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51 unusual facts about Lima


Allen County Museum

The Allen County Museum is located in the city of Lima, the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States.

Amazilia Hummingbird

It is generally common, and can regularly be seen even in major cities such as Lima and Guayaquil.

AnimaNaturalis

As an international non-profit organization, it has offices in Madrid (Spain), Cadiz (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Bogota (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Caracas (Venezuela), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Logroño (Spain), Mexico Federal District (Mexico), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Santiago de Chile (Chile).

Aserca Airlines

Aserca's operations were centred around Valencia, but it managed to develop Caracas as a hub after 1994 which made it experience a significant growth in its market share, expanding its network to Bogotá, Lima and Miami (no longer in service) via Aruba.

Augusto Huaman Velasco

Son of a Jurist, Landowner and an avid traveler Dr. Gil Huaman; Dr. Augusto Huaman studied during the golden years in the, then prestigious, "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" High School in Lima, Peru.

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Vargas Llosa's novel was later adapted as a Hollywood feature film, Tune in Tomorrow, in which the setting was moved from Lima to New Orleans.

Belfast Community Circus School

Two trips have been organised in recent years to train at the National Institute of Circus Arts in Melbourne, and other destinations have included Lima, Peru.

Belmonte de Miranda

José Alvarez Fernandez O.P. (May 16, 1890 – October 19, 1970), Dominican missionary, active in the Amazon for 53 years, until his death in Lima.

Catalina Casino

Additionally, the theatre still has its original 4-manual, 16 rank theatre pipe organ built by the Page Organ Company of Lima, Ohio.

Central Restaurante

Central Restaurante is a restaurant located in the located in the Miraflores District, Lima, Peru.

Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú

The Center currently serves 400 students in its campus in the San Miguel District of Lima.

Chinese Peruvian

Calle Capón, Lima's Chinatown, also known as Barrio Chino de Lima, became one of the Western Hemisphere's earliest Chinatowns.

Clorinda Corradi

On September 2, 1840, Corradi debuted in Lima, Peru with Giulietta e Romeo and, together and the Lyrical Company directed by Raffaele Pantanelli, she remained in Peru until 1843.

Club Cultural Deportivo Géminis

The club was founded on the October 29, 1967 under the name of Club Cultural Deportivo Géminis in the city of Comas, Lima.

Curaco de Vélez

On 13 and 15 January 1881, in command of his squadron, Riveros provided protective fire for the army assault that defeated the Peruvian forces leading to the surrender of Lima and Callao.

El Campo de Marte

Campo de Marte originally was part of Exposición and later a horse racetrack, the Hipódromo de Santa Beatriz (before Jesús María Ward was split from downtown Lima Ward), in operation from 1903 to 1938.

Elcine

The first festival was first held in 1997 under the name "Elcine Festival" at the PUCP Cultural Center in San Isidro District Lima, which continues to host the main festival.

Frères des Hommes

Cenca in Peru walks with Lima poorest people, it develops economic activities for them and it helps them to become collective subjects.

Gastón Acurio

It opened in the district of Miraflores in Lima and expanded in Latin America and recently in Europe, opening restaurants in Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, Quito, Caracas, all South America and Europe.

Hanga Roa

The island's only airport, Mataveri International Airport, is served by LAN Airlines, Chile's national carrier, which offers direct flights to Santiago, Papeete and Lima.

Holiday for Lovers

The latter tries to prohibit his daughter from seeing them by booking a flight to Rio de Janeiro and then Lima for the family.

Hornby's Storm Petrel

It is thought to breed between March and July, as this is when fledglings are regularly seen at sea around Lima (in Peru) and Antofagasta (in Chile).

Huarmey Province

It is located around 4 hours by bus from Lima and its main economic activities are agriculture, fishing and mineral shipping.

Invepar

Currently there are 10 enterprises being managed, comprising 1 airport (São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, jointly with Airports Company South Africa), 1 rapid transit system (Metrô Rio), 5 highways (two complexes in Bahia; one in São Paulo; one in Rio de Janeiro and the other one in Pernambuco) along with 3 urban infrastructure systems (two in Rio de Janeiro and one in Lima, Peru).

Jeremy Slate

He then joined Grace Steamship Lines and moved with his family to Lima, Peru.

José de San Martín

Under an armistice the opponents celebrated a meeting in Miraflores.

