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unusual facts about Buenos-Aires



Adolfo Armando Uriona

Uriona received his episcopal consecration on the following May 8 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later pope Francis, with bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Agustín Roberto Radrizzani, and bishop of Santa María del Patrocinio en Buenos Aires, Miguel Mykycej, serving as co-consecrators.

Ana Sacerdote

In the mid-1950s, she exhibited with Carmelo Arden Quin, Martin Blaszko, Gregorio Vardanega, Virgilio Villalba, Luis Tomasello, and others in the Asociacion Arte Nuevo in Buenos Aires, organized by Aldo Pellegrini.

Antonio Alegre

The tresurer during their last term, Pedro Pompilio, was elected president of the team following Macri's election as Mayor of Buenos Aires in 2007, and both the late Pedro Pompilio and his successor, Jorge Amor Ameal, who was also part of the Alegre's management board, continued Alegre's policy of acquiring players from less prominent teams.

Argentina–Canada relations

In October/November 2005, the II Indigenous Summit of the Americas was held in Buenos Aires and Mendoza, with the assistance of the government of Canada and organizational support from the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.

Avenida Rivadavia

Upon the designation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata by the Spanish Empire in 1776, the "Road of the Kingdom of Heaven" leading into Buenos Aires from the east was designated a Camino Real, a "Royal Road" fit for a Viceroy, and afforded improvements and some security.

Belén Gache

Lunas eléctricas para las noches sin luna (Electric moons for moonless nights)(2004) takes place in 1910, during the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Argentine Independence, in a Buenos Aires whose population was mainly composed of European immigrants.

Botvinnik

(María) Amelia Botwinik (born 1919, Buenos Aires), Jewish Argentine film actress

Buenos días, Acapulco

Buenos días, Acapulco is a 1964 Mexican comedy film starring Viruta and Capulina.

Cabildo

Buenos Aires Cabildo, a historical building in Buenos Aires, government house during colonial times

Carlos Alexander

Alexander has sung with companies in Buenos Aires, Vienna, Brussels, Canada, Copenhagen, Paris, Athens, Bayreuth (Beckmesser in Wieland Wagner's Die Meistersinger, 1963), Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Florence, Mexico City, Basel, Geneva, Zurich, Edinburgh, Glyndebourne, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Worth, Hartford, etc.

Cementerio Británico

It is in the district of Chacarita in the northern part of Buenos Aires, adjacent to La Chacarita Cemetery.

Constitution of Argentina of 1853

On May 5 he gathered with some of the most influential characters of Buenos Aires —among which were Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, Valentín Alsina, Tomás Guido and Vicente Fidel López— to propose them to revive the constitutional project of 1826 of Rivadavia in exchange of support for his authority in front of the national government, but the project was rejected.

Emilie Schindler

Schindler lived with her pets for many years in her small house in San Vicente, 40 kilometres south-west of Buenos Aires.

Ernesto Bosch

He commissioned French architect René Sergent in 1910 to design a mansion in the Palermo section of Buenos Aires, and contracted the Parisian interior designer André Carlhian and landscaper Charles Thays.

Federalist

Buenos Aires Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas exerted a growing hegemony over the rest of the country during his 1835-1852 Government and resisted several Unitarian uprisings, but was finally defeated in 1852 by a coalition Army gathered by Entre Ríos Federalist Governor Justo José de Urquiza, who accused Rosas of not complying with Federal Pact provisions for a National Constitution.

FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I

The restored prototype is currently displayed at the Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina of the Argentine Air Force ("Fuerza Aérea Argentina"), initially at Buenos Aires Aeroparque Airport and later at Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fundación Carlos Díaz Vélez

Currently twenty college students enjoy the fellowship enrolled in the School of Veterinary Medicine of the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, UNICEN, (in English: National University of Central Buenos Aires Province), at Tandil and race Agricultural Engineering of the same university, located in Azul.

Holland McCombs

Born in Martin, Tennessee, Holland McCombs became a correspondent for TIME magazine in 1935, and later bureau chief for TIME and LIFE magazine in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Dallas.

Jeffrey Douma

Choirs under his direction have appeared in Leipzig's Neue Gewandhaus, Prague's Dvorak Hall, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Sydney Town Hall, Christchurch Cathedral, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for performances under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Sir David Willcocks, Nicholas McGegan, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville Marriner, and Helmuth Rilling.

Juan José Pizzuti

Pizzuti was born in the Barracas neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, at the age of 14 he joined the Banfield youth team.

La Chacarita

La Chacarita Cemetery (Cementerio de la Chacarita) in Buenos Aires, Argentina

La Plata Astronomical Observatory

A year earlier, the Paris Observatory had sent astronomical instruments to the city of Bragado, Buenos Aires, to observe a transit of Venus in front of the Sun, for which the location was particularly suitable, and which raised considerable interest in scientific circles.

LaNet-vi

The software was developed by José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin (University of Buenos Aires), Alain Barrat (CNRS), Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana University), Luca Dall'Asta (Politecnico di Torino) and Mariano Beiró (University of Buenos Aires).

Latin American art

Members Rómulo Macció, Ernesto Deira, Jorge de la Vega, and Luis Felipe Noé lived together and shared a studio in Buenos Aires.

