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The Galicians beat Don Quixote and Sancho leaving them in great pain.
Sources for Don Quixote include the Castillian novel Amadis de Gaula, which had enjoyed great popularity throughout the 16th century.
Alessandro Manzoni's novel I Promessi Sposi portrays a pedantic scholar of the obsolete, Don Ferrante, as a great admirer of Cardano.
In 1380, at Kulikovo on the Don River, the Mongols were defeated, and although this hard-fought victory did not end Tatar rule of Russia, it did bring great fame to the Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy.
In Don Nigro's satirical comedy Paganini ( 1995 ), the great violinist seeks vainly for his salvation, claiming that he unknowingly sold his soul to the Devil.
In 1731, the fifteen-year-old Don Carlos became Charles I Duke of Parma and Piacenza, at the death of his childless great uncle Antonio Farnese.
Pepe Barrachina and Don Ramon developed a great relationship.
Its English protagonist Edward Waverley, like Don Quixote, a great reader of romances, has been brought up by his Tory uncle, who is sympathetic to Jacobitism, although Edward's own father is a Whig.
His nickname, " Donskoy " ( i. e., " of the Don "), alludes to his great victory against the Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo ( 1380 ) which took place on the Don River.
Don explains that he dropped out of college, identified earlier as Cornell, because he was convinced he was already a Hemingway, a " great writer.
" His narration added: " A psychedelic shaman who frequently bullied his musicians and sometimes alarmed his fans, Don somehow remained one of rock's great innocents ".
They included Giorgio Ronconi, who created the title role in Verdi's Nabucco ; Felice Varesi, who created the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto as well as Germont in La traviata ; Antonio Superchi, the originator of Don Carlo in Ernani ; Francesco Graziani, who was the original Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino ; Leone Giraldoni, the creator of Renato in Un ballo in maschera and the first Simon Boccanegra ; Enrico Delle Sedie, who was London's first Renato ; Adriano Pantaleoni, renowned for his performances as Amonasro in Aida as well as other Verdi roles at La Scala, Milan ; Francesco Pandolfini, whose singing at La Scala during the 1870s was praised by Verdi ; Antonio Cotogni, a much lauded singer in Milan, London and Saint Petersburg, the first Italian Posa in Don Carlos and later a great vocal pedagogue, too ; and Giuseppe Del Puente, who sang Verdi to acclaim in the United States.
Bogdanovich's first choice was the country singer Jimmy Dean, but his producers did not like that idea ; his next choice was Gulager, whom he had seen give a great performance in Don Siegel's The Killers ( 1964 ).
According to Dr. Roy Whitehead in his book Lugo, " Don Antonio Maria Lugo … rode around Los Angeles and his Rancho San Antonio in great splendor.
By the early years of the twentieth century, the Salle Garnier was to see such great performers as Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso in La Bohème and Rigoletto ( in 1902 ), and Feodor Chaliapin in the premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte ( 1910 ).
Jazz great Don Redman was born in Piedmont on July 29, 1900.
His nickname, Donskoy ( i. e., " of the Don "), alludes to his great victory against the Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo ( 1380 ) which took place on the Don River.
* Don Schaly, college baseball coaching great ; only coach in college baseball history to win 1, 000 or more games and win more than 80 % of his games.
Dunkirk was besieged promptly and in great force, and when Don Juan of Austria and Condé appeared with the relieving army from Fumes, Turenne advanced boldly to meet them.
Further demonstrating his great talent and versatility in the theatre, Ustinov later did set and costume design for Don Giovanni.

