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Sea life mural by Francisco Narváez
Baralt Theatre
Black-capped Tanager (f) JCB (cropped and mirrored)
Patricia Ortega in 2017
Fabiana Rosales
Ana María Campos Monument in
Maracaibo
The acoustic panels of the Aula Magna
Cocoi heron
Pristimantis jamescameroni juvenile specimen (18.3 mm SVL) from Aprada-tepui, Venezuela
Palacio de las Academias
The house where Simón Bolívar was born
Lighted night view of Palacio Municipal de Caracas
The Rose of Venezuela
Crested and bearded hummingbird
Parque Central Complex
Cristobal Rojas 46a
... that the degradation of a mural (pictured) by
Francisco Narváez in the
University City of Caracas led to the formation of a group dedicated to preserving
his works there ?
... that
Infection , the first Venezuelan
zombie film , has been banned in the country despite horror being a popular genre there?
... that
Sangrador , Venezuela's submission for the 2003
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , had only 31 box-office attendances in the country that year?
... that the
Baralt Theatre (pictured) in
Maracaibo , the location of Venezuela's first film screenings, now hosts the country's short-film festival?
... that the female
black-capped tanager (pictured) moulds her nest by vibrating in it?
... that subjects of
Venezuelan films of the 1890s include
a dentist pulling teeth in a hotel and
a man getting into a brawl with a stagecoach driver ?
... that the Colombian television series
Bolívar used 6,000 extras?
... that Philadelphia-based physician
Charles Sajous , called the "father of American
endocrinology ", received the French
Legion of Honour and the Venezuelan
Order of the Liberator ?
... that despite its title, the Venezuelan film
Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo (' Kids bathing at the lagoon of Maracaibo ' ) also features street shots of the city of
Maracaibo ?
... that Venezuelan director
Patricia Ortega (pictured) has drawn strength from her film
Being Impossible during both personal and political upheavals?
... that there has been a boom in
LGBT+ cinema produced in Latin America , in contrast to its traditionally religious and
machismo culture?
... that
Perla Farías has created
telenovelas , such as
Juana la virgen and
La Reina del Sur , which avoid classic stereotypes?
... that the
queen parrotfish feeds on the algae it scrapes from corals and other surfaces, resulting in
bioerosion ?
... that the
Creole Petroleum Corporation 's 1956 propaganda film
Assignment: Venezuela sought to convince American oil workers that the anti-capitalist military dictatorship had embraced the American way of life?
... that former astrophysicist
Alejandra Melfo now works on preserving microbial life from Venezuela's rapidly receding last glacier?
... that Venezuela's economy still has not recovered from
Black Friday in 1983 ?
... that Venezuelan politician
Miguel Pizarro was expelled from high school for starting protests against military education?
... that Venezuelan journalist
Fabiana Rosales (pictured) has assumed the role of international ambassador, soliciting support for
her husband 's opposition party, towards resolving the
crisis in Venezuela ?
... that Venezuelan journalist
Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018
Time Person of the Year ?
... that
Roma producer
Gabriela Rodríguez is the first
Latin American woman to be nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Picture ?
... that for nearly 100 years, people thought
Manuel Trujillo Durán introduced
cinema to Venezuela , though he was just a film technician at the time?
... that representatives from more than a dozen nations are reported to be attending today's
International Conference on the Situation in Venezuela in
Montevideo , Uruguay? (8 February 2019)
... that
Román Chalbaud 's 1977 film
El Pez que Fuma was inspired by stories from prostitutes at a brothel he used to frequent?
... that the production of the film
El Caracazo required a military security presence for the filming of scenes of riot and massacre in the centre of the Venezuelan capital of
Caracas ?
... that Venezuelan director
Román Chalbaud became interested in camera angles after playing an angel in a
Nativity play and seeing the stage and the audience from on high?
... that the death of Venezuelan politician
Fernando Albán Salazar led to protests in
Caracas , and calls for investigations by the
European Union and the
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner ?
... that
Ana María Campos , who died 190 years ago today, is celebrated (monument pictured) as a heroine of the
Venezuelan War of Independence ? (18 October 2018)
... that Venezuelan political activist
Rafaela Requesens was a
flamenco dancer for fifteen years from the age of six?
... that the 31 acoustic panels (pictured) on the ceiling of the
Central University of Venezuela 's
Aula Magna auditorium were originally meant to be an art installation in the outside corridor?
... that the
cocoi heron (pictured) is the largest heron in South America?
... that after leading the first slave insurrection in Venezuela's history,
Miguel de Buría had himself crowned as king?
... that
Maribel Parra de Mestre is the first female vice admiral of Venezuela?
... that Venezuelan
footballer
Sergio Córdova scored on his professional debut for
Caracas FC ?
... that when the
USS Albany disappeared off the coast of Venezuela in 1853, its crew included the offspring of several prominent politicians?
