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unusual facts about Republica



1963 Pulitzer Prize

Hector Rondon, photographer of Caracas, for the Venezuelan newspaper, La Republica, for his remarkable picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 El Porteñazo insurrection in Venezuela: Aid From The Padre.

Albizu

Héctor Valdez Albizu (born 1947), the current Governor of the Banco Central de la República Dominicana

Ana Rosa Núñez

In Cuba, she was head librarian of the National Audit Office (Tribunal de Cuentas de la Republica de Cuba, 1950-1961) and a founding member and vice president (1957-1959) of the Colegio Nacional de Bibliotecarios Universitarios.

Astra 400

Astra pistols were subsequently produced for Nationalist troops, while Republican forces made approximately 22,000 copies of the pistol in Terrassa (marked F. Ascaso) and Valencia (marked RE for Republica Espanola).

Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay

República Oriental del Uruguay, better known by its initials BROU, was founded in 1896 under the presidency of Juan Idiarte Borda.

Currency of Uruguay

When war prevented the delivery of notes from Germany, Banco de la República contracted with the British firm of Waterlow & Sons, which printed notes for 1, 5, 10, 100, and 500 pesos, featuring a portrait of J.G. Artigas.

Daniel Herrendorf

La constitución reformada, obra colectiva (Vanossi, Barra, Raúl Alfonsín, Sagüés, Bidart Campos, Herrendorf, otros), Primer Seminario sobre la Reforma Constitucional de 1994, Ministerio del Interior de la República Argentina – Centro de Estudios Constitucionales de Madrid, Buenos Aires 1996.

Deconstruction Records

Among the other artists to record for the company were Guru Josh, Black Box, M People, Way Out West, Sasha, and Republica.

Efígie da República

The Portuguese Efígie da República is represented as a young woman wearing the phrygian cap, modeled after the Liberty of Eugène Delacroix' Liberty Leading the People.

Ian Stanley

Since the 1980s, Stanley has produced such artists as Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, A-ha, The Pretenders, Howard Jones, Ultra, Republica, Naimee Coleman, Stephanie Kirkham, Natalie Imbruglia, Propaganda, The Human League and Tori Amos.

Isidro Casanova

The town was renamed in his honor following his death, and one of its main streets would later be named República de Portugal in honor of the town's distinction as the home of the largest Portuguese community in Argentina.

Islam in the Dominican Republic

Although the majority of the population is Roman Catholic, Muslims have formed local organizations such as the Círculo Islámico de República Dominicana (The Islamic Circle of Dominican Republic) and the Islamic Center of the Dominican Republic (located in Miami).

Julio Mangada

In Spain, at the age of eight, on the occasion of the republican rebellion of General Villacampo, he ran to the Guadalajara railway station to hear rebels joining with children in cries of "Viva la República!"

Lisbon Harbor Control Tower

The nine storey tower was designed by Gonçalo Sousa Byrne and is owned by the Governo da Republica Portuguesa.

Luis Giannattasio

Among the prominent Uruguayan buildings for which Giannattassio's engineering company (Giannattasio & Berta, afterwards Ingeniería Civil) was responsible is the main building of The British Schools of Montevideo, Carrasco, opened 1964, as well as the main branch of Banco de la República, Av.

Mancheguian regionalism

El mancheguísmo fue una cuestión que estuvo presente, con mayor o menor intensidad, hasta la dictadura de Primo de Rivera y durante la Segunda República la polémica volvió a surgir con fuerza.

Murder of Fernando Martí

By the time he did so, the "Procuraduria General de la Republica" PGR announced that $15,000,000 (about US$1,181,000) would be paid as a reward anyone who could provide reliable and useful information that contributes to the location, arrest or detention of these criminals.

Negros Occidental High School

Sometime in 1902, former leaders of the Republica de Negros, Ex-minister of Justice Antonio Ledesma Jayme and Ex-provincial Governor Melecio Severino exerted efforts for the opening of the a secondary school in Occidental Negros which they named Instituto Rizal, now Negros Occidental High School.

Plaza Mayor, Madrid

In 1873, the name changed to "Plaza de la República", and then back to "Plaza de la Constitución" from the restoration of Alfonso XII in 1876 to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera in 1922.

Republic of Galicia

The Galician Republic (República Galega in Galician) was an ephemeral passage in the History of Galicia.

Republica metro station

It is also the terminus for all trains of M1, as between Republica and Pantelimon metro station, the only service provided is a two-car shuttle running every 15 minutes during peak hours.

Republica is a metro station in Bucharest, servicing the heavy machinery plant with the same name and the Cora hypermarket located in the vicinity.

Republica United

Republica United is currently working on receiving donations to help schools in Costa Rica, and they look forward to helping Nicaragua and other parts of Central America.


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