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unusual facts about The Province



Marián Gáborík

Leading up to the free agency period, Gáborík was speculated to have interest in signing with the Vancouver Canucks after The Province reported he had recently bought a home in West Vancouver in the 2009 off-season.


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Akmola Province

The province is administratively divided into seventeen districts and the cities of Kokshetau and Stepnogorsk.

Almendra

Almendra, Salamanca, a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, Spain

Barlovento

Barlovento, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a municipality in the northern part of the island of La Palma in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands

Bloy

Harry Bloy (born 1946), BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in the province of British Columbia, Canada

Botho zu Eulenburg

From 1881 to 1892 he was the president of the province of Hesse-Nassau.

Canada Clause

A clause in the Charlottetown Accord that would have recognized the province of Quebec as a distinct society within Canada, aboriginal rights, sex equality and other principles; or

Carabayllo District

It is located in the Cono Norte area of the province and was founded by General José de San Martín in August 1821 at which time it was the only district to occupy the area north of the Rímac River up to the province Canta.

Carmine Schiavone

After living in the Witness Protection Program for some years, Schiavione retired to live in the province of Viterbo, with his wife and two children.

Cherimoya

The first planting in Italy was in 1797, and it became a favored crop in the Province of Reggio Calabria.

Communist Party of the Philippines

Jose Maria Sison, allegedly the man behind the nom de guerre Amado Guerrero, confirmed its birth at Barangay Dulacac in the tri-boundary of Alaminos, Bani and Mabini in the province of Pangasinan.

Corigliano

Corigliano d'Otranto, a municipality in the Province of Lecce, Apulia, Italy

Cosio

Cosio di Arroscia, an Italian municipality in the Province of Imperia, Liguria

El Oued Province

Chott Melrhir, a large endorheic salt lake, lies in the north-central part of the province, while Chott Felrhir is a smaller salt lake to its southwest, near El M'Ghair.

Feock

Feock, Zimbabwe, a village in the province of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe

Gens du pays

A famous instance of this took place at René Lévesque's concession speech after the citizens of the province rejected independence in the 1980 Quebec referendum.

Gregorio Paz

He was the son of Juan Bautista Paz, who served several times as minister of the province, and his brother was the vice president Marcos Paz.

Hacienda Luisita

Hacienda Luisita is a sugar plantation located in the province of Tarlac, Philippines, owned by the Cojuangco family, which includes the late former President Corazón C. Aquino and her son, incumbent President Benigno S. Aquino III.

Horacio Agulla

Horacio Agulla attended St. Felipe The Apostle School in Don Torcuato, a suburb in The Province of Buenos Aires).

Irnerio Bertuzzi

Paris executive jet (I–SNAP) when it crashed in the countryside surrounding Bascapè in the province of Pavia, on 27 October 1962.

Josef Zwernemann

Josef Zwernemann was born on 26 March 1916 in Kirchworbis in the Province of Saxony.

Juan Bautista

He was also a definitor of the province, and became Guardian of Tezcuco twice (1595 and 1606), of Tlatelolco (1600), and of Tacuba in 1605.

León Arslanián

Arslanián proposed gun control measures, enacted stricter guidelines against police misconduct and streamlined criminal court proceedings, to which he attributed speedier rulings and a decline in crime rates in the province's coastal tourism hub, for example.

Lingayen-Lucena corridor

The Lingayen-Lucena corridor is the part of Luzon in the Philippines, between Lingayen (in Pangasinan) to Lucena, comprising the province of Pangasinan, and the regions of Central Luzon, Metro Manila and CALABARZON, where national elections are claimed to be won.

Losino horse

The Caballo Losino or Caballo de Raza Losina is a breed of horse from the Valle de Losa in the province of Burgos, in Castile and León in northern Spain.

Maasin

The diocese comprises the entire province of Southern Leyte, and the towns of Matalom, Bato, Hilongos, Hindang, Inopacan and Baybay in the province of Leyte, with the Maasin Parish Cathedral as the seat of the diocese.

Marty Wood

Martin Roy (Marty) Wood is a celebrated rodeo cowboy from Bowness, Calgary, in the province of Alberta, Canada.

Mindanao State University – Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and Oceanography

Mindanao State University - Tawi-tawi College of Technology and Oceanography is an autonomous campus of the Mindanao State University system located in Sanga-Sanga, Bongao, in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines.

Montería

According to Castro's book, Montería was founded on May 1, 1777 by Spanish officer Antonio de la Torre y Miranda, being governor of the Province of Cartagena officer Juan de Torrezar Díaz Pimienta.

Petition of Free Negroes

Because the grants were spread around the province, isolating the freed men among the otherwise-white settlers, on June 29, 1794, nineteen men from the Niagara region submitted a petition to Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe hoping to address this.

Pompeia Plotina

Plotina was born and was raised in Tejada la Vieja (Escacena del Campo) in the province of Hispania during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero (r. 54–68).

Port Maitland, Ontario

:There is also a Port Maitland in the province of Nova Scotia; see Port Maitland, Nova Scotia.

Pouteria caimito

It also grows around Tingo Maria and Iquitos, Peru and it will commonly be found in the Province of Guayas in Ecuador, where it's sold in the markets.

Province of Badajoz

There are also traditional comarcas (shires, but with no administrative role) in the province, including La Siberia and Llanos de Olivenza.

Province of Naples

The most successful club from the province are by far SSC Napoli, who have won Serie A (the Italian Championship) twice and the UEFA Cup while Diego Maradona was with the club.

Puntarelle

The name also refers to the salad produced in two municipalities in the province of Latina, Formia and Gaeta.

Religion in Macau

Following the end of the British administration of Hong Kong in 1997, in 1998 the Diocese was succeeded by the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (commonly called the Hong Kong Anglican Church).

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cabanatuan

The diocese comprises 16 towns of the province including the cities of Cabanatuan, Palayan and Gapan.

Saladillo

Saladillo Stream, a stream of the Paraná River, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

Spednic Lake

The lake shores are primarily undeveloped, and held in conservation or protected status, either through land ownership or easement, by the state of Maine and the province of New Brunswick.

Tanganyika District

From July 11, 1962 to December 28, 1966, this area was known as the province of Nord-Katanga, but the administration of the province was taken over in 1966 by the central government, and it was finally merged into the restored Katanga Province by the Mobutu government.

Tropidophis xanthogaster

Guanahacabibes dwarf boa, Tropidophis xanthogaster, is a newly described species of dwarf boa endemic to the Guanahacabibes Peninsula, in the province of Pinar del Río, western Cuba.

Vallecillo

Vallecillo, town in the province of León, Castile y León, Spain

Villa Mosconi Bertani

The Villa is situated in Valpolicella, the viticultural center of the province of Verona and a zone producing Amarone Classico DOCG and Valpolicella Classico DOC.

Waisea Luveniyali

He hails from the village of Kasavu in the province of Naitasiri and his mother is from the village of Qarani, Gau in the Lomaiviti group.

Walter Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

Isabella remained countess until 1260–1261, when Walter Stewart, husband of Isabella's sister Mary, seized the province.

Xiangyang

Today, the city is, after the capital Wuhan, the second largest in the province, located about halfway between Wuhan and Xi'an.

Xstrata

On 28 May 2012 violent repression of local residents by the police in the province of Espinar, Cuzco, Peru, caused the deaths of two civilians.

Zouma, Burkina Faso

Zouma is a village in the province of Nayala in Burkina Faso.

Zuazo

Puente Zuazo, bridge located in San Fernando in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain