Islero was a

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famed for killing the celebrated

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Manolete Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez (4 July 1917 – 29 August 1947), known as Manolete, was a Spanish bullfighter. Career Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez was the son of a bullfighter (who also went by the name Manolete) and his wife An ...

on August 28, 1947. Bulls from the Miura ranch, located near

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, Spain, are known for being large and ferocious. Islero had poor eyesight and tended to chop with his right horn. On the fateful day, he was the fifth bull of the afternoon, and the second for Manolete, at a bullfight in the town of Linares in the province of

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, Spain. The bullfighter's manager begged Manolete to finish him off quickly; as the ''matador'' reached over the bull's horns, thrusting his ''estoque'' (sword) deep up to its hilt, Islero thrust his right horn into Manolete's groin, severing his

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. The bullfighter was rushed to hospital, but died on the operating table later that evening. Italian automaker

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named one of its

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Islero Islero was a Miura bull famed for killing the celebrated Bullfighting, bullfighter Manolete on August 28, 1947. Bulls from the Miura ranch, located near Seville, Spain, are known for being large and ferocious. Islero had poor eyesight and tend ...

" as part of the company's tradition of naming its cars after Miura bulls and with other bullfighting-related terms. The Spanish project to build nuclear weapons was named

Proyecto Islero Project Islero was an attempted Spanish nuclear program. Named after Islero, the bull which fell the famous bullfighter Manolete, the program was created by Generals Agustín Muñoz Grandes and in 1963. Although Spain possessed the second larges ...

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