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Castellón de la Plana, or simply Castellón is the capital city of the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located in the east of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Azahar by the Mediterranean Sea. The mountain range known as Desert de les Palmes rises inland north of the town.
A statue menhir is a type of carved standing stone created during the later European Neolithic Period.
Bernard M. Oliver, also known as Barney Oliver, was a scientist who made contributions in many fields, including radar, television, and computers. He was the founder and director of Hewlett-Packard (HP) laboratories until his retirement in 1981. He is also a recognized pioneer in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Oliver was president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1965. In 1986, Oliver was a National Medal of Science recipient for Engineering Science and on February 11, 2004 it was announced that Oliver had been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Vera Fischer is a Brazilian actress and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Brazil 1969 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1969 where she placed Top 15.
Jay Vaquer is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.
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Marcos Chaib Mion is a Brazilian TV host, actor, voice actor, author and businessman. Mion studied Philosophy at Universidade de São Paulo, and later graduated in Communication and Body Arts at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Currently, Mion presents the show Caldeirão com Mion, which is shown on Saturday afternoons on TV Globo.
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"Killer Queen" is the sixteenth episode of the tenth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on March 11, 2012. When Peter and Chris go away to fat camp, they cross paths with a serial killer who targets overweight teens. Meanwhile, Stewie is traumatized by the cover of the 1977 Queen album News of the World. The title of the episode is based on the Queen song of the same name which plays during the end credits.
Vaquer is a surname that originated in a few countries, including Spain and France. In Spain, the surname "Vaquer" could be associated with the Catalan or Occitan languages, where it might have occupational or toponymic origins related to the term "vaquer" which means "cowboy". In France, the surname "Vaquer" could have regional origins and meanings, potentially linked to similar linguistic roots.
Zeuxis is a Puerto Rican luchadora enmascarada, or masked female professional wrestler, currently performing for Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), where she is one-half of the inaugural and current CMLL World Women's Tag Team Champions, alongside Stephanie Vaquer. She also makes regular tours of Japan with the Reina Joshi Puroresu promotion. Zeuxis' real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.
The Pilgrim is a 2014 Brazilian-Spanish biographical drama film about the Brazilian lyricist and novelist Paulo Coelho. Directed by Daniel Augusto, it stars Júlio Andrade, Ravel Andrade, Fabíula Nascimento, Fabiana Guglielmetti and Lucci Ferreira.
Skanderbeg's rebellion was an almost 25-year long anti-Ottoman rebellion led by the Albanian military commander Skanderbeg in what is today Albania and its neighboring countries. It was a rare successful instance of resistance by Christians during the 15th century and through his leadership led Albanians in guerrilla warfare against the Ottomans.
Project Mc2 (pronounced Project MC-squared ) is an American streaming television series produced by DreamWorks Animation's AwesomenessTV and MGA Entertainment for Netflix. The series was first released on August 7, 2015. The last set of episodes was released on November 7, 2017.
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Robert Lutece and Rosalind Lutece, collectively known as the Lutece twins, are a duo of characters from the BioShock video game series created by Ken Levine, published by 2K Games. They appear as supporting characters in the 2013 video game BioShock Infinite, where they serve as the drivers for the game's events and often materialize under mysterious circumstances to guide its protagonist Booker DeWitt. By the game's end, both characters are eventually revealed to share no family relations, and are in fact parallel universe versions of the same individual. Robert and Rosalind are voiced by Oliver Vaquer and Jennifer Hale respectively. Concept artist Claire Hummel was responsible for the visual design of the Lutece twins.
Gabriela Vaquer is a Puerto Rican footballer who plays as a midfielder. She has been a member of the Puerto Rico women's national team.
Enric Cuxart Vaquer is a former Spanish footballer who played as a forward.
