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The Mariano Moreno National Library (Spanish: Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno) is the largest library in Argentina. It is located in the barrio of Recoleta in Buenos Aires . The library is named after Mariano Moreno , one of the ideologists of the May Revolution [ 2 ] and its first director.
The U.S. Legation was elevated to an Embassy status on October 1, 1914, with Frederic Jessup Stimson appointed as the first U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argentina, presenting his credentials in early 1915.
Buenos Aires, [d] officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, [e] is the capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. [14]
On September 13, 1810, the Primera Junta created the Public Library of Buenos Aires, being the Cabildo its first location for two years. [8] Nevertheless the institution that worked for longer in that building was the Buenos Aires prison, from 1608 to 1877, when their prisoners were transferred to the missing national penitentiary of Las Heras ...
The Faculty of Social Sciences was founded on 25 August 1988, when the social sciences degrees at the University of Buenos Aires were split from other UBA faculties. The university already offered social work degrees since 1946, sociology degrees since 1957 (at the behest of Italian-born sociologist and researcher Gino Germani ), and labor ...
The Buenos Aires Legislature Palace (Spanish: Palacio de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires) houses the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.It is an architectural landmark in the city's Montserrat district, situated in a triangular block bounded by the streets Hipólito Yrigoyen Street, Presidente Julio A. Roca Avenue and Perú Street.
Among those who consulted the museum's growing staff of researchers was Alexander von Humboldt, who requisitioned numerous meteorological studies for the Institut de France. The rise of the paramount Governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas, turned to be the renowned institution's undoing. Devoutly religious, Governor Rosas returned the ...
The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Buenos Aires is the chief diplomatic mission of the United Kingdom in Argentina. The embassy also represents the British Overseas Territories in Argentina. It is located on Dr Luís Agote street in the Recoleta neighbourhood. [1] The current British Ambassador to Argentina is Kirsty Hayes. [2]