.
Sonia Martínez (Madrid, September 23, 1963 - September 4, 1994) was a Spanish actress and TV introducer, known by her role in the Spanish version of American educational TV broadcast 3-2-1 Contact aimed to spread Science through 12-14 year old audiences.
Sopormetal globalization strategy begins with the acquisition of a Spanish company, resulting in the establishment of Sopormetal España in Madrid, now considered a significant “player” of the industrial sector in Spanish market, covering it as a whole and supplying large companies such as Airbus, Basque Mondragon Corporation and Siemens.
At the outbreak of the Nationalist revolt, wireless operators in the navy headquarters Madrid intercepted radio messages from General Francisco Franco to rebels in Morocco.
The band did only two one-off shows in 2012, initially in Madrid, Spain, with the German metalcore band Caliban, on 4 May 2012, but then they were confirmed to play at Ghostfest 2012 on Sunday 1 July.
It was released in cinemas in London (May 1990), Italy (Il Ladro dell'arcobaleno, 1990), France (Le voleur d'arc-en-ciel, Paris, 1994) and, after, Spain (El ladrón del Arco iris, Cine Doré, Madrid, 2011); but it was never released in American cinemas.
Replacing them on the Tranvía del Este was another tram of the same type, but loaned from Madrid, Spain, where it was number 153 (a number it also used in Buenos Aires) in the fleet of the Metro Ligero de Madrid light rail system.
In 1996 a tour was made through Spain (Plaza de Toros (Valencia), Madrid, La Coruña's Coliseum, Barcelona).
Vicio Latino is a Eurodance act from Madrid Spain.
Codovilla was sent to Madrid to advise the Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España or PCE) on behalf of the Comintern.
Waldo was at the junction of the AT&SF main east-west line and the Madrid spur.
In 1854 he moved to Madrid, where he taught in the Mining Engineering School and was vice-president of the Geological Institute.
North died in Madrid on 31 October 1734, when he was succeeded in his estates and in the title of Baron North by a first cousin once removed, Francis North, 3rd Baron Guilford, the grandson of North's uncle Lord Chancellor North.
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UEFA Champions League: Spanish giants Real Madrid and Valencia faced off in the first ever all-country European cup final with Madrid winning 3-0.
He studied painting at the School of Painting and Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, sharing room with Salvador Dalí.
In Spain, over one million demonstrators took part in a march in Madrid in October 2009 to protest plans by the government of José Luis Zapatero to legalize elective abortions and eliminate parental consent restrictions.
During the long Spanish postwar period (1940-1959) millions of Spaniards left their homes in the poor provinces to migrate to industrial areas such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and the Basque Country.
Qanir was raised in Madrid, Spain where he attended The American School of Madrid.
There is no university in Azuqueca but in several cities close: Alcalá de Henares and Guadalajara and Madrid.
Prof David Leslie Hawksworth CBE, mycologist and lichenologist, Research Professor since 2001 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid), President from 1986-7 of the British Lichen Society, from 1990-1 of the British Mycological Society and from 1994-7 of the International Union of Biological Sciences, and Editor from 200-8 of Mycological Research
In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.
Carlos Franco won with a design based on mythological figures such as Cybele, Proserpine, Bacchus, and Cupid, as well as others invented by the artist, interwoven into the history of Madrid and the Plaza Mayor.
Cerro de los Batallones (Hill of the Battalions) is a hill at Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain where a number of fossil sites from the Upper Miocene (MN10) have been found.
He is known to have been working as the organist of El Pilar in Zaragoza in around 1676; he was later employed in the chapel of Carlos II in Madrid, where he died.
Sue and Sunny had been in the original line up of Brotherhood of Man (although they had left the group long before the band entered and won Eurovision in 1976) and had backed Lulu in Madrid on "Boom Bang-a-Bang" when she won the contest in 1969.
Born in Madrid, Ramos finished his football formation at Atlético Madrid, making his first-team debuts in 1979 and proceeding to be a regular fixture for the following nine years, helping the capital side to the 1985 Copa del Rey and Supercopa de España.
All the land between the Paseo del Prado and Paseo de las Delicias, and the two banks of the stream of Atocha were his.
Other European expositions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845; Brussels with an elaborate industrial exposition in 1847; Bordeaux in 1847; St Petersburg in 1848; and Lisbon in 1849.
