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Andrés Orozco

Andrés Felipe Orozco Vásquez (born March 18, 1979 in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia) is a Colombian football defender.

Antioquia Department

Antioquia was primarily populated by Caribs, although some scattered groups of Muiscas were present in the Darién region (in modern day Panama), a coastal region in the far north of Antioquia.

Antonio Morelli

The greatest names in the entertainment industry graced the Copa Room Stage (the showroom at the Sands, named after the famed Copacabana Club in New York City) including Judy Garland, Lena Horne, (she was billed at the Sands as "The Satin Doll") Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, along with "The Copa Girls".

Beibis Mendoza

Beibis Antonio Mendoza (born 1974-06-20 in Arboletes, Antioquia) is a professional boxer from Colombia.

Bello, Antioquia

In Bello and the rest of Antioquia there are two major newspapers in circulation: El Colombiano and El Mundo, both with a long history at the regional level.

Cantagalo Station

Cantagalo Station is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Copacabana borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Charles Córdoba

Charles Córdoba Sánchez (born 15 September 1982 in Carepa, Antioquia, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer who plays as forward for Atlético Choloma in the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Colombian Conservative Party

In 1863 the Liberal party created a new constitution in the city of Rionegro which was opposed by the Conservative Party.

Colombian Tinamou

The Colombian Tinamou, Crypturellus erythropus columbianus, is a tinamou found in Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, and Antioquia in north-central Colombia.

Danke Schoen

The song was originally intended for singer Bobby Darin as a follow-up to his hit single Mack the Knife, but after seeing Newton perform at the Copacabana, Darin decided to give the song to Newton and transposed the key of the recording to fit Newton's voice.

Darío Gómez

Darío de Jesús Gómez Zapata, also known as El Rey del Despecho, (born February 6, 1951 in San Jerónimo, Antioquia) is a Colombian singer and composer of vals, corridos and boleros.

David Ospina

David Ospina Ramírez (born 31 August 1988 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Nice as a goalkeeper.

Diego Toro

Born in Medellín, Antioquia, Toro began playing professionally as a defensive midfielder with Atlético Nacional in 2000.

Donna Theodore

Donna Theodore (born July 25, 1941) is an American actress and singer who first came to attention as a headliner at many famous nightclubs during the 1960s including the Copacabana, The Fountainebleau Hotel, the Fairmont Hotel, and the El San Juan in Puerto Rico.

Eliecith Palacios

Eliecith Palacios (born 15 September 1987 in Carepa, Antioquia) is a Colombian sprinter.

Forever Glam!

Besides most of her best known songs from the 1970s combined with selected tracks from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s (decade) Forever Glam! includes two new recordings; "Martini Disease", a duet with Italian indieband Jetlag on which Lear recites Charles Baudelaire, and her English-French language take on Barry Manilow's 1978 hit "Copacabana".

Gerardo Bedoya

Gerardo Alberto Bedoya Múnera (born 26 November 1975 in Ebejico, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer.

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Harold Bedoya Pizarro

Three years later he will be given the position of Commander of the Fourth Brigade in Medellín, Antioquia where he participated in anti-narcotic operations against drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

Heather Douglas

Additional credits include Associate Choreographer for the new musical Beautiful and Damned (Yvonne Arnaud Theater, Guildford); Assistant Director/Choreographer for Copacabana (2003) Denmark and Holland Chess (2002) in Denmark; Associate choreographer for My One and Only in Chichester and London, Calamity Jane the UK Tour and Shaftsbury Theater, London, Il Trovatore in Rotterdam and JFK The Musical in Dublin.

Iglesia Ortodoxa de Antioquía San Juan Bautista

Iglesia Ortodoxa de Antioquía San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Baptist Orthodox Church of Antioch) is a Greek Orthodox cathedral in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Jimmy Scalia

He has also been an adviser to Jack Behrens for his book, The Big Band Days: A Memoir and Sourcebook and contributed to Images of America The Copacabana by Kristin Baggelaar.

Joaquín Acosta

Seven years later he explored western Colombia from Antioquia to Anserma studying its topography, its natural history and the traces of its aboriginal inhabitants.

