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The region includes several small mountain ranges including the Chiricahua Mountains, Huachuca Mountains, Santa Ritas, the Santa Catalinas, the Rincons, the Piñalenos, and others.
Included in this area are Mount Hopkins, Mount Wrightson, and Madera Canyon, all located in the Santa Ritas.

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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 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.
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.

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The expedition had landed in the city of Santa María la Antigua del Darién, Panama, where many other future conquistadors had already arrived, among them Francisco Pizarro.
The Islas de la Bahía archipelago also has a number of smaller islands, among them the islets of Barbareta ( Isla Barbareta ), Santa Elena ( Isla Santa Elena ), and Morat ( Isla Morat ).
The dedicatory inscription in the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì in the Vatican Palace records: " You gave your city temples, streets, squares, fortifications, bridges and restored the Acqua Vergine as far as the Trevi ..." In addition to restoring the aqueduct that provided Rome an alternative to the river water that had made the city famously unhealthy, he restored or rebuilt over 30 of Rome's dilapidated churches, among them San Vitale ( 1475 ) and Santa Maria del Popolo, and added seven new ones.
In 1963 he co-founded Young Citizens for Action, a community organization project that aided juveniles among the street gangs in Santa Fe.
Because of his influence, Cimarosa obtained a scholarship at the musical institute of Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, where he remained for eleven years, chiefly studying with great masters of the old Italian school ; Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini, and other musicians of repute are mentioned among his teachers.
The abbacy of Santa Maria di Bonarcado contained more central, upland regions where a pastoral economy dominated and women were less economically useful ; among children in that region, sex ratios are highly skewed in favour of men.
The remains of Arlington Springs Man on Santa Rosa Island are among the traces of an ancient habitation in California, dated to the last ice age, Wisconsin glaciation about 13, 000 years ago.
The remains of Arlington Springs Man on Santa Rosa Island are among the traces of a very early habitation, dated to the Wisconsin glaciation ( the most recent ice age ) about 13, 000 years ago.
These works included Cantigas d ' escarnio e maldicer and the vast compilation Cantigas de Santa Maria (" Songs to the Virgin Mary "), which was written in Galician-Portuguese and figures among the most important of his works.
There are several hotels, among them the Pousada de Santa Catarina, which overlooks the Douro River.
Even historical figures such as Attila the Hun, Blackbeard, and Antonio López de Santa Anna, Billy The Kid, and Cao Cao have been included among his ancestors.
Sequels to Rounders, Bad Santa, and Shakespeare in Love are among the films being developed under this new deal, while sequels to Bridget Jones ’ s Diary, Cop Land, From Dusk till Dawn, Swingers, Clerks, Shall We Dance ?, and The Amityville Horror are being billed as " potential " projects.
Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse were among the first character dispensers.
Though the official total area of the town is 11. 2 square miles, approximately 100 square miles of the surrounding Los Gatos Mountains ( within the Santa Cruz Mountains range ), has a Los Gatos address and uses the 95033 zip code ( primarily ) for U. S. Postal Service mail delivery ( among other purposes ).
But not everything is pink for the young couple and they have to survive, among other things, opposition by Miguel Angel's parents, Horacio ( Humberto Garcia ) and Rebecca ( Chony Fuentes ); Horacio < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s declining mental health that makes him become more and more dangerous, the obsessive passion that evil Santa Ortigosa ( Miguel Angel's ex, played by Gigi Zancheta ) feels for Miguel Angel, a partnership that Horacio creates with two drug dealers who end up murdered by him ' when he finds out they are using him, the revelation that Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s mother was killed by a younger Horacio because she left him for the man who would become Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s father and the kidnapping by Horacio of Miguel Angel and Estrellita < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boy twins once Miguel Angel and Estrellita had married and begun a family.
In 1938 Pullman built for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway an experimental pendulum-suspension " chair " car ( coach ), which saw service on the San Diegan train among others.
The 1930 ’ s marked a time when Albuquerque families began moving to the North Valley in greater numbers, some buying and restoring abandoned adobe homes, others proceeding to build large new houses .” United States Representatives Albert Simms and his wife Ruth Hanna McCormick were among these families and built two houses designed by Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem on the site of the current-day Los Poblanos Ranch.
In the early eighteen hundreds, Jose Jacinto Gallegos and his wife Florentina Dominguez were among the first Spanish settlers in Agua Fria, which contained several natural springs, woodlands and a perpetual flowing river ; and, Jose Jacinto Gallegos and Florentina conceived six children ; Maria Albina, Nestor, Deluvina, Elias and noted santero Celso Gallegos ; and, the parroquia of Santa Fe was administered under the auspices of the Diocese of Durango, Mexico in the 1800s.
A town government was organized and among the first items of business was to change the name of the town from Lamoreaux to Santa Fe.
Santa Anna and the surrounding area is also popular among dove, quail, turkey, and deer hunters.
The main ranges in the province of Teruel are Sierra de la Virgen, Sierra de Santa Cruz, Sierra de Cucalón, Sierra de San Just, Sierra Carrascosa, Sierra Menera, Sierra Palomera, Sierra de Javalambre, Sierra de Gúdar, Sierra de Albarracín and the Montes Universales, among others.
During the next decade, other adult learning programs were instituted: among them, Antioch Seattle ; Antioch Southern California with campuses in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara ; and the Antioch Education Abroad Program ( with centers in London, Germany and other locations ).
C. Peter Magrath, who discovered the exchange while researching Morrison R. Waite: The Triumph of Character, writes " In other words, to the Reporter fell the decision which enshrined the declaration in the United States Reports ... had Davis left it out, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pac R Co. would have been lost to history among thousands of uninteresting tax cases.
They attracted a particularly strong following among local chapters of the Hells Angels and got a recurring gig at one of the bikers ' favorite venues, the Chateau Liberté in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and they continued playing the Chateau through the summer of 1975 ( although these concerts did not include all band members, and they were unannounced and of a completely impromptu nature ).

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