Other Spanish expeditions outside the Amazon influenced the story ; the conversation in which the Indians refuse a Bible comes from events before the Battle of Cajamarca, and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca mentions the appearance of a boat in a treetop.

Álvar Pérez de Guzmán received from Juan I the right to tax the first fifty families who settled at Palos, and he began utilizing the lands around Palos for the cultivation of olive trees and production of olive oil.

Álvar was at the royal court at least from 1076 ( the last time he and El Cid appear together ).

Álvar Fáñez ( or Háñez ) ( died 1114 ) was a Castilian nobleman and military leader under Alfonso VI of León and Castile, becoming nearly independent ruler of Toledo under Queen Urraca.

He became the subject of legend, being transformed by the Poema de Mio Cid, Spain's national epic, into Álvar Fáñez Minaya, a loyal vassal and commander under Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid, during the latter's exile and his conquest of Valencia.

Álvar Fáñez, called Minaya, passed quickly into one of the heroic legends of the era, being a main character in Poema de Mio Cid.

" Friend ' of ' Foe: The Divided Loyalty of Álvar Fáñez in the Poema de Mio Cid ", Under the Influence: Questioning the Comparative in Medieval Castile, Cynthia Robinson and Leyla Rouhi, eds., Leyden, The Netherlands: Koninklejke NV, pp. 153 – 170.

* November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas.

Álvar Pérez de Guzmán is considered the city ’ s real founder.

Some believe the island is where Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his party made a brief stopover in November 1528, during his infamous odyssey.

Of particular note, he is credited with the reconquest of Guadalajara, Spain, where a Moorish tower, the Torreón de Álvar Fáñez, is named after him.

In 1542, Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to discover what is now called Iguazu Falls.

The first Spaniards came to Presidio in 1535, when Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions stopped at the Indian pueblo, placed a cross on the mountainside, and called the village La Junta de las Cruces.

Although the area had long been a popular watering hole for Native Americans and other prehistoric residents and nomads, including members of the more recently established Jumano, Apache, and Comanche tribes, the first European to view the site now known as Big Spring was probably a member of a Spanish expedition, possibly that of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, although the record of his travels cannot confirm his visit.

In The Song the man who served him as his closest adviser was his vassal and kinsman Álvar Fáñez " Minaya " ( meaning " My brother ", a compound word of Spanish possessive Mi ( My ) and Anaia, the basque word for brother ), although the historical Álvar Fáñez remained in Castile with Alfonso VI.

* 1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.

The first European to find the falls was the Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541.

Some historians surmise that Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca traveled through the area after his 1528 shipwreck.

The first European visitors to the county are thought to have been Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and his slave Estevanico of the ill-fated 1528 Narváez expedition.

Spanish explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1535 and Antonio de Espejo in 1583 crossed Brewster County on their way to La Junta de los Ríos, the juncture of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos.

Spanish and French had two of the strongest colonial literary traditions in the areas that now comprise the United States, and discussions of early American literature commonly include texts by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Samuel de Champlain alongside English language texts by Thomas Harriot and John Smith.

* Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( c. 1488 – 1557 ) – Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition.

The expedition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca passed near the Big Bend and was followed by other expeditions.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488 / 1490 – Seville, c. 1557 / 1558 ) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition.

After the death of Álvar Pérez de Guzmán, his widow, Elvira de Ayala, daughter of the Chancellor of Castile, continued her husband ’ s work until her death in 1434.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish conquistador, refuted the common held notion that the Karankawa people were cannibals in his diaries after living with them.

From Galveston in November 1528, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza and Estevanico crossed the Southwest on foot, accompanied by Native Americans in the United States | Indians, until reaching present-day Mexico in 1536.

In 1536, four survivors — Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and his enslaved Moor Estevanico — finally managed to rejoin Spanish countrymen in present-day Mexico.

But Jack always derived vicarious sensual thrills from Charles' revelations ( even when he suspected his friend of exaggeration or invention ), so he usually invited them, as he did now.

A measure of its widespread acceptance may be derived from a statement of the International Congress of Jurists in 1959.

Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

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But the most fundamental objection he has to poets appears in the Tenth Book, and it is derived from his doctrine of ideal forms.

But I have compared its text with already published commentaries on the 1960 series of Godkin lectures at Harvard, from which the book was derived, and I can with confidence challenge the gist of C. P. Snow's incautious tale ''.

Several germanium resistors have been thermally cycled from 300 to 4.2 Af and their resistances have been found to be reproducible within 1/3 millidegree when temperatures were derived from a vapor pressure thermometer whose tubing is jacketed through most of the liquid helium.

The results of present observations of the thermal radio emission of the moon are consistent with the very low thermal conductivity of the surface layer which was derived from the variation in the infrared emission during eclipses ( e.g., Garstung, 1958 ).

Field shifts were derived from the mean value of the resonance line, defined as the field about which the first moment is zero.

this mass threshold was derived from the detector calibration and an assumed impact velocity of Af.

The threshold mass is derived from the momentum threshold with the assumption of a mean impact velocity of Af in the U.S. work and Af in the U.S.S.R. work.

A concentration distribution has been derived from radar observations sensitive to the fifteenth magnitude ( Manning and Eshleman, 1959 ).

Therefore, N is inversely proportional to the radius cubed and in fair agreement with the inverse 7/2 power derived from 1958 Alpha and 1959 Eta data.

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The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.

This sort of manipulation is especially troublesome in Fromm's work because, although his system is derived largely from certain philosophic convictions, he asserts that it is based on empirical findings drawn both from social science and from his own consulting room.

It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

The data presented are derived almost entirely from X-ray diffraction measurements and include atomic coordinates, cell dimensions, and atomic and ionic radii.

All the other force vectors are derived from these.

It is an experience of a new depth of community derived from an awareness of the corporate indwelling of Christ in His people.

These affairs temporarily relieved the monotony of school or work activities containing no anticipation of achievement and joy of craftsmanship, no sense of dignity derived from a job well done.