great and Bradman
Batting against the Australian Services cricket team, Bradman scored 112 in less than two hours, yet Dick Whitington ( playing for the Services ) wrote, " I have seen today the ghost of a once great cricketer ".
During a brief dressing room encounter with the great Don Bradman, then a state and national selector, Chappell was advised to change his grip on the bat in order to improve his off-side play.
The second stage, completed in 1973 at a cost of $ 2 million, was named the Bradman Stand after the great man himself.
He is widely known as the " Asian Bradman ", a reference to former Australian great Sir Donald Bradman.
Hopping away to leg to make room for himself, Tyldesley cut and drove the leg-spinner to great effect in a strategy later used by Don Bradman against the bodyline menace.
The ground has been host to many great cricketing names over the years, most notably Sir Donald Bradman, who scored his last first class century at the ground in 1948.
McCabe was described by Wisden as " one of Australia's greatest and most enterprising batsmen " and by his captain Don Bradman as one of the great batsmen of the game.
Tribe played with great success for Victoria immediately after the Second World War, taking 86 wickets at 19. 25 in just 13 games and playing in three Tests under Donald Bradman in the 1946-47 Ashes series.

great and once
Standing before the tomb of Raphael, the great genius of the Renaissance, when shafts of sunlight are penetrating this great Roman temple, you are once again reminded of the varied civilizations so characteristic of Rome.
Historians in opinion polls once rated Johnson " near great ", but have since reevaluated and now consider Johnson " a flat failure ".
The plant is of great economic importance, being harvested for its fibre, once generally called Manila hemp, extracted from the trunk or pseudostem.
" Sinatra was the first great public figure I ever wrote about ," Capp once said.
At this great gathering of prelates the case of Athanasius was taken up and once more his innocence reaffirmed.
His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.
It comes to conclusion with a taunt song and funeral dirge of the impending destruction of Nineveh and the " sleep " or death of the Assyrian people and demise of the once great Assyrian conqueror-rulers.
When several banshees appeared at once, it indicated the death of someone great or holy.
In this sea, each electron is free ( by virtue of its wave nature ) to be associated with a great many atoms at once.
Acacius, once a great ally of Cyril, began to harbor feelings of aggression towards him because Cyril never became a religious ally in the fight for Arianism.
Pope John Paul II often spoke of his great desire that the Catholic Church " once again breathe with both lungs ", thus emphasizing that the Roman Catholic Church seeks to restore full communion with the separated Eastern churches.
The dandy cultivated skeptical reserve, yet to such extremes that the novelist George Meredith, himself no dandy, once defined " cynicism " as " intellectual dandyism "; nevertheless, the Scarlet Pimpernel is one of the great dandies of literature.
An explosion is a type of spontaneous chemical reaction that, once initiated, is driven by both a large exothermic change ( great release of heat ) and a large positive entropy change ( great quantities of gases are released ) in going from reactants to products, thereby constituting a thermodynamically favorable process in addition to one that propagates very rapidly.
High continues that, once the gods found that these three children were being brought up in the land of Jötunheimr, and when the gods " traced prophecies that from these siblings great mischief and disaster would arise for them " the gods expected a lot of trouble from the three children, partially due to the nature of the mother of the children, yet worse so due to the nature of their father.
Madero's great grandson Jose ' Pepe ' Madero was once a key member of the Football Manager-based Forum The Dugout Community's The Third Half ( TTH ) section.
By the time the Spanish came to Honduras, the once great city-state of Copán was overrun by the jungle, and the surviving Ch ’ orti ’ were isolated from their Choltian linguistic peers to the west.
By this point the coastal trading cultures were thoroughly dominant over the inland river valleys that had once been the heart of the great powers.
High continues that, once the gods found that these three children are being brought up in the land of Jötunheimr, and when the gods " traced prophecies that from these siblings great mischief and disaster would arise for them " then the gods expected a lot of trouble from the three children, partially due to the nature of the mother of the children, yet worse so due to the nature of their father.
Since playing a major role in the defeat of Napoleon, Russia had been regarded as militarily invincible, but, once pitted against a coalition of the great powers of Europe, the reverses it suffered on land and sea exposed the weakness of Tsar Nicholas ' regime.
This might have happened during the initial marshaling of forces from a jump off point, or the deployment of reserves, but once the great encircling sweep of frenzied warriors in the " horns " and " chest " was in motion, the izinduna could not generally exercise detailed control.
Attempts were made to play down the perceived threat to Britain, but once the German fleet reached the position of equalling the other second-rank navies, it became impossible to avoid mention of the one great fleet it was intended to challenge.
The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.

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