The trail was originally blazed by Alonso De León in 1690, and is said to have been traversed by more early Spanish explorers and settlers than any other section of the state.

The boy, in the legend is sometimes called Juan and at others, Cristóbal and is said to be the son of Alonso de Pasamonte and Juana la Guindero ( even though no body was ever found ).

The same can be said of Alonso Cano, represented by paintings such as The Dead Christ supported by an Angel.

In that decree, Charles V does not credit a single individual but, rather, a group of individuals that included Alonso Pita da Veiga: " ..... and in the same battle, you ( Alonso Pita da Veiga ) accomplished so much that you reached the person of said King ( Francis I of France ) and captured him, jointly with the other persons that captured him .” (" .... y en la misma batalla ficistes tanto que allegastes á la misma persona del dicho Rey, y fuistes en prenderle, juntamente con las otras personas que le prendieron ....")

Earlier Vallejo ancestors were said to include a captain who served under Hernan Cortés and an admiral, Alonso Vallejo, said to be the commander of the ship which brought Columbus back to Spain as a prisoner in 1500.

“ Alonso braked ten metres earlier than he had the lap before ,” said Coulthard.

Series editor Axel Alonso said, " We thought it would be interesting to play with the genre.

It was discovered by westerners in 1499 when an expedition commanded by Alonso de Ojeda in which he was accompanied by Amerigo Vespucci, explored the Venezuelan coasts compiling information and naming the new lands, said expedition arrived to the gulf after passing through the Netherlands Antilles and the Peninsula of Paraguaná.

Described by his ministerial colleagues as a man " driven by his strong ideological beliefs and professionalism ", Zapatero is said to have chosen Alonso on the grounds that the latter would fight terrorism without compromising human rights.

Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo in his History of All the Things that Have happened in the Kingdom of Chile mentions Colocolo in 1561 as a principal leader in Arauco and is said to be a friend until death to the Spanish.

Similarly, Axel Alonso, on the same site, said:

It is said that it was also inhabited by Archbishop Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta.

BBC's Maurice Hamilton said that " the thought that Fernando Alonso might cruise to the Championship ..... was dispelled in the most convincing fashion.

Her father, Alonso Sánchez de Cepeda, bought a knighthood and successfully assimilated into Christian society.

Such an argument was forwarded by the Spanish theologian Alonso Tostado as late as the 15th century and " St. Augustine doubts " was a response to Columbus's proposal to sail westwards to the Indies.

In the pleitos colombinos, witness Alonso Gallego from Huelva remembered hearing Columbus say, " Mister Martín Alonso Pinzón, we are going on this voyage which, if we go on with it and God reveals new lands to us, I promise by the Royal Crown to treat you as a brother.

The decree states that Alonso Pita da Veiga took from Francis I of France the following: " and you took from him his left gauntlet and a brocade decorated with four crosses of silver cloth and a crucifix made of the True Cross, of which events the same King of France gave testimony in a document signed by his own hand.

In 2004 Carrillo was the protagonist in Amarte es mi Pecado ( Loving you is my sin ), alongside Sergio Sendel and Alessandra Rosaldo, produced by Alonso.

Though European mariners, such as John Cabot and Alonso Sanchez in the 15th Century and the Norse 500 years still earlier, explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence the first European explorer known to have sailed up the St. Lawrence River itself was Jacques Cartier, during his second trip to Canada in 1535, with the help of Iroquoian chief Donnacona's two sons.

The adjacent cities in the Gran Asunción area, such as Luque, Lambaré, San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora and Mariano Roque Alonso, have absorbed most of this influx due to the low cost of the land and easy access to Asunción.

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.

The conflict did not have great consequences, since, following brief fighting in the area surrounding Puerto Alonso, the expedition was completely scattered.

The first European to reach the region may have been the Spaniard Alonso de Ojeda in 1499.

Alonso is widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers to have competed in the sport.

