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Santiago de Compostela was captured and sacked by the French during the Napoleonic Wars ; as a result, the remains attributed to the apostle were lost for near a century, hidden inside a cist in the crypts of the cathedral of the city.
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Image: Stgo Abril. jpg | Santiago de Chile on the western slopes of a snowcapped Andes
* 1806 – Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.
* Acropolis of Athens, Full Reconstruction, animation by the Technological Research Institute, University of Santiago de Compostela, on YouTube
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The Saint-Esprit church was part of a bigger complex built by Louis XI to care for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela.
Moving from the experimental stage to a more commercial endeavor, he and his brother José set up shop in a Santiago de Cuba distillery they bought in 1862 ; that distillery housed a still made of copper and cast iron.
In 1899 US General Leonard Wood appointed Emilio Bacardí Mayor of Santiago de Cuba.
In 1912 Emilio Bacardi travelled to Egypt where he purchased a mummy for the future Emilio Bacardí Moreau Municipal Museum in Santiago de Cuba ,( mummy still on display ).
In 1998, under the distinctive bat logo, the phrase " company founded in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 " was added.
There are very small harbors, with protective breakwaters, essentially used by fishing boats at Tarrafal on Santiago, Pedra de Lume on Sal and Ponta do Sol on Santo Antão.
With a couple of hundred men, he subdued the local inhabitants and founded the city of Santiago de Nueva Extremadura, now Santiago de Chile, on February 12, 1541.
* Santiago ( Metro de Santiago ) website
Velázquez, who had become Governor of Cuba relocating from Baracoa to Santiago de Cuba, was given the task of apportioning both the land and the indigenous Cubans to groups throughout the new colony.
In 1662, English admiral and pirate Christopher Myngs captured and briefly occupied Santiago de Cuba on the eastern part of the island, in an effort to open up Cuba's protected trade with neighbouring Jamaica.
In the War of Austrian Succession, the British carried out unsuccessful attacks against Santiago de Cuba in 1741 and again in 1748.
As with most public transport in Cuba, the vehicles used are second hand, and the flagship Tren Francés (" French train ") between Havana and Santiago de Cuba is operated by coaches originally used in Europe between Paris and Amsterdam on the ex-TEE express.
* Santiago de Cuba
* ( Gal ) Pena, Xosé Ramón, " Historia da litratura medieval galego-portuguesa ", Santiago de Compostela, 2002, 199-210.
Examples include an commuter system in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, the long Supervia in Rio de Janeiro, and the Metrotrén in Santiago, Chile.
1541 founding of Santiago de Chile
The Chilean alternative duo The Paintings formed in Santiago de Chile, 2009 by Eija-Lynn and Hieronymus released their debut album Tiny Tales Of Tides & Suns in February 2010.
Santiago and Compostela
The first recorded case of the formation of an hermandad occurred when the towns and the peasantry of the north united to police the pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, and protect the pilgrims against robber knights.
A popular pilgrimage site in the past and today is Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, Spain, in reference to the Apostle St. James, The Great.
During his reign, the holy bones of St. James the Great were declared to have been found in Galicia, at Santiago de Compostela.
Almanzor waged several campaigns attacking and sacking Burgos, Leon, Pamplona, Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela before his death in 1002.
Santiago de Compostela (, ) is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.
In 813, according to medieval legend, the light of a bright star guided a shepherd who was watching his flock at night to the burial site in Santiago de Compostela.
Santiago is the site of the University of Santiago de Compostela, established in the early 16th century.
Santiago de Compostela has a substantial nightlife.
Under the Köppen climate classification, Santiago de Compostela has a humid oceanic ( Cfb ) climate, with drier summers, so sometimes being classified as a Csb climate, similar to that of the coastal strips of Oregon, Washington and Vancouver, in the western coast of North America.
Sepulcher of king Ferdinand II of León | Ferdinand II ( d. 1187 ), in the Royal Pantheon of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela | cathedral
The area of Santiago de Compostela was a Roman cemetery by the 4th century, being occupied by the Suebi in the early 400s, during the initial collapse of the Roman Empire when they settled in Galicia and Portugal.
A partial view of Santiago de Compostela, with the Pico Sagro in the background
In the 15th century still it was preserved in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela the banner which guided the Galician armies to battle, red, in the centre Saint James riding a white horse and wearing a white cloak, sword in hand: The legend of the miraculous armed intervention of Saint James, disguised as a white knight to help the Christians when battling the Muslims, was a recurrent myth during the High Middle Ages.
The 1, 000 year old pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is known in English as the Way of St. James and in Spanish as the Camino de Santiago.
* Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
* University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is served by Santiago de Compostela Airport and rail service.
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He was born in Santiago, Chile.
Responsible to the governor, town councils known as Cabildo administered local municipalities, the most important of which was Santiago, which was the seat of a Royal Appeals Court () from 1609 until the end of colonial rule.
Upon descending the plane on his wheelchair, he stood up and saluted the cheering crowd of supporters, including an army band playing his favorite military march tunes, which was awaiting him at the airport in Santiago.
It has been believed that this was also why Peirce used " Santiago " (" St. James " in Spanish ) as a middle name, but he appeared in print as early as 1890 as Charles Santiago Peirce.
La Bataille des dix millions was made in 1970 with Mayoux as co-director and Santiago Álvarez as cameraman and is about the 1970 sugar crop in Cuba and its disastrous effects on the country.
The Santiago light rail system is a planned light rail system in the Dominican Republic's second largest city, still in developing stages it was said to start on mid 2008 but right now is currently on hold due to lack of approval and of central government funds.
In 2004, a multidisciplinary team of academics from Complutense University, led by Francisco Parra Luna, Manuel Fernández Nieto and Santiago Petschen Verdaguer, deduced that the village was that of Villanueva de los Infantes.
Desi Arnaz was born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III in Santiago de Cuba to Desiderio Alberto Arnaz II ( March 8, 1894-May 31, 1973 ) and his wife Dolores de Acha ( April 2, 1896-October 24, 1988 ).
Reyes ' rebellion lasted only eleven days before Reyes surrendered at Linares, Nuevo León, and was sent to the Santiago Tlatelolco prison in Mexico City.
Huerta ordered Villa's execution, but Madero commuted the sentence and Villa was sent to the same Santiago Tlatelolco prison as Reyes from which he escaped on Christmas Day 1912.
This was the first report of a tsunami relayed to the central government in Santiago.
He carried out linguistic field work with Alfredo Viola Santiago, who was an engineering student at the university from 1914-1917.
The neuron's place as the primary functional unit of the nervous system was first recognized in the early 20th century through the work of the Spanish anatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
The theory was put forward by Santiago Ramón y Cajal in the late 19th century.
His technique was used by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and led to the formation of the neuron doctrine, the hypothesis that the functional unit of the brain is the neuron.
Although Santiago was worried about distractions, he noticed Francis played music and the pair began to jam together.
Santiago, in an interview with Mojo, described Deal as being " headstrong and want to include her own songs, to explore her own world " on the band's albums ; eventually she accepted that Francis was the singer and had musical control of the band, but after the Frankfurt incident, " they kinda stopped talking ".
Lovering stated that he, Santiago, and Francis moved there " because the recording studio was there ".
The album included " U-Mass ", which has been described as being about college apathy, and whose guitar riff was written years before at the University of Massachusetts before Francis and Santiago dropped out.
In 2011 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente was released, a graphic novel by Wilfred Santiago detailing Clemente's life in a comic-book format.
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