León Arslanián

He returned to public service in April 2004, when Buenos Aires Governor Felipe Solá named him Minister of Security.

Léonie Duquet

This was shortly after Astiz had led a police action at the Holy Cross Church in Buenos Aires against the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, where he had arranged the arrest of Azucena Villaflor and two other of the 13 founders of the group, together with a total of ten associates.

Liga Federal

On May 13, 1810, the arrival of a British frigate in Montevideo confirmed the rumors circulating in Buenos Aires: France, led by Emperor Napoleon, had invaded Spain, capturing and overthrowing Ferdinand VII Bourbon, the Spanish King.

Manuel Mujica Láinez

In spite of their proud ancestry, the Mujica-Laínez family was not notably well-off by this time, and Manucho went to work at Buenos Aires' newspaper La Nación as literary and art critic.

Mike Amigorena

He first appeared in Buenos Aires' vibrant theatre scene in 1995 and became a prolific stage actor, notably in a 1998 local production of German playwright Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, and in a compressed Shakespeare production from 2004 to 2006, which earned him Argentine ACE and Clarín Awards.

N'Klabe

In November 2011, N'Klabe released the album Aires de Navidad through NuLife Entertainment and Sony Music Latin.

Nomataras

As a result, in October 1993 at the invitation of Luciano Giugno (Luciano Jr.), one of the original members of that group, Pedro Visintin joined the group of bands supporting The Girlie Show World Tour, Madonna’s first appearance on tour in Buenos Aires.

Nueva Pompeya

Among the bar's regulars is the Spanish actor José Sacristán, who divides his time between Buenos Aires and Spain.

Patricio Pouchulu

Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated as an Architect at Universidad de Buenos Aires before moving to London to study with Peter Cook at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he got a M.Arch. He was awarded by the British Council and Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

Peligro

El Peligro, a town in the La Plata Partido of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Raquel Partnoy

She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city of Bahía Blanca in1954, that she attended for several years the Buenos Aires’s workshop of the influential Argentine painter and teacher Demetrio Urruchúa.

Ray Di Carlo

The studio's advertising agency clients including DDB Worldwide(Chicago, NY, LA, and Tribal British Columbia), FCB, Leo Burnett Worldwide, Santo (Bueno Aires/London), Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Sedgwick Rd., Campbell Ewald, Pedone, Euro RSCG, The Buntin Group, Borders Perrin and Norrander, and Ogilvy & Mather, as well as networks clients NBC, TBS, Cartoon Network, The Learning Channel, and PBS.

Roberto Firpo

He was one of the few tangueros to play in a cafe in Avenida de Mayo in Buenos Aires and he was the first person to play the tango La Cumparsita in the cafe La Giralda in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Saavedra

Saavedra Partido, a partido or department of Buenos Aires Province

Saladillo

Saladillo Partido, a partido of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.

Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires

Home Riggs Popham attempted to invade Buenos Aires, without official orders.

Southern Cone

Preliminary research has shown that Rioplatense Spanish, and particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of Italian dialects on Naples and that area, and differ markedly from the patterns of other forms of Spanish.

Time Stands Still

Time Stands Still (Dowland song), an English lute song by John Dowland, from The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603), no. 2

Tomás Juan Carlos Solari

Solari received his episcopal consecration on the following November 11 from Santiago Luis Cardinal Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires, with the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Antonio Rocca, and the auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires, Miguel de Andrea, serving as co-consecrators.

Toño Salazar

He traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay where he remained until 1949 when he was allowed back into Buenos Aires for a time.

Uki Goñi

He is also the author of two previous books in Spanish, El infiltrado, la verdadera historia de Alfredo Astiz (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1996), regarding crimes committed by Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship, and Perón y los alemanes (Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1998), on wartime links between Berlin and Buenos Aires.

Vicente Bokalic Iglic

Iglic received his episcopal consecration on the following May 29 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later pope Francis, with archbishop of Corrientes, Andrés Stanovnik, and bishop of Santa Rosa, Mario Aurelio Poli, serving as co-consecrators.

Wilde, Buenos Aires

In 1903–04 the maddy coast of Wilde received unexpected visitors from the sea, some of the crew members of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition were hosted at the summer residence of Dr W. G. Davis, while their ship the Scotia ran aground in the Rio de la Plata estuary, and was stranded for several days before floating free and being assisted into the port of Buenos Aires by a tug, on 24 December.

Witold Gombrowicz

From December 1947 to May 1955 Gombrowicz worked as a bank clerk in Banco Polaco, the Argentine branch of Pekao SA Bank, and made a friendship with and Zofia Chądzyńska, who introduced him to the Buenos Aires political and cultural elite.

Zofia Chądzyńska

From 1949 until 1959 she lived in Buenos Aires, where she led the white linen laundry and befriended Witold Gombrowicz, who later became one of the most famous Polish writers.


see also

Antonio V. Liberti

Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti - the stadium of Club Atlético River Plate, a football club in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Carlos di Sarli

Thanks to a recommendation from José Pécora, a violin player, he joined Osvaldo Fresedo's orchestra in 1926 and played at the opening night of the Fénix theater in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Flores.

Macri

Mauricio Macri (born 1959), Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentine businessman and politician