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* Todas Las Noches A Las Once
After an uncomfortable encounter with Wiley's girlfriend, Jenna ( Brian's ex-girlfriend ), Keyes tracks Wiley to a cabin in the Everglades, where he is abducted by Las Noches.
Wiley reveals himself as the group's leader, and tells Brian that his job is to return to Miami ( alive ), and spread the word of Las Noches demands.
To drive home the fact that Las Noches is serious, Wiley has Keyes witness as their latest victim, retiree Ida Kimmelman, is fed to Pavlov.
Since it is the start of the tourist season, the police's initial reaction to Keyes's warnings is to cover up, dismissing the Las Noches communiques as a hoax.
Abandoning Las Noches, he sends a mail bomb to Al Garcia, whom he identifies as a " traitor " to the anti-Castro movement.
Believing that Las Noches are dead, the Miami civil leaders breathe a sigh of relief.
With all their security measures focused on the Parade, the game is a perfect opportunity for Las Noches, alive and well, to strike.
* Skip Wiley ( White, 37 ): A popular columnist for the Sun, leader and founder of Las Noches.
Overflowing with machismo, he thinks of himself as the most experienced and well-trained of Las Noches at committing terrorist acts, but in fact is completely inept at anything except writing snappy press releases ( a number of farcical situations in the novel arise from his attempts to plant homemade bombs ).
* Tommy Tigertail ( Seminole, mid-20's ): A member of the Seminole Nation, and the source of Las Noches funding.
* During the civic meeting to discuss Las Noches, one of the city leaders in attendance laments, half-jokingly, that he wishes they had targeted Disney World instead of Miami.
* Tommy Tigertail, the only surviving member of Las Noches, reappears, peripherally, in Hiaasen's novel Nature Girl.
* Las Mil y Una Noches ( 2003 )
* Las Mil y Una Noches ( 2003 )
Las Noches del Hombre Lobo / The Nights of the Wolf Man ( 1968 ) directed by Rene Govar ; ( this is apparently a lost film today, but Naschy insisted that he made this film in Paris ; perhaps it was filmed, but never completed.
* Las Noches del Hombre Lobo ( Nights of the Wolf Man ) 1968, directed by Rene Govar

Las and de
* A statue of Alexander Fleming stands outside the main bullring in Madrid, Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas.
Other such breast mountains are Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, Beinn Chìochan and the Maiden Paps in Scotland, the " Bundok ng Susong Dalaga " ( Maiden's breast mountains ) in Talim Island, Philippines, the twin hills known as the Paps of Anu ( Dá Chích Anann or the breasts of Anu ), near Killarney in Ireland, the 2, 086 m high Tetica de Bacares or " La Tetica " in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain, and Khao Nom Sao in Thailand, Cerro Las Tetas in Puerto Rico and the Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, among many others.
Clergyman Bartolomé de Las Casas observed a number of massacres initiated by the invaders as the Spanish swept over the island, notably the massacre near Camagüey of the inhabitants of Caonao.
es: Las hadas de Cottingley
In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Las Cañadas caldera of Teide on Tenerife, and the Caldera de Taburiente on La Palma, both in the Canary Islands.
The maximum length, east to west, is 390 km from Punta de Agua to Las Lajas, on the border with Haiti.
Bartolomé de Las Casas ( c1484-1566 )
Bartolomé de Las Casas, as a settler in the New World, was galvanized by witnessing the brutal torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists.
The harbour at Caleta de Fuste ( Antigua ( Las Palmas ) | Antigua )
In 1486, Antonio de Nebrija published Las introduciones Latinas contrapuesto el romance al Latin, and the first Spanish grammar, Gramática de la lengua castellana, in 1492.
In the 12th century the Almoravid empire broke up again, only to be taken over by the Almohad invasion, who were defeated by an alliance of the Christian kingdoms in the decisive battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212.
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, in his Verdadera Historia de la Conquista de Nueva España, recalls that Las Casas captured Olid and beheaded him at Naco.
In Spain in 1542 Bartolomé de Las Casas argued against Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in the famous Valladolid debate, Sepúlveda mainted an Aristotelian view of humanity as divided into classes of different worth, while Las Casas argued in favor of equal rights to freedom of slavery for all humans regardless of race or religion.
es: Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
* 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
: Our adventures in the desert were eventually terminated by our arrival at " Las Vegas de Santa Clara ", and a pleasant thing it was to look once more upon green grass and sweet water, and to reflect that the dreariest part of our journey lay behind us, so that the sands and jornados of the Great Basin would weary our animals no more ...
oc: Bauma de Las Caus
* 1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by Jose Artigas.

Las and Diciembre
Corregimientos include Panama City ( capital ), San Felipe, El Chorrillo, Santa Ana, La Exposición o Calidonia, Curundú, Betania, Bella Vista, Pueblo Nuevo, San Francisco, Parque Lefevre, Río Abajo, Juan Díaz, Pedregal, Ancón, Chilibre, Las Cumbres, Pacora, San Martín, Tocumen, Las Mañanitas and 24 de Diciembre.

Las and Spanish
Spain established a colony there, and gave the islands the official title of Las Marianas in honor of Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria, widow of Philip IV of Spain.
Bartolomé de Las Casas a 16th-century Dominican friar and Spanish historian participated in campaigns in Cuba ( at Bayamo and Camagüey ) and was present at the massacre of Hatuey ; his observation of that massacre led him to fight for a social movement away from the use of natives as slaves and towards the importation of African Blacks as slaves.
In 1811, José Gervasio Artigas, who became Uruguay's national hero, launched a successful revolution against the Spanish authorities, defeating them on 18 May at the Battle of Las Piedras.
In 1811, José Gervasio Artigas, who became Uruguay's national hero, launched a successful revolt against Spain, defeating Spanish forces on May 18 in the Battle of Las Piedras.
* March 31 ( Easter Sunday ) – Mission San Buenaventura is founded in Las Californias, part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain.
* July 17 – Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest ( b. 1484 )
* August 24 – Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico ( d. 1566 )
By 1521, the ships of Magellan and other Spanish explorers had reached that island archipelago, which they named Las Islas de Filipinas, after Philip II of Spain.
The Spanish concern about Russian colonial intrusion prompted initiating the upper Las Californias Province settlement, with presidios ( forts ), pueblos ( towns ), and the California missions.
The army of Navarre fought beside other Christian Spanish kingdoms in the decisive battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212, after which the Muslim conquests in the Iberian Peninsula were slowly reduced to the small territory of Granada in 1252.
* Las Californias, a region along the west coast of North America during Spanish and Mexican rule
The earliest known mention of the idea of California was in the 1510 romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián by Spanish author Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.
The whole peninsula of Baja California was: the lower part of the Las Californias Province of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain ; and then a single territory of Mexico from 1773 until 1931, when it was divided into Northern and Southern territories.
* 1690s – first decade of the 18th century: Spanish settlement and colonization in lower Las Californias ( Baja peninsula ), the Spanish missions in Baja California established.
* 1773: The Spanish province of Las Californias is divided into Alta (" Upper ") and Baja (" Lower ") California.
During the last quarter of the 18th century, the first Spanish settlements were established in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( colonial Mexico ).
* A Las Barricadas, Spanish anarchist anthem
In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas ( 1656 ).
Las Animas County takes its name from the Mexican Spanish name of the Purgatoire River, originally called El Río de las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio, which means " River of the Lost Souls in Purgatory.
The Spanish master's spell is apparent in Sargent's The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882, a haunting interior that echoes Velázquez's Las Meninas.
Codex Las Huelgas, a medieval Spanish music manuscript, circa 1300 AD.

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