CASTRO VALLEY

uninc. city (1990 pop. 48,619), Alameda co., W Calif., near San Francisco Bay. Chiefly residential, it also has light industries.

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books on: Castro Valley  - 416 results

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Fidel Castro
Book by Robert E. Quirk; W. W. Norton, 1995
Subjects: Castro, Fidel--1927-, Cuba--Politics And Government--1959-, Heads Of State--Cuba--Biography
...each time he swallowed one." Castro would discuss nothing else...been replaced by cigars, which Castro half smoked and half chewed...rest of his men down into a valley to practice shooting at bottles...shouted challenges of the sentry. Castro scolded him. "Hey, compadre...
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The Rise and Decline of Fidel Castro: An Essay in Contemporary History
Book by Maurice Halperin; University of California Press, 1972
Subjects: Castro, Fidel--1927-, Cuba--Foreign Relations--1959-, Cuba--History--1959-
...late 1962 had launched a guerrilla campaign in La Convencion Valley, in the highlands of central Peru. Blanco had been given a...did its best to present him Blanco as a Peruvian Fidel Castro: detailed accounts of his real or alleged successes and photographs...
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Between the Maternal Aegis and the Abyss: Woman as Symbol in the Poetry of Rosalia de Castro
Book by Michelle C. Geoffrion-Vinci; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002
Subjects: Castro, Rosalaia De--1837-1885--Symbolism, Women In Literature
...back by the wind of storms. / Already in vain the tepid ray of the newborn dawn / behind high Mount Miranda, / gilds hill and valley with its brilliant living splendor, / in vain May full of sun and fragrance, / its childlike countenance festooned with roses...
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Wealth, Authority, and Prestige in the Ica Valley, Peru
Book by Eugene A. Hammel; University of New Mexico Press, 1962
Subjects: Ica (Peru : Province)--Social Conditions
...the traditional ones for the valley and had their beginnings in colonial...Ica, Comision Tecnica , Ms.; Castro Bulnes, Ms. . The valley is criss-crossed by a network...along the eastern side of the valley. Another large ditch, the Macacona...
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The Valley of the Moon
Book by Jack London; Macmillan, 1913
Subjects: Poetry
...the shipyards, the nail works, Market street wharf. The boy took the skiff in to a dilapidated boat-wharf at the foot of Castro street, where the scow schooners, laden with sand and gravel, lay hauled to the shore in a long row. He insisted upon an...
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journal articles on: Castro Valley  - 160 results

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Norton Allen's Excavations in the San Pedro and Dripping Spring Valleys of Southeastern Arizona
Journal article by Patrick D. Lyons; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 52, 2010
Subjects: Allen, Norton, Antiquities--Discovery and exploration, Arizona, Excavations (Archaeology)--Arizona, Native American culture--Equipment and supplies, Native Americans--Culture, Native Americans--Equipment and supplies
...from the site in the Dripping Spring Valley, none of Nortons photographs of the...from the San Pedro and Dripping Spring Valleys show this vessel. In fact, in one...known to be from the Dripping Spring Valley site. I suggest that this is a case...Pedro Valley or the Dripping Spring Valley (figure 9). Photographs received...have been recovered from both of these Valleys. One of the vessels is a Prieto Indented...
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Richness and Seasonal Variation of Ant-plant Associations Mediated by Plant-derived Food Resources in the Semiarid Zapotitlan Valley, Mexico
Journal article by William P. Mackay, Victor Rico-Gray, Monica Palacios-Rios, Jose G. Garcia-Franco; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 140, 1998
Subjects: Animal behavior, Biology, Insects, Mexico
...Plant-derived Food Resources in the Semiarid Zapotitlan Valley, Mexico by William P. Mackay , Victor Rico-Gray , Monica...1988; Beattie, 1991; Koptur,1991; Rico-Gray and Castro, 1996), this variation supports the idea of the geographic...
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The Revolution Is
Journal article by Neil Shea; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 85, 2009
Subjects: Anniversaries, Castro, Fidel, Communism, Cuba, Prime ministers, Revolutions, Travel
...as one of our great enemies, and Fidel Castro was a tyrant who had forced my parents...army barracks. The attack went badly. Castro was nearly killed. Many of his comrades...wife as Roselena. Miguel works in the valley on a cooperative farm. Their son, Miguelito...
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Silicon Island
Journal article by Timothy Ashby; Harvard International Review, Vol. 23, 2001
Subjects: Castro, Fidel--Economic policy, Communications industry--Cuba, Cuba--Economic policy, Government business enterprises--Management, Information technology--Economic aspects
...Club, which was inaugurated by Fidel Castro in summer 2001. These Computer Youth...and Peru. An Information Society Fidel Castro seems to have an affinity for the creation...a chance to nurture dreams of Silicon Valley-style fortunes. Strategic Location...
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Tropical Depression
Journal article by Lygia Navarro; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 85, 2009
Subjects: Castro, Fidel, Cuba, Economic conditions, Islands, Mental health, Social impact
...natives escaping slavehunters threw themselves over the edge of a valley known as Yumuri - its very name a permutation of the Spanish...Union, the island fell into its own Great Depression, which Castro euphemistically dubbed "the Special Period in Times of Peace...
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magazine articles on: Castro Valley  - 190 results

