Villa Centenario is a town in the province of San Juan, Argentina, in the Pocito department. Population It has 699 inhabitants (Indec, 2001), in the 1991 Census the town was not yet conformed. Seismicity Seismicity in the Cuyo area (central western Argentina) is frequent and of low intensity, and a seismic silence of medium to …
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Citrus myrtifolia
Citrus myrtifolia, popularly called Moorish orange tree in Spain and chinotto in Italy, is a tree belonging to the citrus group and originating from China. For a time it has been considered as a variety of bitter orange tree and called Citrus aurantium L. var myrtifolium, however due to the numerous differences between both, at …
European Network of Electricity Transmission System Operators
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) is the European association of electricity transmission system operators. It is the successor to the Association of European Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ETSO) founded in 1999 in response to the emergence of an electricity market within the European Union. History On June 27, 2008, …
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Juan Francisco Ibarra Station
Juan Francisco Ibarra is a railway station, located in the town of Juan Francisco Ibarra, with a population of about thirty inhabitants, in the district of Bolívar, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It belongs to the General Roca Railroad of the Argentine Railway Network, in the branch that joins the station Empalme Lobos and Carhué. …
Vermilion Guard
Guardia Bermellón is a Chilean Redskin band with Punk and Oi! influences, members of the proletarian Rock musical movement. The themes of their songs are influenced by the communist ideology and the political and social contingency in Chile and Latin America. Currently Guardia Bermellón is a band that has four albums as well as collaborations …
Frey
In Norse mythology, Freyr (sometimes translated into English as Frey, a word that comes from frawjaz, ‘lord’) was the son of Njörðr and the brother of Freyja. He was the god of rain, the rising sun and fertility. He is one of the Vanir, who live in Vanaheim. Lord of vegetation, Freyr possessed the summarbrander …
Julie Bishop
Julie Isabel Bishop (b. Lobethal, Australia, July 17, 1956) is an Australian politician. She was her country’s Foreign Minister in the government of Tony Abbott, having taken office on September 18, 2013, until 2018. Bishop is the deputy leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, as well as being the first woman to hold this …
Aleksandr Álov
Aleksandr Aleksándrovich Álov (Russian: Алекса́́ндр Алекса́ндрович А́лов, birth surname Lápsker -Ла́пскер-; Kharkov, September 26, 1923-Moscow, June 12, 1983) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1985) and decorated as People’s Artist of the USSR (1983). Biography Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Lapsker was born on September 26, 1923 …
José Laguna
José Laguna y Calderón de la Barca was a Spanish sailor who participated in the Río de la Plata in the fight against the English invasion of 1806 and against the May Revolution of 1810. Biography José Laguna was born on December 28, 1759 in Badajoz, Spain, son of Manuel de Laguna Becerra y Moscoso …
Abel Catuzzi
Abel Teodoro Catuzzi (Chivilcoy, May 2, 1927-Buenos Aires, October 30, 1997) was an Argentine military officer who reached the rank of brigadier general, and who during the military dictatorship called National Reorganization Process (1976-1983) held high positions, among them commander of Army Corps V, with headquarters in the city of Bahía Blanca and jurisdiction throughout …