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  2. Wrong Side of the Tracks (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Set in Entrevías, the poorest neighborhood in Madrid, the series follows Tirso Abantos, a former military man running a hardware store, whose monotonous daily routine is shaken when his unruly and rebellious adopted teenaged granddaughter Irene, of Vietnamese origin, along with her Colombian-immigrant boyfriend Nelson, agree to sell heroin from drug dealer Sandro.

  3. Sawdust carpet - Wikipedia

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    Sawdust carpet made during "The night no one sleeps" in Huamantla, Tlaxcala. Sawdust carpets (Spanish: tapetes de aserrín) are one or more layers of colored sawdust, and sometimes other additional materials, laid on the ground as decoration. Sawdust carpets are traditionally created to greet a religious procession that walks over them.

  4. Terceira Island - Wikipedia

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    Terceira (Portuguese pronunciation: [tɨɾˈsɐjɾɐ]) is a volcanic island in the Azores archipelago, about a third of the way across the North Atlantic Ocean at a similar latitude to Portugal's capital Lisbon, and the island group is an insular part of Portugal. It is one of the larger islands of the archipelago, with a population of 53,311 ...

  5. Francisca Valenzuela - Wikipedia

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    Francisca Valenzuela was born in San Francisco, California to Chilean-born scientists, Pablo Valenzuela Valdés and Bernardita Méndez Velasco. She is the fourth oldest and only daughter of five children.

  6. Turkmen rug - Wikipedia

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    A Turkmen rug (Turkmen: Türkmen haly; or Turkmen carpet or Turkoman carpet) is a type of handmade floor-covering textile traditionally originating in Central Asia. It is useful to distinguish between the original Turkmen tribal rugs and the rugs produced in large numbers for export mainly in Pakistan and Iran today.

  7. José Ramón Sandoval - Wikipedia

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    He subsequently led AD Parla to a promotion to Tercera División before returning to Humanes in 2001. In the 2003–04 season , Sandoval was in charge of CA Pinto in the fourth tier, and qualified the club to the play-offs for the first time in their history. [ 3 ]

  8. Cultural impact of Shakira - Wikipedia

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    Jose Soto Shakira's appearance on the international market was somewhat different from the other crossover artists such as Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias or Gloria Estefan, who already spoke fluent English. Shakira was a Spanish-speaking South American woman who had to learn English. Shakira is noted to be a "global phenom" whose impact has "reached every corner of the world ...

  9. Alhambra - Wikipedia

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    RI-51-0000009. The Alhambra (/ ælˈhæmbrə /, Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء, romanized: al-ḥamrāʼ ) is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition ...