After completing her commission for the archbishop, Cassatt traveled to Madrid and Seville, where she painted a group of paintings of Spanish subjects, including Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla ( 1873, in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution ).

Along with other priests, they opposed their treatment as unjust and illegal in an audience with the Spanish king and in the subsequent royal commission.

In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft chairman of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines which had been ceded to the United States by Spain following the Spanish – American War and the 1898 Treaty of Paris.

Drake viewing treasure taken from a Spanish ship, print courtesy New York Public LibraryDuring the Middle Ages, armed private vessels enjoying their sovereign's tacit consent, if not always an explicit formal commission, regularly raided shipping of other nations, as in the case of Francis Drake's attacks on Spanish shipping, of which Elizabeth I ( despite protestations of innocence ) took a share.

Also, the 1934 United States Senate Nye Committee Memorandum shows that Zaharoff was paid with considerable money commissions in the transactions that were made between foreign companies and the Spanish Government ( for example, he got paid among a 5 and 7 % commission of the price of the American submarines sold to Spain, during all these years ).

After captivating the Spanish court with tales and exaggerations of his voyage down the Amazon, Orellana, after nine months deliberation, obtained a commission to conquer the regions he had discovered.

Knowing that, in the summer, the king had assured the Spanish ambassador that the Parliament would not be allowed to imperil a Spanish matrimonial alliance, he therefore surreptitiously instigated a conflict between the Parliament and the king over the Spanish Match, which resulted in a premature dissolution of the Parliament in December 1621 and a hobbling of the Irish commission in 1622.

On November 4, the Spanish delegation formally accepted the American demand, and Spain's Prime Minister Sagasta backed up the commission.

The Commission further conditioned the removal of the remains of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen and the relocation of the remains of Primo de Rivera within the Basilica upon the consent of the Catholic Church since “ any action inside of the Basilica requires the permission of the church .” Three members of the thirteen person commission gave a joint dissenting opinion opposing the removal of the remains of Franco from the Valley of the Fallen and the relocation of the remains of Primo de Rivera within the Basilica claiming such action would only further “ divide and stress ” Spanish society.

At San Juan de Ulúa ( in modern Vera Cruz ) he was chanced upon by a strong Spanish force that was bringing, by a royal edict issued on 16 June 1567 by king Philip II of Spain, an investigative commission consisting of Licenciado Gaspar de Jarava, Licenciado Alonso Muñoz, and Doctor Luis Carrillo to find out about the insistent rumours alleging some sort of move towards Mexican independence from the Spanish Crown by the Spanish Viceroy of Mexico Gaston de Peralta, 3rd Marquis of Falces, and his half-brothers Martin Cortés I " El Mestizo ", Martin Cortés y Zúñiga ( also known as Martin Cortés II and Martín Cortés, 2nd Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca ) and Luis Cortés y Hermosillo.

Cerdà actually drew up his plan under the commission of the then competent authority, the Spanish central government, with the support of the city council.

Miranda, who had bought himself a commission as a Captain of the Spanish Army around 1771 ( something not unusual in the European armies at the time ), became interested in the American Revolutionary War, while serving as Captain of the Aragon Regiment and aide-de-camp to General Juan Manuel de Cajigal y Monserrat, ( 1739 – 1811 ).

After a consultation with Carrera, Poinsett accepted a commission into the Chilean army to fight against the Spanish Royalists based in Peru.

* Spanish battleship Alfonso XIII, a Spanish Navy dreadnought battleship in commission from 1915 to 1937

Francisco de Ulloa () ( died 1540 ) was a Spanish explorer who explored the west coast of present-day Mexico under the commission of Hernán Cortés.

According to an online Catholic News Service article issued September 30, 2010, Archbishop Blazquez, 68, who had been Bishop of Bilbao and was once a professor of theology, was the former President of the Spanish Episcopal Conference from 2005 to 2008 and before his presidency had been the head of the Spanish conference's commission for the doctrine of the faith from 1993 to 2003.

Any person who uses the Spanish title of " Doctor " ( or " Dr .") without being included in this Government database can be prosecuted for fraud.

Felicitas Goodman studied a number of Pentecostal communities in the United States, the Caribbean and Mexico ; these included English, Spanish and Mayan speaking groups.

Conflicts included an attempt to conquer England – a cautious supporter of the Dutch – in the unsuccessful Spanish Armada, an early battle in the Anglo-Spanish War ( 1585 – 1604 ), and war with France ( 1590 – 1598 ).

However, the peace deals that followed included relinquishing the right to unite the French and Spanish thrones and the partitioning of Spain's European empire.

In 1684 the French and Spanish signed the Treaty of Ratisbon that included provisions to suppress the actions of the Caribbean privateers, which effectively ended the era of the buccaneers on Tortuga, many being employed by the French Crown to hunt down any of their former comrades who preferred to turn outright pirate.

On 17 July 1936, the Spanish Army launched a coup d ' état, leading to a prolonged armed conflict between Spanish Republicans ( the leftist national government ) and the Nationalists ( conservative, anti-communist rebels who included most officers of the Spanish Army ).

The beginnings of the Spanish musical were focused on romantic Spanish archetypes: Andalusian villages and landscapes, gypsys, " bandoleros ", and copla and other popular folk songs included in story development.

