Some of these include the amphitheater and aquarium at the Toledo Zoo and a major expansion to the Toledo Museum of Art.

Toledo Zoo pedestrian bridge

The best known of these, the Toledo Zoo Hippoquarium, features a 360, 000 gallon pool for hippos.

In 1987, researchers were able to tape, for the first time, an underwater birth ( as in the wild ) at the Toledo Zoo.

The exhibit was so popular that the hippos became the logo of the Toledo Zoo.

; Los Contrarios ( voiced by the same actors as the originals ): Dark, blind, identical clones of the original members of the Shoebox Zoo, created by Toledo.

The company traveled for performances at Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, the Toledo Zoo, and Cuyahoga Falls.

In 2004 the BBC made the clock tower of the hotel the base of their villain, Toledo in the show Shoebox Zoo.

An " international incident " staged between Storybook and the Toledo Zoo was later revealed to have been a publicity stunt.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

Al-Fihri himself managed to escape to the former Visigoth capital of Toledo in central al-Andalus ; once there, he was promptly killed.

Abd ar-Rahman II was born in Toledo, the son of Emir Al-Hakam I.

The issue seems to have begun with the claim of archbishop Elipandus of Toledo that – in respect to his human nature – Christ was adoptive Son of God.

In 1888, all production was moved, by Edward Drummond Libbey, to Toledo, Ohio, where it continues today under the name Owens Illinois.

The crown had previously assigned Almagro the governorship of Cuzco, and as such Almagro was heading there when Charles V divided the territory between Nueva Castilla and Nueva Toledo.

Some sources suggest Almagro received such a requirement in 1534 by the Spanish king and was officially declared governor of New Toledo.

The exploration of the territories of Nueva Toledo, which lasted 2 years, was marked by a complete failure for Almagro.

* 1502 10 July – By a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo by Isabella I of Castile, Gibraltar was granted its coat of arms: " An escutcheon on which the upper two thirds shall be a white field and on the said field set a red castle, and below the said castle, on the other third of the escutcheon, which must be a red field in which there must be a white line between the castle and the said red field, there shall be a golden key which hangs by a chain from the said castle, as are here figured ".

He was the son of Gil Állvarez de Albornoz and of Doña Teresa de Luna, sister of Jimeno de Luna, archbishop of Toledo and a member of the prominent Carrillo family.

In 1338 he was chosen archbishop of Toledo in succession to his uncle by the favour of the king, Alfonso XI of Castile.

The Siege of the Alcázar at Toledo early in the war was a turning point, with the Nationalists winning after a long siege.

This tribute was endorsed by the Fifteenth Council of Toledo, held in 688.

The Willys version of the car would become the standardized jeep design, designated the model MB and was built at their plant in Toledo, Ohio.

The Libro de los Juegos, (" Book of games "), or Libro de acedrex, dados e tablas, (" Book of chess, dice and tables ", in Old Spanish ) was commissioned by Alfonso X of Castile, Galicia and León and completed in his scriptorium in Toledo in 1283, is an exemplary piece of Alfonso ’ s medieval literary legacy.

Among the most powerful was the league of North Castilian and Basque ports, the Hermandad de las marismas: Toledo, Talavera, and Villarreal.

In 1515 Adrian was sent to Spain on a diplomatic errand, and after his arrival at the Imperial Court in Toledo, Charles V secured his succession to the See of Tortosa, and on 14 November 1516 commissioned him Inquisitor General of Aragon.

Juan Alvarez de Toledo ( Bishop of Burgos ), another Imperial favorite was proposed, and he too failed, because of strong opposition from the faction of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, nephew of the late Pope Paul III and from the French.

From this power base, his heir Ordoño II was able to organize attacks against Toledo and even Seville.

Toledo, which was the former capital of the Visigoths, was a very important landmark, and the conquest made Alfonso renowned throughout the Christian world.

It was not until after sporadic and consistent population resettlements had taken place that Toledo was decisively conquered.

The latter was said to be held in Toledo, Spain during Visigoth rule and was part of the loot taken by Tarik ibn Ziyad during the Umayyad Conquest of Iberia, according to Ibn Abd-el-Hakem's History of the Conquest of Spain.

By 1534 the Spanish crown had determined to split the region in two parallel lines, forming the governorship of " Nueva Castilla " ( from the 1 ° to the 14 ° latitude, close to Pisco ), and that of " Nueva Toledo " ( from the 14 ° to the 25 ° latitude, in Taltal, Chile ), assigning the first to Francisco Pizarro and the second to Diego de Almagro.

In 1512 under Ferdinand the Catholic as King of the first political unit referred to as Spain, joint Spanish troops from both the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon commanded by Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, second Duke of Alba, first invaded partially the Kingdom of Navarre.

* 1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.

In 1976 Pepsi, RKO Bottlers in Toledo, Ohio hired the first female Pepsi salesperson, Denise Muck, to coincide with the United States bicentennial celebration.

The Galgo appears to have developed first in the Castillian plains, both in the north ( Valladolid, Zamora, Ávila Salamanca, Segovia, Soria, Burgos and Palencia ) and the south ( Toledo, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Madrid and Ciudad Real ) of Castilla.

Toledo was very slow to expand in its first two decades of existence.

Toledo was the first city in Ohio to adopt a one percent for arts program and, as such, boasts many examples of public, outdoor art.

* On January 15, 1936, the first building to be completely covered in glass was constructed in Toledo.

* Baseball-The Toledo Mud Hens are one of minor league baseball's oldest teams, having first played in 1896.

In response to an appeal by the City of Toledo, the Census Bureau's July 2007 estimate was revised to 316, 851, slightly more than in 2000, which would have been the city's first population gain in 40 years.

Toledo linked with Toledo, Spain as sister cities in 1931, creating the first Sister Cities relationship in North America.

Before his replacement arrived, Mason ordered 1, 000 Michigan militiamen to enter Toledo and prevent the symbolically important first session of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas.

The Mud Hens first had their games broadcast on radio in 1965, when minor-league baseball was revived in Toledo.

* Venus, the first full length album from Toledo, Ohio rock group We Are the Fury

The center of Visigothic rule shifted first to Barcelona, then inland and south to Toledo.

* January 15 – The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.

The document quotes the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed in its original form, without Filioque, which was first added to the creed by the Third Council of Toledo in 589.

After the first incursion of Tarik, who reached Toledo in 711, the Yemeni viceroy of Ifriqiya, Musa ibn Nusair, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar the following year and carried out a massive operation of conquest that would lead to the capture of Mérida, Toledo, Zaragoza and Lerida, among other cities.

* 1562 – Date of first example of use of the purl stitch, from a tomb in Toledo, Spain, which allows knitting of panels of material.

After leaving Germany, he first settled in southern France, and then in Toledo, Spain, where he became rabbi on the recommendation of Rabbi Solomon ben Abraham Adret ( RaShBA ).