He worked as a social worker in Madrid Council and he later went back to Paris where he received a Ph.D degree in Sorbonne.
Along with Frank Ryan he rallied the remnants of the British battalion in a defensive action which held the line outside Madrid, thereby blocking Franco's attempt to seize the capital.
Morales, Rafael, 1965, “Nuevos cantos olímpicos, La Llama entre los Cerezos, by Juan Antonio Villacañas”, Libros de Poesía, Arriba, Madrid, 10 January.
In later years, Polo would also be able to attend lectures by Zubiri on the concept in Madrid and another by Ortega y Gasset on Toynbee.
According to El País of Madrid, until May 2011 the president had accumulated 1,025 brands and 280 Saturday programs, called City Link.
Marshal Joachim Murat was ordered to Madrid with 30,000 troops and began taking control of the main palaces and barracks of the city, which had just 2-4,000 Spanish troops in its garrison.
The map or chart of Juan de la Cosa is a mappa mundi painted on parchment, 93 cm high and 183 cm wide, currently preserved at the Museo Naval of Madrid (Spain).
Miguel de Cervantes Health Care Centre (Miguel de Cervantes H.C.C.) is a building located at Alcalá de Henares (Madrid - Spain), which belongs to the Health Service of Madrid and it is assigned to direct public health care attention.
In Spain, the group appeared at the Prog Metal Fest, a multi-venue festival that visited four cities: Madrid, Palencia, Barcelona and Girona.
In October and November, Ryanair established itself at the airport, and started flights to Alicante, Barcelona, Brussels, Bremen, Madrid, Milano and London.
Like most rural areas throughout Missouri, voters in New Madrid County generally adhere to socially and culturally conservative principles but are more moderate or populist on economic issues, typical of the Dixiecrat philosophy.
She started painting studies with her father, the painter Alfredo Sinclair and went in 1976 to the Academy of Applied Arts in Madrid, Spain.
Olympiacos opened the second round of the group stage with a draw 0–0 to Real Madrid at the Karaiskakis Stadium and kept alive the record of being undefeated by Real Madrid in Athens in four matches, while the Reds moved a step closer to qualifying for the last 16 after coming from behind to defeat Lazio 2–1 in Stadio Olimpico.
His other works include a Virgin of the Grace in the church of San Miguel at Enguera (province of Valencia), a St. Michael in the Diocesan Museum of Valencia, the Virgin of the Knight of Montesa in the Museo del Prado of Madrid and the Holy Conversation in the National Gallery, London.
Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.
The graduate programs that have been approved are the following: Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, University of Bern, Sahlgrenska University Göteborg, Institute for Postgraduate Dental Education Jönköping, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, University Complutense in Madrid, University of Dublin, Trinity College, University of Strasbourg, Paris Diderot University at Rothschild hospital.
Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.
(Beckham had chosen the number 23 because 7 was already taken when he was transferred to Real Madrid by Raul, and also because he admires Michael Jordan).
The locomotives worked passenger services with Talgo II coaches in red lined silver Talgo II livery, starting in 1950 between Madrid and Hendaye and ending in 1972 with trains between Madrid and Palencia.
The town of Atocha, a now-lost district nearby Arganzuela, Madrid was lost to the Muslims, and many Christians there were taken prisoners as spoils of war.
SIMO TCI (Salón Internacional de Mobiliario de Oficina / Tecnologías de la Comunicación e Información International Show of Office Furniture / Information and Communication Technologies), an annual trade fair in Madrid, Spain
Sonim currently employs over 150 people worldwide, across 15 locations including Bangalore, India; London, the United Kingdom; Stockholm, Sweden; and Madrid, Spain.
Strauß was finally forced to admit that he had phoned the German military attaché in Madrid and urged him to have Ahlers arrested.
The Teatro Valle-Inclán is a theatre in Madrid, Spain.
It has also been expanded and adapted into a forty-minute English-language zarzuela with a Madrid setting by Derek Barnes (2010), with text by Christopher Webber.
Zulema de la Cruz was born in Madrid and studied at the Madrid Conservatory for piano and composition and Stanford University in California for composition and computer music, with professors including Carmelo Bernaola and Ramón Barce.