In the line of operatic trades to cushion the budget, the Dallas Civic Opera will use San Francisco's new Leni Bauer-Ecsy production of `` Lucia Di Lammermoor '' this season, returning the favor next season when San Francisco uses the Dallas `` Don Giovanni '', designed by Franco Zeffirelli.

On both sides of the eastern terminus of the bridge are large salt ponds and levee trails belonging to the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

In July 1604, Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha ( known as Don Quixote, Part I ) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum.

* 1946 – Don Francisco, American songwriter and musician

Don Francisco Amorós y Ondeano, marquis de Sotelo, was born on February 19, 1770 in Valence and died on August 8, 1848 in Paris.

She was armed with 18 guns and had a crew of 149 men, under the command of Don Francisco Darrichena.

* 1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay.

San Francisco Bay provided the nation's first wildlife refuge, Oakland's artificial Lake Merritt, constructed in the 1860s, and America's first urban National Wildlife Refuge, the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge ( SFBNWR ) in 1972.

Parks and protected areas around the bay include Eden Landing Ecological Reserve, Hayward Regional Shoreline, Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center, Crown Memorial State Beach, Eastshore State Park, Point Isabel Regional Shoreline, Brooks Island Regional Shoreline, and César Chávez Park.

Nevertheless, he paid a dowry of twelve thousand pounds for her impending marriage to Don Francisco de Moncada, son of the Prince of Paterno, Viceroy of Sicily, whom she married in 1571.

Don Francisco was said to be supportive of her painting.

** Don Francisco, American Christian musician

* February 24-February 25 – First Battle of Somorrostro ( Third Carlist War ): Determined to raise the siege of Bilbao by the Pretender Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano sent General Domingo Moriones with a relief force of 14, 000 men.

* March 25 – 27 – Second Battle of Somorrostro ( Third Carlist War ): In a renewed attempt to raise the siege of Bilbao by Don Carlos VII, Republican commander Marshal Francisco Serrano himself arrived with 27, 000 men and 70 cannon.

Finally, stagings and recordings of the original five-act French version of the opera have become more frequent, performances having been given at the Teatro alla Scala in 1970 featuring Plácido Domingo with Katia Ricciarelli, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1996, with Roberto Alagna as Don Carlos ( which has been released on CD and DVD ), and at the San Francisco Opera in 1986 and 2003.

Don Cenobio's grandson Don Francisco Javier gained international attention for insisting that " there cannot be tequila where there are no agaves!

The governor of the area, Brigadier Don Gabriel José de Zuloaga had prepared the port defenses very diligently, and Spanish troops were well commanded by Captain Don Francisco Saucedo.

On December 10, 1971, Ryan was traded to the California Angels along with pitcher Don Rose, catcher Francisco Estrada and outfielder Leroy Stanton for shortstop Jim Fregosi ( who would later manage Ryan in Anaheim ).

* Salazar, Antonio Bautista de, Relación sobre el periodo del gobierno de los Virreyes Don Francisco de Toledo y Don García Hurtado de Mendoza ( 1596 ), Coleción de documentos inéditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista y colonization de las posesiones espanolas en América y Oceanía sacadas en su mayor parte de Real Archivo de Indias, 42 vols., Madrid, 1864 – 84.

Among them were Cleveland ’ s Arthur B " Mickey " McBride ( a real estate and taxi magnate ), San Francisco ’ s Anthony Morabito ( lumber ), Chicago ’ s John L. Keeshin ( trucking ), and Los Angeles ’ group of racetrack owner Benjamin Lindheimer, actor Don Ameche and MGM's Louis B. Mayer.

* San Francisco Bay Area disc jockey Dr. Don Rose, was born and raised in North Platte and frequently referred to the city on his morning show.

Throughout the show's run on Univision, a disclaimer said by either Don Francisco, Javier Romero or one of the co-presenters precedes the car games by stating: " Neither Sabado Gigante or Univision ask for money in exchange for prizes, if you receive a call asking for money in exchange for a prize someone claiming to be on behalf of Univision or Sabado Gigante, please call the corresponding authorities.

