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Formosa and Province
Having been close to La Rioja Bishop Enrique Angelelli ( a Third World Priest opposed by much of Argentina's conservative Roman Catholic Church ), he was imprisoned by the military junta in Formosa Province until 1981, reportedly tortured in the process.
* Formosa Province, Argentina, which is also the antipodes of northern Taiwan.
Having claimed over 800 lives, violence between Trotskyite and Fascist extremists had abated somewhat since López Rega's July exile ; the Montoneros, however, began a series of audacious attacks on military installations, including August dynamiting of a nearly finished Navy destroyer near the port of La Plata and the Operation Primicia, a terrorist attack on a military base in Formosa Province on October 5.
Formosa had less than 20, 000 inhabitants in 1914 ; but in 1955, when it acquired the status of Province by decree of President Juan Domingo Perón, it had already more than 150, 000.
Category: Populated places in Formosa Province
The MID maintained a considerable following in a number of the less developed Argentine provinces, where voters had fond memories of the Frondizi administration's development projects, and helped elect allies within the Justicialist Party ( Peronists ), in Formosa and Misiones Provinces, as well as Mayoral candidate Néstor Kirchner in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province ; Kirchner went on become governor and, in 2003, President of Argentina.
Image: Caiman yacare. jpg | Formosa Province, Argentina
Image: Caiman zoom. jpg | Formosa Province, Argentina
* Formosa Province: 5 deputies
Category: Geography of Formosa Province
Category: Geography of Formosa Province
Hydroelectric dam on the Río Negro ( Chaco ) | Río Negro, near Resistencia, Chaco ( Argentina ); the torrential rains that follow the region's long dry season make flood-control works critical. Toba ( tribe ) | Toba family, Formosa Province, Argentina, 1892. A jaguar at rest in the Formosa Province Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
* Formosa Province, Argentina
Category: People from Formosa Province
The only species in Chacodelphys, C. formosa, was known until 2004 from only one specimen collected in 1920 in the Chaco of Formosa Province, Argentina.
Category: Geography of Formosa Province
Estanislao Del Campo is also the name of a small cotton-producing town in Formosa Province, Argentina which lies about 135 km from the city of Formosa.

Formosa and ()
VIA Technologies Inc. () is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group.
Formosa Magazine () was a magazine created by Tangwai individuals in Taiwan during the summer of 1979.
The, also known as the Dragon's Triangle, the Formosa ( Taiwan ) Triangle () and the " Pacific Bermuda Triangle ", is a region of the Pacific around Miyake Island, about 100 km south of Tokyo.
Fort Zeelandia () was a fortress built over ten years from 1624 – 1634 by the Dutch Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, in the town of Anping ( Tainan ) on the island of Formosa, present day Taiwan, during their 38-year rule over the western part of it.
Formosa Airlines () was an airline based in Taiwan.

