Word: valencia
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...week had little effect on the fighting inside Spain. Rifles cracked, bombs fell, cannon roared and men died just as they had for the past fortnight, but Madrid itself was peaceful. One hundred and six of the U. S. citizens marooned in the Embassy there were safely evacuated to Valencia...
Manifestoed General Franco from Morocco: "Spain is saved! The Provinces of Andalusia, Valencia, Valladolid, Burgos, Aragon, the Canaries and the Balearic Islands, with their garrisons and civil forces, have joined enthusiastically with us. Only Madrid made an exception in sending its planes to bombard cities and towns without defense, killing women and children. . . . We will demand accounts from them as well as from those still on the fence...
Sarita, Spanish dancer, will give a recital of gypsy, and popular Spanish dances this evening at 8:15 o'clock in Jordan Hall. Her program will include several of her own choreographic compositions such as "Rapsodia Valencia", a compendium of the varied rhythms of vivid and exciting Valencia, "Zambra" a Moorish gypsy dance and several other interpretations based upon the colorful, impassioned themes of popular Spanish melodies...
...seasons, Mr. Kidder has been working in the Venezuelan area, at Lake Valencia, 70 miles west of the capital, Caracas, and among the caves of the Andes. Two distinct cultures have been unearthed and there seems to be evidence of a third...
...known that there was a civilization at Lake Valencia at the time of the Spaniards. Excavations at this site reveal that there were several earlier phases of this same culture, which had reached its highest point at the time of the Conquest. The culture was a simple one, not so advanced as that of the Incas or the Mayas. There was no metal known and the development of stone implements and pottery was advanced. The people lived in lake dwellings, and practiced agriculture. It is from these lake dwellings and similar ones along the coast that Venezuela took its name...