Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- A city of northern Spain north-northeast of Valladolid. Site of an ancient Roman settlement, it was recovered from the Moors in the tenth century. Spain's first university was founded here in 1208 but moved to Salamanca in 1238. Population: 82,300.
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- proper n. A province in the north of Castile and León, Spain
- proper n. The capital of the province
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Examples
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Armstrong was first taken to Rio Carrion hospital in Palencia, then to the hospital in Valladolid.
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Ms. Palencia counts 20 who left last year to work abroad—in Brazil, China, Japan, Chile, Peru, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Britain.
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Soon after Spain's real-estate bust put Andrés Velarde and María Palencia out of work, the young architects gathered their drafting materials and moved 5,000 miles to Brazil—drawn by a hope, but no promise, of employment.
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Mr. Velarde and Ms. Palencia had the misfortune of finishing Polytechnic University of Madrid's architecture program the year of the collapse.
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"In the past few months this idea has been changing," Mr. Velarde said by telephone from the spacious apartment he and Ms. Palencia share in Rio de Janeiro.
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Palencia said Emanuel did say he would call her – and she will be waiting.
Rahm Emanuel Snubs Pilsen Sit-In Protesters During 'Listening Tour'
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Michelle Palencia, whose 6-year-old son attends a school that uses the field house as a library, said the group confronted Emanuel because no one else is listening.
Rahm Emanuel Snubs Pilsen Sit-In Protesters During 'Listening Tour'
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Contemporary to Christ the Redeemer was Cristo del Otero, a statue in Palencia, Spain designed to be the largest in Europe world at the time but without the funding power of the Rio project.
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The Palencia Cristo never attracted the same tourist attention as his Rio twin, and the competition for the world's largest Jesus spread to several other nations.
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Journalists gather in front of a Guardia Civil police station in Palencia after Spanish police questioned world steeplechase champion Marta Dominguez.
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