Word: rodrigo
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...grandest grandee and holder of 30 titles under the monarchy, will be confiscated. Also refused exemption last week were the lands of the Duke of Vitoria, but after formal protest by the British Government one Spanish grandee's lands were spared: those of the Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, Arthur Charles Wellesley, fourth Duke of Wellington...
...Spain's favorite national hero whose legendary exploits are celebrated in the Poem a del Cid, oldest Spanish epic (12th Century). Named Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, he was called El Cid ("the lord...
Santa Ysabel. Señor Rodrigo Octavio, the Brazilian President of the U. S.-Mexican Special Claims Commission, held with the support of the Mexican Commissioner, Fernando Gonzales Roa, that no indemnity shall be paid to the relatives of 15 U. S. mining operatives massacred in January, 1916, near Santa Ysabel, Chihuahua, Mexico. Judge Ernest B. Perry, the U. S. Commissioner, being thus outvoted, rendered a dissenting minority opinion. The commission forthwith adjourned until September...