... that former
CIA agent
Luis Posada Carriles twice escaped from prison in Venezuela, where he faced trial for the
bombing of Cubana Flight 455 ?
... that in
The Field of Fight , new US National Security Advisor
Michael T. Flynn argues that Bolivia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela are allied with
Al-Qaeda and
ISIS ?
... that when it leased the planes of a failed Venezuelan airline, a Bolivian company retained the name
LaMia to avoid the cost of repainting the aircraft?
... that the
United States was accused by
President Maduro of provoking a covert coup against his government in
Venezuela's state of emergency ?
... that the
pepito is one of the most popular
street foods in Venezuela?
... that the 1993
Tropical Storm Bret was the deadliest natural disaster in Venezuela since the
1967 Caracas earthquake ?
... that the Venezuelan footballer
Edder Farías scored against
Honduras in February 2015, his country's first victory since September 2013?
... that art dealer
Konrad Bernheimer was born in Venezuela after his grandfather made a deal with
Hermann Göring to allow the family to flee Germany?
... that the
Sierra de Perijá National Park in Venezuela is home to the
Perijá tapaculo , a bird first described in 2015?
... that Venezuelan singer
Aneeka cites as musical influences American singers
Mariah Carey ,
Whitney Houston and
Aretha Franklin ?
... that the 200-million-year-old
Tachiraptor is a new type of dinosaur discovered in Venezuela?
... that the Venezuelan president
Rómulo Betancourt had been the director of the Costa Rican communist newspaper
Trabajo in the 1930s?
... that women in Venezuela are being targeted by
hair thieves known as the Piranhas who steal their hair in broad daylight?
... that the new species of frog
Pristimantis jamescameroni (pictured) from Venezuela was named after the film-maker
James Cameron ?
... that the song "
Volví a Nacer " by
Carlos Vives reached number one in Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the
Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States?
... that
Juan Antonio Yanes was inducted into the
Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum sixteen years after his death?
... that you can buy "British Airways" at
an ice cream store in
Mérida , Venezuela?
... that
Hollis Dow Hedberg led the
Gulf Oil Corporation 's geological operations in
San Tomé and eastern
Venezuela ?
... that
Francisco Esteban Gómez is honored in
Venezuela as a hero of the
Battle of Matasiete ?
... that the
Neo-Gothic renovation of Venezuela's
Palacio de las Academias (pictured) gave the façade forty bays containing windows or doors?
... that the
Palacio de Justicia de Caracas in Venezuela straddles an access highway to the city centre?
... that the
National Art Gallery in Caracas has a wall with sculptural reliefs by
Francisco Narvaez , Venezuela's first modernist sculptor?
... that
the house where Simón Bolívar was born (pictured) is now a national monument in Venezuela?
... that Venezuela formerly produced almost as much coffee as Colombia, but by 2001
its coffee production was only about one percent of world production?
... that the
edifice (pictured) was the focal point for the Constitutional Convention and signing of the Declaration of Independence of
Venezuela in the nineteenth century, hence known as the "cradle of independence"?
... that
Bruce Rondón , a
Venezuelan
baseball player, was described as a "rare talent" by General Manager
Dave Dombrowski of the
Detroit Tigers ?
... that
Mexico–Venezuela relations were strained in November 2005 by comments
Hugo Chavez made on a talk show?
... that the 1999
constitution of Venezuela enabled the expansion of
local government via the
Local Public Planning Councils ?
... that
Emilio Boggio is credited as the first
Impressionist painter of
Venezuela ?
... that
Catedral Nuestra Señora in
La Asunción is the oldest church in
Venezuela ?
... that Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez would have voted for U.S. President
Barack Obama if he could?
... that the
Andrés Bello Catholic University is the oldest of all private
universities in Venezuela ?
... that Venezuela's second satellite,
VRSS-1 , was launched at the end of September? (2012)
... that the
Rose of Venezuela (flower pictured) and
Inga thibaudiana are trees that grow in seasonally flooded
tropical forests ?
... that a study showed that cultivating the
Atlantic winged oyster off the coast of
Venezuela was not commercially viable?
... that
Hugh Carless , who accompanied
travel writer
Eric Newby on an expedition to Northern
Afghanistan in 1956, later served as the British ambassador to
Venezuela ?
... that Venezuelan singer-songwriter
Franco De Vita received
nominations for the
Latin Grammy Awards for his album
En Primera Fila and the song "
Tan Sólo Tú "?
... that
Eduar Villanueva set a
Venezuelan national record while competing in the
men's 1500m event during the
World Championships in Athletics held earlier this month in
Daegu ,
South Korea ?
... that the
Bearded Helmetcrest (pictured) of the high
páramo of Colombia and Venezuela nests in the daisy
Espeletia ?
...that the
Parque Central Complex towers (right) are the second tallest buildings in
South America ?
