His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El Draque, Draque being the Spanish pronunciation of " Drake ".

Real, legendary, and fictional episodes from the Reconquista are the subject of much of medieval Galician-Portuguese literature, Spanish literature, and Catalan literature, such as the cantar de gesta.

This last Beetle, nicknamed El Rey ( Spanish for " The King " after a legendary Mexican song by José Alfredo Jiménez ) was delivered to the company's museum in Wolfsburg, Germany.

The film's premise features a band of pre-teens who live in the " Goon Docks " neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon attempting to save their homes from demolition, and in doing so, discover an old Spanish map that leads them on an adventure to unearth the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willie, a legendary 17th-century pirate.

The story follows the travels of Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado.

The Spanish took it as their name, for reasons that have been attributed to different, mostly legendary, stories.

Even the change of government due to the French Revolution seemed to intensify rather than diminish the rivalry, and the Napoleonic Wars included a series of legendary naval battles, culminating in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, by which Admiral Horatio Nelson broke the power of the French and Spanish fleets, but lost his own life in so doing.

Don Juan ( Spanish ) or Don Giovanni ( Italian ) is a legendary, fictional libertine whose story has been told many times by many authors.

Later, it became the name of a legendary " Lost City of Gold ", that fascinated explorers since the days of the Spanish Conquistadors.

Francisco Navarro-Villoslada was a Carlist writer that published a historic novel, Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII, in the fashion of Walter Scott, presenting the legendary origins of Spanish monarchy as the start of Reconquista.

The name Eldorado was derived from the Spanish words " el dorado ", which is translated " the gilded one " or " the golden one " in English ; the name was originally given to the legendary chief or " cacique " of a South American Indian tribe.

En route, Nash provides Race with photocopied pages of what turns out to be a copy of the Santiago Manuscript, which describes the adventures of Alberto Santiago a Spanish missionary in Peru whilst also holding the key to the final resting place of a legendary Incan idol, allegedly made of thyrium-261, an element that, when combined with the mass destruction weapon the Supernova, would destroy a third of the Earth's mass throwing it off from the orbit and effectively killing the planet.

Indians told stories to the Spanish chroniclers of golden temples and other such wonders, but by the time the Spaniards found the legendary city, all that remained were ruins.

* Bernardo del Carpio, legendary hero of medieval Spanish legend

Recently, Basque names without a direct equivalent in other languages have become popular, e. g. Aitor ( a legendary patriarch ), Odei (" cloud "), Iker (" to investigate "), and Amaia (" the end "); finally, other Basque names, without a current direct Spanish meaning, are unique to the Basque language: Eneko, Garikoitz, Urtzi.

The Spanish named the Valle de Upar ( Valley of Upar ) after a legendary local Amerindian cacique, Upar, leader of the Native American Chimilas.

Her recitals of Spanish songs with the pianist Alicia de Larrocha were also legendary.

It is named after legendary Spanish goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora.

Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer ( 1526 – 1588 ) was a wood merchant of Haarlem, who became a legendary folk hero for her fearless defense of the city against the Spanish invaders during the siege of Haarlem in 1573.

In the hundreds of plays he wrote, with settings ranging from the Biblical times to legendary Spanish history to classical mythology to his own time, Lope de Vega frequently took a comical approach just as Cervantes did, taking a conventional moral play and dressing it up in good humor and cynicism.

From 1533 – 1535, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés personally sponsored and financed exploratory sailing voyages north from Acapulco, in a search for legendary riches reported to be in the site of today's California.

He named the rum Don Q in honor of the legendary Spanish fictional character Don Quixote.

* Information about The Spanish Castle, a legendary Seattle area dance hall where Jimi Hendrix gave some of his earliest performances

* Placido Domingo-My Greatest Roles Collection of televised performances from the legendary Spanish tenor

After hiding for 20 years after being sentenced to death by an Inquisition Tribunal framed by Henry of Sayn, a mellowed and weary Konrad ( somewhat resembling actor Sean Connery ) again faces the mysterious Count of Sayn in a race to find a legendary document, the “ Third Testament ”.

