Most documents of Luis Váez de Torres's discoveries were not published but filed away in Spanish archives, including Prado ’ s lengthy account and accompanying charts.

President Manuel Odría, Prado ’ s successor, supported Townsend ’ s aviation-based plan as a means of bringing military expertise and equipment from the U. S. As firm nationalists, both presidents strongly believed in the value of the Amazon for its natural resources and possible colonization, Stoll claims that both also agreed that the SIL would be the most important organization to introduce the indigenous population to the new realities of western expansion, all while providing a nascent infrastructure.

He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.

In 1660, Bishop Marcos Ramírez del Prado, placed the first stone of the new Cathedral, which was designed by Vicenzo Baroccio.

In 1843, the Prado catalogue listed the work for the first time as Las Meninas.

The Royal Museum, which would soon become known as the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture and subsequently the Museo Nacional del Prado, opened to the public for the first time in November 1819.

Belaúnde's 1956 candidacy was ultimately unsuccessful, as the dictatorship-favored right-wing candidacy of Manuel Prado took first place.

Prado announced that " one of the first acts of my government will be to declare a general political amnesty and put an end to the proscription of political parties.

In foreign policy, Prado – whose greatest pride was that as President in 1942 he made Peru the first of South American nations to declare war on the Axis Powers – was expected to side firmly with the U. S.

During her first Neapolitan period she painted Nascita di San Giovanni Battista ( Birth of Saint John the Baptist ) located in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and Corisca e il satiro ( Corisca and the satyr ), in a private collection.

The first presentation was offered at Paseo del Prado # 126, just aside the Teatro Tacón, today called Gran Teatro de La Habana.

In this first phase of introduction there were several locations devoted to cinema: Panorama Soler, Salón de variedades o ilusiones ópticas, Paseo del Prado # 118, Vitascopio de Edison ( in the famous Louvre sidewalk ).

When first displayed in Spain, the painting was placed at El Casón del Buen Retiro, an annex to the Prado that housed early 19th century paintings but had a large enough wall.

Dámaso Pérez Prado ( much later, in the 1950s, famous as " El Rey del Mambo ") was the group's first pianist and one of its earliest arrangers from 1936 — the second time the collective underwent two momentous years in sequence — to 1939.

On June 12, 1910, was played the first football match in Curitiba city, at Campo do Prado, in Guabirotuba neighborhood.

In the late 1940s, Perez Prado came up with the dance for the mambo music and became the first person to market his music as " mambo ".

Queen Isabel II agreed to the proposal, and on 18 April 1847 the first fair was held at the Prado de San Sebastian, on the outskirts of the city.

The first head office was in a garage on Ivo do Prado Avenue.

Born in Lima, Peru, he was the son of Manuel Justo Pardo y Lavalle, who had been the first civilian president of Peru ( 1872-1876 ) and the founder the Civilista Party ; he is one of two second-generation Peruvian presidents ( Manuel Prado, son of former dictator Mariano Ignacio Prado, is the other ).

The first was the version by Perez Prado, which reached number one for two weeks.

Argentine literature began around 1550 with the work of Matías Rojas de Oquendo and Pedro González de Prado ( from Santiago del Estero, the first important urban settlement in Argentina ), who wrote prose and poetry.

He is commonly associated with other great Brazilian cultural interpreters of the first half of the 20th century, such as Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Júnior.

For this album, Prado won several awards, among others the Alph ' Art for the Best Foreign Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, receiving this award for the second time ; the first time was in 1991 for Manuel Montano.

In 1611, some 10 Canarian families were sent to Santiago del Prado, Cuba ( although, as in the second half of the sixteenth century, also had some Canarian families and Canarians more in Americas in the first half of the seventeenth century ) and for 1663 and by Royal Decree of May 6, were sent 800 Canarian families to the island Spanish, it is assumed that this was caused by the danger that the French seize it, as to date them already had occupied what is now Haiti.

Category: Songs written by Perez Prado

* " Adoration of the Magi " ( c. 1470 ), Oil on wood, 96. 4 × 147 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Museo del Prado has the largest collection of Spanish painting in the world, numbering more than 4, 800 paintings and dating from the Romanesque period to the 19th century.

* National Stakes-( 4 )-Cellini ( 1973 ), Sir Wimborne ( 1975 ), El Prado ( 1991 ), Fatherland ( 1992 )

Guillermo Billinghurst was overthrown on February 4, 1914, in a military coup headed by colonel Oscar R. Benavides, Javier and Manuel Prado, and conservatives members of the Civilista Party.

The accompanying music ( mambo tune Guaglione by Pérez Prado ) was released as a single and reached number one on the Irish charts and number two on the UK charts in May 1995.

Later in the 1950s Perez Prado acquired the Mexican Citizenship, moved to New York for some years, and then returned to Mexico City, where he died on September 14, 1989, aged 72.

The stakes-winning sprinter Sir Greeley took the race in a quick 1: 32. 42 but Funny Cide's jockey, the top 10 New York Racing Association rider Edgar Prado, said, " He broke sharp and was right with those horses from the go.

Since the creation of the Museo del Prado more than 2, 300 paintings have been incorporated into its collection, as well as a large number of sculptures, prints, drawings and works of art through bequests, donations and purchases, which account for most of the New Acquisitions.

* Diego de Prado y Tovar's account of the Quirós and Torres voyage, with English translation, at the State Library of New South Wales

Prado and Birdstone then went on to win the prestigious Travers Stakes at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York in August 2004.

On September 24, 2006, Prado received the New York Racing Association's 2006 Mike Venezia Memorial Award in a paddock ceremony at Belmont Park.

The Mambo dance that was invented by Perez Prado and was popular in the 1940s and 50s Cuba, Mexico City, and New York is completely different to the modern dance that New Yorkers now call ' Mambo ', which is also known as Salsa " on 2 ".

He has also lectured widely, at Princeton University, at Yale University, at the Frick Collection in New York, at the Prado Museum in Madrid, and at many other venues.

He performed with Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Fletcher Henderson, and Claude Hopkins in the 1940s ; after World War II he started working regularly with Latin bands in New York City, including the bands of Perez Prado, Marcelino Guerra, Ricardo Ray ( on whose catchy, hook-laden album " Jala, Jala Boogaloo, Volume II ", he played exquisitely ( but uncredited ), particularly on the track " Mr. Trumpet Man "), Machito, and others.

** New edition: Manuel Prado: La guerra al Malón ( The War against the Indians ), Editorial Claridad SA, Buenos Aires ISBN 978-950-620-206-4

In 2007 and 2008, major media attention-grabbing projects included: the building of a network of bike paths that made Seville the city with the most miles of bike lanes in Spain ; the pedestrianization of the Plaza Nueva and Constitution Avenue ( next to the Cathedral ); the operationalising of the Metrocentro tram that links the Prado de San Sebastián with the aforementioned Plaza Nueva ; the construction of the César Pelli-designed office tower ( scheduled to be finished in 2013 ) as headquarters for the newly-formed Cajasol bank ; the international award-winning architectural project Metropol Parasol ( Metropol Parasol de la Encarnación ); the redevelopment in the Alameda de Hercules, and planned upgrades to the gardens and port along the Paseo de las Delicias, the port being redeveloped to accommodate more visits by cruise ships to the city ; and a new aquarium, the New World Aquarium at Muelle de Las Delicias.

* Picasso's painting " Guernica " was returned to the Museo del Prado in Madrid after having been kept at New York's Museum of Modern Art since 1939.