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89Best players in Real Madrid history
Outstanding players in Real Madrid history - top scorers, top goalkeepers, awards won and a quick quiz to check how much you know about the club´s history!
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88Madrid: San Miguel Market
Having its origins in the early XIX century, this lovely cast-iron building with incredible glass walls has reopened in 2009 to host a modern, lively gourmet food market that has quickly become a hot spot in one of the most visited areas in Madrid.
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87The Maya Codices
Maya scribes spent their time writing in special books made of paper called codices. In these books, scribes faithfully recorded centuries of Maya history, astronomical calculations, and religious practices. Some of the Maya codices even recorded travel and hunting details. Others included tables for predicting when an eclipse of the sun would occur.
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88Yankees need apply: what happens when you overstay your visa in Europe/Schengen
I did it. I decided to quit my job and sell my house in Baltimore to travel to Europe for an indefinite amount of time to discover my true self (as one does, when they find themselves developing unhealthy obsessions with movies such as, Love...
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87Madrid Rio
Madrid Rio is the biggest urban project ever undertaken in the city of Madrid. It means the recovery of a run down and rather sore area of the city as a public space, reconverting for public usage approximately 7 million square meters of otherwise unusable surface around the Manzanares river.
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87Madrid: Atocha Train Station and its Unique Greenhouse
The tropical greenhouse at Atocha train station is a one-of-a-kind environment. It makes this train station, which I use everyday to commute, one of my favorite places in Madrid.
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87Top Muslim Football Players
This hub is a collection of some of the top Muslim footballers who have either retired or are still playing for their clubs and national teams. I know that this article can’t cover all the Muslim football players but in coming up with and...
86Madrid: The Palace and The Ritz
These two hotels are classics in Madrid, and class acts at that, both as hotels and as buildings. Their neobarroque and neoclassic cut and ivory colored, sober facades continue to inspire and bow me. The history they share never fails to bring a smile to my face.
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86Christendom in the 16th Century
In the 16th Century, the average person only lived to be forty years old. The humanists at the forefront of the Renaissance saw themselves as descendants of the Roman Empire. They venerated Constantine and Charlemagne. They saw their...
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85Rizal in Madrid
Early in August, 1890 – Rizal arrived in Madrid He tried all legal means to seek justice for his family and the calamba tenants, but to no avail. He almost fought to duels – one with Antonio Luna and the other to Wenceslao E....
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