Ben Adret, with the approval of other prominent Spanish rabbis, sent a letter to the community at Montpellier proposing to forbid the study of philosophy to those who were less than twenty-five years of age, and, in spite of keen opposition from the liberal section, a decree in this sense was issued by Ben Adret in 1305.

Following Christopher Columbus's discovery of the Americas for Spain, the Spanish sent numerous expeditions to the region, and they began their conquest of Maya lands in the 1520s.

Later, they were also sent to the south to serve against the Spanish during frontier clashes.

Franco's rise to power had been directly assisted by the militaries of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during the Spanish Civil War, and had sent volunteers to fight on the side of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II.

With the success of the Panama isthmus raid, in 1577 Elizabeth I of England sent Drake to start an expedition against the Spanish along the Pacific coast of the Americas.

Wanting to be sent to the Madrid front, which meant he " must join the International Column ", he approached a Communist friend attached to the Spanish Medical Aid and explained his case.

* 1309-While the King Ferdinand IV of Castile laid siege on Algeciras, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán ( known to the Spanish records as Guzmán el Bueno ) was sent to capture the town.

* During the Peninsular War, contingents from the Gibraltar Garrison were sent to aid Spanish resistance to the French at Cádiz and Tarifa.

Second-in-command to Hernan Cortes, Pedro de Alvarado was sent to the Guatemala highlands with 300 Spanish foot soldiers, 120 Spanish horsemen and several hundred Cholula and Tlascala auxiliaries.

During the War of the Spanish Succession Alberoni laid the foundation of his political success by the services he rendered to Louis-Joseph, duc de Vendôme, commander of the French forces in Italy, to whom the duke of Parma had sent him.

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the town was razed to the ground by German aircraft belonging to the Condor Legion, sent by Hitler to support Franco's troops.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

The Spanish sent a fleet from Cartagena which destroyed the English colony at Providence island in 1641, and for a time the presence of an English base so close to the shore was eliminated.

Monroe sparked a constitutional controversy when, in 1817, he sent General Andrew Jackson to move against Spanish Florida to pursue hostile Seminole Indians and punish the Spanish for aiding them.

And Charles Stuart, eldest son of the late King, being informed of these transactions, left the Spanish territories where he then resided, and by the advise of Monk went to Breda, a town belonging to the States of Holland: from when he sent his letters and a declaration to the two House by Sir John Greenvil ; whereupon the nominal House of Commons, though called by a Commonwealth writ in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, passed a vote about April 25, 1660, ' That the government of the nation should be by a King, Lords and Commons, and that Charles Stuart should be proclamed King of England.

Thirty years later, he sent the Spanish Armada to overthrow Elizabeth, without success.

Pope Gregory I ( Gregory the Great, d. 604 ) was influential in the spread of Christianity to Britain and also sent Queens Theodelinde and Brunhilda, as well as Spanish bishops, copies of manuscripts.

In 1629 a Spanish force sent to clear the islands of the area of foreign settlement seized St. Kitts in 1629 but the English settlement was rebuilt following the peace between England and Spain in 1630.

* 1829 – Surrender of the expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown in order to retake Mexico, This was the final consummation of Mexican independence.

Although the Spanish carried out salvage operations on the wrecks of the 1715 Treasure Fleet for four years, they recovered less than half of the treasure recorded as sent on the fleet.

The island was in a terrible economic depression, and Spanish general Valeriano Weyler, sent to crush the rebellion, herded Cuban peasants into concentration camps, leading hundreds of Cubans to their deaths.

* July 1 – Battle of Treviño -( Third Carlist War )- Advancing on the key city of Vitoria, in Navarre, the Spanish Republican commander General Jenardo de Quesada sent General Tello to attack the Carlist lines just to the southwest at Treviño.

Rogers sent four of his ships to Havana to assure the Spanish governor that Rogers was suppressing piracy in the Bahamas and to trade for supplies.

The Spanish words libretista ( playwright, script writer or screen writer ) and libreto ( script or screen play ), which are used in the Hispanic TV and cinema industry, derived their meanings from the original operatic sense.

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

It also contains a large carved screen at one end covering the entrance to the Vestibule ; legend says that the screen was given to the Inn by Elizabeth I while she was the Inn's patron, and is carved out of the wood of a Spanish galleon captured from the Spanish Armada.

This system was the first in the world to be placed in an opera house with " each screen ( having ) a switch to turn it off, a filter to prevent the dim, yellow dot-matrix characters from disturbing nearby viewers and the option to display texts in multiple languages for newer productions ( currently Spanish and German ).

* Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34 is played during the opening credits and as the Spanish Carnaval background music during the film The Devil Is a Woman ( 1935 ) screen credit to the music of " Romsky-Korsakoff ".

The book was adapted for the big screen in the Spanish language film: Chronicle of a Death Foretold ( 1987 ), an Italian-French-Colombian co-production, directed by Francesco Rosi, starring Ornella Muti, Rupert Everett and Anthony Delon.

