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unusual facts about Lisbon, North Dakota



1939 Taça de Portugal Final

The match was played on 25 June 1939 at the Campo das Salésias in Lisbon, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Académica de Coimbra and Benfica.

Aero Portuguesa

The AP route from Lisbon to Casablanca became world famous for the movie Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Antonín Svoboda

They managed to arrive in Marseilles, where they attempted first to get out of France to Casablanca, and when that failed, managed to get to Lisbon.

Bolivian river dolphin

In 1847, he and Paul Gervais compared it to "Delphinius geoffrensis" (=Amazon river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis), which had been described from a stuffed specimen in Lisbon, and the two were considered synonyms for more than a century.

Caple

CAPLE may also refer to Centro de Avaliação de Português Língua Estrangeira or Centre for Evaluation of Portuguese Language, an exam of European Portuguese as a Second language developed by Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.

Chantal Joffe

Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon, Portugal), Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia (Isernia, Italy), Museo d'Arte Classica (Zola Predosa, Italy), and The West Collection (Oaks, Pennsylvania).

Economy of Kazakhstan

In 2006, North Dakotan Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple led an 18-member delegation of the North Dakota Trade Office representing seven North Dakota companies and Dickinson State University on a trip to Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia.

Empty Houses Are Lonely

It contains songs recorded from 2001-2003 including songs from North Dakota, Five Song Demo, and Late Night at Largo, as well as previously unreleased songs.

Ernesto Morgado

Ernesto M. Morgado has been awarded a Licentiate degree in Mechanical Engineering (1976) from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) and a Master of Science in Computer Science (1981) and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1986) from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Francisco de Lucena

The King was against his sentence to death, and Francisco de Lucena was, instead, imprisoned in the Limoeiro prison, in Lisbon.

French Industrial Exposition of 1844

Other European expositions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845; Brussels with an elaborate industrial exposition in 1847; Bordeaux in 1847; St Petersburg in 1848; and Lisbon in 1849.

Glenn J. Ames

Ames received many awards including a Fulbright Grant (1984), fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies (1985), the Portuguese Ministry of Education (1986), and the Callous Kentuckian Foundation of Lisbon (2002).

Helena Sá e Costa

She taught in the Lisbon and Porto conservatories, and gained international recognition as an outstanding teacher, leading to invitations to oversee courses in Cascais, Espinho, Estoril, Salzburg (Austria), Gunsbach (Albert Schweitzer Centre, in Alsace, France), Switzerland, Italy, England, Germany, Canada and America.

Herman Beach

Named for its proximity to Herman, Minnesota, Herman Beach was formed 11,700 years ago and runs for hundreds of miles through Minnesota and North Dakota.

James Cunningham, 14th Earl of Glencairn

He died, unmarried, from consumption at Falmouth, soon after landing from Lisbon, where he had been wintering in the warmer winter clime.

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

João do Rio

In November, makes his third voyage to Europe, having visited Lisbon (where his play A Bela Madame Vargas – The Beautiful Madame Vargas – is staged with great success), Paris, Germany, Istanbul, Russia, Greece, Jerusalem and Cairo.

João Maria Ferreira do Amaral

Maria Helena de Albuquerque, 1st Baroness of Oliveira Lima (Funchal, São Pedro, 1817 – Lisbon, 6 June 1909), was married to the deceased João Maria Ferreira do Amaral by proxy on 2 October 1849 in Lisbon, Santa Catarina.

Joaquim Veríssimo Serrão

He is Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon University, was dean of the University of Lisbon from 1973 to 1974, and president of the Portuguese Academy of History between 1975 and 2006.

John Clark Salyer II

In 1966, the Fish and Wildlife Service renamed the Lower Souris National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota as the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge to honor his legacy of contributions to the preservation of America's wildlife.

José Maria O'Neill

Maria da Glória O'Neill (Lisbon, Mercês, 1 September 1828 - 21 June 1884), married Lisbon, Encarnação, 9 September 1848 her first cousin João de Sampaio de Roure (Hampstead, London, 16 January 1822 - 12 October 1880), son of João Pedro de Roure and wife Maria João O'Neill, and had issue

Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano

Afterwards, he was a member of the Spanish legations at Lisbon (1850), Rio de Janeiro (1851–53), Dresden and St. Petersburg (1854–57).

Leonel Moura

Leonel Moura (born on December 26, 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a conceptual artist whose work shifted in the late 1990s from photo based work to Artificial Intelligence and Robotic art.

