... Ca l'Isidre Run by the Gironés i Salvo family for over 25 years, Ca l'Isidre is an intimate restaurant boasting King Juan Carlos among its regular clientele. Isidre Gironés presides over the excellent wine list and exquisite food, personally selecting the best ingredients at ... (champagne bars) serving sparkling Catalan wine (cava) are a speciality of the city. Good places for cava include La Bodegueta del Xamp , Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 702, Xampanyeria Casablanca, Carrer Bonavista 6, and El Xampanyet, Carrer Montcada 22. The latter serves cider and tapas, as well as cava ... ...

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... Party to improve its position in the Popular Front government. This included the removal of the socialist Francisco Largo Caballero as prime minister and replacing him with the communist sympathizer, Juan Negrin. The Soviet Union were the main suppliers of military aid to the Republican Army. This included 1,000 aircraft, 900 tanks, 1,500 artillery pieces, 300 armoured cars, 15,000 ... Spain's instability, along with the lack of interference from powers such as Britain and France.. In January of 1930 resignation was forced upon the dictator at that time, Miguel Primo de Rivera, and shor...

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... last long however. On November 7, 1478 with the special order "to proceed to extirpation [rooting out] of heresy por via de fuego [by way of fire]" (qtd.in Stewart 42) the Inquisition would begin. Pedro Sarmiento, Alfonso de Spina, and Tomas de Torquemada were perhaps the three most influential men in changing the attitudes of the Spanish government and people to make laws ... ). Under this, Conversos could never hold civil or ecclesiastical offices, nor could they act as witnesses or notaries, or exercise any authority at all over Old Christians. Franciscan friar Alfonso de Spina target...

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... government in the city of Burgos. At that point in time, the Republican government was being headed by Francisco Caballero who was a socialist by nature and he was followed by Juan Negrin in 1937 who was also a socialist thinker. The other elements of the war were the militant socialists and the anarchists, who were really viewing the war as their opportunity ... ...

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... . Dali was a loner for most of his youth, and displayed an interest in art early in his life (7). In 1908, Dali was sent to a nearby public school named Escuela Publica de Parvulos de Figueres, where he got his early education like all other children his age. He later was sent to the Colegio Hispano-Frances ... de Imaculada Concepcion until the age of twelve (Wood 7). Dali began painting at eight years old, using techniques from various art books given to him by his father. Because of his ... ...

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... political influence than ever, even though the team itself is technically less political and more cultural. The Catalan's having been using the games of Barca, whose team motto is "Mes de un Club", as the stage for their political cry for true democracy in Spain, and so far the world has been watching. Before one can understand the cultural ties FC ... ...

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... a large benefit to the Spaniards. One occurrence of luck happened on Cortés' first landing, on the island of Cozumel. There he found a shipwrecked Spaniard from an earlier expedition, Jeronimo de Aguilar. Cortés commissioned him to join the expedition to serve as a translator between his native language, Spanish, and his adopted language, Mayan. The second occurrence, which gave even greater ... ...

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... southern part of the New World as far as the Pacific Ocean, the French friars, who had arrived in Canada in 1615, at the behest of the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, set up missions throughout the north. The supreme government of the order is vested in an elective general, resident at the General Motherhouse, in Rome. Subordinate are the provincials ... ...

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