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Jaime Giménez Arbe
Jaime Giménez Arbe (also spelled Jiménez: born Madrid, 12 January 1956) is a Spanish anarchist and bank robber known as ''El Solitario'' ("The Loner"). He admitted to more than thirty armed robberies of banks all over Spain, and was also convicted of the murder of two Civil Guards in Castejón (Navarra). In addition, in La Vall d'Uixó (Castellón) , during an exchange of fire with ''El Solitario'', one policeman died due to a stray bullet fired by another policeman. He was sentenced to 47 years' imprisonment in July 2008. He has two sons with his British ex-wife Anne. Detention He was arrested on 23 July 2007, in Figueira da Foz as part of "Operation Gloria". A large number of police officers, both Spanish (National Police officers and Civil Guards from the Central Operational Unit) and Portuguese (Judiciary Police) were there to arrest him while he was, presumably, about to rob the “Caixa Agrícola” Bank, located on Saraiva de Carvalho Street, near the market. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Rozas De Madrid
Las Rozas de Madrid (or simply, Las Rozas; ) is one of the largest townships and municipalities in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain, with an area of 59 km² (22¾ sq. mi.). It is located 20 km (12 miles) northwest of the city of Madrid itself, on the A-6 freeway to A Coruña. Las Rozas is the beginning of this freeway, near the fork road M-505 to El Escorial, which marks the southern boundary of this 'comarca' or rural district (although it is no longer rural). The municipality is served by four Renfe railway stations– Las Rozas, Las Matas, El Pinar and El Tejar. A fifth stop, at Peñascales was closed. The municipality shares borders with Torrelodones to the north, Villanueva del Pardillo and Galapagar to the west, the park of Monte del Pardo in the east and Majadahonda (south). Las Rozas has one of the highest average per capita incomes in the Community of Madrid. During the final decades of the 20th century the town has experienced a vigorous build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corsica
Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland, west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north of the Italian island of Sardinia, which is the land mass nearest to it. A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of the island. , it had a population of 349,465. The island is a territorial collectivity of France. The regional capital is Ajaccio. Although the region is divided into two administrative departments, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud, their respective regional and departmental territorial collectivities were merged on 1 January 2018 to form the single territorial collectivity of Corsica. As such, Corsica enjoys a greater degree of autonomy than other French regional collectivities; for example, the Corsican Assembly is permitted to exercise limit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caja De Ahorros De Castilla-La Mancha
Caja Castilla-La Mancha (Spanish for: Castilla-La Mancha Savings Bank) also known as C''aja de Ahorros de Castilla-La Mancha'' or ''CCM'' was a Spanish savings bank headquartered in Cuenca. In 2010, Cajastur took over the financial business of Caja Castilla-La Mancha (CCM) through its subsidiary Banco Liberta, which changed its name to Banco Castilla-La Mancha. After the transfer of Cajastur's financial business to Liberbank, Banco Castilla-La Mancha became a subsidiary of Liberbank. The transformation of the bank's Obra Social gave rise to the Fundación Caja Castilla La Mancha. History It was created as the result of the merger of three provincial savings banks: ''Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Albacete, Caja de Ahorros de Cuenca y Ciudad Real'' and ''Caja de Ahorros Provincial de Toledo'' on June 26, 1992. After the merger, only two savings banks were left with headquarters in the community: Caja Castilla-La Mancha itself and Caja de Guadalajara. In 1999, the possible mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Roda (Albacete)
La Roda is a small city and municipality located in the Province of Albacete in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha in Spain. Description The town has a population of around 16,500 people. It is an important industrial town. Its most famous building is the church which dates from the 15th century. Its main culinary speciality are the Miguelitos. Tennis player Guillermo García López hails and David Castro triathlon runner from La Roda. See also *Church of El Salvador o de la Transfiguración The Church of El Salvador o de la Transfiguración (Spanish: ''Iglesia de El Salvador o de la Transfiguración'') is a church that is situated in La Roda, Spain. In 1981 it was declared ''Bien de Interés Cultural''. The church was constructed mo ... References Municipalities of the Province of Albacete {{Albacete-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caja De Ahorros Del Mediterráneo
''Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo'' (CAM; Mediterranean Savings Bank) was a Spanish savings bank in Alicante, Valencia. The savings bank failed with the burst of the property bubble on Spain's Mediterranean coast. In the first nine months of 2011 it had lost €1.7 billion and the bad loans ratio had reached 20.8 per cent.Sabadell takes gamble on stricken CAM by Miles Johnson, , Dec 7, 2011 In December 2011, it was sold to for one euro. History CAM was the result ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumilla
Jumilla () is a town and a municipality in southeastern Spain. It is located in the north east of the Region of Murcia, close to the towns of Cieza and Yecla. According to the 2018 census, the town population was 25,547. Geography The municipality, located in the north of the Region of Murcia, covers . It shares borders with the municipality of Yecla at its northeast and its east; with Abarán, Fortuna and Cieza at its south and with Abanilla at its east. It also adjoins the province of Albacete in the autonomous community Castilla–La Mancha at its west and the province of Alicante in the autonomous community Valencian Community. In this municipality there are several mountain landforms. There are three which are specially noteworthy in the territory and these are Sierra del Carche, Sierra del Buey and Sierra de la Pila. Other geographical elements that occupy the territory are three salt evaporation ponds. Regarding water landforms, there are not any basin with permanent w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binéfar