Juan Antonio Pezet

Juan Antonio Pezet Rodriguez Piedra was born in Lima, Peru, the son of Dr. Jose Pezet Monel, a physician, journalist, literary and parliamentarian who was among the enterprising heroes of Peru's independence.

LANSA Flight 502

More than half of the passengers belonged to a single group, sponsored by the Buffalo, New York based International Fellowship student exchange program, consisting of 49 American high school exchange students, along with their teachers, family members, and guides, who were returning from a visit to nearby Machu Picchu to their host families in the Lima area.

Lima, Illinois

Lima is the hometown of well-known archaeologist and anthropologist Stuart Struever.

Linda Baboolal

The couple has five children—three daughters and two sons, one of her sons Henry Baboolal has a degree in Automotive Engineering from Bolton University and is presently an instructor/lecturer at the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima, Ohio.

Ludovico Bertonio

Ludovico Bertonio (1552, Rocca Contrada – Lima, 3 August 1625) was an Italian Jesuit missionary to South America.

Luis Aguirre Pinto

Four years later he began his first continental tour with Angela Ferrari, European tango performer, and in Lima, composed one of his first popular songs, the waltz Reminiscencia.

Marcos Maturana

During the War of the Confederation he fought at the battles of Portada de Guías (1838) and Yungay (1839), and in the capture of Lima.

Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar

He then became Vice-President of the Bolivian portion of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, again under Santa Cruz, who was both President of Bolivia and the Confederation's Supreme Protector in Lima.

Mesa Redonda fire

The Mesa Redonda fire occurred on Saturday, 29 December 2001 in Lima, Peru.

Micaela Villegas

Born in either Tomayquichua (in the province of Huanuco) or the capital city of Lima, she was baptized at the Lima Cathedral on December 1, 1748.

Nicomedes Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz was born in La Victoria District, Lima, Peru to Nicomedes Santa Cruz Aparicio and Victoria Gamarra Ramirez, and was the ninth of ten siblings.

Oscar Pezzano

He was the goalkeeper in two significant international matches against Feyenoord in 1970 and against Nacional de Montevideo in the 1971 Copa Libertadores decider played in Lima, Peru.

Ossuary

The catacombs beneath the Monastery of San Francisco in Lima, Peru also contain an ossuary.

Peruvian Football Federation

It is headquartered in the Villa Deportiva Nacional, or VIDENA, situated on Aviación Avenue 2085 San Luis, Lima.

Peter Safar

That same year, he worked in Lima, Peru and founded that country's first academic anesthesiology department.

Philemon Pownoll

Once captured she was found to be the Spanish register ship Hermione, which had sailed from Lima on 6 January bound for Cadiz with a valuable cargo of bags of dollars, gold coin, ingots of gold and silver, cocoa, and blocks of tin.

Pío de Tristán

Juan Pío de Tristán (in full, Juan Pío de Tristán y Moscoso) (July 11, 1773, Arequipa Peru—August 24, 1860, Lima) was a Peruvian general and politician.

Pound sterling in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania

The silver Spanish pieces of eight that had formed the staple international currency for nearly four hundred years were mostly minted at the new world mints at Potosi, Mexico, and Lima.

Ricardo Rossel

As member of the Army Reserve Battalion, he was called on active duty and assigned to the Redoubt # 2 in Miraflores, confronting a ruthless enemy, and seeing with sadness and anger the looting and stealing of the books of the National Library by the Chilean forces.

Roberto Challe

He later played for Universitario de Deportes where he became four times Peruvian champion in 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1971, Defensor Lima with whom he won the league one more time in 1973, Sport Boys and Sporting Cristal.

Roberto Díaz Herrera

At age 15, he studied in Lima, Peru, at the Military School of Leoncio Prado, while also attending classes at the Escuela de Oficiales de la Guardia Civil (Official School of the Civil Guard).

Stephen S.F. Chen

In November, 2008 he traveled with Lien Chan, special envoy of President Ma Ying-Jeou to the APEC meeting in Lima, Peru where in a side meeting they met with the People's Republic of China's President Hu Jintao, in the highest level of official exchange between mainland China and Taiwan on an international stage.

William Curtis Farabee

He was appointed as an honorary member of the faculty at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru.

