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This bridge spanned the Pasig River and connected the Binondo area (Muella de la Industria where the headquarters and warehouses of Ynchausti y Compañía were located) and Intramuros (the original walled city of Manila). The bridge was designed and built by Matias Menchacatorre y Compañía, a Spanish-Basque engineering firm.
The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states [6] [7] located on the continent of Africa.The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the African Union.
Constructed in 1905, the building that now houses the museum was originally known as the Edificio de Ynchausti y Cia. This structure served as a branch of the Ynchausti y Compañia in Iloilo, a significant trading company founded in 1816 by Basque entrepreneurs Jose Joaquin de Ynchausti Y Gurchategui and Joaquin Elizalde. The company was ...
The member states of the African Union are the 55 sovereign states that have ratified or acceded to the Constitutive Act of the African Union to become member states to the African Union (AU). [1] The AU was the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), and AU membership was open to all OAU member states.
An African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson election was held in February 2025 to choose the fifth Commission Chair to succeed incumbent Chairperson Moussa Faki. [1] On 15 February 2025, Djibouti's Mahamoud Ali Youssouf was elected with 33 votes in the seventh round of voting. He is scheduled to be sworn in during March 2025. [2] [3] [4] [5]
África de la Rosa (born 1906) was a Filipino former actress. She had Spanish and Chinese roots in her family and was the sister of Philippine cinema icons Rogelio and Jaime de la Rosa . One of her ancestors was a trusted lieutenant of Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan) .
Manuel "Manda" Cadwallader Elizalde Jr. (November 8, 1936 – May 3, 1997) was a Filipino entrepreneur. He was most known for claiming to discover a ' Stone-Age ' tribe called the Tasadays which was later rumored as a hoax.
J. M. Elizalde, Sergio Osmeña, and John W. Hausermann, taken in 1938 or 1939, Harris & Ewing Collection, U.S. Library of Congress. Elizalde became an economic adviser to President Manuel L. Quezon in 1937 and 1938. He became a member of the National Economic Council 1937–1941 and 1952 and 1953, and of the Joint Preparatory Committee on ...