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The fact that China ( which is obsessed by Formosa -- to Khrushchev a very small matter ) should be supported by North Korea and North Vietnam is highly indicative.
The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.
This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.
* 1895 – The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
Taiwan ( historically called " Formosa " especially prior to 1945, from Portuguese: Ilha Formosa, " Beautiful Island ") is an island and an archipelago in East Asia, composed of Taiwan Island and several much smaller islands such as the Penghu Islands, Orchid Island, Green Island, and Hsiao Liuchiu.
* Fort Santo Domingo is built in Formosa by the Spanish settlers.
This is a photograph of an aboriginal hunting party with their Formosan Mountain Dog in Muzha District | Ba ̍ k-sa, by John Thomson ( photographer ) | John Thomson, 1871: " A Native Hunting Party Baksa Formosa 1871 " 木柵原住民的狩獵祭典.
Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay in From far Formosa ( 1896 ) reported that " if a savage is killed inland, the heart is eaten, flesh taken off in strips, and bones boiled to a jelly and preserved as a specific for malarial fever ".
An interesting feature of the Portuguese coast is Ria Formosa with some sandy islands and a mild and pleasant climate characterized by warm but not very hot summers and generally mild winters.
* The eastern city of Formosa is the home of Madame Tang and her dragon in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow based on the Disney films
The Overseas Compatriot Youth Formosa Study Tour to Taiwan, informally known as the Love Boat, is currently a four-week summer program for about 400 – 600 college-aged Overseas Chinese.
The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait, formerly known as the Black Ditch, is a wide strait separating the island of Taiwan from the Asian mainland.
It is possible to circumvent S. 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 by making up pepper spray in an innocuous container ( for example a water pistol or washing-up liquid bottle ) as per R. v. Formosa and R. V. Upton, and this may be used for self-defense purposes on private property ( it would constitute an offensive weapon in a public place ).
Koxinga ( Lord of the Imperial Surname ) is the customary Western spelling of the popular appellation of Zheng Chenggong, a Chinese military leader who was born in 1624 in Hirado, Japan to Chinese merchant / pirate Zheng Zhilong and his Japanese wife, and died in 1662 on the Island of Formosa ( Taiwan ).
* Formosa becomes the first horse to win four classic races in a single year, although one victory is a dead heat.
The capital is Formosa.
It coincidentally is the antipode to Taiwan, which was formerly known as " Formosa ".
Formosa is the capital city of the Argentine province of Formosa, on the banks of the Paraguay River, about from Buenos Aires, on National Route 11.

Formosa and province
The guerrillas redirected the plane towards Formosa province, where they took over the provincial airport.
It also ceded the Liaodong Peninsula ( then known to the Western press as Liaotung, now southern part of modern Liaoning province ), and the islands of Taiwan ( Formosa ) and Penghu to Japan.
** Formosa, Argentina, the capital of its namesake province
Cattle in Formosa exceed 1. 5 million head and ranching has long been the agricultural mainstay of the province.
Coincidentally, the province is partially antipodal to Taiwan ( formerly called Formosa ).
Several native tribes ( Guaraní, Toba, Wichí and others ) have persisted in the region and have important communities in this province as well as in Formosa.
In 1872, Territorio Nacional del Gran Chaco was created, this territory included current Formosa province and lands that now belong to Paraguay.
The 5th Brigade suffered a major blow at the hands of Montoneros, when over one-hundred — perhaps several hundred -- Montoneros guerrillas and milicianos where involved in the most elaborate operation in the so-called " Dirty War ", which involved the hijacking of a civilian airliner, taking over the provincial airport, attacking the 29th Infantry Regiment's barracks at Formosa province and capturing its cache of arms, and finally escaping by air.
Taiwan ( formerly called Formosa ) is partly antipodal to the province
* West: the Argentine province of Formosa separated by the Paraguay River, and the capital district, Asunción.
From there it flows in a southeasterly direction through Chuquisaca and Tarija departments, passes through the Argentine province of Formosa and the Gran Chaco plains of Paraguay, forming the border between these two countries before it joins the Paraguay River near Asunción.
When leaving the province of Salta, the Teuco marks the boundary between the provinces of Chaco and Formosa.
Montoneros and supporters were involved in the Operation Primicia, the most elaborate operation of the " Dirty War ", which involved hijacking of a civilian airliner, taking over the provincial airport, attacking the 29th Infantry Regiment ( which had retired to barracks at Formosa province ) and capturing its cache of arms, and finally escaping by air.
The Argentine security forces admitted to 43 army troops killed in action in Tucuman, although this figure does not take into account police and Gendarmerie troops, and the soldiers who died defending their barracks in Formosa province on 5 October 1975.
Copernicia alba is a South American species of palm tree, which is found in the humid part of the Gran Chaco ecoregion in Bolivia, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil ( in the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul ) and Argentina ( especially the province of Formosa, and less abundantly towards drier areas ).

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