Mission San Francisco Solano was founded on July 4, 1823, and named for Francis Solanus, a missionary to the Indians of Peru born in Montilla, Spain, known as the " Wonder Worker of the New World.

However, the Bolivian ambassador in Peru, Franz Solano, acknowledged that the doll was present in both countries.

He has been awarded the order of Boyacá ( Colombia ), San Carlos ( Colombia ), Sól ( Peru ), Malta, Isabel La Católica ( España ), Order of José Matías Delgado ( El Salvador ), Quetzal ( Guatemala and Honduras ), Cruzeiro do Sul ( Brasil ), Merit ( Chile ), Mariscal Francisco Solano López ( Paraguay ), Order of the Liberator General San Martín ( Argentina ), Libertador ( Venezuela ), Andrés Bello ( Venezuela ), Águila Azteca ( Mexico ) and Manuel Amador Guerrero ( Panama ), among others.

Pizarro has been a regular for Peru since 1999, and was the captain succeeding Nolberto Solano.

Born in Callao, Peru, Solano was the youngest of his family.

Solano made his full international debut for Peru at the age of 18, and went on to be capped 95 times, scoring 20 goals.

Juan Solano, O. P., former bishop of Cusco, Peru, generously funded the reorganization of the studium at the convent of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva on the model of the College of St. Gregory at Valladolid in his native Spain.

In a gesture calculated to rewrite history and erase seven decades of national shame, Franco declared Solano López a national hero " sin ejemplar " ( without precedent ) because he had stood up to foreign threats, and sent a team to Cerro Corá to find his unmarked grave.

Cartoonists and comic creators have contributed prominently to national culture, including Alberto Breccia, Dante Quinterno, Oski, Francisco Solano López, Horacio Altuna, Guillermo Mordillo, Roberto Fontanarrosa, whose grotesque characters captured life's absurdities with quick-witted commentary, and Quino, known for the soup-hating Mafalda, and her comic strip gang of childhood friends.

Pizarro also revealed that his decision was largely influenced by the advice of his national team team-mate Nolberto Solano, who played in England with Newcastle, and West Ham United, as well as Owen Hargreaves, who at the time also played for Bayern Munich.

He has been a key member of the squad since the mid-1990s but, in June 2005, Solano decided to quit the Peruvian national football team due to disagreements with the coach, Freddy Ternero.

Despite his return to the national team, Solano was not selected for Peru's Copa America 2007 squad.

In 1869, during the Paraguayan War, San Estanislao was briefly the seat of the national government under Marshall Francisco Solano López.

However it was not an unfamiliar playing position to Solano, as he had started his football career in defence and had featured at right-back for his country.

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The Solano Steelheads were a minor league baseball team operating out of Vacaville, California.

Marketing efforts portrayed the team as a Rockwellian slice of Americana, and Solano County fans responded positively to a professional team of their own.

The Solano Thunderbirds, a college league team succeeded the Steelheads as Travis Credit Union Park's primary tenant but has never shared in the excitement or crowds enjoyed by Portner's Steelheads drawing less than 100 people to most of its games.

Due to the poor management of the Solano Thunderbirds owned by Curtis, Susan and Byrant Stocking, they ran up debt in the millions of dollars and were forced to close down the Thunderbirds leaving Vacaville with no baseball team.

Others saw Solano López as a paranoid megalomaniac, a man who wanted to be the " Napoleon of South America ", willing to reduce his country to ruin and his countrymen to beggars in his vain quest for glory.

Argentina refused Solano López's request for permission for his army to cross Argentine territory to attack the Brazilian province of Río Grande do Sul, Undeterred, Solano López sent his forces into Argentina.

Paraguay was in no sense prepared for a major war, let alone a war of the scope that Solano López had unleashed.

Even after conscripting every able-bodied man for the front, including children as young as ten, and forcing women to perform all nonmilitary labor, Solano López still could not field an army as large as those of his rivals.

Apart from some Paraguayan victories on the northern front, the war was a disaster for Solano López.

Paraguay's soldiers exhibited suicidal bravery, especially considering that Solano López shot or tortured so many of them for trivial offenses.

Allied troops entered Asunción in January 1869, but Solano López held out in the northern jungles for another fourteen months until he finally died in battle.

Despite several historians ' accounts of what happened between 1865 and 1870, Solano López was not wholly responsible for the war.

This group of exiles, based in Buenos Aires, had regarded Solano López as a mad tyrant and fought for the allies during the war.

In the decade following the war, the principal political conflicts within Paraguay reflected the Liberal-Colorado split, with Legionnaires battling Lopiztas ( ex-followers of Solano López ) for power, while Brazil and Argentina maneuvered in the background.

After López died, his son Francisco Solano López became the new president and led the country through the disastrous Paraguayan War that lasted for five years.

* All the missions are owned and operated by the Catholic Church, save for Mission La Purísima Concepción and Mission San Francisco Solano, which are owned and operated by the California Department of Parks and Recreation as State Historic Parks ;

It was established as a part of Mexico's strategy to halt Russian incursions into the region, as the Mission San Francisco de Solano ( Sonoma Mission ) was for the Spanish.

Port Costa was founded in 1879 as a landing for the railroad ferry Solano, owned and operated by the Central Pacific Railroad.

It is named for Francisco Solano López, a former president of Paraguay, a descendant of whom founded his namesake trailer park.

Delius later liked to represent his house at Solano Grove as " a shanty ", but it was a substantial cottage of four rooms, with plenty of space for Delius to entertain guests.

Despite these goals, a clause in Newcastle's purchase of Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa resulted in Milner being loaned to Villa for the rest of the season.

In the late 1940s, he moved to Buenos Aires where he worked for Argentine publisher Editorial Abril and met Argentine comics artists like José Luis Salinas, Alberto Breccia and Solano López.

With a record of 12-0 and 5 knockouts, he returned to the Dominican Republic, where he challenged Julio Soto Solano on 16 October for the " Latin American Bantamweight title ", winning the regional belt by outpointing Solano over 12 rounds.

In Colombia, the towns of Bahía Solano and Nuquí are well known for the abundance of Humpback whales from late July to the beginning of October.

* As Três Mortes de Solano ( 1978 )