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Bar Isabel A Spanish gem that will make you cut a rug
Bar Isabel offers a whole octopus for group dining or a single tentacle with new potatoes, stewed peppers and chorizo. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and ...
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Barcelonas Primavera Sound Festival Streaming
Good news for everyone not at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona this weekend: several of the most anticipated performances will be broadcast ...
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San Mames The cathedral of Spanish football
"Bilbao without San Mames would be like Paris without the Eiffel Tower," said former France and Athletic Bilbao midfielder Luis Fernandez recently, contemplating the last days of the stadium where he once played and ...
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Teacher Fired For Using Word ‘Negro’ During Spanish Class
A junior-high school Spanish teacher was reportedly fired last year for using the word ';negro'; during class. The teacher, 65-year-old Petrona Smith, has filed a lawsuit against the school saying that she didn’t use the word ';negro'; in a racial context and that the entire incident was purely a ...
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Spain to Grant Residency to Buyers of High-End Homes
Spain's government approved a plan to grant residency permits to foreigners who buy high-end homes, a step meant to breathe life into the country's moribund housing market.The measure, one of several announced Friday to encourage entrepreneurship, will award residency cards to those who spend at least EUR500,000 ($646,700) for real estate or invest at least EUR2 million in Spanish ...
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Spains Catholic Church says it needs more exorcists
MADRID (AP) — The Catholic archdiocese in Madrid says it needs more exorcists to help some of its faithful cope with the devil.An archdiocese spokeswoman said Friday that Madrid only has one exorcist priest and that it is considering a plan to train more. She spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with archdiocese policy."The devil exists. That's a fact," she told The ...
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CEVA Logistics to Provide Services for BIC in Spain
has signed a new contract with BIC, a manufacturer of stationary products, lighters and shavers.Under the contract, which commenced in September 2012, CEVA provides BIC with logistics solutions for the Iberian market, including the handling and storage of BIC's products in Spain and Portugal at CEVA's hub in Ontigola, Spain. CEVA will focus on improving BIC's warehousing ...
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Gibraltar becomes UEFA member despite Spanish objections
Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as ...
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Spains Princess Cristina to be investigated for tax fraud
Princess Cristina, the youngest daughter of Spain's Juan Carlos, is to be investigated for possible tax fraud and other financial crimes in the latest twist in an embezzlement scandal plaguing the Spanish ...
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Barcelona on the frontline in the cancer fight
Cancer has become the leading killer of the elderly in Europe; it is an awful, painful disease that has become something akin to a pandemic. Progress has been made in its diagnosis, and further progress is being made in its treatment, and Barcelona, by hosting the European Breast Cancer Conference, is playing a major part in the sharing of ideas and knowledge to facilitate improvements and new breakthroughs.
The city of Barcelona will play a significant role in the prevention and promotion of awareness of breast cancer when it hosts the annual European Breast Cancer Conference this year. Breast cancer is among the leading killers of women around the world, and although mortality has begun to drop worldwide, and especially in Europe, there is still much progress that can be made. Read more
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