The Blanco 4m played the central role in discovery of Dark Energy, a poorly understood component to the universe which is currently causing the universe to accelerate in its expansion.

* The Victor M. Blanco Telescope ( Blanco 4m ) was completed in 1974 and is very similar to the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope which was completed at KPNO in 1973.

* 1973 – The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.

* 1997 – Partido Popular ( Spain ) member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

** Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in Ermua, Spain and murdered by the ETA.

** Jesús Sosa Blanco, a colonel in the Cuban army of Fulgencio Batista, is executed in Cuba after being convicted of committing 108 murders for Batista.

* December 20 – Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by the terrorist organization ETA.

Deeper alluvial strata, overlying Precambrian basement rock, Eocene alluvial deposits from a shallow Laramide depression, the Blanco Basin Formation ; and Oligocene ash and lava flows associated with the Conejos Formation, is the Santa Fe formation, mixed alluvium and lava outflows from the San Juan volcanic field to the west ; later strata comprise the Alamosa formation, alternating layers of sand, gravel, and clay.

With Rioja Blanco, Viura is the prominent grape ( also known as Macabeo ) and is normally blended with some Malvasía and Garnacha Blanca.

: Kendall County is established from Kerr and Blanco counties, named for journalist George Wilkins Kendall.

Blanco County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U. S. state of Texas.

Blanco is named for the Blanco River which traverses the county.

* 1858, February 12-Blanco County is formed from parts of Comal, Hays, Burnet and Gillespie, and is named for the Blanco River.

County seat is also named Blanco.

* 1883 Blanco High School is chartered.

Blanco County is located in the Hill Country of central Texas, west of Austin and north of San Antonio.

Located in Curry County is Cape Blanco, the westernmost point in the lower 48 states, with a longitude of 124 degrees, 33 minutes and 46 seconds.

Rio Blanco County is the sixth most extensive of the 64 counties of the State of Colorado of the United States.

Nearby Cape Blanco is one of the windiest places on Earth, with gusts of 125 miles per hour ( 200 km / h ) or more achieved during severe winter storms.

It is on the southern Oregon Coast, at the northern end of what coastal Oregonians call the Banana Belt, because the weather from Port Orford south is noticeably warmer than the weather north of nearby Cape Blanco.

The city is adjacent to Cape Blanco, a headland consisting of the Cape Blanco terrace dated at 80, 000 years old, and is considered by many to be the westernmost point in the Lower 48 states.

Champions of Justice Return ( 1972 ) was very similar to the first Champions film, only with El Fantasma Blanco sitting in for El Medico Asesino, El Rayo de Jalisco replacing Tinieblas, and El Avispon Escarlata replacing La Sombra Vengadora.

Blanco appeared in only 22 games for the Cubs in 2007, missing two months of the season due to a herniated disc.

Also in the hospital is Norris ( played by Ronald Lacey ), who is considered " scum " even by the other inmates, who had managed to con Blanco out of his only possessions: an antique silver snuff box, a Japanese wireless radio, and a musical box that played Waltzing Matilda when opened.

Cabo Blanco, in the Atlantic Ocean, is the largest surviving single population of the species, and the only remaining site which still seems to preserve a colony structure.

Originally the mine was only the underground block cave and an underground concentrator with an ' hotel '/ bunkhouse where the workers live when the Rio Blanco valley is impassable in the winter.

On the other hand it may be accurately asserted that since Álvarez was the only serving military individual to serve as President in the five Presidencies of that period, such protests, whether justified or not, may serve to obscure the substantial civilian support for that administration by Colorado and Blanco politicians.

Among them, to name only a few, Lewis Gilbert's The Adventurers ( 1970 ), Mauro Bolognini's Fatti di gente per bene / Drama of the Rich ( 1974 ), Vincente Minnelli's A Matter of Time ( 1976 ), Valerio Zurlini's The Desert of the Tartars ( 1976 ), Robert Altman's Quintet ( 1979 ), J. Lee Thompson's Cabo Blanco ( 1980 ) and Frank Perry's Monsignor ( 1982 ).

At that time, Jimaní was not recognized by the historians and it did not even figured in the map of the Dominican Republic, appearing only Arroyo Blanco and La Furnia, which do not survive to the present day.

" Moliendo Café ", written in 1958 when Hugo Blanco was only 18 years old, has become one of the most recognized Venezuelan songs in all the world.

It is not know how or when this tradition started, but it attracts not only those from Tequisquiapan, but those from Santa Rosa Xajay, El Cerrito, Bordo Blanco and San Nicolás.

