Image: Columbus and His Son at La Rábida. JPG | Columbus and His Son at La Rábida, 1838, National Gallery of Art

Image: Columbus and His Son at La Rábida. JPG | Eugène Delacroix, Columbus and His Son at La Rábida, 1838

La Rábida would play a central in the Christian evangelization of the Americas.

Alfonso XIII of Spain gave the Plus Ultra to the Argentine Navy, in which it served as a postal service airplane ; the Argentines donated to Spain a statue of Icarus, which is situated at La Rábida.

* Izquierdo Labrado, Julio-Relaciones de Palos de la frontera con el Algarve a finales del siglo XV, La Rábida, 1993.

* Ortega, Fray Ángel ( 1925 ) La Rábida.

His home, now the Casa Museo de Martín Alonso Pinzón, was on the old royal road to the Monastery of La Rábida.

The Franciscans of the Monastery of La Rábida put Columbus in touch with Pinzón.

Monastery of La Rábida.

According to the testimony of Francisco Medel and Hernán Pérez Mateos, he was brought to the La Rábida Monastery, where he died ; he was entombed there, as was his wish.

* Monasterio de La Rábida ( La Rabida Monastery )

The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).

A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building -- if he was here at all, and not waiting for the prime minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La Guardia Airport.

Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.

" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.

Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.

It already included a large country house called Larrard House or Muntaner de Dalt House, and was next to a neighborhood of upper class houses called La Salut ( The Health ).

Sargon was claimed to be the son of La ' ibum or Itti-Bel, a humble gardener, and possibly a hierodule, or priestess to Ishtar or Inanna.

Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte was inspired by the conflict between King Afonso and Pedro and Inês.

But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

La fiera was written for Carnival in 1772 and premiered on 29 January.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

Shortly before his death, he passed his chair on to John of La Rochelle, setting the precedent for that chair to be held by a Franciscan.

He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel in Salon ( part of it now incorporated into the restaurant La Brocherie ) but re-interred during the French Revolution in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent, where his tomb remains to this day.

Founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding at those two missions and to serve the Indians living east of the Coast Range.

The final Franciscan mission to be constructed in native Chumash territory was Santa Ynez, founded in 1804 on the Santa Ynez River with a seed population of Chumash people from Missions La Purisima and Santa Barbara.

By some accounts it was founded by Franciscan friars as early as the early 18th Century and called Nuestra Senora De La Luz ( Our Lady of the Light ).

In 1976, after more than eight centuries, Hugues Delautre, one of the Franciscan fathers in charge of servicing the Vézelay sanctuary since 1966, discovers that not only the orientation axis of La Madeleine, but also its internal structure, have been determined taking into account the position of the earth relatively to the sun.

The famed Seneca Oil Spring, discovered by the Franciscan Missionary Joseph De La Roche D ' Allion in 1627 was located about 14 miles upstream of Olean Point.

The name of the town is taken from that of the Franciscan hermitage of La Verna () in Tuscany, Italy.

Born in La Paz, Bolivia to humble mestizo parents, Belzu was educated by Franciscan friars.

The Franciscan Hospital de San Jose was built for sailors and soldiers in 1591, the San Diego de Alcala convent in 1608, the Porta Vaga ( La Ermita ), San Juan de Dios, Santo Domingo, Santa Monica ( Recolletos ) and San Pedro, the port's parish church.

It was the crew of the French explorer La Pérouse who conducted the first Catholic ceremony on Australian soil in 1788-the burial of Father Louis Receveur, a Franciscan monk, who died while the ships were at anchor at Botany Bay, while on a mission to explore the Pacific.

In 1759 a Franciscan monk mentioned, but not identified by name, by Viera y Clavijo wrote to a friend: " I was most desirous to see the island of San Borondon and, finding myself in Alexero, La Palma, on 3 May at six of the morning, I saw, and can swear to it on oath, that while having in plain view at the same time the island of El Hierro, I saw another island of the same colour and appearance, and I made out through a telescope, much wooded terrain in its central area.

For well over 100 years the parish school was operated by the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration ( FSPA ) of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and many girls of the parish who felt a calling to religious life joined that order.

It was recorded that in 1591, the Encomiendas of Moron and Taitay were under the jurisdiction of the Franciscan Order in the Province of La Laguna ; and the Encomiendas of Nabotas ( Navotas ), Tambobo ( Malabon ), Tondo, Parañaque, Longalo ( Dongalo ), Tagui and Pasig were under the jurisdiction of the Augustinians in the Province of Tondo.

It was therefore the crew of the French explorer La Pérouse who conducted the first Catholic ceremony on Australian soil in 1788-the burial of Father Louis Receveur, a Franciscan monk, who died while the ships were at anchor at Botany Bay, while on a mission to explore the Pacific.

The first reported European presence in the area dates back to 1635, when Franciscan Fray Juan Jerónimo Jiménez founded the settlement of San Buena Ventura de Quimiri, which was three kilometres ( 2 mi ) away from present-day La Merced.