Alvarez
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The Alvarez was a Spanish automobile built in Barcelona from 1921 to around 1923. Also known as the "MA", the car was a sporting cyclecar with brakes on all four wheels. It was manufactured by Jesus Battlo.
Alvarez is also the name of several people:
- Luis Alvarez was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics and proposed that an impact event caused the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
- Don Gregorio Alvarez was a historian.
Alvarez originated in the Kindom of Asturias north coast of Spain.
- Son of Alvaro (=The prudent one) or (=speaker of Truth).
Alvaro allegedly come from a germanous person, Halward; Hal= hidden, mysterious and Ward= guardian
The different motto of the Alvarez families are;
- Veritas Vincit (=Truth conquers)
- Tu in ea et ego pro ea (=You for here and us for here)