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The Nicaraguan and Spanish characters compared

Posted: October 20th 2009 12:06. Last modified: October 20th 2009 12:09

Bizarrely honest or honestly bizarre?

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Categories: Drink, Empires, rulers and warfare, Les bourgeois

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  • July 31 1568 RecĂ­bese por un anĂłnimo la noticia de que el primogĂ©nito de Felipe II estaba sin esperanzas de vida.
  • July 31 1808 On the 31st of July the ImpĂ©rieuse silenced, and Lord Cochrane landed with his marines, under Lieutenant James Rivers Hore of that corps, and took possession of the castle of Mongal; an important post completely commanding a pass in the road from Barcelona to Gerona, then besieged by the French,...
  • July 31 1848 En la iglesia parroquial de Ntra. Sra. de Belen que fue de los PP. de la Compañía de Jesus, se celebra con toda solemnidad, la fiesta de san Ignacio de Loyola. Las religiosas de la Enseñanza de la misma Ăłrden tributan tambien á este fundador solemnes cultos.
  • July 31 1909 APOLOGY FOR BARCELONA.; Interested In Industry, the People Object to Fighting.
    HENRY DALMASES. July 31, 1909, Saturday I notice in your dispatches of to-day in regard to the Spanish situation that the disturbances in Barcelona and other Spanish Eastern points are classed as ma...
  • July 31 1909 120 REBELS SHOT AT BARCELONA; Authoritative Personage Says 10 Courts-Martial Sat Two Days to Try Them. MANY ARRESTS IN MADRID Authorities Guarding Against Strike To-Morrow — Rebels Still Hold Much of Barcelona, Reports Say. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, by Way of the French Frontier, July 31...
  • July 31 1909 AMERICANS IN BARCELONA.; Feared Two Women Cousins of Mrs. Lemoine, the Actress, Are Victims.
  • July 31 1926 Occasionally the old fashioned iron extinguisher of censorship clapped upon Spain by Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera springs a tiny leak, spurts a dark smoke puff of news. Last week the official version of what occurred when the Dictator visited Barcelona was that he “received an enthusias...

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

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