Twice a week he drove his tallyho over the Santa Cruz road, upland and through the redwood forest, with orchards below him at one hand, and glimpses of the Pacific at the other.

Breakfast was at the Palace Hotel, luncheon was somewhere in the mountain forest, and dinner was either at Boulder Creek or at Santa Cruz.

A replica of two coaches made in England for the Belmont Club in the East, and matchless west of the Rockies, it was the despair of whips on the Santa Cruz run.

But for the start of the Santa Cruz run, the whip fell.

Twice he left everything to his entourage, and fled to make the Santa Cruz tour under Vernon's guidance.

They cantered down the peninsula, not slackening until the coach reached Woodside where the Santa Cruz uplands begin.

The Santa Cruz mountains sprawl over three counties, and the roads twist through sky-tapping redwoods down whose furrowed columns ripple streams of rain, even when heat bakes the Santa Clara valley below at the left.

Though creeks in the Santa Cruz mountains flow brimful the year round and it is forever spring, the apples that grow there have a wintry crackle.

A large geode, or " amethyst-grotto ", from near Santa Cruz in southern Brazil was presented at the 1902 exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany.

* 1981 – Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer

Tomb of Afonso Henriques in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra.

In July 2006, the tomb of the king ( which is located in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra ) was to be opened for scientific purposes by researchers from the University of Coimbra ( Portugal ), and the University of Granada ( Spain ).

* 831: 959-1122 Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Monterey Counties, CA < Current for all PB switches >

In the late 1990s, under Project Monterey, IBM and the Santa Cruz Operation planned to integrate AIX and UnixWare into a single 32-bit / 64-bit multiplatform UNIX with particular emphasis on running on Intel IA-64 ( Itanium ) architecture CPUs.

* 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

* University of California, Santa Cruz ( UCSC ACM )

In the summer of 1993, Dick Zimmerman, a 44-year-old retired broadcasting executive from Larkspur, California, happened to see the episode in which Butt-head joked, “ Hey, Beavis, let ’ s go over to Stewart ’ s house and light firecracker in his cat ’ s butt .” Five days later, a cat was found killed by a firecracker in nearby Santa Cruz.

* Santa Cruz, California

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM ( born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago ) is a former West Indian international cricket player.

He then went to San Juan secondary, which is located in Moreau Road, Lower Santa Cruz.

Lara moved in with his future fellow Trinidadian cricketer Michael Carew in Woodbrook, Port of Spain ( a 20 minute drive from Santa Cruz ).

However in July 1797 he had lost an arm at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and had been forced to return to Britain to recuperate.

In 1983 he was reportedly observed leaving a Santa Cruz 7-Eleven with a Slurpee, hot dog and Twinkies.

The Argentine portion of Patagonia includes the provinces of Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut and Santa Cruz, as well as the eastern portion of Tierra del Fuego archipelago.

* French group, under which they also included the countries that codified their law either in 19th or in the first half of the 20th century, using the Napoleonic code civil of year 1804 as a model ; this includes countries and jurisdictions such as Italy, Portugal, Spain, Louisiana, states of South America ( such as Brazil ), Quebec, Santa Lucia, Romania, the Ionian Islands, Egypt, and Lebanon

Dill is found practically anywhere in Santa Maria, and curiously rare in the other Azorean Islands.

He soon added a sixth ship, Mary ( formerly Santa Maria ), a Portuguese merchant ship that had been captured off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands.

The Juan Fernández Islands ( Spanish: Archipiélago Juan Fernández ) are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands ; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first two being formerly called Más Adentro and Más Afuera respectively.

Those animals were very likely killed by early Paleo-Native Americans, and habitat loss caused by a rising sea level that split Santa Rosae into the outer Channel Islands.

The relationship between the two Latin American countries has evolved amid conflicts over the San Andrés y Providencia Islands located in the Caribbean sea close to the Nicaraguan shoreline and the maritime boundaries covering 150, 000 km² that included the islands of San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina and the banks of Roncador, Serrana, Serranilla and Quitasueño as well as the arbitrarily designed 82nd meridian west which Colombia claims as a border but which the International Court has sided with Nicaragua in disavowing.

* 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U. S. aircraft carrier, Hornet, is sunk and another aircraft carrier, Enterprise, is heavily damaged.

In 1767 Captain Philip Carteret rediscovered the Santa Cruz Islands and Malaita.

Choiseul, the Shortland Islands, the New Georgia Islands, Santa Isabel, the Russell Islands, the Florida Islands, Malaita, Guadalcanal, Sikaiana, Maramasike, Ulawa, Uki, Makira ( San Cristobal ), Santa Ana, Rennell, Bellona and the Santa Cruz Islands.

Especially the Santa Cruz Islands, North of Vanuatu, ( of which Tikopia is part ) are isolated at more than from the other islands.

* Eastern-most point – Fatutaka, Santa Cruz Islands, Temotu Province

Santa's lieutenants in charge of the Journal-Bulletin Santa Claus Fund are looking for the usual generous response this year from Cranston residents.

Usually Brazilian bocks are produced by local breweries or craft breweries, especially in the cities of German settlement in Santa Catarina State and also in Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

The six islands in the Barlavento group are Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista.

All but Santa Luzia are inhabited.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

Colombia's most important ocean terminals are Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast and Buenaventura and Tumaco on the Pacific Coast.

Other important ports and harbors are Bahía de Portete, Leticia, Puerto Bolívar, San Andrés, Santa Marta, and Turbo.

The Cantigas de Santa Maria (" Canticles of Holy Mary ";, ) are 420 poems with musical notation, written in Galician-Portuguese during the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio ( 1221 – 1284 ) and often attributed to him.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

Nearly all of the very large wildfires are caused by human activity during periods of very hot, dry easterly Santa Ana winds.

The four pillars set up by Cão on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the inscriptions on two of them from Cape Santa Maria and Cape Cross, dated 1482 and 1485 respectively, are still to be read and have been printed ; the Cape Cross padrão is now at Kiel ( replaced on the spot by a granite facsimile ); those from the Congo estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon Geographical Society.

Goya's works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits, but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville, the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting, and probably the etchings of Los Disparates.

However, although " Father Christmas " and " Santa Claus " have for most practical purposes been merged, historically the characters have different origins and are not identical.

Nowadays he is often called Santa Claus but also often referred to in Britain as Father Christmas: the two names are synonyms.

His remains, originally buried at Bethlehem, are said to have been later transferred to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, though other places in the West claim some relics — the cathedral at Nepi boasting possession of his head, which, according to another tradition, is in the Escorial.

The islands have an area of, of which are taken up by Robinson Crusoe ( together with Santa Clara ), and by Alexander Selkirk.

Rainfall is higher in the winter months, and varies with elevation and exposure ; elevations above 500 meters experience almost daily rainfall, while the western, leeward side of Robinson Crusoe and Santa Clara are quite dry.

* Lost Villages-The Lost Villages are ten communities ( Aultsville, Dickinson's Landing, Farran's Point, Maple Grove, Mille Roches, Moulinette, Santa Cruz, Sheek's Island, Wales, Woodlands ) in the Canadian province of Ontario, in the former townships of Cornwall and Osnabruck ( now South Stormont ) near Cornwall, which were permanently submerged by the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958.

The major Roman projects are St. Peter's, Palazzo Farnese, San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, the Sforza Chapel ( Capella Sforza ) in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Porta Pia and Santa Maria degli Angeli.

In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common ; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.