The first county sheriff was legendary gunman Commodore Perry Owens, who had previously served as the sheriff of Apache County.

* In the novel All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson, the fourth of his Repairman Jack novels, a rogue rakosh ( a bipedal shark-demon, first introduced in Wilson's novel The Tomb ) disappears into the New Jersey Pine Barrens, assuming the identity of the ( previously only legendary, it is implied ) Jersey Devil.

His leadership enabled the previously floundering project to be completed smoothly, and is now the source of some of the many legendary stories which surround his figure.

The only way to stop the hand was to find the legendary Seven Soldiers of Victory, who defeated a similar menace in the form of the Nebula Man many years previously, though at the seeming cost of their existences, since no one could remember who they were.

Because the death of this Arnold Winkelried immediately predates the earliest printed references to the legendary hero of Sempach, some historians have suggested that the chroniclers of the early 16th century named the previously unnamed hero after the mercenary leader.

Million Dead remixed the song ' Pop Idol ' by legendary UK Hip Hop artist Blade, providing an instrumental-only arrangement for the rapper, the original song having previously appeared on his earlier record Storms Are Brewing.

The label was cofounded in 1964 by the label's primary songwriter Eddie Singleton along with wife, Raynoma Gordy Singleton ( who also previously cofounded the legendary Motown Records label with ex-husband, Berry Gordy ).

In Fall 2011 the band released two albums – A Retrospective, a collection of the band ’ s most beloved songs spanning their 17-year career, which includes eight previously unreleased tracks, and 1969, an album of collaborations with legendary Japanese singer Saori Yuki.

In Fall 2011 the band released two albums – A Retrospective ( Pink Martini album ), a collection of the band ’ s most beloved songs spanning their 17-year career, which includes eight previously unreleased tracks, and 1969 ( Pink Martini album ), an album of collaborations with legendary Japanese singer Saori Yuki.

Du Chaillu had previously, through journeys in the Gabon region between 1855 and 1859, made popular in Europe the knowledge of the existence of the gorilla, whose existence was thought to be as legendary as that of the Pygmies of Aristotle.

It was released in 2005 in conjunction with the Martin Scorsese television documentary on Dylan, called No Direction Home, which aired in late September, and features previously unreleased material from Dylan's formative years to his legendary 1966 world tour.

In 1950, she became one of the staffers hired by legendary comedy writer Goodman Ace ( who'd previously hired her for some work on Danny Kaye's short-lived 1940s ’ radio show ) for The Big Show ( 1950 – 1952 ), the ninety-minute radio variety program hosted by Tallulah Bankhead and featuring some of the biggest entertainers of the era weekly.

The legendary WROR call letters, previously known for a popular oldies / AC hybrid format on 98. 5 ( now 98. 5-The Sports Hub ), were familiar to many listeners, and the station originally attempted to re-assemble the WROR identity, including hiring several personalities from the defunct WROR.

Sir James Bond 007, a legendary British spy who retired from the secret service 50 years previously, is visited by the head of British MI6, M, CIA representative Ransome, KGB representative Smernov, and Deuxième Bureau representative Le Grand.

In both versions, he is eventually revealed to be the lost son of the legendary Pollux, after whom he was previously nicknamed.

Recent scholarship believes that this is the same Stephen Hopkins who was the only Mayflower passenger who had previously been to the New World and that Hopkins had adventures that included surviving a shipwreck in Bermuda and working from 1610 – 14 in Jamestown as well as possibly knowing the legendary Pocahontas, who married John Rolfe, a fellow Bermuda castaway.

Its components were influenced and improved in the 1980s by horticulturist Caroline Burgess, who became the garden's director, having previously worked with legendary English gardener Rosemary Verey.