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Located in Paseo del Prado in a former power station, it is owned by the not-for-profit banking foundation "la Caixa". The art center opened its doors in 2008 and it hosts temporary art exhibitions and cultural events. The cultural center was designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and built by Ferrovial between 2001 and 2007. [1]
The foundation commonly dates itself to the 1990 creation of the Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona (Spanish: Caja de Ahorros y Pensiones de Barcelona, "La Caixa") as a merger of the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Barcelona founded in 1844 and commonly known as Caja de Barcelona, founded in 1844, with the Caja de Pensiones para la Vejez y de Ahorros de Cataluña y Baleares, founded ...
Area 51 is the common name of a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range. A remote detachment administered by Edwards Air Force Base , the facility is officially called Homey Airport ( ICAO : KXTA , FAA LID : XTA ) [ 2 ] or Groom Lake (after the salt flat next to its airfield).
Caixa Geral de Depósitos' headquarters in Lisbon. A Caixa Geral de Depósitos building in Porto. 1876 — Caixa Geral de Depósitos was founded under the aegis of the Junta de Crédito Público. 1880 — Caixa Económica Portuguesa was founded as a savings bank for Portugal's poorer classes. 1885 — The two Caixas merged.
The museum is sponsored by "La Caixa" banking foundation. Formerly known as the Science Museum of Barcelona, it closed for renovations in 1998 and reopened in 2004 under its current name. It has interactive exhibitions such as touch and play for small children, planetarium , bookstore, gift shop, library, teaching center and café. [ 1 ]
Political and public pressure coerces the government into allowing two well-known reporters and their assistants limited access to the ultra-secretive Area 51.The group consists of 20-year news veteran Sam Whitaker (); his camera-woman Mindy (Lena Clark); Claire Felon (Vanessa Branch), an ambitious writer, journalist, and head of an acclaimed news blog called The Fact Zone; and her cameraman ...
Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡejz bɾaziˈlejɾu]) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil. [4] [5] It is spoken by almost all of the 203 million inhabitants of Brazil and spoken widely across the Brazilian diaspora, today consisting of about two million Brazilians who have emigrated to other countries.