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4 days ago · The Kingdom of Castile (/ k æ ˈ s t iː l /; Spanish: Reino de Castilla: Latin: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. It traces its origins to the 9th-century County of Castile (Spanish: Condado de Castilla, Latin: Comitatus Castellæ), as an eastern frontier lordship of the Kingdom of Asturias.
4 days ago · The cast of the movie Beethoven includes Charles Grodin as George Newton, Bonnie Hunt as Alice Newton, Dean Jones as Herman Varnick, Nicholle Tom as Ryce Newton, Christopher Castile as Ted, Sarah Rose Karr as Emily, and others.
1 day ago · Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus and continuing for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America.
2 days ago · Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer. In a career spanning more than sixty years, Lee became known as an actor with a deep and commanding voice who often portrayed villains in horror and franchise films.
3 days ago · Although the Christians remained on the defensive in the face of Almohad power, Alfonso VIII of Castile (1158–1214) and Alfonso II of Aragon concluded a treaty in 1179 apportioning their expected conquest of Islamic Spain between them. Castile retained the right of reconquest to Andalusia and Murcia (Mursīyah), while Aragon claimed Valencia.
3 days ago · Statistic 15. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in medieval Europe, known for her political influence. Statistic 16. King Alfonso X of Castile was a patron of the arts and sciences, overseeing the translation of numerous works into Spanish during his reign. Statistic 17.
4 days ago · Simon Fujiwara, It’s a Small World (Memorial), 2021.Photo by Jörg von Bruchhausen. Fujiwara was born in England in 1982 to a British mother and a Japanese father, and spent his childhood in Japan, England, Spain, and Africa. He gained a bachelor’s degree in architecture at Cambridge before earning an MFA in 2008 from the exclusive Städelschule, an art school that only accepts
