Alexandro Díez Macho (13 May 1916 in Villafría de la Peña, Palencia – 1984 in Barcelona) was a Spanish Catholic priest and Hebraist. [1] In 1951–52 he invited professor Alexander Sperber of New York to the University of Barcelona to work with Spanish scholars on the manuscripts of the Targum Neofiti. [2]
Palencia is a city south of Tierra de Campos, in north-northwest Spain, the capital of the province of Palencia in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The municipality had a population of 78,892 in 2017.
Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the sixth most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Madrid, the Ruhr area and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres high.
The University of Barcelona is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. With 73 undergraduate programs, 273 graduate programs and 48 doctorate programs to over 63,000 students, UB is considered to be the best university in Spain in the QS World University Rankings of 2018, which ranked the university 156th overall in the world. In the 2016-2017 ranking of University Ranking by Academic Performance, UB is considered the best university in Spain and 45th university in the world. Also, according to the yearly ranking made by US News, it is the 81st-best university in the world, and the best university in Spain.
Carmen García MauraOAXS is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, Maura is best known for her collaborations with noted Spanish film directors Pedro Almodóvar and Álex de la Iglesia.
The 6th Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles at the Shrine Auditorium on Thursday, November 3, 2005. It was the first ceremony to be broadcast by Univision in the United States. Ivan Lins was the big winner winning two awards including Album of the Year. He is the first and only Brazilian and Portuguese language artist to win Album of the Year to date. Alejandro Sanz was honored with Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Juanes won three awards including Best Rock Solo Vocal Album.
Julio Salinas Fernández is a Spanish retired footballer who played during the 1980s and 1990s.
Francisco José Carrasco Hidalgo is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a winger, and a coach.
The Passionist Martyrs of Daimiel were a group of priests and brothers of the Passionist Congregation killed by anti-clericalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Union, Progress and Democracy is a Spanish political party founded in September 2007. It is a social liberal party which rejects any form of non-Spanish nationalism, especially the separatist Basque and Catalan movements. The party is deeply pro-European and wants the European Union to adopt a federal system without overlap between the European, national and regional governments. Besides, the magenta party wants to replace the State of Autonomies with a symmetric and highly centralized, albeit still federal, system in Spain as well as substituting a more proportional election law for the current one.
Eliseo Valdés Erustes is a Cuban artist specializing in sculpture, painting, and drawing.
Anthony Rubén Lozano Colón, also known as Choco Lozano, is a Honduran professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Girona FC as a forward.
Alejandro Zamora Barbero is a Spanish footballer who plays for San Fernando CD as a defensive midfielder.
Alejandro Licona Padilla is a Mexican dramatist who has won awards for his stage plays and screenplays.
Alejandro Peña Esclusa is a Venezuelan politician, leader of the Venezuelan NGO Fuerza Solidaria and president of the pan-Latin-American NGO UnoAmérica. A former member of the LaRouche movement, in the 1980s he co-founded the Partido Laboral Venezolano as the Venezuelan branch of LaRouche's International Caucus of Labor Committees, modelled on LaRouche's U.S. Labor Party. He has twice run for the Presidency. He was a columnist for the newspapers Últimas Noticias and Diario de Caracas, and has been a correspondent for Argentina's La Nueva Provincia. He has campaigned against the Foro de São Paulo since the mid-1990s, and in 2008 set up UnoAmérica as its "ideological antithesis". He has opposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez since the mid-1990s.
The 1916 Copa del Rey Final was the 16th final of the Spanish cup competition, the Copa del Rey. The final was played at Camp de la Indústria in Barcelona on May 7, 1916. The match was won by Athletic Bilbao, who beat Madrid FC 4–0.
The National Literature Prize for Narrative is a prize awarded by Spain's Ministry of Culture for a novel written by a Spanish author in any of the languages of Spain. The prize is 20,000 euros.
The 2012–13 Copa del Rey was the 111th staging of the Copa del Rey. The competition began on 29 August 2012 and ended on 17 May 2013 with the final, held at the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid, in which Atlético Madrid lifted the trophy for the tenth time in their history with a 1–2 victory over hosts Real Madrid in extra time. Barcelona were the defending champions but were eliminated by Real Madrid in the semifinals. Going into the competition, the winners were assured of a place in the group stage of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League, but both finalists had already qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League a few weeks before.
Manuel Peña Escontrela was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a forward.
Rubén Peña Jiménez is a Spanish footballer who plays for SD Eibar as either a right back or a right winger.
The Central Almond is a zone of Madrid made of seven districts: Centro, Arganzuela, Retiro, Salamanca, Chamartín, Tetuán, and Chamberí, (even though, sometimes, the Madrid Council includes part of an eighth, Moncloa-Aravaca, specifically the Argüelles yard, all inside the M30 motorway.
Alma Rosa Aguirre is a Mexican actress, one of the stars of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Among her film roles are El Sexo Fuerte (1946), El Pasajero Diez Mil (1946), Los Viejos Somos Así (1948), Una Gallega en México (1949), Nosotras las Taquígrafas (1950), El Siete Machos (1951), El fronterizo (1952), El fantasma de la casa roja (1956), and Entre Monjas Anda el Diablo (1972).
Jorge Cuenca Barreno is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for FC Barcelona B as a central defender.
The 2019 Bolivian Primera División season is the 42nd season of Bolivia's top-flight football league and the second season under División de Fútbol Profesional management. San José are the defending champions, having won the 2018 Clausura tournament.