WNHC

WNHC-LP, a low-power radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Lima, Ohio, United States

World Schools Debating Championships

A notable example was in Lima in 2003, where the teams from Argentina and Peru gave a demonstration debate in Spanish (but in the World Schools style) in the Congress of Peru chamber.


Al Fondo Hay Sitio

One of the most exclusive areas of Lima, "Las Lomas", is shaken up by the arrival of the Gonzales family from Huamanga, Ayacucho.

Augusto César Lima

In 2013, Lima was summoned again to the team led by Rubén Magnano for the initial training to 2013 FIBA Americas Championship, but due to a herniated disc, had to be cut from training of team.

Augusto Vargas Alzamora

As Archbishop of Lima, he frequently clashed with Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, demanding that the president observe human rights and democratic forms, and, at a later stage, over the president's pushing of family planning programmes.

Battle of Miraflores

The Battle of Miraflores occurred on January 15, 1881 in the Miraflores District of Lima, Peru.

Bernardo de Iturriaza

Bernardo de Iturriaza (1608, Ezcaray, La Rioja, Spain—1678, Lima) was a Spanish judge and colonial official.

Defion Internacional

Defion Internacional is a Lima, Peru based Private Military Company that recruits and trains security personnel, logistics personnel, administrative personnel and professional services personnel to provide world wide services.

Earthquakes in 2011

Local newspapers reported that the earthquake was felt in Lima and in Rio Branco.

Felipe Pinglo Alva

Contemporary writings indicate that Pinglo participated in cultural events organized by syndicalists of the era, such as the homage to sculptor Delfín Lévano in a theatre in the La Victoria neighborhood in Lima.

Francisco de Carvajal

In the campaign of 1546 Carvajal violently put down the royalist forces in the south of the colony, marching and countermarching from Quito to San Miguel, from Lima to Guamanga and back to Lima, from Lucanas to Cuzco, from Collao to Arequipa and from Arequipa to Charcas.

George Ohsawa

They are, in particular, Herman Aihara in California, Roland Yasuhara in Belgium (where LIMA, the well-known manufacturer of macrobiotic products was born), Tomio Kikuchi in Brazil, Clim Yoshimi in France, and Michio Kushi in Massachusetts.

Gibbsville

Gibbsville, Wisconsin, a census-designated place in the town of Lima, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States

Gillian Ryan

She learned that Posegay was moving to NBAC shortly after her return from Lima, Peru, where she won silver and bronze medals at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in 2011.

Hipódromo de Monterrico

The Hipódromo de Monterrico is a Thoroughbred horse racing facility opened in 1960 in Lima, Peru.

Inca Kola

In 1911, in Rímac, one of Lima's oldest and most traditional neighborhoods, an immigrant English family began a small bottling company under their family name, Lindley.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

ISKCON schools

Bhaktivedanta International School, is a primary school in Lima, Peru.

José Eduardo Pinto da Costa

The eldest of six children of José Alexandrino Teixeira da Costa (Foz do Douro, Porto, June 9, 1910 – Aldoar, Porto, December 6, 1977), a Merchant, and wife (m. Cedofeita, Porto, November 15, 1932) Maria Elisa Bessa de Lima de Amorim Pinto (São Mamede de Infesta, Matosinhos, May 15, 1913 – November 14, 1997), one of his brothers is Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, the President of FC Porto.

Juana Manuela Gorriti

Gorriti did not receive the divorce papers until fourteen years later, during the shelling on Lima's port by the Spanish Navy in 1866.

La Cruz del Viajero

La Cruz del Viajero (The Cross of the Traveller) is a monument placed by Franciscan monks in 1672 in the small town of Magdalena Vieja (now Pueblo Libre), just outside Lima, the capital city of Peru, and the old centre of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

La Lima

Many soccer players have come out from La Lima, Carlos Pavón, Milton "Chocolate" Flores, José Luis "El Pili" Aguirre, Marco Vinicio "El Chacal" Ortega, José Luis López, Reynaldo "El Chino" Pineda, José "La Coneja" Cardona.

Latin American literature

Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Lima Locomotive Works

For a time, Clark Equipment Company manufactured Lima-brand construction cranes in the old plant.

Lomas de Lachay

The Lomas de Lachay (Lachay Hills) is a national reserve in the desert foothills of Huaura Province in Lima region of Peru.

