Spanish author

Rafael Ábalos

Rafael Ábalos is a Spanish author of the bestseller book Grimpow: The Invisible Road (ISBN 0385733747) published in 2007. The children's fantasy novel was about a boy finding a mysterious amulet in France who becomes a focus of a "centuries-old mission" to enlighten humanity. According to a review in Publishers Weekly, Ábalos "blends the grand-scale storytelling prowess and epic quest element of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with the cryptographic intrigue of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code", and gave it a positive review. The book was published by Random House.

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1956

October 12

Died

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1950s

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1956 Born

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-539 The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia conquer Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)
633 Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1279 The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
1398 In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.

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The world in 1956

When Rafael arrived

april 19 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
april 26 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
april 3 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
april 30 Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

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