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Costa's Garden Odyssey

Costa's Garden Odyssey is an Australian television gardening program hosted by landscape architect Costa Georgiadis.


2000–01 A.C. Fiorentina season

Although respectability in the league was upheld by goalkeeper Francesco Toldo, playmaker Rui Costa and striker Enrico Chiesa, both Toldo and Rui Costa departed for the Milanese clubs in the summer of 2001, as president Vittorio Cecchi Gori desperately tried to save a collapsing economy.

Adolfo Costa du Rels

In June 1933 Costa du Rels wrote to the Secretary General of the League of Nations pointing out the great military importance of Puerto Casado, a port on the Paraguay River, which was being used as a base for Paraguayan troops and as a point of supply for these troops.

Alexandrina Maria da Costa

In June 1938, based on the request of Father Mariano Pinho, a jesuit priest, several bishops from Portugal wrote to Pope Pius XI, asking him to consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, based on the reported messages received directly from Jesus and Virgin Mary by Alexandrina Maria da Costa.

Alvimar de Oliveira Costa

Alvimar Perrella de Oliveira Costa (born in 1961 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais) was the former president of Cruzeiro Esporte Clube of Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais and he was reelected for a further period of three years, which began in 2003 and end in 2008.

Amalia Matamoros

On October 29, 2009, she represented Costa Rica in Reina Hispanoamericana 2009 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, winning the Miss Photogenic title.

Antonio Álvarez

Antonio Álvarez Desanti (born 1958), Costa Rican businessman and politician

Antony Costa

In June 2006 Costa posed naked for Cosmopolitan magazine's 10 Years of Naked Male Centrefolds, alongside other stars including singer Ronan Keating, actor Danny Dyer, Labour MP Jim Devine, and TV presenter Craig Doyle.

Astra Zarina

In the late 1960s, Zarina, and second husband Anthony Costa Heywood, also an architect, began working on the restoration of the ancient Italian hilltown of Civita di Bagnoregio, located 60 miles north of Rome.

Bernardo Rodríguez y Alfaro

In October 1821 he was appointed representative of the City Council of Barva on the Board of Legacy of the councils which met at Cartago from October 25–26, 1821 to discuss the independence of Costa Rica from Spain.

Bobby Weinstein

Working as part of Costa's production company, Weinstein and Randazzo had some of their biggest successes with comeback hits for Little Anthony and the Imperials in 1964 and 1965, "I'm On The Outside (Looking In)", "Goin' Out Of My Head", and "Hurt So Bad", the last of which was also co-written with Bobby Hart.

Brazilian presidential election, 1969

Vice-President Pedro Aleixo was not allowed to replace Costa e Silva, so the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate were reopened to elect the a President and Vice-President, under the Instituctional Act 16.

Carlos Luis Fallas

Born in Alajuela to a single mother, Fallas completed only the first two years of secondary schooling before emigrating to Limón, in the Costa Rican Atlantic coast, where he worked in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company.

Cláudio Costa Neto

He got his BSc degree in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Brazil (currently Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) in 1954, Costa Neto worked under supervision of Fritz Feigl, responsible for the development of spot tests for identification and characterization of substances.

Contship Containerlines

In the 90s, the pace quickened even more with new vessels for the Eagle service, a revision of the Costa operation and start of the Salerno Terminal operations.

Dennis Marshall

The president of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, went on national television and expressed her sympathy and a memorial ceremony was held on Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero, the stadium of Marshall's former club, CS Herediano.

Desiderio Costa

Costa graduated in 1975, shortly before Angola's independence, in petroleum engineering at the Montanuniversität Leoben, a technical university in the Austrian city of Leoben concentrating on mining, metallurgy and materials.

Diego Estrada

Diego Alonso Estrada Valverde (born 25 May 1989 in Alajuela, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican footballer.

Fabrício Guerreiro

Fabrício de Assis Costa da Silva (born July 24, 1990), better known as Fabrício Guerreiro, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in Bellator's featherweight division.

Foreign relations of Costa Rica

Costa Rica was among the first to call for a postponement of the May 22 elections in Peru when international observer missions found electoral machinery not prepared for the vote count.

Francisco Flores Pérez

Even before he left office, Francisco Flores had expressed his interest in running for the office of Secretary General of the Organization of American States, a post which was won in late 2004 by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez an ex-president from Costa Rica.

Helen Mack Chang

After more than a decade of seeking justice in Guatemala, Mack Chang took the case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, DC, and later to the Inter-American Court in Costa Rica.

Hipólito da Costa

However, the Portuguese ambassador in London, Bernardo José de Abrantes e Castro, Count of Funchal, was an extreme combatant of Costa's journal, and would create one of himself, entitled O Investigador Português em Inglaterra (The Portuguese Investigator in England), which ran from 1811 to 1819.

