He is best known in association with the Peralta land grant, also known as the Barony of Arizona, a pair of fraudulent land claims that if certified would have granted him ownership over of land in central Arizona Territory and western New Mexico Territory.

Composers during this period included Bernardo de Peralta Escudero ( mostly active around 1640 ), and also Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, who was the most famous composer of the 17th century in Mexico.

At San Juan de Ulúa ( in modern Vera Cruz ) he was chanced upon by a strong Spanish force that was bringing, by a royal edict issued on 16 June 1567 by king Philip II of Spain, an investigative commission consisting of Licenciado Gaspar de Jarava, Licenciado Alonso Muñoz, and Doctor Luis Carrillo to find out about the insistent rumours alleging some sort of move towards Mexican independence from the Spanish Crown by the Spanish Viceroy of Mexico Gaston de Peralta, 3rd Marquis of Falces, and his half-brothers Martin Cortés I " El Mestizo ", Martin Cortés y Zúñiga ( also known as Martin Cortés II and Martín Cortés, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca ) and Luis Cortés y Hermosillo.

Peralta is also credited in the 1985 movie Real Genius, starring Val Kilmer, William Atherton, and Gabriel Jarret.

In 2003 Peralta also did cameo work in the game where he played himself.

The track was used on the soundtrack of the Wes Anderson film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, for which Devo member Mark Mothersbaugh composed new music, and also used in the Stacy Peralta documentary " Dogtown and Z-Boys ", in the End Credits.

It is said that it was also inhabited by Archbishop Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta.

Rancho San Antonio, also known as the Peralta Grant, was a land grant by Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá, the last Spanish governor of California, to Don Luís María Peralta, a sergeant in the Spanish Army and later, commissioner of the Pueblo of San José, in recognition of his forty years of service.

In the early 19th century, the Spanish crown deeded the East Bay area to Luís María Peralta for his Rancho San Antonio.

In 1790 Manuel Quimper took possession of the bay for Spain and named it " Bahía de Núñez Gaona " in honor of Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, viceroy of New Spain.

Ingersoll represented the noted con-artist, James Reavis, the ' Baron of Arizona ' for a time, pronouncing his Peralta Land Grant claim airtight.

Basque rancher Pedro Luro bought a part of Peralta Ramos land for agricultural production.

Many singers have covered Georges Brassens ' lyrics in other languages, for instance Pierre de Gaillande, who translates Brassens ' songs and performs them in English, Koshiji Fubuki in Japanese, Fabrizio De André ( in Italian ), Alberto Patrucco ( in Italian ), and Nanni Svampa ( in Italian and Milanese ), Graeme Allwright and Jake Thackray ( in English ), Sam Alpha ( in creole ), Yossi Banai ( in Hebrew ), Jiří Dědeček ( in Czech ), Mark Freidkin ( in Russian ), Loquillo, Paco Ibáñez, Javier Krahe, Joaquín Carbonell and Eduardo Peralta ( in Spanish ), Jacques Ivart ( in esperanto ), Franz Josef Degenhardt and Ralf Tauchmann ( in German ), Zespół Reprezentacyjny ( they released 2 CDs of Brassens ' songs in Polish ) and Piotr Machalica ( in Polish ), Cornelis Vreeswijk ( Swedish ) and Tuula Amberla ( in Finnish ).

* Jhonny Peralta ( born 1982 ), shortstop for the Detroit Tigers

* Joel Peralta ( born 1976 ), relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays

* Rafael Peralta ( 1979-2004 ), U. S. Marine nominated for the Medal of Honor

Enrique Peralta seized power which ended any political return to Guatemala for Arévalo.

In 1986, Mike was filmed for a part in the third and now classic Powell Peralta video " The Search For Animal Chin ".

The company was short lived though, as late in 2010 Vallely joined the roster of Powell Peralta Skateboards for a third time along with Airwalk Footwear and Bones Bearings.

In 2001, Stacy Peralta won the Sundance Film Festival Award for Directing Award Documentary.

Directed by skateboarder turned documentary producer Stacey Peralta ( best known for the skating documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys ), Riding Giants includes interviews and commentary materials with many of the surfers mentioned in this article.

Powell Peralta suffered as many of their riders defected and either set up or rode for those new independent companies.

The stones are named for the Peralta family, said to be an old and powerful Mexican family, one of whose ancestors, Pedro de Peralta, was the first governor of the Spanish territory in New Mexico.

According to Lon Safko, they were made in the Peralta family and handed down for generations.

Dr. George M. Willing Jr. paid Peralta $ 20, 000 for the mining rights for an enormous swath of land – about in southern Arizona and New Mexico – based on a deed originally granted by the Spanish Empire in the 18th century.

In 2010, Beaulieu completed work on a children's poetry book, Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children ,, a dark, twisted, humorous collection illustrated by Len Peralta.

Peralta holding a producer credit for The 1 Second Film in January 2005

In 1992, Peralta left Powell-Peralta to direct and produce for television full-time.

In 2008, Peralta directed a series of television commercials for Burger King in which the Inuit people of Greenland, Transylvanians of Romania and Hmong of Thailand, known as " Whopper virgins " in the ads, were offered their first taste of a fast food hamburger and asked to compare the Whopper to McDonald's Big Mac.

Peralta subsequently came under attack for what some deemed exploitation of native peoples.

Dogtown and Z-Boys is a 2001 documentary film directed by Stacy Peralta.

According to Stacy Peralta in a 2004 interview, " Dogtown has sold over a million DVDs and more than 700, 000 VHS.

He left Powell Peralta a year later when they wouldn't allow him to turn professional and joined Dogtown Skateboards.

He portrayed John McFarland in Gus Van Sant's Elephant and Stacy Peralta in the skateboarding film Lords of Dogtown.

* Lords of Dogtown ( 2005 ) as Stacy Peralta

Lords of Dogtown is a 2005 biographical film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Stacy Peralta.

Set in the Dogtown area of Santa Monica in the early 1970s, surfers Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and Jay Adams enjoy the life of skating and surfing the pier with board designer Skip Engblom and the other locals.

The film is based on the documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys by Stacy Peralta, whom Hardwicke worked with on the film Thrashin '.

Lords of Dogtown follows Peralta, Tony Alva, and Jay Adams as they revolutionize the world of skateboarding.

It was directed by Stacy Peralta, who later went on to direct the retrospective documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys.

The film's $ 400, 000 budget was financed by Vans, Inc., whose skateboarding shoes Stacy Peralta had been paid to endorse during his days as a professional skateboarder.