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3 unusual facts about Por


Chan Kin-por

After serving as the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong office of Munich Re for four years, Chan became a member of the Munich Re China Advisory Board and focused on his Legislative Council role.

Luang Pu Waen Suciṇṇo

Luang Por Mun Bhuridatta in Udon Thani who taught him the pursuance of a secluded life and the practice of meditation and Dhamma in the jungles.

Shiu Sin-por

Shiu Sin-por, SBS, is head of the Central Policy Unit, reporting directly to Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung.


Alberto Granado

Between 2002 and 2003, he was an on-set advisor to Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, based upon Granado's Con el Che por Sudamerica and Guevara's own account, published posthumously in 1967.

Ana de la Reguera

She was also seen playing María in the telenovela Por tí for TV Azteca and the mini-series that followed up on Pedro El Escamoso, Como Pedro por su casa which was a co-production between Caracol from Colombia and Telemundo.

Antônio Anastasia

Aécio Neves foi eleito em 2002 e o designou coordenador da equipe de transição, que implementou Choque de Gestão, coordenado por Anastasia.

Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza

The Fiesta que se hizo en Aranjuez and Querer por solo querer were translated into English by Sir Richard Fanshawe, afterwards ambassador at Madrid, in a posthumous volume published in 1671.

Arturo Godoy

His life was used as the base for the novel "Muriendo por la dulce patria mía" (Planeta, 1998) by Roberto Castillo Sandoval.

Brazilian space program

Embratel, a formerly state-controlled communications company in charge of the Brazilian Satellite Communication System (Sistema Brasileiro de Comunicação por Satélites--SBTS), owns and operates a series of satellites that are positioned in geostationary orbit over the equator.

Calliopean Society

In the mid-1960s, when the Party of the Right of the Yale Political Union (POR), whose membership commonly overlapped with Calliopean, took over as the center of conservative organizational activity in the university community, Calliopean officership became an honorific distinction passed down among prominent libertarian leaders of the POR.

Carlos Baute

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(Melendi feat. Dani Martín, Pablo Alborán, La Dama, Rasel, Malu & Carlos Baute)

Cecilia Suárez

She has since been in films such as Sexo, pudor y lágrimas, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Travesía, The Air I Breathe, Dreaming of Julia and Wash and Wear, and television series such as Todo por amor, Fidel, For the People and Capadocia.

Chiquititas soundtracks

Mili's theme "Ventanita De Los Sueños" samples "Había Una Vez" and "Por Una Sola Vez", two earlier themes sang by Agustina Cherri (and her character Mili).

Cytochrome P450 reductase

Five missense mutations (A284P, R454H, V489E, C566Y, and V605F) and a splicing mutation in the POR genes have been found in patients who had hormonal evidence for combined deficiencies of two steroidogenic cytochrome P450 enzymes - P450c17 CYP17A1, which catalyzes steroid 17α-hydroxylation and 17,20 lyase reaction, and P450c21 21-Hydroxylase, which catalyzes steroid 21-hydroxylation.

Daniela Castelo

She worked for the first time in radio with her father in the program Uno por semana on Radio Continental.

Danny Mazo

In the city of Santa Marta at a very young age he started studying music, and at the age of 18 he recorded his first album entitled «Mi Razón De Vivir» (My Reason For Living) with the following singles «Dime Porqué» (Tell My Why), «Tal Vez» (Maybe) & «Por Tu Amor» (For Your Love).

Directo Gira 2005 La Coruña

The tracklist is a selection of her greatest hits, but only from her albums "Mujer", "Desconocida", "Soy Yo", "Lo Mejor de Marta Sánchez", plus her duet with Andrea Bocelli "Vivo Por Ella", the much praised track "Y Sin Embargo Te Quiero" and three tracks from her Olé Olé days: "Con Solo Una Mirada", "Lili Marlen" and "Soldados del Amor".

Esther Goris

Her film career started in 1983 with Los enemigos and Gracias por el fuego (Thanks for the Fire, based on Mario Benedetti homonymous novel).

Gaita transmontana

Muitos defendem que o termo gaita mirandesa seja um tanto impreciso, visto que a cidade de Miranda do Douro é apenas uma pequena região do território tido como Trás-os-montes, por onde o instrumento está tradicionalmente disseminado, sobretudo nas comarcas de Vinhais, Bragança, Miranda e Mogadouro.

Germán Gullón

Miau, por Benito Pérez Galdós, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1999; 9a edición, 2007.

Gómez Manrique

He inherited the literary taste of his uncle Iñigo López de Mendoza y de la Vega, Marquis of Santillana, and was greatly esteemed in his own age; but his reputation was afterwards eclipsed by that of his nephew Jorge Manrique (died 1478), the son of his eldest brother Rodrigo Manrique de Lara, (died 1476), and whose Coplas por la muerte de su padre were continually reproduced.

International Committee of the Fourth International

This reflected growing differences, primarily over the OCI's support for the Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR) and the SLL's emphasis on Marxist philosophy in the training of its newer members.