Costa Maya is a small tourist region in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, the only state with Caribbean Sea.

In 2011, light echoes from the 19th century Great Eruption of η Carinae were detected using the U. S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory's Blanco 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.

The principal telescopes at CTIO are the 4 m Victor M. Blanco Telescope, named after Puerto Rican astronomer Victor Manuel Blanco, and the 4. 1 m Southern Astrophysical Research ( SOAR ) telescope, which is situated on Cerro Pachón.

In another early use of the torpedo, Chilean frigate Blanco Encalada was sunk on April 23, 1891 by a torpedo from the gunboat Almirante Lynch, during the Chilean Civil War.

Día del Trabajo () commemorates the Mexican workers ' union movements on May 1 — specifically, the 1906 Cananea, Sonora, and the 1907 Río Blanco, Veracruz, labor unrest and repression.

In the year 1601 of the Third Age ( year 1 in the Shire Reckoning ), two Fallohide brothers named Marcho and Blanco gained permission from the King of Arnor at Fornost to cross the River Brandywine and settle on the other side.

The 14 rivers comprising the hydrographic system of Ponce are Matilde, Inabón, Bucaná, Jacaguas, Portugués, Cañas, Pastillo, Cerrillos, Chiquito, Bayagan, Blanco, Prieto, Anón and San Patricio The Jacaguas River runs for a brief stretch on the southeast area of the municipality.

First light bulb turned on in rural Blanco County.

Blanco Theater, on the courthouse square

Blanco is located on the Blanco River at.

He was serving as Pillsbury's assistant engineering and electrical officer when Guadalcanals task group located a German submarine off Cape Blanco, French West Africa, on June 4, 1944 and forced it to the surface.

In addition to all these he published Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Geschichte des Christentums ( 1823-1824, 2 vols., 1825, 3 vols., 1846 ); Das Eine und Mannichfaltige des christlichen Lebens ( 1840 ); papers on Plotinus, Thomas Aquinas, Theobald Thamer, Blaise Pascal, John Henry Newman, Blanco White and Thomas Arnold, and other occasional pieces ( Kleine Gelegenheitsschriften, 1829 ), mainly of a practical, exegetical and historical character.

Depor had one of the best youth systems at the time in Spain as youngsters like Amancio Amaro, Severino Reija, José Luis Veloso or Jaime Blanco started their careers at the Riazor, being part of the future Spanish national team and some of them such as Luis Suárez going on to play for larger clubs.

In the episode " Pardon Me " Fletcher speaks to Blanco ( David Jason ) in the prison gardens: this was filmed in the grounds of an old brewery outside Baldock on the A505 to Royston.

Chilean naval power was based on the twin central battery ironclads Cochrane and Blanco Encalada ( commissioned in 1874 and 1875, respectively ), the corvettes Chacabuco, O ' Higgins, and Esmeralda, the gunboat Magallanes, and the schooner Covadonga.

On February 24, 1880 approximately 11, 000 men in nineteen ships ( protected by Blanco Encalada, Toro, and Magallanes and two torpedo boats ) sailed from Pisagua and arrived off Punta Coles, near Pacocha, Ilo on February 26.

Tension mounted further on April 3, 2007, when the Fire signed Mexico and América star Cuauhtémoc Blanco to a Designated Player contract.

On the field, behind Blanco and Wilman Conde, Osorio's central defender at Millionarios, the Fire went on an extended unbeaten run to close the season, easily qualifying for the playoffs but were defeated at New England in the Eastern Conference Final.

Gloria al Bravo Pueblo ( Glory to the Brave People ) was adopted as Venezuela's national anthem by President Antonio Guzmán Blanco on May 25, 1885.

Astride his mighty steed Thunder, Red was a tough cowpoke who lived on Painted Valley Ranch in the Blanco Basin of the San Juan Mountain Range with his aunt, the Duchess, and his juvenile sidekick, Little Beaver, who rode his horse, Papoose, when they took off to deal with the bad guys.

He took office on 26 April 1884 and served until 15 September 1886, being succeeded by his predecessor Antonio Guzmán Blanco.

Ohlone mythology creation stories mention the world was covered entirely in water, apart from a single peak Pico Blanco near Big Sur ( or Mount Diablo in the northern Ohlone's version ) on which Coyote, Hummingbird, and Eagle stood.

File: Pico_Blanco_Fish_Ladder. jpg | Seasonal ladder at the Pico Blanco Scout Reservation on the Little Sur River, United States

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue met with Benson and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco at the Saints ' first home game in Baton Rouge on October 30.