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Notebooks from Brazil's Cerrado
Magazine article by John Rutter; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 46, September 1994
Subjects: Savannas--Illustrations, photographs, etc., Werneck, Maria de Castro--Works
...from the fire. Maria Werneck de Castro was in her fifties when she first...born to Luiz Werneck Texeira de Castro and Maria Albuquerque de Castro. Her family, which formed part...in the coffee-rich Paraiba valley. The plantation owners, known...
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The Next Fidel
Magazine article by Peter Hitchens; American Conservative, Vol. 7, May 19, 2008
Subjects: Castro, Fidel, Chavez, Hugo, Marxism, Political activism, Political behavior, Political leadership, Presidents
...kind. Here, spoiling a lovely steep valley, is the usual sad, globalized panorama...here we go again. No sooner has Fidel Castro finally accepted that his long career...by a phone call from his friend Fidel Castro. Whatever the reason, Chavez conceded...
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On Comic Opera Revolutions: Maneuver Theory and the Art of War in Mexican California, 1821-45
Magazine article by Robert Phelps; California History, Vol. 84, Fall 2006
Subjects: Maneuver warfare--Analysis
...incursions and slave raiding in the Central Valley. Although much of the conflict consisted...Cook calculates that in the Central Valley alone, there were approximately eighty...park, driving the mounts to the Salinas Valley and detaching a small unit to ensure that...
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The Age of Convergence
Magazine article by Philip Moeller; American Journalism Review, Vol. 16, January 1994
Subjects: Information storage and retrieval systems--Newspapers, Multimedia technology--Planning, Newspapers--Science and technology policy
...want to play. Omaha, Orlando and Castro Valley, California, are just a few of...Dataquest Inc., a large Silicon Valley research firm, polled 200 families...Viacoms test with AT T in Castro Valley, California, the emphasis will...
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Donors
Magazine article; California History, Vol. 87, Spring 2010
Subjects: California Historical Society--Finance, Charitable contributions, Charitable donations, Historical associations--Finance, History--Finance, History--Societies, clubs, etc.
...Robert Mrs. Kaye Hiatt, Mill Valley Mr. Richard Hyde, Belvedere...Edith Mr. George Piness, Mill Valley Ms. Darlene Plumtree Nolte...William S. Floyd Jr., Portola Valley Mr. Harry R. Gibson III...Francisco Ms. Janice Loomer, Castro Valley Mr. Bruce M. Lubarsky...
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newspaper articles on: Castro Valley  - 496 results

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Castro, Warriors Win Easily
Newspaper article by Henry Perez; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 26, 2006
Castro, Warriors Win Easily. by...sophomore quarterback Tyler Castro made the plays when he had...plays or anything like that," Castro said. "I just wanted to do...we have to do," Waubonsie Valley coach Paul Murphy said. On the first play of Waubonsie Valleys next possession Webb broke...
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Farewell to Cuba; Andy Garcia's New Film Is about the Country He Loved, and Left, as a Child. He Won't Go Back, He Says, until Castro Has Gone
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 10, 2006
Subjects: Garcia, Andy
...their ailing compatriot Fidel Castro in their prayers this weekend...family life in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Toluca Lake. Now...describes as "definitely anti-Castro, and therefore anticommunist...lifted," he says. "I think Castro will do anything in his power...
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Muchas Gracias Fidel Castro; 1996 I Was a Dull Tory MP and Number-Crunching Treasury Minister in John Major's Government. 2006 Now I'm a Groovy, Mojito-Drinking, Havana Smoking Party Animal and Urban Carnival King - and It's All Thanks to Cuba's Communist Dictator
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 11, 2006
Muchas Gracias Fidel Castro; 1996 I Was a Dull Tory MP and Number-Crunching Treasury Minister...be honest, I had never expected, way back in 1983, to win Amber Valley, the Derbyshire mining constituency that was to become my seat for...
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Glaiza De Castro Is Boyfriend-Ready!
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 30, 2006
Glaiza De Castro Is Boyfriend-Ready! Byline: WALDEN SADIRI Itas funny but I suddenly...when she turned 18 years old last Jan. 21 with a debut party at the Jade Valley Restaurant in Quezon City. The celebration according to her was a surprise...
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One Play Is Costly QB Keeper Enough to End Waubonsie Valley's Season
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 27, 2007
Subjects: Football teams
...Keeper Enough to End Waubonsie Valleys Season. Byline: David Oberhelman...over No. 5 seed Waubonsie Valley in Aurora. Hinsdale Central...yard field goal had Waubonsie Valley within 12- 10 at 5:38 of the third quarter. But Waubonsie Valley (7-3) lost quarterback Tyler Castro to a knee injury early in the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Castro Valley  - 5 results

 
 
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Castro Valley
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CASTRO VALLEY uninc. city (1990 pop. 48,619), Alameda co., W Calif., near San Francisco Bay. Chiefly residential, it also has light...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...similar in structure to the ridge and valley section of the Appalachians, to the east...lowest point in North America, in Death Valley (282 ft/86 m below sea level), is...the U.S. Pacific coast. The Central Valley in California, the Willamette Valley...
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Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...northeast of the central plateau is the broad valley of the Ebro, which traverses Aragon and...is crossed by the fertile Guadalquivir valley. The chief cities of Andalusia are Seville...are those of Rioja , in the upper Ebro valley, and of Malaga and Jerez de la Frontera...
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Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...regions, such as that in Bahia, which separates E Bahia from the valley of the Sao Francisco River. The chief cities of the Northeast...movement to abolish slavery, spurred by such men as Antonio de Castro Alves and Joaquim Nabuco , threatened it even more. The slave...
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Venezuela
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the coast. Cattle from the llanos are fattened on the rich valley grasses near Lake Valencia. Field crops are intensively cultivated...over the border with British Guiana (now Guyana). Cipriano Castro , a new dictator, came to power in 1899. The financial corruption...


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