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The primary aluminum production and processing activities were transferred to AMAG Metall GesmbH, Ranshofen, the secondary aluminum business to Austria Sekundär-Aluminium GesmbH, Ranshofen, the copper smelter to Montanwerke Brixlegg GesmbH, Brixlegg (51% of this company was sold to Metallgesellschaft Austria AG, Vienna, in 1989), and the semi ...
Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (1894–1957), diplomat, journalist, political scientist; advised the US gov. in WWII Willi Schneider (1903–1971) & Rudi Schneider (1908–1957), brothers, famous for parapsychology between the wars
Entrance of the Ancon Site Museum. Ancon is an archaeological site in the north of the Bay of Ancon, in the Ancón District, on the central coast of Peru.It is one of the most important centers of the Peruvian archeology and features a vast necropolis of the pre-Hispanic era, with countless funerary sites.
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 ...
The image was completed in 1956 with the purpose of being placed at the top of the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the tallest in the city. [1] However, due to its excessive weight, four tons, it could not be placed there, due to the risks of damaging the dome of the temple or having it fall due to a seismic movement, so it was saved and preserved for forty years until another place ...
Toro Muerto (English: Dead Bull) is a collection of ancient petroglyphs in the Peruvian coastal desert, found in the Castilla province in the region Arequipa in Peru.The site contains some 3000 volcanic rocks with petroglyphs dating back to the Wari culture, [1] active from 500 to 1000 AD.
The College of the Sacred Hearts of Belén [1] (Spanish: Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones Belén) is a private Catholic school in San Isidro District, Lima, Peru.Founded in 1849 by French nuns of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary as a all-girls school in central Lima, it is currently a mixed-sex school.
Abancay (from Quechua language: Hamanqay, Amanqay, or Amankay, meaning lily), founded in 1572 as Santiago de los Reyes de Abancay, [3] is a city in southern-central Peru.It is the capital of both the Apurímac Region and the Abancay Province, and serves an important cultural, economic, and political role in Apurímac.