Undoubtedly even the old Southern stalwart Richmond has felt the new wind: William Styron mentions in his latest novel an avenue named for Bankhead McGruder, a Civil War general, now renamed, in typical California fashion, `` Buena Vista Terrace ''.

Johnston managed to convince a few volunteers to stay and fight as he himself served as the inspector general of volunteers and fought at the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista.

* 1812 – Agoston Haraszthy Hungarian-American traveler, writer, and winemaker, founded Buena Vista Winery ( d. 1869 )

When the Mexican-American War started, Pike joined the cavalry and was commissioned as a troop commander, serving in the Battle of Buena Vista.

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* 1847 – Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista – 5, 000 American troops defeat 15, 000 Mexicans.

* 1933 – Orlando " Cachaito " López, Cuban musician ( Buena Vista Social Club ) ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Orlando " Cachaito " López, Cuban musician Buena Vista Social Club ( b. 1933 )

A tribute album, Gumby, was released in 1989 by Buena Vista records.

In the United States, Home Improvement started to air in broadcast syndication in September 1995, distributed via Buena Vista Television ( now Disney-ABC Domestic Television ) and continued to be syndicated until 2007 ; in a manner similar to Seinfeld and The Simpsons after they began airing in broadcast syndication, episodes of Home Improvement were not aired in order of their production code number or original airdate.

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On February 22, 1847, Davis fought bravely at the Battle of Buena Vista and was shot in the foot, being carried to safety by Robert H. Chilton.

* 1919 – Rubén González, Cuban pianist ( Buena Vista Social Club and Estrellas de Areito ) ( d. 2003 )

* 1907 – Compay Segundo, Cuban guitarist, singer and composer ( Buena Vista Social Club ) ( d. 2003 )

In 2002, Paramount, Buena Vista Distribution, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros. formed the Digital Cinema Initiative.

In 2006, Robert Benfer and a research team discovered a 4200-year-old observatory at Buena Vista, a site in the Andes several kilometers north of present-day Lima.

Another contemporary example involves the municipalities of Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida.

* 13-Compay Segundo, 95, Cuban musician and star of the Buena Vista Social Club.

Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club ( 1999 ), about Cuban musicians, and The Soul of a Man ( 2003 ), on American blues.

Buena Vista Social Club, Rose Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, California

Warner ended the venture in 1988 and joined up with Walt Disney Pictures ; this joint venture lasted until 1993, when Disney created Buena Vista International.

* February 22 – Mexican-American War – The Battle of Buena Vista: 5, 000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15, 000 Mexican troops under Antonio López de Santa Anna, defeating the Mexicans the next day.

* Era of Buena Vista pyramid / observatory in Peru.

The recordings took place in Cuba's legendary EGREM Studios, home of the Buena Vista Social Club, and featured a band made up of Cuba's top young musicians, including Harold Lopez Nussa.

( The City of Reedy Creek was renamed to the City of Lake Buena Vista around 1970.

After the film, it was explained that for Disney World, including EPCOT, to succeed, a special district would have to be formed: the Reedy Creek Improvement District with two cities inside it, the City of Bay Lake and the City of Reedy Creek ( now the City of Lake Buena Vista ).

However, the idea of EPCOT was instrumental in prompting the state of Florida to create the Reedy Creek Improvement District ( RCID ) and the Cities of Bay Lake and Reedy Creek ( soon renamed Lake Buena Vista ), a legislative mechanism which allows the Walt Disney Company to exercise governmental powers over Walt Disney World.

Because the idea of EPCOT was never implemented, the Disney Corporation remained almost the sole landowner in the district allowing it to maintain control of the RCID and the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista ; Disney further cemented this control by deannexing Celebration from the RCID.

Though originally rejected by Walt Disney because of its religious tone, the film was supported by Roy Disney, and was distributed by Buena Vista, making it one of the few religious films ever associated with the Disney Company.

Sherman and Ord reached the town of Yerba Buena, in California, two days before its name was changed to San Francisco.

Henry Clay, Jr. was killed at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War.

The General intended that the city be named " Francisca " after his wife, but this name was dropped when the former city of " Yerba Buena " changed its name to " San Francisco ".

Song of the South was re-released in theatres several times after its original Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Pictures premiere, each time through Buena Vista Pictures: in 1956 ; in 1972 for Walt Disney's 50th anniversary ; in 1973 as the second-half of a double bill with The Aristocats ; in 1980 for the 100th anniversary of Harris ' classic stories ; and in 1986 for the film's own 40th anniversary and in promotion of the upcoming Splash Mountain attraction at three of Disney's theme parks.

It was commercially distributed by Touchstone Pictures theatrically, and by Buena Vista Home Entertainment in home media format.

His mother was born in Buena Vista, Chickasaw County, Mississippi.

This copy was used when Fantasia was reissued in stereo by Buena Vista Distribution in SuperScope, a derivative of the anamorphic widescreen CinemaScope format, on February 7, 1956.

But due to a long-frayed relation with the studio, which had little enthusiasm for the producer's documentary releases, Disney opted to sever his relation with RKO and create his own distribution subsidiary – Buena Vista Distribution, which he named after the street where his office was located.

Disney's film studio consortium, Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group assumed control of Miramax, which was projected to have a smaller annual production budget.

Production at Miramax was taken over by Daniel Battsek, who formerly was head of Buena Vista International in the UK.

Kern County was nearly named Buena Vista County for the large, and now drained, Buena Vista Lake between Bakersfield and Taft.

The ' Central Valley Grassland ' is the Nearctic temperate and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion which was once a diverse grassland containing areas of desert grassland ( at the southern end ), prairie, savanna, riverside woodland, marsh, several types of seasonal vernal pool, large lakes such as now-dry Tulare Lake, the largest lake in the United States west of the Mississippi, Buena Vista Lake and Kern Lake.

For many years, Robby the Robot was on display at the Movie World / Cars of the Stars Museum in Buena Park, California ; the museum eventually closed.