Lisbon Strategy

Contemporary key thinkers on whose works the Lisbon Strategy was based and/or who were involved in its creation include Maria João Rodrigues, Christopher Freeman, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Luc Soete, Carlota Perez, Manuel Castells, Giovanni Dosi, and Richard Nelson.

Luís Moniz Pereira

Luís Moniz Pereira(born in 1947 in Lisbon, Portugal) is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the AI centre at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Mediapro

MediaPro is based in Barcelona, with branch offices in Girona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, Madeira, Madrid, Miami, Porto, Qatar, Seville and Tenerife.

Métamorphose d'une gare

The new Guillemins station in Liège was a huge project undertaken by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who had already directed construction of stations in Zurich, Lisbon and Lyon.

Miklós Horthy, Jr.

Father and son went into exile in Portugal, where Miklós Horthy Jr. lived almost fifty years before dying at Estoril, near Lisbon, in 1993.

NATO Rapid Deployable Italian Corps

NRDC-IT is operationally led by the Joint Force Command Headquarters in Naples, Brunssum or Lisbon.

North Woods Hiawatha

In June 1936 the Milwaukee Road introduced a new train between New Lisbon and Star Lake, Wisconsin, which it dubbed Hiawatha – North Woods Section.

Pam Gulleson

On September 21, 2011, Gulleson announced her candidacy for the Democratic-NPL Party nomination for North Dakota's At-large congressional district in the 2012 election.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

Patriarchate of Lisbon

#Martinho de Zamora (1380-1383) - named bishop of Lisbon (and Cardinal in 1383) by Antipope Clement VII (pope in Avignon)

Pedro Luís Neves

He studied biology at the University of Lisbon and formed a jazz quartet at the Hot Club of Portugal, entered the universe of improvisation and composition techniques, simultaneously collaborating in the creation of two experimental theatre shows with Lisbon's Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa and Teatro Oficina from Brazil, in Brecht's play Galileo.

Pepetela

While at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon he befriended other Angolan students who were associated with the Casa dos Estudantes do Império, the student association of Portuguese students from the overseas.

Perivaldo Dantas

In the late 80s, after living three years in South Korea, he relocated to Portugal in hopes of finding a new club, but eventual poor choices and several misfortunes ended up with him as an homeless person having to resort to street vending in Lisbon.

Quilombola

Lisbon, seeing Palmares as a direct challenge to its colonial status, declared war on the Quilombolas.

Roderick Rose

Roderick Rose (born Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada May 15, 1838; died Jamestown, North Dakota, September 10, 1903) was a Canadian-born American educator, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Sheyenne River

US Army Corps of Engineers officials stated that Lisbon was forced to hire contractors from Willmar, Minnesota, some five hours away, due to the lack of availability of local equipment.

Taça de Honra de Lisboa

The Lisbon Honour Cup is a Portuguese football tournament played between the best teams of the Lisbon Football Association.

Team 10

The group's first formal meeting under the name of Team 10 took place in Bagnols-sur-Cèze in 1960; the last, with only four members present, was in Lisbon in 1981.

Teófilo Braga

After the failure of the conspiracy, with many of those retreating or sent to a military tribunal in Leixões, the two criticized Lisbon Republicans for their lack of assistance for the rebels in Oporto.

The Moved-Outers

It describes the internment of herself, her brother Kim, and her mother in Amache, Colorado, while her father is sent to North Dakota.

Tolosa, Spain

On 29 March 1939, there was a fatal accident to the overnight Sud Express train between Paris and Lisbon.

Toni Servillo

He also directed famous theatrical opera like Il marito disperato by Cimarosa and Fidelio by Beethoven for the San Carlo Opera House in Naples and Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky at the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon, where in 2003 he also staged Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss.

United States House of Representatives elections in North Dakota, 2014

The 2014 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 to elect the U.S. Representative from North Dakota's at-large congressional district, who will represent the state of North Dakota in the 114th United States Congress.

Wannagan Creek site

The Wannagan Creek site is a fossil site found just west of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park of North Dakota, USA.

Westby, Montana

Westby is located on the state border with North Dakota, and near the international boundary with Saskatchewan.

Wilfrid B. Israel

On 26 March 1943 Israel left London for Lisbon, Portugal and spent the next two months distributing certificates of entry to British ruled Palestine, and investigating the situation of Jews on the peninsula; during World War II the fascist regimes in Spain and Portugal sympathized with Nazi Germany but refused to hand over Jews to the Germans.

William de la Founte

de la Founte had established his business interests in Lisbon and from 1480 also in Huelva, Andalusia.


see also

KQLX

KQLX-FM, a radio station (106.1 FM) licensed to Lisbon, North Dakota, United States