The persona of the " sanky panky " has been brought to the big screen in 2007 by Spanish director Jose E. Pintor.

In his spots as ' Professor Reyes ', Reyes taught the Shea faithful the Spanish language between innings on the stadium's Diamond Vision screen, helping to make him one of the Mets ' most popular players.

There are touch screen computers inside the platform that offer information in 8 different languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Russian.

During the startup screen of the game, if the user types the word ' gallery ' (' gallerie ' on a French palmtop ; ' siegergalerie ' on a German palmtop ; ' galeria ' on a Spanish palmtop ) he / she is placed in a ' part ' of the maze that contains photographs of the primary software developers that worked on the HP 200LX.

During her screen test for the part of Carmen in The L Word, Limón ad libbed a Spanish phrase into Kate Moennig's ear (“ Quiero lamerte hasta que te vengas en mi boca mil veces ”-" I want to lick you until you come in my mouth a thousand times ").

However, in the Spanish dubbing for Spain the name was changed to " Lapuntu " for this reason ( although the few visible captions still reads " Laputa " on screen ).

After a failed screen test with 20th Century Fox, and the collapse of Major Productions ( who had signed Brooks three weeks before going out of business ), she signed a contract to star in Spanish language films for Paramount Pictures.

The game was localized in four languages: English, German, French and Spanish ( screen text and subtitles only ).

The military of Equatorial Guinea ( in Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de Guinea Ecuatorial ) consists of approximately 2, 500 service members.

* 1704 11 November – A notable incident during the siege: 500 Spanish volunteer grenadiers tried to surprise the garrison after being led up a concealed path to the top of The Rock by a Spanish goatherd from Gibraltar, Simón Susarte.

62, 000 were caused by food shortages and German reprisals, and 30, 000 by the Spanish Flu Prof. John Horne estimated that 6, 500 Belgian and French civilians were killed in German reprisals.

* August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1, 500 men, on 13 ships, arrives from Vera Cruz at Pensacola Bay, founding the oldest European settlement in the mainland U. S. ( St. Augustine is founded in 1565.

Dutch ships captured about 500 Spanish and Portuguese ships between 1623 and 1638.

During the subsequent war with Spain, Spanish and Flemish privateers in the service of the Spanish Crown, including the notorious Dunkirkers, captured 1, 500 English merchant ships, helping to restore Dutch international trade.

At the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession, the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 gave Britain a thirty-year asiento, or contract-right, to supply an unlimited number of slaves to the Spanish colonies, and 500 tons of goods per year.

Lezo four of the ships went to the aid of the 500 soldiers defending Desnaux position with the head, but the Spanish eventually had to retire to the city, which was already beginning to be evacuated by civilians.

Nothing came of this, but in 1635, when France declared war on Spain ( Franco-Spanish war of 1635-59 ), Thomas served under Ferdinand in the Spanish Netherlands: he was given command of a small army ( variously given as 8, 500 or 13, 000 ) sent against French forces that had advanced into Luxemburg, his orders either to observe them or to prevent them from joining up with a Dutch army.

It does use six scales that cover all the Spanish territory: 1: 25, 000, 1: 50, 000, 1: 200, 000, 1: 500, 000, 1: 1, 000, 000 and 1: 2, 000, 000.

Again on March 17, 1630, a large Spanish force of 2, 500 soldiers attacked Jolo but to no avail.

Canasta (; Spanish for " basket ") is a card game of the rummy family of games believed to be a variant of 500 Rum.

In 2001 its population was approximately 26, 500, of whom 53 % lived on Spanish territory.

Spanish losses were high ; about 2. 500 casualties, including many officers.

He rode magnificent horses, sitting in his $ 1, 500 silver trimmed saddle erect and stately, with his sword strapped to the saddle beneath his left leg … People knew him far and wide, and even the Indians sometimes named their children after him, as he was one Spanish Don that they admired.

While evidence suggests human occupation as far back as 500 BC, the first maps of the area date to 1542, when it was labeled " Las Islas Sabines " by a Spanish cartographer.

In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate, a Spanish nobleman and conquistador born in Zacatecas, Mexico, led a group of 500 colonists and 7, 000 head of livestock ( including horses, oxen and cattle ) from southern Chihuahua to settle the province of New Mexico.

The government brought in the Spanish Army to suppress the strike ; they killed 70 people and injured more than 500 workers.

Other authorities give the Spanish 60, 000 or 56, 500 men

" Polybius reports 5, 700 dead: 4, 000 Gauls, 1, 500 Spanish and Africans, and 200 cavalry.

Then, in 1529 – 1530, the forces of Nuño de Guzmán entered Michoacán and some parts of Guanajuato with an army of 500 Spanish soldiers and more than 10, 000 Indian warriors.