Palin also initiated the " Spanish Inquisition sketch ", which included the catchphrase " Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

First produced in 1896 as one of the first commercially successful and practical semi-automatic pistols, Spanish gunmakers in the late 1920s introduced " select fire " copies of the C96 with detachable magazines, and in the early 1930s Mauser engineers introduced the model 711 and 712 Schnellfeuer variants, which included a fire selector mechanism allowing fully automatic fire at a rate of 1000 rounds / minute.

Other MultiMate products included foreign language versions of the software ( i. e., " MultiTexto " in Spanish ), a hardware interface card for file-transfer with Wang systems and versions of MultiMate for different PC clone MS-DOS computers, and for use on Novell, 3COM and IBM's PC Token Ring networks.

* The Spanish delegation was headed by Gaspar de Bracamonte y Guzmán, and besides included the diplomats and writers Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, and Bernardino de Rebolledo.

These included: Rheinterrasse, Löwenbräu ( Bavarian beer restaurant ), Grinzing ( Viennese café and wine bar ), Bodega ( Spanish winery ), Csarda ( Hungarian ), Wild West Bar ( aka the Arizona Bar ) ( American ), Osteria ( Italian ), Kombüse ( Bremen drinking den-literally " galley "), Rübchen ( Teltow, named after the well-known turnip dish Teltower Rübchen, made with turnips grown locally in the small town of Teltow just outside Berlin ), plus a Turkish cafe and Japanese tearoom ; additionally there was a large ballroom.

The Spanish conquest of the indigenous peoples in the Americas included using the Natives as forced labour, part of the wider Atlantic slave trade.

Some of the early ones included the bearie ( analogous to the Loonie and its loon ), the bearly, the deuce, the doubloonie ( a play on " double loonie " and the former Spanish doubloon coin ), and the moonie ( because it depicted " the Queen with a bear behind ").

Total Ottoman population losses from 1914 – 1922 were approximately 5 million including the Spanish flu deaths, the Turkish War of Independence from 1919 – 1922 and the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, these other population losses are not included with the casualties of World War I.

It concluded the ( also secret ) Treaty of the Escorial with Spain, which included promises of French assistance in the Spanish conquest of Naples and Sicily.

Thus, the issue of the inheritance of the Spanish kingdoms — which included not only Spain, but also dominions in Italy, the Low Countries, the Philippines and the Americas — became contentious.

Local 8 of the Marine Transport Workers was led by Ben Fletcher, who organized predominantly African-American longshoremen on the Philadelphia and Baltimore waterfronts, but other leaders included the Swiss immigrant Waler Nef, Jack Walsh, E. F. Doree, and the Spanish sailor Manuel Rey.

Other conflicts during the decade which affected the stock market included the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, the 1935-1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War, the Soviet-Japanese Border War of 1939 and the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937.

By 1971, the CTW hired Hispanic actors, production staff, and researchers, and by the mid-1970s, Morrow reported that " the show included Chicano and Puerto Rican cast members, films about Mexican holidays and foods, and cartoons that taught Spanish words ".

Though deprived of the opportunity to study in Rome, the decade after the scandal proved to be Ravel's most productive, and included his " Spanish period ".

On 17 October 1632, the Court of Star Chamber banned all " news books " because of complaints from Spanish and Austrian diplomats that coverage of the Thirty Years ' War in England was unfair.

The second incursion, in 1912, although better prepared did not succeed, due to the Spanish government, which was forced to cede to Republican diplomats the illegality of monarchist encampments in Galicia and disarmed the remaining combatants within its territory.

British diplomats increased pressure on the French and Spanish, demanding that they close their ports to American shipping.

The policy was supported by the Howards and other Catholic-leaning ministers and diplomats — together known as the Spanish Party — but deeply distrusted in Protestant England.

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Eager to prevent a union of the two countries or crowns, especially one in which Spain would be subservient to France, the diplomats sought to include a renunciation clause which would deprive Maria Theresa and her children of any rights to the Spanish succession.

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It became the testing ground for the Spanish Monarchy's European plans, a boiling pot full of people of all sorts: from artists and diplomats to defectors, spies and penitent traitors, from Spanish confessors, Italian counselors, Burgundian functionaries, English musicians, German bodyguards to the Belgian Nobles.

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The policy of the " Spanish Match ", as it was called, was supported by the Howards and other Catholic-leaning ministers and diplomats — together known as the Spanish Party — but deeply distrusted in Protestant England, a sentiment voiced vociferously in the Commons when James called his first parliament for seven years in 1621 to raise funds for a military expedition in support of Frederick V, Elector Palatine.

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Then a wide array of authorities, from foreign diplomats deployed in Spain to members of the autonomous governments, are invited to attend the parade performed by the Spanish Armed Forces, which typically features a display by the Spanish Air Force's aerobatics team, the Patrulla Águila.

He reveals the plot to Elizabeth, who angrily confronts the Spanish diplomats.

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Because of the long dispute over the land, the diplomats Benjamin Franklin and John Jay considered the Spanish Fort St. Joseph campaign to have been little more than a ploy to claim the Northwest Territory.

He worked with the Spanish Chargé d ' Affaires, Ángel Sanz Briz, and other diplomats of neutral states in smuggling Jews out of the country.

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Category: Spanish diplomats