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4 unusual facts about Ponce


Arthur Garfield Hays

In 1937, he headed an independent investigation of an incident in which 18 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in Ponce, Puerto Rico when police fired at them; his commission concluded the police had behaved as a mob and committed a massacre.

In 1937, Hays was appointed to lead an independent investigation with a group (called the Hays Commission) to study an incident in which 18 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in Ponce, Puerto Rico when police opened fire on them.

Frank Pietri

Frank Pietri (born Francisco Pietri, July 6, 1934 in Ponce, Puerto Rico) is an American Jazz Instructor, choreographer and performer in New York City.

United States v. Brignoni-Ponce

As part of normal procedure for the United States Border Patrol in Southern California there was a permanent traffic checkpoint set up Interstate 5 just outside of San Clemente, California.


Agüeybaná

Agüeybaná II, Güeybaná, brother of Agüeybaná "The Great Sun"; led the Tainos of Puerto Rico in the Battle of Yagüecas against Juan Ponce de León and Spanish Conquistadors

Albert L. Myer

General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Francisco Porrata Doria had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the custom for many decades under the old Spanish system.

Andrés Scotti

Andrés was raised in Trinidad, the capital of Flores Department, he is the oldest son of María Cecilia Ponce de León and Carlos Scotti.

Ángel Rivero Méndez

The following day U.S. Marine Lieutenant John A. Lejeune came ashore with a detachment of Marines and evacuated the civilians and Marines for transport to Ponce, and the lighthouse was abandoned.

Auditorio Juan Pachín Vicéns

In April 2011, the 2012 PPD Ponce mayoral candidate Ramón Torres Morales, criticized the incumbent opposition PNP party mayor María Meléndez for placing a plaque on the bust that former PPD mayor Churumba had erected at the entrance to the Juan Pachins Vicens auditorium to commemorate the basketball legend.

Banco de Ponce

The bank was founded on August 20, 1917, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, by Mario Mercado, Amador Torres, Manuel Meiriño, Augusto Quiñones, Francisco Oliver, Antonio Morales, Juan Colón, José de Jesús, Francisco Forteza and Cándido Noriega.

Campamento Santiago

Camp Santiago also served as a sub-village for athletes for the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games in Ponce and the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez.

Casa Vives

In contrast to Old San Juan, for example, whose residential architecture materialized through the repetitious application of an anonymous facade representing the official establishment's homogenous parameters, Ponce's urban center developed around individual buildings where each family strived to impress through the built landscape their individuality.

Casa Wiechers-Villaronga

Wiechers was born in Ponce and studied at the School of Architecture in Paris, France, in 1901, where he obtained a gold medal for outstanding achievement and excellence during his professional studies.

Curtis Moss

On May 12, 2012 he set an event record for the javelin throw at the Ponce Grand Prix in Ponce, Puerto Rico, with a distance of 75.32 metres.

Día Mundial de Ponce

Concurrent with the “Miguel Pou Fine Arts Festival”, featuring “Voces Ponceñas”, an art exposition about Ponce by Ponce artists, also at Escuela de Bellas Artes.

Thursday (Aug 30, 7pm): The “Rosario Ferré Book Fair”, featuring the presentation of the book “Los Rostros Rayados”, by Dr. Fernando Picó, regarding the life in Ponce from 1800 to 1830, the years that helped turn the city into Puerto Rico's “Capital Alterna” (Alternative Capital), at Escuela de Bellas Artes de Ponce.

Druid Hills, Georgia

Druid Hills is home to The Atlanta Boy Choir on S. Ponce de Leon Ave. and Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, housed in the Gothic-Tudor style former estate of Charles Howard Candler, president of Coca-Cola and eldest son of Asa Griggs Candler, Coca-Cola's co-founder.

Ernesto Ramos Antonini

In 1937 he gained fame as a lawyer when he defended the members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party who were accused of breaking the law after permits issued by the Mayor of Ponce for a peaceful march in Ponce (see the Ponce Massacre) were withdrawn by the colonial governor of Puerto Rico at the time, General Blanton Winship.

Fatal Cruise

For this episode, Poncie Ponce played his ukulele and sang "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover", while Connie Stevens sang "You Do Something to Me" with the Shell Bar band accompanying her.

Félix Martínez

Félix Lázaro Martínez (born March 2, 1936), bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponce

Francisco Porrata-Doría

He participated in the design and rebuilding of Teatro La Perla, the Ponce Public Library, and the Abraham Lincoln and José Celso Barbosa elementary schools.

Frank H. Brumby

Brumby commanded the Grey Fleet, assigned to defend against an amphibious assault by the Blue force commanded by Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, whose objective was to take one or all of Ponce, San Juan, Culebra and St. Thomas, and who finally succeeded in landing Marines on Culebra on the fifth and last day of the exercise.

Generación de la Ruptura

Prominent members of the movement include José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Rojo Almazan, Roger von Gunten, Alberto Gironella, Vlady, Juan Soriano, Lilia Carrillo, Arnaldo Coen, Pedro Coronel, Enrique Echeverria, Manuel Felguérez, Fernando Garcia Ponce, Brian Nissen, Gabriel Ramirez, Kazuya Sakai and Gustavo Arias Murueta.

