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| Real Madrid | noun |
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Real Madrid is Madrid and Spain's most succesful first division football team. Real Madrid plays at the Santiago Bernabéu in northern Madrid.
The team holds 29 La Liga titles, 17 Copas del Rey (King's Cups), 9 Champions League titles, 2 EUFA Cups, 1 UEFA Super Cup, and 3 Intercontinental Cups. |
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| Reconquista, la | noun |
| “The Reconquest.” A period in Spain’s history lasting 7 centuries, from 718 to 1492, when the Spanish Christians took back or reconquered territories that had been occupied by the Moors. Example: The study of the Reconquest is a compulsory subject in school curricula in Spain. | |
| Reír como un bendito / un loco / un poseso / un descosido | saying |
| These four popular expressions, common in informal speech of Spanish society, undoubtedly refer to components that are related to mood, in this case it is a flood of uncontrollable laughter, literally means "do not stop laughing." Example: There was an uproar in the house, everyone laughed and blessed. | |
| Revoltoso(a) | adjective |
| Usually said of a child who is playful and mischievous. Example: In the park had a large circle of young unruly kindergarten. | |
| Rueda, Belén | noun |
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Belen Rueda was born in Madrid in 1965 but grew up and attended school in Alicante. At the age of 18 she returned to Madrid to study Architecture. She soon after met and married an Italian and moved to Italy. Two years later she divorced and returned to Madrid, this time as a real estate agent.
Answering an ad she had seen in the newspaper she then became a model and appeared in several television commercials. With the money she saved from modeling she returned to Alicante and opened a dance academy. While running the academy she received a call from her old modeling agent and began appearing as a TV presenter. She juggled the two jobs for some time until she finally gave up the academy and chose to stay in Madrid to work in TV. While working on television programs she met and later married Daniel Ecija. She had her first daughter in 1994 and then another in 1996. Her second daughter was born with heart problems and tragically died the next year. Following some time off, she returned to television appearing in Medico de Familia and Periodistas. In 1998 she delivered her third child. In 2002 she took up her latest role in a highly successful family sitcom entitled Los Serrano. Belen made her jump to the big screen in 2004 with critically-acclaimed and Oscar winner, Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside) co-starring with successful Spanish actor Javier Bardem and director Alejandro Amenábar. |
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