He works along side Don La Greca, and precedes The Michael Kay Show.

The Matilda McDuck character was dropped in Barks ' 1991 Duck Family Tree sketch ( where Gladstone Gander is the biological grandson of Grandma Duck and not related to Scrooge ), but Don Rosa picked up the name, and used Matilda McDuck as a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

In the sketch, Jacques Cartier ( Don Ferguson ) has to go through customs, whose officer is played by Greene.

After " Live, from New York ...", which is cried out at the end of the opening sketch, Don Pardo announces the show's title, then names the cast members and musical guest ( s ) in a voice-over during the opening montage.

** During the show's live 300th episode, Alan Park played the role of Seamus, because the last sketch had Don Ferguson doing his Rex Murphy impersonation, accompanied by Mary Walsh who did her famous character, Marg: Princess Warrior.

Even more outrageous was a sketch written by Arch Oboler that starred West and Don Ameche as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

A sketch parodying Soul Train mocked the show as Old Train, suggesting the show ( along with its host, Don Cornelius ) was out of touch and only appealed to the elderly and the dead.

MADtv an American sketch comedy television series based on Mad, and contained animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts as well as images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s.

* Ammon Hennacy: an anecdotal sketch by Don Dedera

In Crackerjack sketches, he usually played a pompous or upper-class character, who would always get exasperated with his partner Don Maclean during the course of the sketch.

It was Bill Murray and sketch writer ( and bit player ) Don Novello who were the regulars at the Billy Goat.

Mr Don & Mr George was a Channel 4 sitcom, featuring two characters from the Scottish comedy sketch show Absolutely.

Called a `` Slo-Flo '' meter it was designed for this job by Power Plus Industries of Los Angeles, a key individual being Don Nelson.

The following discussion of this subject has been adapted from the book Causes Of Catastrophe by L. Don Leet.

Jay Porter drew a base on balls to fill the bases but Don Wert's smash was knocked down by Rudolph for the putout.

The biggest single act would doubtless be staged by Frankie himself: his Inaugural wardrobe had been designed by Hollywood Couturier Don Loper, who regularly makes up ladies' ensembles.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.

After a few centuries, following an incident where the Goths ' women successfully fended off a raid by a neighboring tribe, while the menfolk were off campaigning against Pharaoh Vesosis, the women formed their own army under Marpesia and crossed the Don, invading Asia.

It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, after having secured former Liberal minister Don Chipp as a high-profile leader .< ref >

A pattern to be imitated by later composers, most famously and successfully by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Don Giovanni.

On a Sabbath in September, 1304, the letter was to be read before the congregation, when Jacob Machir Don Profiat Tibbon, the renowned astronomical and mathematical writer, entered his protest against such unlawful interference by the Barcelona rabbis, and a schism ensued.

At the close of the work are added several eulogies written by Abba Mari on Ben Adret ( who died in 1310 ), and on Don Vidal, Solomon of Perpignan, and Don Bonet Crescas of Lunel.

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.

The Orioles won their first-ever American League championship in 1966, and in a major upset, swept the World Series by out-dueling the Los Angeles Dodgers aces Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

Don McLean's popular 1971 ballad " American Pie " is inspired by Holly and the day of the plane crash.

When Costas was first hired by NBC, Don Ohlmeyer, who at the time ran the network's sports division, told the then 28-year-old Costas that he looked like a 14-year-old ( a story that Costas would recite during an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien when O ' Brien commented about Costas ' apparent inability to " age " normally ).

Don Facundo began attempting to " tame " rum by isolating a proprietary strain of yeast still used in Bacardi production today.

In 1975, he co-starred with Tim Conway and Don Knotts in the Disney movie The Apple Dumpling Gang, which was well received by the public.

In the case of Software development, this moment is generally agreed to be the publication in the 1980s of the specifications for the IBM Personal Computer published by IBM employee Philip Don Estridge.

The album, titled Pretty on the Inside, was released in August 1991 on Caroline Records, produced by Gordon and Gumball's Don Fleming.

In one case, in the early 1940s, Don Flowers ' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP.