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2 unusual facts about Villanueva


Aguazul

The presence of the paramilitary group Autodefensas Campesinas de Casanare, whose base of operations was in the nearby municipalities of Villanueva and Monterrey, was a constant until 2004 when the group surrendered the zone to the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia AUC, in a battle which is said to have cost more than 3.000 lives.

Víctor Coello

Víctor Arturo Coello Paz (born 29 July 1974 in Villanueva, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer who plays as goalkeeper for Juticalpa in the Honduran Second Division.


Antenor Orrego

Antenor Orrego was born in 1892 to José Asunción Orrego and Victoria Espinoza Villanueva in the Santa Cruz Province of the Cajamarca Region of Peru.

Ateneo de Davao University

Jasmine B. Lee (born Jasmine Bacurnay y Villanueva) - a Filipino-born Korean, television personality, actress and civil servant; Elected as a proportional representative in South Korea’s National Assembly

Bangon Pilipinas Party

Villanueva's son, Eddie Villanueva, Jr. is the highest ranking elected official of the party, serving as mayor of Bocaue, Bulacan; he will run as the Liberal Party' candidate in the 2013 elections.

Dolzura Cortez

Her life story was made into the 1993 Filipino film Dahil Mahal Kita (English "Because I Love You: The Dolzura Cortez Story"), directed by Laurice Guillen, screenplay by Ricardo Lee, starring Vilma Santos, Christopher de Leon, Charito Solis, Maila Gumila, Mikee Villanueva and Jackie Aquino.

DZOE-TV

The Channel 11 frequency in Metro Manila was originally granted to a joint venture between the leaders of two major Filipino religious movements, Mike Velarde (of the El Shaddai movement) and Eddie Villanueva (of Jesus Is Lord Church), however disputes between the two leaders would result in Villanueva being awarded full ownership of the station from the Philippine Congress.

Emilio Villanueva

Emilio Villanueva Peñaranda (28 November 1882 in La Paz, Bolivia – 14 Mai 1970 in La Paz, Bolivia) was a revolutionary Bolivian architect.

Enrico Villanueva

Villanueva will wear a Barako uniform for the second time in his career after being traded away from Ginebra for Willie Miller.

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva

Estadio Alejandro Villanueva, formerly Estadio Alianza Lima, is a football stadium located in the neighborhood of Matute in La Victoria District in Lima, Peru.

Francisco F. Villanueva

Francisco Felipe Villanueva (born 10 October 1867, Molo, Iloilo City, Visayas; died 25 August 1923) was a Filipino political leader during the Philippine–American War.

Villanueva served as the Visayan delegate to the Malolos Congress, where he conferred with Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo and Apolinario Mabini to assure that the Visayas would be included in nascent First Philippine Republic.

Francisco Villanueva

Francisco Villanueva (born September 24, 1985 in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico) is a Mexican boxer in the Light Middleweight division and is the former WBC Mundo Hispano Light Middleweight Champion.

Héctor Villanueva

Héctor Villanueva Balasquide (born October 2, 1964 in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico), is a former professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues from 1990 to 1993.

James Higginbotham

"On Words and Thoughts About Oneself." Isidora Stojanovich, François Recanati, and Neftalì Villanueva (eds.), Context-Dependence, Perspective, and Relativity.

Jonathan Villanueva

Villanueva grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas, and attended South Grand Prairie High School, where he was a three-time NSCAA All-American, an adidas ESP Invitee and adidas All-Star, was named to the Parade All-America team as the top midfielder in the country as a senior, and was rated as the nation's top soccer recruit by School Sports Magazine.

Kid Azteca

Luis Villanueva was a native of "The Tough Neighborhood" of Tepito, one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Mexico City, famous among other things because several international famous Mexican boxers and wrestlers were born at that place, (hence the reason why it is called "Tough Neighborhood".

Luis Villanueva

In March 2002, Villanueva was given the keys to the City of Miami, a merit given by the City of Miami in Florida to Venevision International for their exceptional contribution to the arts and culture of the local community.

Málaga Cathedral

The Chapel of the Incarnation contains a neoclassic altarpiece (1785) designed by the sculptor Juan de Villanueva and carved by Antonio Ramos and Aldehuela, sculptures of Salazar and Antonio Palomino, and The Beheading of Saint Paul, painted by Enrique Simonet in 1887 during his stay in Rome.

Miag-ao, Iloilo

The town holds their patronal fiesta in honor of St. Thomas of Villanova (more commonly known as Sto. Tomas de Villanueva) every September 22 that lasts several days.

Mikey Arroyo

# Agimat: Mga Ang Alamat ni Ramon Revilla Presents: Elias Paniki (2010)-Benjamin Villanueva (as The The Villain)

Neo-Tiwanakan architecture

The architect Emilio Villanueva popularized the Neo-Tiwanakan architecture in the city of La Paz during the decade of the 1930s.

Orlando Merced

Orlando Luis Merced Villanueva (born November 2, 1966 in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico) is a former Major League Baseball first Baseman and outfielder.

Radio Belize

All that remained was to shut it down, and after one last act of service-informing the nation of the progress of 1998's Hurricane Mitch-DJ Neil Hall (and, according to Villanueva, himself and Patrick Jones) shut down at Noon Central Standard Time (18:00 G.M.T.) on November 30, 1998.

Ron Villanueva

Villanueva is of Filipino ancestry and was the first Filipino American to serve on the Virginia Beach City Council.

Rufino Santos

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was to lead the event by unveiling a historical marker and a 6-foot statue of Santos (sculpted by Edillardo Paras) and donated by Cesar L. Villanueva's wife, Arlyn Sicangco-Villanueva, president of Holy Angel University in Angeles City, Pampanga.

Sal Villanueva

Following the success of Thursday's Full Collapse, Victory Records approached Villanueva to work with and develop Long Island emo band, Taking Back Sunday.

Sariwang Bulaklak

The movie revolves around Inday (played by Villanueva), whose simple life takes a turn for the worse when her father dies in a dynamite fishing accident when she was still very young.

Tween Hearts

Reel Love: Tween Hearts is a Filipino youth-oriented series created by Kit Villanueva – Langit, under the direction of Gina Alajar and produced by GMA Network.

Venancio Ramos

Venancio Ariel Ramos Villanueva (born June 20, 1959 in Artigas) is a retired football striker from Uruguay, who was nicknamed "Chicharra" during his professional career.


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