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In Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, the ideal beauty is Dulcinea whose " hairs are gold "; in Milton's poem Paradise Lost the noble and innocent Adam and Eve have " golden tresses ", the protagonist-womanizer in Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel Ami who " recalled the hero of the popular romances " has " slightly reddish chestnut blond hair ", while near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien's work The Lord of the Rings, the especially favorable year following the War of the Ring was signified in the Shire by an exceptional number of blonde-haired children.
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* 2002 – Miguel Urdangarín y de Borbón
* 2012 – Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican politician, President of Mexico ( b. 1934 )
The Puerto Rican activist Julio Vizcarrondo had moved the Spanish Abolitionist Society from San Juan de Puerto Rico to Madrid at the request of premier Miguel Prim, himself a former Puerto Rico governor.
During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.
The first were nearly all in the downtown of Buenos Aires ( el égido de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires ), and soon Polish brewers began industrial production of beer: San Carlos in the province of Santa Fe, Río Segundo and Córdoba in the province of Córdoba, Quilmes ( Quilmes beer ) and Lavallol on the outskirts of La Plata ( in Buenos Aires Province ), San Miguel de Tucumán in the province of Tucumán and on the outskirts of the cities of Mendoza and Salta.
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 current commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army is General de Ejército Sr. Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba Poblete.
(; ), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.
Category: Novels by Miguel de Cervantes
* 1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos, last Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Portugal, during the Iberian Union ( b. c. 1590 )
* San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, since 1993
A reference to Erewhon and specifically " The Book of Machines " opens Miguel de Unamuno's short story, " Mecanópolis ," which tells of a man who visits a city ( called Mecanópolis ) which is inhabited solely by machines.
While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.
* Miguel de Cervantes claims that all chapters but the first in Don Quixote are translated from an Arabic manuscript by Cide Hamete Benengeli, parodying a plot device of chivalry books.
* Pájara: Terrero Miguel Díaz La Lajita, Terrero de Morro Jable a Terrero de Pájara.
Despite Magellan ’ s visit, Guam was not officially claimed by Spain until 1565 by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi.
* La Galatea, a 16th century pastoral novel by Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish literature blossomed as well, most famously demonstrated in the work of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
His reign also saw the rise to dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, who seized control of the government by military coup in 1923 and ruled as a dictator – with the monarch's support – for seven years ( 1923 – 1930 ).
In order to avoid accountability, King Alfonso XIII decided to support the dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, ending the period of constitutional monarchy in Spain.
* Improvisación nº 1, Improvisación nº 2, Improvisación nº 3 ( ref – La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes )
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* 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ( Book One of Don Quixote ) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
During the Renaissance, the genre of chivalric romance became popular in literature, growing ever more idealistic and eventually giving rise to a new form of realism in literature popularised by Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote.
While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.
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* Don Quixote ( 1605 ) by Miguel de Cervantes
* The second volume of Miguel Cervantes ' Don Quixote (" El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ") is published, and is as successful as the first.
** ( N. S., Saturday ) – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author ( b. 1547 )
* September 29 – Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer ( d. 1616 )
* An unnamed soldier in a short play by Miguel de Cervantes called The Vigilant Sentinel matched this character to the letter.
The Christian ships that won the Battle of Lepanto ( 1571 ) left from Messina: the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who took part in the battle, recovered for some time in the Grand Hospital.
In 1972, he played both Miguel de Cervantes and his fictional creation Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, the motion picture adaptation of the 1965 smash hit Broadway musical, opposite Sophia Loren.
Miguel de Cervantes in the book burning scene of Don Quixote considers it the best chivalry novel.
In Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, when Cardenio is relating the story of he and Luscinda, he refers to " that famous Thisbe.
The author Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares, and baptized in the Church of Santa Maria in 1547, although his family moved from the city when he was still young.
A century or so later, in the hands of writers such as Jean Froissart, Miguel Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the fictional knight Tirant lo Blanch and the real-life condottieri John Hawkwood would be juxtaposed against the fantastical Don Quixote and the carousing Sir John Falstaff.
* Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote
* Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, a digital library and archive of Spanish-language historical and literary works, hosted by the University of Alicante, Spain
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It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.
* The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's landmark novel Don Quixote (" El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha " or " The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha ") — one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition, is published and becomes Cervantes's first literary success.
# The Quadruple Alliance of April 1834 was formed by the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal to support queen Isabella II of Spain against her uncle Don Carlos, Count of Molina, who claimed the Spanish throne under the succession law of 1714-1830, and queen Maria II of Portugal ( represented by her father Pedro, 18th Duke of Braganza, former Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal ) against her uncle Miguel of Portugal, who proclaimed himself absolute king before the Portuguese Liberal War.
He had begun work on music for a film, Adventures of Don Quixote ( 1933 ) from Miguel de Cervantes's celebrated novel, featuring the Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin and directed by G. W. Pabst.
Two of his canvasses are at the Luxembourg, one at the Brussels Museum ( Avant la Corrida ), and one ( The Poet Don Miguel ) at the Vienna Gallery.
Following trends set in Europe and elsewhere, in 1877, Don Miguel Rosich conceptualized an exposition fair for Ponce.
While Don LaFontaine filled the category of " The Voice of God " until his death in 2008, Ashton Smith, Howard Parker and Miguel Ferrer provide most of the narration for movie trailers.
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