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...One of the grandest is a 30-metre monument to Alfonso XII (who reigned from 1874 to 1885) on horseback, looking out over the lake. Further south is my favourite: the Fuente del Ángel Caído....
...The city was then under the rule of humanist King Alfonso of Aragón, and its culture-hungry elite had welcomed innovative painters from Flanders, Spain and France....
...Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong’s resignation had been widely anticipated....
...The original idea was to deliver defibrillators using drones, says founder and chief executive Alfonso Zamarro....
...Built between 1901 and 1905 to connect two hydroelectric plants, it got its name after King Alfonso XIII visited in 1921....
...“Say you get a patient with gastritis that flares up at 3am,” says Dr Miguel Ángel Sanz, the chief medical officer at the Zambrano Hellion emergency unit....
...There is no angel. No dove. Instead, we, the spectators, are her messenger. Her hand is raised, palm angled towards the table beneath....
...But most people take a more forgiving attitude and accept that these people were, whatever their faults, on the side of the angels – possibly literally, in the case of M. Theresa....
...To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die is a sweetly woeful tragicomedy from Tajik director Djamshed Usmonov (Angel on the Right)....
...A year later, Alfonso Arau’s soppy Like Water for Chocolate became the highest-grossing Mexican film ever. Mexican film seemed to be entering a new belle epoque....
...Particularly the foreshortened right one, raised in response to the words of the angel. The Italian critic Roberto Longhi declared them, in 1914, “the most beautiful…I have seen in all painting”....
...Alfonso Portillo, president of Guatemala until the end of last year, is in hiding in Mexico and wanted on corruption charges in his home country, where his finance minister is in prison....
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