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He grew up in the Spanish Netherlands and spent 40 years serving in the Irish regiment of the Spanish army.
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Joseph R. Brown grew up in the bustle and enterprise of New England between 1810 and 1830.
Pulley had set her up at the Semiramis Hotel, but she grew impatient waiting for a royal reception and moved to a luxurious apartment to which the royal pimp had no key.
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Kearton got off and tore up some dry grass that grew in cracks between the rocks and piled it in a heap and wanted to make the smoke signal that would bring Loveless and Means and the rest of the party.
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`` Somehow I imagine that as you grew up you were alone a lot.
He straightened up, ready to vent his exasperation, then grew afraid.
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In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.
Schweitzer, the pastor's son, grew up in this exceptional environment of religious tolerance, and developed the belief that true Christianity should always work towards a unity of faith and purpose.
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In it Cartier notes that, as the son of an antimilitary anarchist and one who grew up among the disenfranchised, Grothendieck always had a deep compassion for the poor and the downtrodden.
Bohr was born in Copenhagen in 1922, and grew up surrounded by physicists such as Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg, who were working with his father at the Institute for Theoretical Physics ( now the Niels Bohr Institute ) at the University of Copenhagen.
Before leaving, he buried his sandals, shield, and sword under a huge rock and told her that, when their son grew up, he should move the rock and bring the weapons to his father, who would acknowledge him.
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Both the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire quickly grew into the first global political and economic systems with territories spread around the world.
Thereafter, the population of Spanish Hispaniola grew at a slow pace.
The loss of other Spanish principalities then followed, as the Spanish marches grew more and more independent.
Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.
From 2002 through 2008 the Spanish population grew by 8 %, of which 6 % were foreign.
The Spanish exports grew 11. 5 % compared to October 2010, to reach 19. 394 million euros, the statement said.
Dalí grew a flamboyant moustache, influenced by 17th-century Spanish master painter Diego Velázquez.
The Whigs grew more powerful during the course of the War of the Spanish Succession, until in 1710 Anne dismissed many of them from office.
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With their victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of the Downs, Dutch confidence in their naval abilities grew to such a degree, that after peace was made with Spain, they allowed their navy to deteriorate greatly.
In the 18th century Charles III of Spain removed interdiction of commerce with Spanish colonies in America and the port and commercial activity of the city grew once again.
Matagorda County is named for the canebrakes which once grew along the coast ( Matagorda is a Spanish word meaning " thick bush ").
Known in O ' odham as Nowa: l, the name Nogales means " black walnuts " in Spanish, and the walnut trees which once grew abundantly in the mountain pass between the cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, can still be found around the town.
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The city initially grew slowly, subject to numerous attacks from Native American tribes and threats of Spanish invasion.
The name of the town comes from the local springs, which were named by the Spanish for the cane grass that once grew around them.
The town, founded in 1881 at the completion point of a long-sought southern transcontinental railway, was named for nearby Sierra Blanca Mountain, which was named for the white poppies which grew on it ( sierra blanca is Spanish for white range ).
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Zita and her siblings were raised to speak Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English She recalled, " We grew up internationally.
Stroessner's parents were Hugo Strößner, who emigrated from Hof, Bavaria, Germany, and worked as an accountant for a brewery, and Heriberta Matiauda, who grew up in a wealthy Paraguayan family of criollo Spanish descent.
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Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were many European immigrants who went to Venezuela, only to later migrate to the United States along with their children and grandchildren who born and / or grew up in Venezuela speaking Spanish.
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