Juan Carlos I of Spain Juan Carlos I of Spain Juan Carlos I (; Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a former King of Spain, reigning from 1975 until his abdication in 2014. Juan Carlos is the grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last king of Spain before the abolition of the monarchy in 1931 and the subsequent declaration of the Second Spanish Republic. Juan Carlos was born in Rome, Italy, during his family's exile. "Generalísimo" Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator who initiated the civil war by means of a coup d'état against the constitutional republic in
Isilo (elephant) the largest elephants on earth and what is being done to ensure their survival. The documentary will be released in 2018. Isilo (elephant) Isilo (c. 1956 – 2014) was one of South Africa’s largest African elephants and the largest living tusker in the southern hemisphere before his death. He was known as a "tusker," a male elephant with tusks weighing over 100 pounds. Although Isilo died of natural causes in 2014, his death attracted international media attention because his tusks, considered a National Heritage artifact, were missing when his body was discovered. Isilo was an African elephant that lived in