Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn neared, a battalion of Federal troops quartered near the Presidential palace in Caracas mutinied under the leadership of Chief-Conspirator Captain Rafael Alvarado. Two brother officers who would not join the mutiny were shot dead. Then, having tasted blood, the battalion rushed out at double quick march to seize the large supplies of arms always kept at the San Carlos Barracks...
...flowing tributary, for endless hours we toil across the Yali range, and finally drop down near Jinotega in another night of driving rain over a road where the horses roll pitifully, up to their bellies in mud. ... I was finally brought to ... General Sandino's headquarters ... at San Rafael del Norte ... in the Department of Jinotega on the high flank of the Yali Range...
...long and full in the skirts like the coats seen in pictures of the great merchants of 40 years ago; he wears a heavy watch-chain. But Captain Dollar is spryer than the old traders who wore his kind of coat and watch-chain. He lives at San Rafael and commutes. He leaves home at seven, gets to his desk at 8:45. Crossing San Francisco Bay in the ferry he swaps stories with the deckhands. Once he did not get down on time. The ferry waited...
...Brother of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, onetime Pontifical Secretary of State (1903-14). Sons of the late Don Rafael Merry del Val, famed Spanish diplomat, both Alfonso & Raphael were educated partly in England...
...Died. Rafael Sabatini Jr., 19, only son of potent author Rafael Sabatini, creator of Scaramouche, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk; by accident while taking his mother to drive. The car overturned. Mrs. Sabatini was badly hurt...