...that
Francisco de Miranda , a Venezuelan revolutionary leader, took part in the
French Revolution and is depicted in
Paris 's
Arc de Triomphe ?
...that
Pabellón criollo , Venezuela's national dish, represents the social classes that existed within the country during the
Spanish Colony ?
...that the name Venezuela actually means
Little Venice ?
...that Dr.
José Gregorio Hernández is considered a
saint by many Venezuelans, but never given such title by the
Vatican ?
...that the
Mérida Cable Car is the highest
aerial tramway in the world?
...that the
Maracaibo Lake is the largest lake in South America?
...that the
Venezuelan War of Independence against the
Spanish was viewed by some as a civil war?
...that the approximate number of Venezuelan-born currently signed to the
Major League Baseball was around 800?
... that
Eduardo Iturrizaga became
Venezuela 's first and only
chess
grandmaster , at the age of 19?
... that the
English
clergyman
George Edmundson worked for the
British Government on the Boundary Arbitration between
British Guiana and
Venezuela ?
... that the
Spanish warship that fought in the
Action of 13 June 1898 would later serve in the
Venezuelan Navy ?
... that via
Urban Land Committees , more than 300,000
Venezuelan urban households have benefited from a
land titling program?
... that
Venezuelan farmer
Franklin Brito amputated a finger for the television cameras when a court ruled against him?
... that in 1967 Venezuela's ruling
Democratic Action party denied
the winner of its primary election the nomination for the 1968 presidential race, for being too
leftwing ?
... that the
Movimiento 2D is a Venezuelan opposition movement founded and led by the editor/proprietor of the daily
El Nacional ?
... that the present
Alto Vista Chapel (pictured) in
Aruba , completed in 1952, stands at the location where the original chapel was built in 1750 by Domingo Silvestre, a missionary from
Venezuela ? (image lost )
... that Venezuela's 2006 National Commission on Police Reform proposed a new model of policing with a
new police force specifically trained in human rights?
... that "
El Cariño Es Como Una Flor ", performed by Venezuelan
singer-songwriter
Rudy La Scala , became his first
best performing Latin single in
1990 ?
... that the
Venezuelan historian
Lucía Raynero Morales holds a
Visiting Fellowship at
St Antony's College, Oxford , that is named after the Venezuelan humanist
Andrés Bello ?
... that the
Venezuelan town
Potosi was intentionally flooded in 1985, but has reappeared in 2010 due to a drought?
... that the
Parks and Recreation episode "
Sister City " featured
Saturday Night Live star
Fred Armisen in a guest role as the head of a visiting
Venezuelan delegation?
... that Venezuelan performer
José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" received a
Grammy Award nomination for his
number-one song "
Baila Mi Rumba "?
... that
Venezuelan
painter
Cristóbal Rojas produced a painting of
purgatory (pictured) shortly before his death in the knowledge he was going to die from
tubercolosis ?
... that
Alex Garcia , driver of No. 98 in the
NASCAR Nationwide Series , is the first
Venezuelan to race in
NASCAR ?
... that while in
Venezuela for the
Winter Leagues current
Detroit Tigers
relief pitcher
Gary Glover was robbed at gunpoint?
... that the natural
habitats of the
Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland
forests and
montanes and heavily degraded former forests in
Colombia ,
Peru , and
Venezuela ?
... that as part of
Cuba-Venezuela relations , 50,000
Venezuelans went to
Cuba for free eye treatment?
...that after discovering a suitcase with
US$ 800,000 in
Maletinazo (the suitcase scandal), policewoman
Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the
Argentine and
Venezuelan editions of
Playboy ?
...that current
Venezuelan Deputy
Foreign Minister and ambassador to the
OAS
Jorge Valero , a vocal spokesman for the
Chavez government, fell out with his brother Hidalgo, an anti-Chavez activist?
...that the four
catfish
species of the
genus
Pseudolithoxus are only found in the
Amazonas and
Bolívar states of
Venezuela ?
...that
Antonio Ricaurte
immolated himself in 1814 to prevent the
Spanish Crown from taking over the
San Mateo estate in
Venezuela ?
...that despite the country's oil revenues, only 87% of
Venezuelan citizens have
access to potable water and 71% have access to
sanitation ?
...that
Cuba's
Latin American School of Medicine is supported by both the
Congressional Black Caucus and
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chávez ?
...that the
Thanksgiving 1984 Nor'easter (pictured) deposited a 197-foot
Venezuelan
freighter in the
backyard of a
Palm Beach, Florida socialite, where it remained for several months? (image lost )
...that
Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club is the
Venezuelan
soccer club with the most appearances in the
Copa Libertadores ?
...that
Russian native
Emilio Kosterlitzky , known as the Mexican
Cossack , spoke nine languages, jumped ship in
Venezuela , fled to
Mexico where he fought in the
Apache Wars and in the
Mexican Revolution , and eventually became an
undercover operative for the
U.S. government during
World War I ?