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7 unusual facts about Principe


Arzemiro dos Prazeres

He was born on October 24, 1958, on the island of Príncipe.

Damião Vaz d'Almeida

Damião Vaz d'Almeida (born 28 April 1951) is a former Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe and vice-president of the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe-Social Democratic Party (MLSTP-PSD).

He is from Príncipe and has held a number of high positions on the island, most notably president of the Pagué district assembly and president of the Príncipe regional government from 29 April 1995 to 12 April 2002.

History of Gabon

The Portuguese settled on the offshore islands of São Tomé, Príncipe, and Fernando Pó, but were regular visitors to the coast.

Wildlife of São Tomé and Príncipe

São Tomé and Príncipe are oceanic islands which have always been separate from mainland West Africa and so there is a relatively low diversity of species, restricted to those that have managed to cross the sea to the islands.

The islands are mountainous, with the highest peaks reaching to 2,024 meters on São Tomé (Pico de São Tomé), 948 meters on Príncipe (Pico do Príncipe), and 598 meters on Annobón (Pico Quioveo).

Zeferino dos Prazeres

Zeferino dos Prazeres is a São Toméan politician.


1746 in art

The French philosopher Charles Batteux publishes Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of les beaux arts, the fine arts.

Air São Tomé and Príncipe

On May 23, 2006, Air São Tomé and Príncipe's only aircraft, a DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300, crashed in Ana Chaves Bay in the north east of São Tomé Island during a training flight.

Alessandro Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Cerveteri

Alessandro, Principe Ruspoli (December 3, 1708 – Rome, June 20, 1779) was the 2nd Principe di Cerveteri, 2nd Marchese di Riano and 7th Conte di Vignanello, son of Francesco Maria Marescotti Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Cerveteri and wife Isabella Cesi dei Duchi di Acquasparta, maternal niece of Pope Innocent XIII.

Angélica Aragón

She played the role of the wife of songwriter Álvaro Carrillo in the motion picture Sabor a mí (With the Flavor of Me), alongside José José, "El Príncipe de la Canción", who played the songwriter in the movie.

Azcapotzalco

The Principe Tlaltecatzin Archeological Museum is a private institution founded by Octavio Romera and focuses on pre Hispanic pieces related to the Azcapotzalco area.

Cabras

Ilhéu das Cabras - an island chain located a few kilometres north of São Tomé Island in São Tomé and Príncipe

Camillo Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Candriano

Camillo dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, January 10, 1882 – Havana, September 5, 1949), was the 2nd and last Principe di Candriano, son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, and second wife Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella, Duchi di Lavello, Marchesi di Bella.

Carlo Caracciolo

The oldest of three children, Caracciolo was born in Florence to Filippo Caracciolo, 8th Principe di Castagneto, 3rd duca di Melito and American Margaret Clarke.

Copa Príncipe de Asturias

The Copa Príncipe de Asturias de Baloncesto (English: Prince of Asturias' Cup of Basketball) is an annual 2nd-tier cup competition for Spanish professional basketball teams, that is organized by Spain's 2nd-tier professional league, the Liga Española de Baloncesto.

Education in Peru

El Colegio del Príncipe, established by Royal Decree of King Carlos III after the expulsion of the Jesuits, was the former "college of chiefs" of the native nobility, created during the reign of Viceroy Francisco de Borja y Aragón Príncipe de Esquilache in Lima.

Ernst Leonard Lindelöf

With Lars Edvard Phragmén: "Sur une extension d'un principe classique de l'analyse et sur quelques propriétés des fonctions monogènes dans le voisinage d'un point singulier", in: Acta mathematica 31, 1908.

Fight with Cudgels

According to Francisco-Xavier de Salas Bosch, Goya may have been referencing an allegory (number 75) that appears in the work by Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, the emblem book Empresas Políticos Political Maxims, Idea de un príncipe político cristiano, which contained a hundred short essays on the education of a prince.

Filippo Gagliardi

He contributed illustrated architectural perspectives to Ferrari's Hesperides (1646) and became principe of the Accademia di San Luca (1656–57).

