When American and naval military forces decided to occupy California in the late-1840s, representatives of the Mexican Governor Pio Pico broke with the tradition of " granting " land and, instead, sold it, without the usual area limitations to Eulogio de Celis, a native of Spain.

At the time of the Mexican-American War, much of Whittier was owned by Pio Pico, a rancher and the last Mexican governor of California.

By then, Abel Stearns had acquired Rancho Los Coyotes in consideration for loans made to Pio and Andrés Pico.

After the forced secularization of the Missions in 1833, the large land tracts formerly held by the Franciscan Order were distributed by the Mexican governor of California, Pio Pico, to various families in order to reward service or build alliances.

In 1841, two brothers, Pio Pico and Andrés Pico, became the first private owners of Rancho Santa Margarita.

Before Pico moved to Florence, he procured for Manutius the post of tutor to his nephews, Alberto and Lionello Pio, princes of Carpi.

The Californio Governor, Pio Pico, with about 100 poorly armed and poorly equipped soldiers, was nominally in charge in Alta California and had consolidated his forces in Pueblo de Los Angeles — the largest city then in California with about 3, 500 residents.

Pio Pico was thus of Spanish, African and Native American ancestry.

It then had probably two hundred and fifty people, of whom I recall Don Abel Stearns, John Temple, Captain Alexander Bell, William Wolfskill, Lemuel Carpenter, David W. Alexander ; also of Mexicans, Pio Pico ( governor ), Don Juan Bandini, and others ".

It is preserved today as Pio Pico State Historic Park.

In 2010, scientists published an article about Pio Pico asserting that he showed signs of acromegaly, a disease diagnosed later in the nineteenth century.

Pio Pico had never been recognized or diagnosed previously with acromegaly.

The 1852 daguerreotype of Pio Pico may be the earliest objective image of acromegaly ever recorded, since the disease was not recognized and named until Pierre Marie coined the term in 1886 while working at the clinic of Charcot in Paris, France.

The 1858 image of Pio Pico was used as an example of florid acromegaly in the scientific review paper " Acromegaly Pathogenesis and Treatment " published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Pio Pico, 1873, looks healthy, suggesting pituitary tumor apoplexy occurred between 1858 and 1873 Careful inspection of his appearance in his 90s ( as shown in the full body image at the top of this entry ) reveals a dramatic reversal of all the abnormal features that were so prominent earlier in his life.

In 2009 the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, burial site of Pico and his wife, received a private 1873 photograph of Pio Pico donated by a descendant of the Temple family. Compared with the 1858 image ( above and to the left ) Pico at age 72 now shows a generous beard, full eyebrows, symmetrical light reflection on his eyes and less prominence of his acromegalic features.

Gertrude Atherton, a prominent San Francisco writer, said of Pico in 1902: "… an uglier man than Pio Pico rarely had entered this world.

The Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church was built in devotion to the saint and dedicated on July 1, 2004.

Owned by the family of the late Pio Ferandos, former Loon mayor and Cebu RTC judge, this fine example of a chalet built during the American period served as a secret meeting place of the Filipino guerrilla leaders during the Second World War.

* 1998: Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic from the International Scientific Committee of the Pio Manzu Centre at Rimini, Italy during the XXIV Pio Manzu International Conference on " The Horizons of Hermes "

Bonifacio, Jacinto and Pio Valenzuela collaborated on the society's organ Kalayaan ( Freedom ), which only had one printed issue.

Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Bragança was born in Bern, Switzerland, in a hotel room where extraterritoriality was declared for the purpose of being born on Portuguese soil, the eldest son of Dom Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza and his wife Princess Francisca of Orléans-Braganza.

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Pope John Paul II granted the See of San Jose independence on January 27, 1981 ; the diocese was canonically erected later that year by archbishops Pio Laghi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, and John R. Quinn, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco, on March 18, the vigil of the feast of Saint Joseph.

General Pio del Pilar used a red banner which has a white equilateral triangle on the mast with a K at each corner.

Through it all, Uncle Pio is faithfully devoted, but as Camila ages and has three children by the Viceroy she focuses on becoming a lady, not an actress.

Uncle Pio and Jaime are the fourth and fifth people on the bridge to Lima when it collapses.

Camila Perichole comes to ask how she can go on, having lost her son and Uncle Pio.

* The executions on Principe Pio Hill by Francisco de Goya ( in Spanish ).

* The executions on Principe Pio Hill by Francisco de Goya ( in English ).

