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Urraca
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Urraca Queen Urraca (c. 1078-1126), who ruled the Kingdom of Leon-Castilla (also...followed, with Fernando's eldest son, Alfonso VI, becoming king. Urraca Urraca was the daughter of King Alfonso VI and Queen Constance of Burgundy...
Alfonso VI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...king al-Mamun, departing in October 1072 after his sister Urraca had engineered the assassination of Sancho. Alfonso was now...30, 1109, leaving his realm in the hands of his daughter, Urraca, and in a state of insecurity and vulnerability from which...
Henry of Burgundy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...cousin Raymond, who was the husband of Alfonso's daughter Urraca. To Henry, Alfonso gave his illegitimate daughter Teresa and...to enhance his position by war and intrigues with and against Urraca, her son Alfonso (later Alfonso VII of Castile), and her...
Panama
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...business, especially banking and tourism, and by some people of African descent. Symbolism. Some coins bear the image of Urraca, an Indian chief who resisted the Spanish conquests, but most coins depict Vasco Nu ñ ez de Balboa, the discoverer...
Alfonso I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...territorial conquests. To secure peace with the new king of Le ó n, Ferdinand II, Alfonso offered him his daughter Urraca, whom Ferdinand married in 1165. Two years later, however, the kings quarreled and Alfonso invaded Galicia, the southern...
Alfonso III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...presided over the country's first parliaments. On May 5, 1210, Alfonso was born in Coimbra, the second son of Alfonso II and Urraca. In 1227 he went to France, where he fought as a vassal of Louis IX against Henry III of England and in 1238 married Matilda...
Portugal
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...Iberian Peninsula was once a unified region. At the end of the eleventh century, Afonso VI, King of Leon, married his daughter Urraca to Count Raymond of Burgundy. His other daughter, Tareja, who was illegitimate, was married to Henry of Burgundy. As a...
The Cid
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Alfonso, the king of Le ó n, battled at Golpejera. Sancho won the day and forced Alfonso into exile. Their sister Urraca then began to conspire against Sancho at Zamora. Sancho besieged this city and was murdered there in October 1072. After the...
Sancho II
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...72), son and successor of Ferdinand I. He conquered (1072) León from his brother Alfonso VI , but his sister Urraca rebelled against him at Zamora, and Sancho was assassinated while besieging the city. He was succeeded by Alfonso VI.
Alfonso VII
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Alfonso VII (Alfonso the Emperor), 1104-57, Spanish king of Castile and León (1126-57), son and successor of Urraca . He recovered the places in Castile that his stepfather, Alfonso I of Aragón, had occupied and soon gained supremacy...

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Malipiero, Gian Francesco
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Vergilii Aeneis (1943–4); Mondi celesti e infernali (1948–9); Il Figliuol prodigo (1952); Donna Urraca (1953–4); Il Capitan Spavento (1954–5); Venere prigioniera (1955); Rappresentazione e festa...

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?HABLA USTED SPAM-GLISH?: GRAMPO TELLS ABOUT EL MILAGRO DE LA URRACA.(Vecinos/People)
Newspaper article from: Taos News (Taos, NM); 10/1/2009; 700+ words ; ...Grampo Caralampio exclamo, "I see que you caught una urraca. An urraca es una 'magpie' en Ingles. Cuando yo era un little...papa told me que if I were to split la lengua de la urraca in half, it would start talking." "And could it...
DOÑA URRACA Y EL COYOTE.(figuras cómicas en sellos postales, España)(TT: Miss Urraca and Don Coyote.)(TA: comic characters on postal stamps, Spain)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 6/28/1999; ; 690 words ; ...ocasin son nada menos que la terrible Doa Urraca y el justiciero Coyote los que alborotan...historieta de humor o de aventuras. Doa Urraca naci hace ms de medio siglo, en 1949...perteneciente a una familia de artistas. Doa Urraca es seora distinguidsima en el humor negro...
Angeles de Irisarri reivindica a la reina Urraca.(TT: Angeles de Irisarri vindicates Queen Urraca.)(Entrevista)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 3/6/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...caballero sino en la dama. -Qu le atrajo de Urraca como personaje histrico y literario...que los reinos eran suyos de derecho, y Urraca no se dej. Las desavenencias fueron tremendas...tanto en el campo como en las ciudades. Y Urraca est en medio de todo eso. -Qu pasa con...
Turner Publishing. (contract with Ediciones de la Urraca for production of Cartoon Network Magazine)(Worldwire)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Broadcasting & Cable; 10/23/1995; ; 521 words ; Turner Publishing has signed a deal with Argentine publisher Ediciones de la Urraca to produce La Revista de Cartoon Network (Cartoon Network Magazine). Launched Oct. 5, the magazine spin-off's initial...
?HABLA USTED SPAM-GLISH?: EL REVENGE DE LA GRAMA CUCA.(Vecinos/People)
Newspaper article from: Taos News (Taos, NM); 1/10/2008; 700+ words ; ...draining del marrano. Get that stupid urraca out of here before it starts pecking on...on the ground and he started chasing la urraca por todo el garage with the old stick. Pero esa pinche urraca just wouldn't fly out of the garage and...
New life sciences data have been reported by researchers at University Complutense of Madrid, Department of Analytical Chemistry.(Report)
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 10/29/2008; 700+ words ; ...1-ALPP-based MIP," wrote J.L. Urraca and colleagues, University Complutense...zearalenone recognition in real samples." Urraca and colleagues published their study in...additional information, contact J.L. Urraca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid...
Ruegan a Dios evitar triunfo de perredista.(Nacional)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 4/3/2006; 700+ words ; ...pelear la presidencia del Congreso del Trabajo. 'La urraca peusquera' Luego dieron paso a los apodos. "Le hemos puesto el apodo que se merece, es la urraca que habla, es la urraca peusquera", solt enftica la lideresa de mujeres...
Queen as King: Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 530 words ; ...of its patrons, including the remarkable Urraca, Queen of Leo-Castialla, who ruled in...introduced into the building as symbols of Urraca's self-identity, and the complex ways in which Urraca and other political women made themselves...
Esperan 'aguilas' de huevos del PRI.(Nacional)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 8/6/2002; 587 words ; ...mexiquense saldrn pronto guilas nacionales, asegur Margarita Jimnez Urraca, quien maneja la estrategia de imagen del tricolor local...fracaso electoral del 2000. De esos huevos, refiere ahora Jimnez Urraca, se espera que salgan "guilas nacionales". "La sociedad...
'Incuba' el tricolor aguilas nacionales.(Estado)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 8/6/2002; 700+ words ; ...huevos del PRI saldrn guilas nacionales, seal Margarita Jimnez Urraca, de la empresa Consultores en Comunicacin, quien maneja la...y por ello deben mandrsele mensajes extremos", seal Jimnez Urraca. La especialista comenz desde hace un ao a disear la campaa...