InGen

In the novel, InGen founder John Hammond is killed in the accident and InGen files for Chapter 11 on October 5, 1989, the island is destroyed by the (fictional) Costa Rican Air force, the survivors are sworn to secrecy and by the time of The Lost World, InGen is defunct with its equipment being sold off.

Jose Bonilla

Juan José de Bonilla y Herdocia, Costa Rican politician, signer of Declaration of Independence

José Villalobos

He was a member of Costa Rica U23 team who competed at 2004 Summer Olympics, playing the full 90 minutes in all matches as Costa Rica lost to Argentina on the quarterfinals and scoring in the group stage match against Portugal.

Josué Martínez

Martinez began his career with top Costa Rican side Deportivo Saprissa.

Juliana Dias da Costa

Donna Juliana Dias da Costa (1658–1733) was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan, who became Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's son, who became the monarch in the year 1707.

Kostandin Çekrezi

In 1946, he was the one to receive a delegation headed by Tuk Jakova in New Yorker Hotel, and the second meeting with Mihal Prifti, where Costa suggested that the Albanian government should find the way to connect with the Western powers, especially USA, and abolish the "friendly" relations with Yugoslavia of Tito, drawing parallels with King Zog-Nikola Pašić agreements.

Leandro e Leonardo

The two brothers, Leandro (born Luís José Costa, b. Oct. 15, 1961) and Leonardo (Emival Eterno Costa, born July 25, 1963), were from Goianápolis.

Leonardo Patterson

He was born to Jamaican parents and was raised in Cahuita, Costa Rica.

Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Jull Costa was joint-winner of the Portuguese Translation Prize in 1992 for The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, and was runner-up in 1996 and 2002 for The Relic by Eça de Queiroz and The Migrant Painter of Birds by Lídia Jorge.

Miguel Rodríguez

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (born 1940), Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman, and politician

Nate Costa

Costa currently works as a television sports analyst for Comcast SportsNet Northwest in Portland, Oregon.

Nautor's Swan

The highlight of the racing calendar for Swan owners is the biennial "Rolex Swan Cup", held in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in association with the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which traditionally embodies "The Spirit of Swan" in its glamour and quality of sailing.

New Jersey Association for Infant Mental Health

Some of the original group were the late Thea Bry, Gerard Costa, Susan Adubato, Elaine Herzog, and Nancy Murphy, all of whom were involved with parent education and treatment of infant and family mental health problems www.njaimh.org.

Norberto Mulenessa Maurito

Norberto Mauro da Costa Mulenessa known as Maurito (born June 24, 1981 in Luanda) is an Angolan football striker and winger currently playing for Minangkabau F.C. in Liga Primer Indonesia and the Angola national football team.

Oduvaldo Vianna Filho

In 1973, together with Armando Costa, he created and directed in Rede Globo de Televisão a humorous series called A Grande Família (The Big Family).

Pale-billed Woodpecker

Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica, ISBN 0-8014-9600-4

Pedro Emanuel

In the 2005–06 campaign, following the decision of Dutch coach Co Adriaanse not wanting a goalkeeper captain (Vítor Baía) and sidelining Jorge Costa, Emanuel was chosen as the side's new captain.

Postage stamps and postal history of Costa Rica

Costa Rican stamps were issued overprinted "Guanacaste" in 1885-89 following war with Nicaragua over the sovereignty of Guanacaste.

Pre-Columbian history of Costa Rica

The Costa Rican chieftains in the Intermediate Area had greater powers than those of Nicoya; for example, when Correque moved his residence from Ujarrás to Tucurrique, he brought with him many elders and gentlemen along with their sons, "because the place he wanted was settled and nobody contradicted him."

Rónald González

Rónald González Brenes (born 1970), Costa Rican football (soccer) player

Santiago District, Paraíso

Santiago District is one of the districts of Paraíso Canton, Cartago Province, Costa Rica.

Sequeira Costa

José Carlos de Sequeira Costa (born 18 July 1929, Luanda, Angola) is a Portuguese pianist who is especially admired for his interpretations of the Romantic repertoire.

State of Siege

The story is based by Costa Gavras on an actual incident in Uruguay in 1970 when U.S. Embassy official Dan Mitrione was kidnapped and killed.

Teletica

In 2011, Teletica became a major share-holder of Deportivo Saprissa soccer club, after Jorge Vergara sold the team back to a group of Costa Rican businessmen.

Thomas Dodd

Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. (born 1935), former United States Ambassador to Uruguay and to Costa Rica

William More Gabb

He was assisted by Jose Zeledon, who was to become a well known Costa Rican ornithologist.


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