Since then, Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Roy Keane, Xabi Alonso and Michael Owen have gone down the same road alongside many others.

Two Spanish drivers have won the Spanish Grand Prix ; Carlos de Salamanca in 1923 and Alonso in 2006, with Spanish speaking Juan Manuel Fangio winning in 1951 as well as Maldonado in 2012.

Harrigan and his detectives Leona Cantrell ( María Conchita Alonso ) and Danny Archuleta ( Rubén Blades ) find the Colombians have been slaughtered.

He later accused the team of favouring Alonso, but the reasons why his 2004 season deteriorated have never been properly identified.

He managed to maintain third position for a majority of the race before a computer issue showed the car as having less fuel than it should have, forcing him to conserve fuel in the final 10 laps, allowing Vettel and Alonso to cruise past, only for him to realise that the car had enough fuel for him not to need to conserve, after the race.

The official date of foundation for Palos is 1322, when the town was granted to Alonso Carro and Carro's wife Berenguela Gómez by Alfonso XI of Castile, although the town may have been occupied during earlier centuries by Paleolithic, Tartessian, Roman, Visigothic, and Muslim inhabitants.

It is worth noting that Maria Ortiz Cota, the mother of ruthless Governor Pedrarias or Pedro Arias, was the daughter of " converso " Toledo family member and Royal Treasurer Alonso Cota, deceased 1468, married to a certain Teresa Ortiz, their children being known however as " Ortiz Cota " at the " Portuguese family style ", whereby in Spanish succession style would have been known as " Cota Ortiz " and in the rest of European countries as " Cota " only.

It is believed that Alonso Ramirez is the first Puerto Rican to have traveled around the world.

Former Madrid player Francisco Pavón is a well-known Getafe associate, while Fernando Alonso and Rafael Nadal have attended matches at the Coliseum in the past.

Alonso stayed in Merseyside to be at her side while she gave birth, later saying: " It was a little frustrating to miss the match against Inter but I have to be with my family at times like these.

Another possibility is that this was because Martín did not get along well with Catalina Alonso, the woman who had been living with his father since he became a widower, and with whom the father would have two illegitimate children: Francisco and Inés Pinzón.

There is also a possibility that some historians have confused Martín Alonso Pinzón with his brother Francisco, who is more plausibly ( but still controversially ) believed to have had this particular disease.

After the departure of Kimi Räikkönen to Ferrari, it was speculated that he may have been in contention for a 2007 race seat in the team alongside World Champion Fernando Alonso.

Alonso and Webber were again the first to have a second fuel stop, on lap 30 and 31 respectively but this time Alonso had enough of a lead to re-enter the track ahead of Räikkönen while Webber dropped to ninth after his stop.

For example, in 1610 as the result of a witch hunting craze the Suprema ( the ruling council of the Spanish Inquisition ) gave everybody an Edict of Grace ( during which confessing witches were not to be punished ) and put the only dissenting inquisitor, Alonso de Salazar Frías, in charge of the subsequent investigation.

The exact nature of Francis's surrender — in particular, who exactly had taken him prisoner — is uncertain, with a variety of candidates ranging from Alonso Pita da Veiga, Juan de Urbieta and Diego Dávila to Lannoy himself being put forward by various historians.

Alonso put in several fast laps to extend his lead, and pitted on lap 41.

After Heidfeld's stop, a superb overtaking manoeuvre into the Nouvelle chicane put him ahead of Alonso.

Räikkönen continued to put in very quick laps in an attempt to leap-frog Montoya, cutting the gap to Alonso to 9. 2 seconds.

During the 1981 " Nacional " tournament ( which River would eventually win ), Alonso often clashed with then coach Alfredo Di Stéfano ( who seldom selected him for the first team and instead put younger players such as Carlos Daniel Tapia and Jose Maria Vieta in his position ).

After the Nacional, Alonso was put on the transfer list and was sold to Vélez Sársfield on 1982.