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Ferrer and Center
Berkman helped establish the Ferrer Center in New York during 1910 and 1911, and served as one of its teachers.
The Ferrer Center also served as a community center for adults.
The strong police response to the Tarrytown protests led to a bomb plot by several Ferrer Center anarchists.
Commonly called the Ferrer Center, it was founded by notable anarchists — including Leonard Abbott, Alexander Berkman, Voltairine de Cleyre, and Emma Goldman — first meeting on St. Mark's Place, in Manhattan ’ s Lower East Side, but twice moved elsewhere, first within lower Manhattan, then to Harlem.
The Ferrer Center opened with only nine students, one being the son of Margaret Sanger, the contraceptives-rights activist ; Man Ray, too, was a student.
Besides Berkman and Goldman, the Ferrer Center faculty included the Ashcan School painters Robert Henri and George Bellows, and its guest lecturers included writers and political activists such as Margaret Sanger, Jack London, and Upton Sinclair.
In July 1914, radical anarchists who frequented the Ferrer Center, and loosely associated with its adult education program, plotted to bomb the mansion of tycoon industrialist John D. Rockefeller.
On failing to enter the Rockefeller estate, they took the bomb back to the Lexington Avenue apartment of Louise Berger ( a school habitué and an editor of the Mother Earth Bulletin ), where it exploded, killing four people, including three of the bombers, and wounding many others, and brought political notoriety upon the Ferrer Center.
After the 4 July 1914 Lexington Avenue bombing, the police investigated and several times raided the Ferrer Center and other labor and anarchist organisations in New York City.
In 1933, James and Nellie Dick, who earlier had been principals of the Stelton Modern School, founded the Modern School in Lakewood, New Jersey, which survived the original Modern School, the Ferrer Center, becoming the final surviving such school, lasting until 1958.

Ferrer and named
Facundo Flores Horrach ( the chief military officer ), Mariano Ferrer Bravo ( a retired Spanish officer ) and three civilians ( males of the Suñer Mas family ) were taken to Minorca and executed in harbour place named S ' Hort d ' en Morillo ( Mahón ).
As a result, the OCP Chairman ( Dan O ' Herlihy ) opts for a cyborg program helmed by middle-ranking executive Bob Morton ( Miguel Ferrer ), named " RoboCop ".
There, some are amused and others offended by the Anti-Semitic rants of a German businessman named Rieber ( José Ferrer ).
The early founders of the municipality named the place Valencia in honor of its patron saint, San Vicente Ferrer of Valencia, a town in Spain.
The previously-schismatic Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer, a pontifical religious institute founded in 1979, is named after him.
An ardent opponent of Prohibition, Irene Ferrer was named, in 1934, the New York State chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws.
The Chapel's carillon is named for alumnus Mel Ferrer ' 34
It was remade in 1960 as a French-British co-production that was directed by Edmond T. Gréville, and starred Mel Ferrer as Stephen Orlac and Christopher Lee as a new magician character named Nero.

Ferrer and honor
In an interview held on March 2003, lead singer from Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer, was asked about his friendship with Ruben Gonzalez, for which he answered :" Whoever had the chance, and I dare to say, honor, to have met Ruben Gonzalez, would understand my following words.
It was first taken to a small sanctuary built to honor San Juan de Dios and later, under the rule of the governor Francisco de la Roche Ferrer, a bigger chapel was erected to venerate the newly found Virgin of Chiquinquirá.
Following the Papal Bull of Pope Pius IX, dated 27 May 1865, the Dominican Bishop Mariano Cuartero, O. P., the first Bishop of Jaro, laid the foundation of this seminary in 1869, in honor of St. Vincent Ferrer.
In May, residents celebrate the Fiesta de las Velas ( Festival of the Candles ) in honor of its patron saint San Vicente Ferrer, with a large procession.
Pandan's popular town fiesta, known as the Tugbong Festival, is held in honor of St. Vincent Ferrer, its patron saint.
The main ones in Valleseco are to honor Saint Vicente Ferrer, in mid May or at the beginning of June, depending on Easter.
It is in honor of its Patron Saint Vecente Ferrer.
* Town Festival, September 12 to 15, in honor of Holly Christ and Saint Vicent Ferrer.

Ferrer and Spanish
* 1982 – David Ferrer, Spanish tennis player
* 1859 – Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish free-thinker ( d. 1909 )
* April 5 – Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint ( b. 1350 )
* The earliest Spanish opinion was provided by Jaime Ferrer in 1495 at the request of and to the Spanish king and queen.
* A bilingual recording featuring narration in Spanish and English by José Ferrer, performed by the Vienna State Opera Orchestra conducted by Eugene Aynsley Goossens ( Kapp Records, 1959 ).
* Jesús García Ferrer ( Jesulink ) created Raruto, a Spanish Naruto doujinshi published online.
Gabriel Francisco Víctor Miró Ferrer, known as Gabriel Miró, is a Spanish modernist writer.
Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia ( 10 January 1859 – 13 October 1909 ) ( known as Francisco Ferrer y Guardia in Spanish and often simply as Francisco Ferrer ) was a Catalan Spanish free-thinker and anarchist.
A follower of Spanish republican leader Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Ferrer was exiled to Paris with his wife and children in 1885.
* Vicente Ferrer Spanish philanthropist, dedicated more than 40 years to eradicate poverty in the region.
Ferrer was born as Yolanda Guadalupe Ferrer in Maracaibo to Spanish immigrant parents.
Vincent was the fourth child of the Anglo-Scottish nobleman William Stewart Ferrer ( descended from the English Ferrer family and the Stewarts of Scotland ) and his Spanish wife, Constantia Miguel.
Miguel Cabanellas Ferrer ( January 1, 1872, Cartagena – May 14, 1938 ) was a Spanish Army officer during the Spanish Civil War.

Ferrer and anarchist
In 1909, while visiting France, Rocker denounced the execution of the anarchist pedagogue Francisco Ferrer in Barcelona, leading him to be deported back to England.
In 1901, Catalan anarchist and freethinker Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia established " modern " or progressive schools in Barcelona in defiance of an educational system controlled by the Catholic Church.
The Modern Schools, also called Ferrer Schools, were United States schools, established in the early twentieth century, that were modeled after the Escuela Moderna of Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, the Catalan educator and anarchist.
In 1914-15, after withdrawing from the Socialist Party, Harrison began work with freethinkers, the freethought / anarchist-influenced Modern School Movement ( started by the martyred Spanish anarchist / educator Francisco Ferrer ), and his own Radical Forum.
Additional Sunday Schools linked to the organized anarchist movement sprouted up in various American urban centers during the first decade of the 1900s, springing primarily from the so-called Modern School movement developed by the Catalan anarchist Francisco Ferrer in 1901.
* Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia ( 1859 – 1909 ), Catalan educator, anarchist, and free-thinker who founded the Escuela Moderna

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