Word: aragon
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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...
...head should win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go.'' But More's head went for a different purpose. Becoming Chancellor of England in 1529, this pious Catholic scholar and lawyer opposed Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his plan to make himself head of the English church. Gentle Sir Thomas was tried, condemned and executed for treason in 1535. His head was parboiled, exposed on London bridge and would have been thrown into the Thames had not his daughter rescued...
Mary's Wedding in Westminster Abbey; The Queen Victoria Memorial in Calcutta, India; Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon before the Consistory Courts at Blackfriars. He also still designs stained glass windows...
...late Mrs. Benjamin Stern's library and 18th Century French collection brought $243,142. The highest price for anything was paid at the Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery. Anders Zorn's The Toast, of which exist only 75 impressions, was the most...
...mean a revolution, Napoleon, and the conquest of Spain. But in Madrid and throughout the land they reveled and stabbed and hoped only to see the morrow. Francisco Goya was born in 1746 of a remotely noble mother and a farmer father in Fuentodos. a tumbling village in Aragon. When he showed a facility for drawing, small Francisco was sent to nearby Saragossa, capital of Aragon, to study under one Luzan, a painstaking baroque copyist. There were rival churches and rival gangs and Goya, a husky, loud youth of 20, already a swordsman and perhaps a bullfighter, quickly joined...