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María África Gracia Vidal [2] (6 June 1912 – 7 September 1951), known professionally as Maria Montez, was a Dominican actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films.
Francisco de Borja Bazán de Silva, 11th Marquis of Santa Cruz: 1815: 1889: 1878: Francisco Santa Cruz y Pacheco: 1797: 1883: Juan Zavala y de la Puente, Marquis of Sierra Bullones: 1804: 1879: Manuel García, Marquis of Barzanallana: 1817: 1892: Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden: 1826: 1907: Arsenio Martínez Campos: 1831: 1900: Victor Emmanuel ...
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Winners of the Golden Fleece Award included governmental organizations like the United States Department of Defense, [64] Bureau of Land Management, [65] and National Park Service. [66] The first Golden Fleece Award was awarded in 1975 to the National Science Foundation for funding an $84,000 study on why people fall in love. [4]
Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, with the collar of the order (portrait in c. 1450 by Rogier van der Weyden). The Distinguished Order of the Golden Fleece (Spanish: Insigne Orden del Toisón de Oro, [1] German: Orden vom Goldenen Vlies) is a Catholic order of chivalry founded in 1430 in Bruges by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, [2] to celebrate his marriage to Isabella of Portugal.
One of the French buccaneers arranged a fake bill of sale for Golden Fleece so that Bannister, who feared English repercussions if he were caught, would not appear to have been serving under French command. [4] When HMS Ruby located the buccaneer squadron, the Captain questioned Grammont, but Grammont protected Bannister and Ruby was forced to ...
The sovereign or grand master is the head of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Prior to the Napoleonic wars the Grand Master was always identical with the monarch controlling the Spanish or Austrian Netherlands , [ 1 ] although afterwards the order split into separate Austrian and Spanish branches.
'Golden-haired pelt') is the fleece of the golden-woolled, [a] winged ram, Chrysomallos, that rescued Phrixus and brought him to Colchis, where Phrixus then sacrificed it to Zeus. Phrixus gave the fleece to King Aeëtes who kept it in a sacred grove, whence Jason and the Argonauts stole it with the help of Medea , Aeëtes' daughter.