He is considered by some to be the rightful pretender to the defunct Portuguese throne by virtue of his ancestors ' uninterrupted domicile on Portuguese soil, although the duke makes no active claim to that legacy and accepted recognition of his ducal title from the Portuguese nobiliary institution headed by another pretender, Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza.

He received his episcopal consecration on January 25, 1984 from Archbishop Pio Laghi, with Bishops Aloysius Wycislo and Vincent Leonard serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier.

In the fall of 2006, Kalomira became the female co-hostess on the hit Sunday night show Pio Poli Tin Kiriaki alongside with Grigoris Arnaoutoglou on Mega Channel.

Born on May 5, 1876 in Tanjay, another town of this province, Pio grew to be a promising young man.

Gemelli's criticism is believed to have been instrumental in moving the Vatican to take various measures in censuring Padre Pio, including a prohibition on celebrating Mass in public.

He was ordained a priest on June 12, 1954, by Bishop Pio Fariña Fariña, the vicar general and an auxiliary bishop of Santiago.

Officially established as a district on October 6, 1915, the current mayor ( alcalde ) of La Punta is Pio Salazar ( 2011-2014 ).

Instead, the Italian scholar Pio Franchi de Cavalieri has argued that The Passion of Sergius and Bacchus was based on an earlier lost passion of Juventinus and Maximinus, two saints martyred under Emperor Julian the Apostate in 363.

Arbolada Ilusión, Camino a San Luis Beltrán, Camino Ancho, Casas del Sol, Colonia Buena Vista, El Bajío ( Rancho Guadalupe Victoria ), El Silencio, Entrada de el Silencio, Gloria Antonio Cruz, Guadalupe Victoria, Guadalupe Victoria Segunda Sección ( La Mina ), Lachigulera, Las Salinas ( El Arco Grande ), Loma Bonita, Lomas Panorámicas, Los Ángeles, Los Ángeles Uno, Miravalle, Paraje Caballetiyo, Paraje el Cerrito, Paraje el Pando, Paraje la Canoa, Paraje la Loma, Paraje la Mina, Paraje la Rabonera, Paraje Pio V ( Ojito de Agua ), Paraje Tierra Colorada, Pueblo Nuevo Parte Alta, Rancho el Chilar, Rancho los Girasoles, San Bernardo, Solidaridad, and Viguera The municipality has a total area of 85. 48 km2 and a population of 265, 006, 97 % percent of which lives in the city of Oaxaca While much of the indigenous population disappeared during the colonial era, sixteen different ethnic groups continue to inhabit the municipality.

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The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel served a central role in Spanish colonial society, with many of the area's first Mexican settlers being baptized at the mission, including Pio Pico, who was born and baptized at the mission in 1801.

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The route formerly continued west under a railroad bridge near Pio Pico State Historic Park and then over the San Gabriel River as it entered Pico Rivera and met State Route 19 at Rosemead Boulevard.

The Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church is a church in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy owned by the Ordine dei Frati Minori Cappuccini di Foggia.

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* San Giovanni Rotondo, home of Padre Pio and place of the church devoted to him.

Foggia receives many Catholic pilgrims each year to locations such as the Sanctuary of Saint Michael the Archangel in Monte Sant ' Angelo which was visited by Pope John Paul II in 1987 and to nearby San Giovanni Rotondo the home of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina from 1916 until his death in 1968.

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San Giovanni Rotondo was the home of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina from July 28, 1916, until his death on September 23, 1968.

Makira-Ulawa Province includes Makira ( San Cristobal ), Ulawa, Uki Ni Masi, Owaraha ( Santa Ana ), Owariki ( Santa Catalina ), Pio and others.

To his right sits the Servant of God, His Excellency Pio Alberto Del Corona, O. P., the Bishop of San Miniato.

On June 28, 1991 he was elevated by Pope John Paul II to the College of Cardinals as Cardinal-Deacon of San Pio V a Villa Carpegna.

Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza ( Home for Relief of the Suffering ) is a private hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, founded by Saint Pio of Pietrelcina.

Father Paul Egli of the Fraternita San Pio X in the Vatican, Roma, commended Professor Jose David Lapuz, Herrn Professor Und Kommissar Von UNESCO, concerning the work on human rights and poverty in the following words: " Your ( Professor Lapuz ) Your work in the Committee on Human Rights and Poverty is most praiseworthy, commendable and admirable as it redounds to the good of humanity, and of your country in particular.