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• Cordobés, El — orig. Manuel Benítez Pérez born May 4, 1936?, Palma del Río, Córdoba, Spain Spanish bullfighter. He grew up an illiterate orphan in Córdoba (his nickname means the Córdovan ) and was once imprisoned for unauthorized entry into bullrings. He began …   Universalium

• novillero — [nō̂΄vē lye′rō̂, nō̂΄vē ye′rō̂] n. pl. novilleros [nō̂΄vē lye′rō̂s, nō̂΄vē ye′rō̂s] [Sp < novillo, young bull < L ( bos) novellus, new (bull): see NOVEL] a novice bullfighter …   English World dictionary

• bullfighting — See bullfighter. * * * Spanish corrida de toros Spectacle, popular in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, in which matadors ceremonially taunt, and usually kill, bulls in an arena. Spectacles with bulls were common in ancient Crete, Thessaly, and …   Universalium

• Fulton, John — ▪ American bullfighter in full  Fulton John Short   born May 25, 1933, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died Feb. 8, 1998, Sevilla, Spain  American bullfighter and painter, who was one of only two Americans (the other was Sidney Franklin) to receive the… …   Universalium

• List of sports people who have died during their playing career — This is a list of sports people who have died either during their playing career or due to career ending injury or disease at an age when they could still have been playing. It includes both on the field and off the field deaths, although there… …   Wikipedia

• matador — /mat euh dawr /, n. 1. the principal bullfighter in a bullfight who passes the bull with a muleta and then, in many countries, kills it with a sword thrust; a torero. 2. one of the principal cards in skat and certain other games. 3. (cap.) a jet… …   Universalium

• Daja Wangchuk Meston — Daja Meston (1970 July 11, 2010) was an author and Tibet activist, an American citizen who was raised as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. In 2007 he published his memoir, Comes the Peace: My Journey to Forgiveness (with Clare Ansberry; Free Press, 2007) …   Wikipedia

• novillero — /noh vee air oh, veuhl yair oh/; Sp. /naw vee ye rddaw, lye /, n., pl. novilleros / vee air ohz, veuhl yair ohz/; Sp. / vee ye rddaws, lye /. a young bullfighter who has not yet been named a matador. [1920 25; < Sp, equiv. to novill(o) a fighting …   Universalium