Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

In August 1511 on behalf of the king of Portugal, Afonso de Albuquerque conquered Malacca, which at the time was the hub of Asian trade.

The Aztec Motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico ( built 1932 ) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties as the oldest continuously operating US Route 66 motel in New Mexico.

Its first known permanent resident was Portuguese, Fernão Lopez who had turned traitor in India and had been mutilated by order of Albuquerque, the Governor of Goa.

* Afonso de Albuquerque ( 1453 – 1515 ) was a Portuguese nobleman, naval general officer whose military and administrative activities conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian ocean.

Connecticut passed a Clean Elections law in 2005, along with the cities of Portland, Oregon and Albuquerque, New Mexico, although Portland's was repealed by voter initiative in 2010.

Though the program was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the name of the city is not disclosed on the program.

Hormuz, in the Persian Gulf, was seized by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1515, who also entered into diplomatic relations with Persia.

In 1978 Alan E. Hill of the Air Force Weapons Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM, designed the Plasmatronics Hill Type I, a tweeter whose plasma was generated from helium gas.

A hot air balloon in her likeness was conceived in 1982 at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta by Jacques Soukup and Kirk Thomas.

Named " Chic-I-Boom ", the craft was built by Cameron England, and was the first special-shaped hot-air balloon ever to fly at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.

These projects and others in New Mexico were necessitated because these stretches of I-25 were inadequately designed and constructed originally ( the pavement was deteriorating rapidly ), and also because urban areas like Denver, Colorado Springs, and Albuquerque had tripled and quadrupled in population much earlier than anyone had anticipated back in the 1950s and 1960s.

The sloops were commissioned in 1935, being designed for long-range patrol missions, having great autonomy but slower speeds and less armament than the frigates used by Portugal in her Atlantic fleet ; the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque was an obsolete combat ship used for patrol purposes.

Only the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque in Goa and the patrol craft Vega in Diu saw action against the Indian Navy, the patrol craft Sirius was rendered unusable, and the Anthares escaped from Damão to Karachi.

The Afonso de Albuquerque was severely damaged during combat, yet it inflicted damage on two of the four Indian frigates that were firing on it.

By 1886, Flagstaff was the largest city on the railroad line between Albuquerque and the west coast of the United States.

Its name was given ( with a minor spelling change ) by the Spanish conquerors to the city now known as Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States.

In 2002, a remodernism art show in Albuquerque was accompanied by an essay from University of California, Berkeley art professor, Kevin Radley, who said there was a renewal of artists working without the limitation of irony and cynicism, and that there was a renewal of the sense of beauty.

Seton was cremated in Albuquerque.

Everything was very high at that time, and I used to haul my goods from Albuquerque to live on.

I was hauling goods one time from Henry Springer's store in Albuquerque, and I told Henry Springer he had better come into Round Valley, as it was called then, and put in a store ; that the people were coming in and we would name the postoffice and little village after him, Springerville, and that was old Henry Springer.

On October 22, 2008, Senator Jeff Bingaman ( Democrat of New Mexico ) told a conservative talk radio host in Albuquerque, New Mexico:

The 2011 Championship was held in Phoenix, Arizona, and the National Mock Trial Board announced that Albuquerque, New Mexico will host in 2012 and Indianapolis, Indiana will host in 2013.

To maintain interest in Albuquerque ’ s bid to host the championships, a balloon rally was held in February of that year.

Also, from 2006 to February 2009, he was a guest host on radio station KBQI, 107. 9, in Albuquerque, on Thursday mornings.

In March 2005, host Phil Keoghan toured major cities in the United States ( Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, and Los Angeles ) to scout contestants for the race.

* Southwestern: based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Southwestern Region ( R3 ) covers two states ( New Mexico and Arizona ) and eleven National Forests.

East of Malacca Albuquerque sent Duarte Fernandes as envoy to Siam ( now Thailand ) in 1511, and dispatched to the Moluccas two expeditions ( 1512, 1514 ), which founded the Portuguese dominion in Maritime Southeast Asia.

“ The 1930 ’ s marked a time when Albuquerque families began moving to the North Valley in greater numbers, some buying and restoring abandoned adobe homes, others proceeding to build large new houses .” United States Representatives Albert Simms and his wife Ruth Hanna McCormick were among these families and built two houses designed by Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem on the site of the current-day Los Poblanos Ranch.

Moriarty also serves as a fireworks Mecca for the Albuquerque metropolitan area with two year around stores as well as at least two other large tents which set up for the sixteen day selling period allowed by New Mexico State Law from June 20 to July 6.

Jack in the Box restaurants last made an appearance in the Albuquerque market approximately two decades ago.

For example, the HOA title at the 2007 U. S. Open tournament, shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico between September 6 and 9, was won in a shoot off between two competitors, each of whom shot a combined score of 399 out of a possible 400.

When Albuquerque returned two years later, he found the garrison was no longer in Portuguese possession.

He purchased a ranch in Montana, and travelled on the road with the rodeo, he participated in numerous roping contests, two of which he won in Phoenix and Albuquerque.

The University of New Mexico was founded on February 28, 1889, with the passage of House Bill No. 186 by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico ; stipulating that " Said institution is hereby located at or near the town of Albuquerque, in the county of Bernalillo within two miles north of railroad avenue in said town, upon a tract of good high and dry land, of not less than twenty acres suitable for the purposes of such institution ," and that it would be the state university when New Mexico became a state.

Sandia has two primary facilities: a large laboratory and headquarters in Albuquerque, N. M., and a smaller laboratory in Livermore, Calif.

Working with the town of Albuquerque, they graded two runways on East Mesa with one approximately 5, 300 feet long and the other just under 4, 000 feet.

As the 1920s closed, two airlines initiated competitive passenger, mail and cargo service between the Midwest and California, positioning Albuquerque as an important transcontinental airfield.

With the departure of the 19th Bombardment Group from Albuquerque Army Air Base in the fall of 1941, Major General Arnold moved the military ’ s bombardier school from Louisiana to Albuquerque for two reasons — good weather and the availability of vacant land on which to build bombing ranges.

The University also offers degree programs at two classroom sites in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Joseph Mark of Albuquerque bought two hundred and fifty thousand reis, a vast terrain of virgin forests owned by Maria Genoveva Santos, Joao Martins and his heirs and Domingos dos Santos Leite Prado.

It later expanded also to factories in Orem, Utah and Albuquerque, New Mexico where there were two fabs, FAB22 ( 4 ") and FAB23 ( 6 ").

Albuquerque police announced previous to the fight, that they were prepared for any gang related violence to take place on the streets of Albuquerque during fight night, but the only incident happened 33, 000 feet over the ground, as two individuals of the conflicting sides coincided in a Southwest Airlines flight to Las Vegas, where the fight was held at.

KOB television, also in Albuquerque, is still commonly confused with the two radio stations because it was co-owned with them for many years.

Cooper was the head coach for The Albuquerque Thunderbirds for two years ( 2006 – 2007 ).

In 1515 Albuquerque sent Duarte Barbosa to Kozhikode to oversee the construction of two ships that would serve on an expedition to the Red Sea, in which he may have later participated under the new governor.