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  • The wreck site of the Armada gallesass "Gerona" in Port-na-Spaniagh, below the isolated columns known as the "Chimneys", is of considerable cultural importance.

    Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast, United Kingdom 2008

  • Studies of the Sant Joan fireworks in Gerona, Spain, showed that toxic metals from just two hours of fireworks can persist in city air for four days.

    Pollutionwatch: Fireworks are fun but are they worth the show? 2011

  • The next stage Thursday is a 112-mile ride in Spain between Gerona and Barcelona.

    Voeckler wins stage; no changes in overall standings 2009

  • Once a wild child in Biarritz, off the bike he now leads a quiet married life in a farm outside Gerona, Spain, with his wife, Nicole, and their two dogs.

    David Millar is happy to be the Tour's elder statesman 2010

  • The army was divided into three corps: the king kept one with him at Roussillon, where he remained; he ordered a second, under Rotstagnus, count of Gerona, to invest the city; and he sent the third to take up position on the far side of the city so that those besieging it should not have to face a surprise enemy attack.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne 2009

  • Around 1987, in an introduction to a facsimile edition to a work by Rabbi Yehoshua ibn Shuaib (first half of the fourteenth century), Shraga Abramson (b. 1915) claimed that the work was written by Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona (d. 1238 or 1245), one of the significant kabbalists of the thirteenth century.

    Iggeret Ha-Kodesh. 2009

  • Before WWI, apart from the exhibition in Warsaw in 1902, she presented her work individually three times: in Warsaw in 1907, in Barcelona in 1911 and in Gerona in 1914.

    Mela Muter. 2009

  • For the next name, Merecina of Gerona (Catalonia), from whom we have another single Hebrew poem, and about whom too nothing is known, we will have to wait another four and a half centuries (Kaufman, 64 – 65).

    Medieval Hebrew Literature: Portrayal of Women. 2009

  • Scholem maintains that the Gerona school was not an independent entitiy but more of an extension of the earlier Provencal circle that produced the Bahir.

    Gershom Scholem Magid, Shaul 2008

  • Kabbala in this period emerged in three locales: Provence, Castile, and Gerona and included prominent rabbinic figures, most importantly Moses Nahmanides.

    Gershom Scholem Magid, Shaul 2008

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