Binéfar (, ca, Binèfar) is a municipality located in the province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2008 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 9,288 inhabitants. It is the home of the children's theatre group "''Los Titiriteros de Binéfar''". Notable people * Agustín Abadía Agustín Abadía Plana (; born 15 April 1962) is a Spanish former professional football left midfielder and manager. Blessed with few technical skills but a tremendous hard-worker,Municipalities in the Province of Huesca {{huesca-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caja De Ahorros De La Inmaculada (Spain) (1958–1995), American mixed-media painter and Queercore performance artist
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Caja (meaning "box" in Spanish) can refer to: * ''Caja'' or ''caixa'', a Spanish savings bank similar to a credit union * Caja project, a former Google project for reducing security risks in HTML, CSS and JavaScript * Caja del Rio, a mesa in New Mexico, USA * Caja vallenata, a drum similar to a tambora * Caja China, see Nochebuena * Caja, the official file manager for the MATE desktop environment People * Isidoro Caja de la Jara (died 1593), Spanish Roman Catholic bishop of Mondoñedo * Attilio Caja (born 1961), Italian professional basketball coach * Caja Heimann (1918–1988), Danish film actress * Jerome Caja Jerome Caja (1958-1995) was an American mixed-media painter and Queercore performance artist in San Francisco, California in the 1980s and early 1990s. Early life and education Jerome Caja was born on January 20, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio. Raised in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teruel
Teruel () is a city in Aragon, located in eastern Spain, and is also the capital of Teruel Province. It has a population of 35,675 in 2014 making it the least populated provincial capital in the country. It is noted for its harsh climate, with a wide daily variation on temperatures and its renowned ''jamón serrano'' (cured ham), its pottery, its surrounding archaeological sites, rock outcrops containing some of the oldest dinosaur remains of the Iberian Peninsula, and its famous events: '' La Vaquilla del Ángel'' during the weekend (Friday to Monday) closest to 10 July and "Bodas de Isabel de Segura" around the third weekend of February. Teruel is regarded as the "town of mudéjar" (Moorish-influenced architecture) due to numerous buildings designed in this style. All of them are comprised in the Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon which is a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. Teruel's remote and mountainous location above sea level and its low population has led to relative iso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melide, A Coruña
Melide is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous region of Galicia in northwest Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Terra de Melide. It has an area of 101 km2 and a population of 9,000 inhabitants mostly spread among its 26 parishes. It has an elevation of 456 meters. Demography History The history of this village, since its foundation in the 10th century, is deeply linked with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as it is where two separate paths French Way and Camino Primitivo of the Camino de Santiago link up. In 1320 Melide obtained from the Archbishop of Santiago, Berenguel de Landoira, the privilege of building up a castle, fortressing the village, and charging taxes. In 1467 ''"os irmandiños"'' opposed the Archbishop Alonso II Fonseca and started a series of fights against its power. During this riot the walls of the village were destroyed as well as the castle. After this, the Catholic Monarchs banned the construction of any fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renault 4
The Renault 4, also known as the 4L (pronounced "Quatrelle" in French), is a small economy car produced by the French automaker Renault between 1961 and 1994. Although the Renault 4 was marketed as a short station wagon, its minimal rear overhang, and single top-hinged rear opening made it the world's first mass-produced hatchback car, as well as the first front-wheel drive family car produced by Renault. The car was launched at a time when several decades of economic stagnation were giving way to growing prosperity and surging car ownership in France. The first million cars were produced by 1 February 1966, less than four and a half years after launch; eventually over eight million were built, making the Renault 4 a commercial success because of the timing of its introduction and the merits of its design. Inearly 2020, the 33-year production run of the Renault 4 was counted as the seventeenth most long-lived single generation car in history. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viveiro
Viveiro () is a town and municipality in the province of Lugo, in the northwestern Galician autonomous community of Spain. It borders on the Cantabric Sea, to the west of Xove and to the east of O Vicedo. It has a residential population of over 16,000 (2010 figures), which however triples in the summer months with visitors to the coastal region. Geography and location The climate is mild oceanic. The municipality encompasses the township of Viveiro itself (the main population centre on the Lugo coast), and also the towns of Covas and Celeiro. More than half of the municipality's population live in these three centres. Viveiro municipality is subdivided into several administrative areas (''parroquias'', or parishes): Area-Faro, Boimente, Chavín, Galdo, Landrove, Magazos, San Pedro, Valcarría, Celeiro, Vieiro, Covas and Viveiro. Main sights The old wall, of which only parts remain today, was built to protect the inhabitants from attacks or from the plague. The remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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