Gerry Peñalosa

Many tough boxers were considered to be his possible next opponent, including Jorge Arce, Daniel Ponce de Leon, Eric Morel and Vic Darchinyan.

Gillman v. Holmes County School District

In early September 2007, a lesbian student at Ponce de Leon High School in Ponce de Leon, Florida, reported anti-gay harassment from fellow students to the school's principal, David Davis.

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico at Ponce

In 1984 it moved to this new campus in the Mercedita sector of Barrio Vayas, Ponce.

Jorge Ubico

The three generals promised to convene the national assembly to hold an election for a provisional president, but when the congress met on 3 July, soldiers held everyone at gunpoint and forced them to vote for General Ponce, rather than the popular civilian candidate Dr. Ramón Calderón.

Juan Núñez III de Lara

Pedro de Lara (1348–1384), Count of Mayorga, who married Beatriz de Castro, daughter of Álvaro Pérez de Castro and Maria Ponce de Leon, and granddaughter of Pedro Fernández de Castro.

Luis Porrata-Doría

General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Porrata-Doría had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the electoral practice for many decades under the old Spanish system.

Malihini Holiday

For this episode, Poncie Ponce plays the ukulele and sings You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, while Connie Stevens sings Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love with the Shell Bar band.

Millito Navarro

In 2011, his home municipality of Ponce named a sports complex after him, Ciudad Deportiva Millito Navarro.

Museo Castillo Serrallés

The museum is administered and operated by a non-governmental, non-profit, civic organization called Patronato de Ponce. The organization received an endowment from the Ponce Municipal Government of $600,000 a year during the 2008-2009 fiscal year, but due to the world-wide economic downturn the Municipality dropped its endowment to $300,000 per year in 2010.

Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México

They include recordings dedicated to the works of Verdi and Rossini, Mexican and Spanish music, the works of Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel M. Ponce and Carlos Chávez, and the integral series of the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Pablo Sáinz Villegas

The success of his performances results in repeated reengagements from renowned conductors such as fellow Spaniard Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Carlos Kalmar, Juanjo Mena and Alondra de la Parra, with whom he recorded Ponce’s Concierto del Sur for Sony Classical achieving Platinum status.

Parque Ecológico Urbano

Parque Ecológico Urbano is a project of Ponce Mayor María Meléndez Altieri.

Parque Luis A. Wito Morales

He had himself also played with the Lions from 1947 to 1953, and is recognized at the Tricentennial Park as well as at Ponce’s Sports Hall of Fame, the Francisco Pancho Coimbre Museum.

Plena

The traditional center of plena was probably San Antón, a barrio of Ponce, although the black neighborhood of Loíza is also mentioned as the heartland for the genre.

Ponce de Leon Avenue

Ponce de Leon Avenue begins at Spring Street at the south edge of Midtown Atlanta, though it may have originally started a block further west at Williams Street (across from Georgia Tech, one block east of Bobby Dodd Stadium) prior to the construction of the Downtown Connector.

Ponce de Minerva

This document, dated 13 March 1207, records a pesquisa (inquest) carried out by orders of Alfonso IX to determine what was owed by the village of Quintanilla to the convent in light of a donation made by Ponce.

Ponce massacre

Several days before the scheduled Palm Sunday march, the Nationalists had received legal permits for a peaceful protest from José Tormos Diego, the mayor of Ponce.

Portugués Urbano

It is bounded on the North by Camino de Ponce (Golf Club) Street, Majagua Street, and Arboleda Street, on the South by Idilid Street, Shangai Street, Diez Street, Cinco Street, Pico Dulce Street, and Paseo de la Cruceta, on the West by Novedades Street, the hills east of Ponce Cement and the future western branch of PR-9, and on the East by Río Portugues (roughly), PR-503 (roughly), Cayey Street, Cerro San Tomas Street.

Puerto Rico Highway 52

It runs from PR-1 in southwest Río Piedras and heads south until it intersects with highway PR-2 in Ponce.

Puertorriqueña de Aviación

Aerovías Nacionales' airplane was not able to perform its duty and Felix Juan Serralles, who took off from Mercedita Airport in Ponce, won the race for the Powelson Airlines.

Rafael Pineda Ponce

In 1965, Pineda Ponce went to the Universitária Armando de Salles Oliveira, in São Paulo, Brazil to specialize in education of teachers (Especialista en Formación de Maestros).

Roberto Sánchez Vilella

In 1997, Governor Pedro Rosselló signed into law a bill introduced by then senator Kenneth McClintock converting a major highway built by Sánchez Vilella between Ponce and Mayagüez into the "Roberto Sánchez Vilella Expressway", honoring not only his service as Governor but as Secretary of Public Works.

Teatro Fox Delicias

After serving Ponce moviegoers for some five decades, the building was sold to the Ruberté family.

The Ponce Sisters

MGM/United Artists released a laser disc set of early "talkies" (sound films) entitled "Dawn Of Sound, Volume 3," which featured Vitaphone shorts of the Ponce Sisters singing "Ten Little Miles From Town" and "Oh, You Have No Idea."

Then There Were Three

For this episode, Poncie Ponce played the ukulele and sang Mele Anna Kaapu Wahine and Sweet Georgia Brown solo, then did a duet with Connie Stevens of the Hawaiian Wedding Song.


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