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The name, Sierra de Guadarrama (Guadarrama Mountains), is taken from the Guadarrama River and the town of Guadarrama, both of which are located in these mountains.The word Guadarrama itself is derived from the Arabic words for 'sandy river' — composed of guad (from wadi, meaning 'river') and arrama (from ar-ramla, meaning 'sandy').
The Battle of Somosierra took place on 30 November 1808, during the Peninsular War, when a combined Franco-Spanish-Polish force under the direct command of Napoleon Bonaparte forced a passage through a Spanish Division stationed at the Sierra de Guadarrama, which shielded Madrid from direct French attack.
The natural park includes wetland areas which are important for amphibians, and in 2006 these were designated a Ramsar site, Humedales del Macizo de Peñalar. The natural park is within the boundaries of a Special Protection Area for bird-life. There is a regional park (Parque Regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares), which was created in the ...
Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902–1980. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-32767-9. Kinnane, Adrian (2002). DuPont: From the Banks of the Brandywine to Miracles of Science. Wilmington: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. ISBN 0-8018-7059-3. Ndiaye, Pap A. (trans. 2007).
Miraflores de la Sierra (Spanish: [miɾaˈfloɾes ðe la ˈsjera] ⓘ) is a town and municipality in the northern area of the autonomous Community of Madrid, in central Spain, of c. 6,000 inhabitants, located 49 kilometers away from Madrid.
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Judy Greer had a very specific reason for turning down an audition for Modern Family.. The actress, 49, revealed in a recent episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast Dinner’s on Me that she ...