Fork-tailed Drongo

The subspecies D. a. modestus (Príncipe) together with D. a. coracinus and D. a. atactus (Bioko and mainland west and central Africa from Guinea east to western Kenya and south to Angola) is usually split as a separate species, the Velvet-mantled Drongo D. modestus, (Hartlaub, 1849).

Genova Piazza Principe railway station

The station derives its name from the adjacent Piazza del Principe (In Italian literally "plaza of the prince"), located next to the Palazzo del Principe (literally "palace of the prince") adjacent to the street called Via Andrea Doria in the Fassolo neighbourhood.

Around the station are the termini of several bus lines of the Genoa public transport undertaking (Azienda Mobilità e Trasporti, AMT), the Ferrovia Principe-Granarolo cog railway and the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto lift and has an hourly bus connection with the airport via the Christopher Columbus Volabus service.

Genova Sampierdarena railway station

Within walking distance of the station are the stops served by the Volabus, the AMT fast bus link between the Genova Piazza Principe railway station and Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen

Brazilian author Paulo Setúbal wrote a historic novel about John Maurice and the Dutch settlement in Brazil, O Príncipe de Nassau ("The Prince of Nassau", translated into Dutch by R. Schreuder and J. Slauerhoff in 1933 as Johan Maurits van Nassau).

Josep Pascó i Mensa

In 1887, he went to Madrid, where he worked at the Royal Theater and was then commissioned to decorate the Principe Alfonso Theater stage.

Jowhar

Jowhar was founded by a senior member of the Italian Royal Family, H.R.H. Principe Luigi Amedeo, Duca degli Abruzzi in 1920, who first came to the African continent in 1905 and liked the place.

L. tinctoria

Leea tinctoria, a plant species endemic to São Tomé and Príncipe

Manolo Rivera Morales

Mario Morales became "El Quijote" (was better known by his nickname than by his real name), José Sosa "El Galgo" (The Greyhound), Angel "Cachorro" Santiago "El Orgullo del Caserio" (The Pride of the Housing Projects), Hector "El Mago" Blondet (The Magician), Rolando Frazier "El Principe" (The Prince), Mario Butler "El Expreso Panameño" (The Panamanian Express), Ruben Rodriguez "Sharp Shooter", and Martín Ansa got the nickname "El Señor" from Morales.

Marcantonio Mario Dimitri Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Poggio Suasa

Marcantonio Mario Dimitri dei Principi Ruspoli (Etterbeek, Brussels, November 28, 1926 – Recife, Pernambuco, August 1, 2003) was the 3rd Principe di Poggio Suasa, son of Costantino Ruspoli (Costantino is an eldest son of Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa), and wife Elisabeth Catherine Adrienne Marie Anne Comtesse van der Noot d'Assche.

Paracatu, Minas Gerais

On 20 October 1796, the Vila de Paracatu do Príncipe was created, with a document signed by Maria I, Queen of Portugal.

Predictive power

This was experimentally verified by an expedition to Sobral in Brazil and the Atlantic island of Príncipe to measure star positions during the solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, when observations made by the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington seemed to confirm Einstein's predictions.

San Tomé

São Tomé Island, one of two islands and provinces in nation of São Tomé and Príncipe

São Tomé and Príncipe Championship

Currently, there are 16 teams participating in the São Tomé and Principe Championship, 10 teams from São Tomé Island and 6 teams from Príncipe Island.

Spanish aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias

The Príncipe de Asturias, originally named Almirante Carrero Blanco, is an aircraft carrier and was the flagship of the Spanish Navy.

Tinhosa

Tinhosa Pequena, an islet in Príncipe Province, São Tomé and Príncipe

Tinhosa Grande, an islet in Príncipe Province, São Tomé and Príncipe

União Desportiva Aeroporto, Picão e Belo Monte

União Desportiva Aeroporto, Picão e Belo Monte (Portuguese meaning the Picão e Belo Monte Airport Sporting Union, abbreviation and common form: UDAPB) is a football club that plays in Santo António in the island of Principe in São Tomé and Príncipe.

Volkan Diyaroğlu

In 2005, his paintings were exhibited in the VI Observatori Festival in the Principe Felipe Museum in Ciudad de las Artes y Ciencias of Valencia, together with artists like Gary Hill, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Dennis Oppenheim and others.


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