John Mosquera

John Jairo Mosquera (born 15 January 1988 in Apartadó, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Energie Cottbus in 2. Bundesliga as a forward.

Jonathan Estrada

Jonathan Estrada Campillo (born 27 January 1983 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Patriotas as a midfielder.

Josimar Mosquera

Josimar Mosquera Angulo (born 12 October 1982 in Caucasia, Antioquia) is an Colombian football defender who currently plays for Chilean club Cobresal in the Chilean Primera División.

Juan Camilo Zúñiga

Born in Chigorodó, Antioquia, Zúñiga made his for professional debut with Colombian giant Atlético Nacional.

Juan Carlos Mosquera

Juan Carlos Mosquera Gómez (born 10 December 1982 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Deportivo Pasto in the Torneo Postobón.

Maria Morales

Maria Carmenza Morales Rendón (born July 21, 1966 in Itagüí, Antioquia) is an athlete from Colombia, who competes in triathlon.

Mariano Ospina Pérez

Ospina studied in the Colegio San Ignacio in Medellín, Antioquia the city where he grew up and also studied engineering in the Escuela de Minas de Antioquia (Mining School of Antioquia) where he graduated as mining engineer.

Medellín Metro

The city's speedy urban growth, especially since the 1960s, has filled the entire Aburrá Valley and made towns touch its borders: Bello, Copacabana, Girardota, Barbosa, Envigado, Itagüí, San Antonio de Prado, La Estrella, Sabaneta and Caldas, among others.

Mikkel Rønnow

Since 1992 Mikkel Rønnow has been Musical Director for more than 20 Danish musical productions, including Chess (Danish premiere), West Side Story, Les Misérables, My Fair Lady, Copacabana (Scandinavian premiere), Grease, Cabaret, Tell Me on a Sunday, The Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Popular Liberation Army

Most of the demobilized guerrillas formed Esperanza, Paz y Libertad (Hope, Peace and Liberty), a political party, which claimed to defend the interests of workers and labor unions, especially around the Urabá area in the departments of Antioquia and Córdoba.

Richard Valentine Pitchford

He performed in New York at The Palace, Radio City Music Hall, Copacabana and other prominent nightclubs and reviews, and in London at the London Palladium.

Risaralda Department

Risaralda department with an area of 365,300 ha, is located in the central sector of the central Andean region west of the country between two major poles of economic development (department of Antioquia in northern and southern Cauca Valley, extending between the central and western Cordillera), which slopes down toward the Río Cauca, also borders the departments of Caldas in the north-east, east Tolima, Quindio Chocó south and west.

Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt

Rodrigo Arenas Betancourt (October 23, 1919- May 14, 1995) was a Colombian sculptor, born on October 23, 1919 in Fredonia, Antioquia.

Sabina Moya

Sabina Moya Rivas (born January 27, 1977 in Turbo, Antioquia) is a retired female javelin thrower from Colombia.

Sandra Tilley

Tilley's highlights as a Vandellas member included performing at the Copacabana in New York with Judy Garland and F. Lee Bailey in the audience.

Santa Fe de Antioquia

Founded in 1541 by Jorge Robledo as Villa de Santafé on the western bank of the Cauca River, in 1545 it received the coat of arms and the title of City of Antioquia from King Philip II of Spain.

Taraza

Tarazá - a municipality in Antioquia Department, Colombia.

The DeCastro Sisters

Copacabana, the same year that they joined Bob Hope and Cecil B. DeMille on the live premiere broadcast special launching KTLA in Los Angeles, the very first telecast west of the Mississippi.

Urabá

Urabá Antioquia, a subregion of the Antioquia department, Colombia

Víctor Aristizábal

Víctor Hugo Aristizábal Posada (born December 9, 1971 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a Colombian retired football striker who scored 15 goals in 66 games for the Colombia national team between 1993 and 2003.

Wilmar Roldán

Wilmar Alexander Roldán Pérez (born 24 January 1980 in Amalfi, Antioquia) is a Colombian football referee.


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