Jorge Rosenblut

Political differences with certain members of the governing Concert of Parties for Democracy (Spanish: Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia) brought about his move to the private sector after almost seven years in the Public Sector.

José de Almada Negreiros

This same year Almada Negreiros writes the famous Manifesto Anti-Dantas e por extenso, a humorous attack against a more traditionalist and bourgeois older generation.

Juan Bautista Pablo Forner

His Oración apologética por la España y su mérito literario (1786) is an excellent example of learned advocacy, far superior to similar efforts made by Carlo Denina and Antonio Cavanilles; and his posthumous Exequias de la lengua castellana (printed in the Biblioteca de autores españoles, vol. LXIII.) testifies to his scholarship and taste.

Julio Izquierdo Labrado

“El descubrimiento del Brasil por Vicente Yáñez Pinzón: el Cabo de Santo Agostinho”, in Huelva en su Historia X, Universidad de Huelva, 2005.

Julio Mangada

In his late twenties he became an Esperantist (1906) — joining the Hispana Societo por Propagando de Esperanto, which had been founded in 1903 — and immediately began to promote the Esperanto language by means of a magazine.

Music of Kosovo

During parallel governance (1989–1999) and after the 1999 war in Kosovo several new bands emerged, among which most famous are Diadema, KEK ("Kreativ e jo Komercial" = Crative and not commercial), 7me7, The Hithat, Cute Babulja, Por-no, Gre3n, Retrovizorja.

Narcisista por excelencia

Narcisista por excelencia (English: Narcissist by excellence) is a rock song by the Mexican Avanzada Regia band Panda.

Nueva trova

Tania Castellanos, a filín singer and author, wrote ¡Por Ángela! in support of Angela Davis.

Pearic languages

The Pearic languages are a group of endangered languages of the Eastern Mon–Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, spoken by Pear people (the Por, the Samré, the Samray, the Suoy, and the Chong) living in western Cambodia and southeastern Thailand.

Pito Pérez

They played festivals such as: Musica por la Tierra, Vive Latino, El Tortazo Festival (Bogota Colombia) and Slam Fest and have palyed with bands like: Maná, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jaguares, El Tri, Molotov, Maldita Vecindad, Jumbo, Kinky and more.

Por Amarte Así

Six years later, American duranguense band Alacranes Musical recorded a rendition of "Por Amarte Así" on their studio album Ahora y Siempre (2007).

Por Debajo de la Mesa

A music video for "Por Debajo de la Mesa" was filmed in New York City which features Miguel performing at the Rainbow Room with the video being shot in black-and-white.

Por Esto!

Por Esto! (English: "That's Why!") is a daily Mexican newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán.

Ramón Javier Mestre

On 18 September 2011, he was elected mayor of the city of Córdoba, against the dissident Peronist Olga Riutort (candidate for Alianza Fuerza de la Gente) and former vice-governor Héctor Campana (Unión por Córdoba).

Rasel

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(Melendi feat. Dani Martín, Pablo Alborán, La Dama, Rasel, Malu & Carlos Baute)

Ricardo Cruz

A coalition of students, welfare mothers, Brown Berets, and Immaculate Heart nuns joined to become Católicos por la Raza.

Sony Aath

With fiction shows such as C.I.D. Kolkata Bureau, Adaalat, Aahat, Ladies Special, Virrudh and Hottath - 37 Bochar Por as well as a library of over 1000 contemporary and classic film titles.

Suthep Thaugsuban

As part of the Sor Por Kor 4-01 (สปก.4-01) land reform scheme, Suthep gave title deeds to 592 plots of land in Khao Sam Liam, Kamala and Nakkerd hills of Phuket province to 489 farmers.

Switzerland–Uruguay relations

por el comite ejucutivo pro-festejos del centenario de colonia suiza, Nueva Helvecia, 1962.

Tom Ashley

Ashley's training partners have been known to have been: Josh Nixon (NZL), Antonio Cozzolino (NZL), Ricardo Santos (BRA), Joao Rodigues (POR), Shahar Tzuberi (ISR), Ivan Pastor Lafuente (ESP) and Zac Plavsic (CAN).

Tony Medina

In 1999, four of his poems ("Por Ti" - For you; "Altar De Luz" - Altar of Light; "Piel Hambrienta" - Lonely Skin; "Ladron De Paraiso" - Thief of Paradise) were selected to be included in "Hagase La Poesia" (Let There Be Poetry), a literary collection of poems representing the past seventy years in modern Spanish language poetry.

Trova

Tania Castellanos, a filín singer and author, wrote ¡Por Angela! in support of Angela Davis.

Un Pecado Por Mes

Un Pecado Por Mes (English: One sin per month) is a 1949 Argentine comedy film directed by Mario C. Lugones and written by Julio Porter.

Vera Beaudin Saeedpour

Vera Beaudin Saeedpour (pronounced sah-EED-por; March 27, 1930 – May 30, 2010) was an American researcher and scholar who specialized in the study of Kurdish people.

Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro

Verde por fora, vermelho por dentro (Green outside, red inside) is a 1979 Portuguese feature film directed and produced by Ricardo Costa.


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