São Francisco
São Francisco , river, c.1,800 mi (2,900 km) long, rising in the Serra de Canastra, SW Minas Gerais state, Brazil, and flowing northeast, then southeast through the sertão region of E Brazil to the Atlantic Ocean. The river's flow varies with the season. The São Francisco, an ancient river that is embedded in the Brazilian Plateau, probably once entered the sea near Cape São Roque, northeast of its great bend. The near right-angle bend near Cabrobó is believed to be caused by stream piracy (see river ). Paulo Afonso Falls (275 ft/84 m high), east of the great bend, blocks navigation into the interior; a railroad circumvents the falls. The river is navigable along c.900 mi (1,450 km) of its middle course. The São Francisco valley, linking Brazil's northeastern and southeastern regions, is the object of a large-scale river development and control scheme. The harnessing of Paulo Afonso Falls and the building of several dams have improved economic conditions in the potentially rich but drought-ridden and sparsely settled region.
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The Chronicle of Alfonso X
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 1/1/2003; ; 448 words
; The Chronicle of Alfonso X, by Fernan Sanchez de Valldolid, translated...Escobar. The history of the reign of Alfonso X, king of Castile and Leon (1252...oldest son, the Infante Fernando, Alfonso X chose his second son Sancho, then renounced...
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Alfonso X's 'Non me posso pagar tanto'.(Galician-Portuguese secular lyrical poetry)
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Castile and Leon, were neither. Alfonso's Cantigas de Santa Maria...these considerations applies to Alfonso's secular lyrics. Most of...often considered the finest of Alfonso's secular lyrics. (2) Elsa...melhor composicao de Afonso X e mesmo de toda a lirica galego...
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La Estoria de Espana de Alfonso X: Creacion y evolucion.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...reference to its founding father, Alfonso X of Castile, el sabio (1221-84...idiosyncratic Cronica abreviada of Alfonso's nephew Juan Manuel (1282-1348...grandson Diego Catalan's monograph De Alfonso X al Conde de Barcelos.(8) This...
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Las Cantigas de escarnio y maldecir de Alfonso X: problemas de interpretacion y critica textual.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Las Cantigas de escarnio y maldecir de Alfonso X: problemas de interpretacion y critica textual. By JUAN...and decipherment of the satirical poetry attributed to Alfonso X. However, as the subtitle of his book implies, this...
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Hospital clínico veterinario.(de Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio)(Artículo breve)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 9/16/2005; 458 words
; La Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio inaugurar para el curso acadmico 2005-2006 un gran hospital veterinario dotado con la tecnologa ms avanzada de Europa...
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César Vidal: periodista, historiador, escritor ... y hombre controvertido, disfruta comiendo croquetas y paseando los domingos por la mañana. Placeres comunes para el director de La Linterna (COPE) y ganador del último Premio Alfonso X El Sabio de novela histórica.(Artículo breve)
Magazine article from: Epoca; 3/10/2006; ; 700+ words
; Bla bla bla Lo de este madrileo castizo nacido hace 47 aos es don de lenguas. Dice ser capaz de traducir 16 idiomas y de hablar con soltura ocho, entre las que se encuentran el rabe y el hebreo. Eso es ser polglota, y lo dems, tonteras. Un buen comienzo. Su padre le puso en las manos su primer
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The mechanics of monarchy: knighting Castile's king, 1332. (Alfonso XI)
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...August 1325, the fifteen-year-old Alfonso XI of Castile dismissed his tutors...State. The first seven years of Alfonso XI's personal rule culminated in...Christian West. In 1275 el rey Sabio Alfonso X, the founding father of Spanish...
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The Scope of History: Studies in the Historiography of Alfonso el Sabio.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...in the Historiography of Alfonso el Sabio (Ann Arbor, Michigan...Michigan Press, 1996). x + 235 pp. ISBN 0-4721...1978) is that entitled `Alfonso X, the Empire, and the Primera...Catalan's 1962 study De Alfonso X al Conde de Barcelos) act
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Alfonso de Palencia; Gesta Hispaniensia ex annalibus suorum dierum collecta. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Alfonso de Palencia; Gesta...vol. II, books VI-X, ed. Brian Tate and...the greater part of Alfonso of Palencia's enormous...their edition of Decas x, covering the years...before under the aegis of Alfonso X, a tradition which...
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Alfonso S. Palomares. Te amare despues de siempre.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Barcelona. Ediciones B. 2001. 327 pages. 2,700 ptas. ISBN 84-666-0121-X ALFONSO S. PALOMARES was born in Ourense, Galicia. He has been the editor of the magazines Ciudadano and Posible y Leer and directed...
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Alfonso X
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Alfonso X Alfonso X (1221-1284) was king of Castile and León from 1252 to 1284. Also known as Alfonso the Wise, he was one of the greatest royal patrons of learning of the Middle Ages. The eldest son of Ferdinand III and Beatrice...
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Alfonso III
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Algarve. This involved him in a long quarrel with Alfonso X of Castile, who had been receiving revenues from...which Alfonso III married the illegitimate daughter of Alfonso X, and Alfonso X was to relinquish all rights to the Algarve when the...
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Alfonso XI
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Portugal, Navarre, and Aragón, Alfonso won the great victory of Tarifa (also called...issued at Alcalá de Henares in 1348, Alfonso enforced the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X. He died while besieging Gibraltar and was...
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Alfomso El Sabio
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...of his father in 1252, he became Alfonso X. Descended from the Hohenstaufens...biographies are John Esten Keller, Alfonso X, El Sabio (New York, 1967), and Evelyn S. Proctor, Alfonso X of Castile, Patron of Literature...
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Diniz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Portugal (1279-1325), son and successor of Alfonso III. Like his grandfather, Alfonso X of Castile, whose legal works he had translated...reign were darkened by revolts of his son, later Alfonso IV. All these conflicts were settled by the...
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