The season marked the reintroduction of traction control, with the FIA permitting its use starting at the Spanish Grand Prix.

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ( born in 1500 ) quipped, " I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

* February 24 – Battle of Pavia: Spanish forces under Charles de Lannoy and the Marquis of Pescara defeat the French army and capture Francis I of France, after his horse is wounded by Cesare Hercolani.

At each station stop the express rider would change to a fresh horse, taking only the mail pouch called a mochila ( from the Spanish for pouch or backpack ) with him.

Staines was a site for a horse change on The Trafalgar Way in 1805, announcing the victory over the combined French and Spanish fleet and the death of Nelson.

An anecdote sometimes attributed to Charles is: " I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.

At the outbreak of the Civil Wars it was deemed by Julius Caesar of sufficient importance to be secured with a garrison of Gaulish and Spanish horse ; and it was there that M. Coelius was put to death, after a vain attempt to excite an insurrection in this part of Italy.

One theory, of sufficient popularity to serve as an example of folk etymology, is that the term horse latitudes originates from when the Spanish transported horses by ship to their colonies in the West Indies and Americas.

Irrigation of local farms is accomplished by water wells as well as irrigation ditches which divert water from the Rio Grande and two lakes approximately 20 miles north of Hatch named Caballo ( Spanish for " horse ") and Elephant Butte Reservoir ( named after a rock formation in the middle of the lake that looks similar to an elephant ).

The Spanish horse was put to flight, leaving the Spanish infantry to carry on the fight.

For example, while a horse in Spanish is " caballo " ( pronounced ), the same word in Tagalog is " kabayo ".

" This was around midday, and he was, as always, dressed in a black jacket, riding a white horse, which made him an easy target for the Spanish.

The term comes from the Spanish language word bronco, meaning " rough ", which in Mexican usage also describes a horse.

Andalusian horse showing a historical Spanish walk, practiced in ' The Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art ', Jerez de la FronteraPuerta de Rota.

The place-name, through its fame for its horses and horse-drawn carriages, is also the root of the Spanish word jaca, a term used for a small breed of horse and the Sardinian achetta horse.

Early Spanish explorers reported encountering grasses that were " belly high to a horse ;" most likely these were Big Alkali Sacaton ( Sporobolus wrightii ) and Tobosa ( Pleuraphis mutica ) bottomlands.

In 1641 the Abipones had already obtained the horse from the Spanish settlers and abandoned farming for cattle and horse raiding.

Canonero II ( 1968 – 1981 ) ( in Spanish: Cañonero II ) was a Venezuelan champion thoroughbred race horse.

The film says that descendants of the horse Hidalgo, for which the movie was named, live among the Gilbert Jones herd of Spanish Mustangs on Blackjack Mountain in Oklahoma.

Beresford left his cavalry and a brigade under Lieutenant Colonel John Colborne, along with a detachment of Spanish horse, to watch Latour-Maubourg's movements and dissuade him from returning to Extremadura.

The Lipizzan or Lipizzaner (,,, ), is a breed of horse closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria, where the finest representatives demonstrate the haute école or " high school " movements of classical dressage, including the highly controlled, stylized jumps and other movements known as the " airs above the ground.

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

With the 1994 passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the following words were used to label the United States Section of that organization: in French, étatsunien ; in Spanish, estadounidense.

They expanded under Spanish regency to encompass half of North America and half of South America.

The Spanish in Florida originally introduced sheep to the New World, but this development never quite reached the North, and there they were introduced by the Dutch and English.

John C. Cavadini has challenged this notion by attempting to take the Spanish Christology in its own Spanish / North African context in his important study, The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785 – 820.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

These principles derive ultimately from Roman law, transmitted through Spanish and French law, as the state's current territory intersects the area of North America colonized by Spain and by France.

This suppression and the success of independence movements in the former Spanish colonies on the North American mainland led to a rise of Cuban nationalism, and a number of independence conspiracies took place during the 1820s and 1830s, but all failed.

The Government of Cuba maintains close relationships with Iran and North Korea, and has provided safe haven to members of ETA after an agreement with the Spanish government ( under Felipe González ), FARC, and the ELN.

By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.

These works also left Europe and were imported to those parts of Latin America controlled by the Spanish and Portuguese empires and the parts of North America controlled by the British and French empires.

This occurred also along long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts, a relatively short distance across a calm sea from the pirates in their North African lairs.

Mistreatment of the indigenous population in Spanish Morocco led to an uprising and the loss of this North African possession except for the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 1921.

Most of the expelled Spanish Jews moved to North Africa, Poland, to the Ottoman Empire and to Israel.

P. Erickson, MasterClasses in Spanish Piano Music, Hinshaw Music, Chapel Hill North Carolina, 1984.

The Monroe Doctrine at the time of its adoption thus pertained more to the Russians in North America than to the former Spanish colonies.

Treating Revelation in his cursory fashion, he made use of an excerpt from the commentary of the North African Tichonius, which is preserved as a sort of argument at the beginning of the more extended work of the Spanish presbyter Beatus of Liébana.

Jews, who had lived in Melilla for centuries, have been leaving the Spanish North African city in more recent years ( from 20 % of the population before World War II to less than 5 % today ).

As successful English settlement of North America began to take place in 1607 in the face of the hostile intentions of the powerful Spanish, and of the native populations, it became immediately necessary to raise militia amongst the settlers.

Pigs were brought to southeastern North America from Europe by Hernando de Soto and other early Spanish explorers.

On the northern side of the Strait are Spain and Gibraltar ( a British overseas territory in the Iberian Peninsula ), while on the southern side are Morocco and Ceuta ( a Spanish exclave in North Africa ).

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