Long-tailed Mockingbird

It is frequently found in gardens and parks—especially in Miraflores and other parts of Greater Lima.

Louis Godin

When they had finished their task in 1738, at the invitation of the Viceroy of Peru, Godin accepted the professorship in mathematics in Lima, where he also established a course of astronomical lectures.

Luis A. Eguiguren

He was the director of the General Archive (File) of the Nation (1914), Alderman of Lima (1914-1920), Mayor of Lima (1930), President of the Constituent Congress (1930-1932), founder and leader of the Social Democratic Party.

Manuel Lima

Lima has a BFA degree in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Architecture at Technical University of Lisbon and a MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.

Max Arias-Schreiber Pezet

He studied at Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta (Lima) and Institut Le Rosey (Switzerland).

MPB4

The initial lineup featured Miltinho (Milton Lima dos Santos Filho, Campos dos Goytacazes, October 18, 1943), Magro (Antônio José Waghabi Filho, Itaocara, RJ, November 14, 1943-August 8, 2012), Achilles (Achille Rique Reis, Niterói, RJ, May 22, 1948) and Ruy Faria (Ruy Alexandre Faria, Cambuci, RJ, July 31, 1937).

Organization of American States Secretary General election, 2005

The press had initially speculated that Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros, the current foreign minister of Peru, would have been a likely "consensus" candidate in the new scenario, and on 12 April, the Lima daily Perú 21 gave the name of former transitional president Valentín Paniagua as another option.

Red April

“Ayacucho is a strange place. The seat of the Wari culture was here, and then the Chanka people, who never allowed themselves to be subjugated by the Incas. And later were the indigenous uprisings because Ayacucho was the half-way point between Cuzco, the Inca capital, and Lima, the Spaniards’ capital. And independence in Quinua (cf., Quinua, Peru). And Sendero. This place is condemned to be bathed in blood and fire forever, Chacaltana.”(Roncagliolo, p. 245 Spanish edition).

Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované

He was survived by his wife, Amelia Lyons de Alfaro; three sons, Dr. Victor Ricardo of Washington, Ivan Jose of Lima, Peru, and Rogelio Edwin of Panama City; two daughters, Mrs. Frank H. Weller (née Amelia or Amelita Victoria) of Potomac, Maryland, and Mrs. H. Cabell Maddux (née Yolanda Maria) of McLean, Virginia; and many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, among them the singer Nancy Ames, and attorney and TV personality Elbert Alfaro in Miami Lakes, Florida.

Rímac District

Downtown Rímac District has, like its southern counterpart, its eastern and western sides divided by Jirón Trujillo, which connects to Lima District's Jirón de la Unión through the Puente de Piedra, the oldest bridge in the whole city.

Ronda Campesina

Even though the internal conflict is now largely confined to the VRAE and has greatly diminished since 1992, the term Rondero is still used in everyday speech in Peru to signify a volunteer neighbourhood watchman either the countryside or in the sub-urbs of cities such as Lima or Trujillo.

Serge Girard

2001: trans-South America (Lima/Rio de Janeiro) - 5,235 km in 73 days, 3 hours, 40 min (world record)

Take it Sleezy

It was produced by music engineer Johnny Lima and was recorded at Suspect Studios, San Jose, California.

Tarma

Its location consolidates as the point of nexus between the central coast (departments of Lima and Ica), the Andean provinces of the department of Junín and the Central Forest (provinces of Chanchamayo and Satipo).

Theo Constanté

The work of Theo Constanté can be found in galleries, museums and collections throughout Guayaquil, Quito, Lima, Cali, São Paulo, Miami, New York, Paris, and Madrid.

Tomcito

Racing at Lima, Peru's Hipodromo de Montericco, Tomcito won his debut race in such impressive fashion that his handlers decided to enter him in the September 23 Group One Clasico Polla de Potrillos (Peruvian 2000 Guineas).

Tonejet

Tonejet was first disclosed in Patent Cooperation Treaty publication WO 93/11866 dated June 24, 1993, with the inventor named as Luis Lima-Marques, and assigned to Research Laboratories of Australia Pty.

Whisky Romeo Zulu

The film is named after the NATO phonetic alphabet version of the identifier of the accident aircraft, LV-WRZ (Lima Victor – Whisky Romeo Zulu)