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Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ ðe βalˈβo.a]; c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) [1] was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for crossing the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, [ 2 ] becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached ...
The Balboa Amusement Producing Company (also known as Balboa Studios, and Balboa Feature Film Company) [1] was a film production company in Long Beach, California, from 1913 to 1918 [2] that produced more than 1000 films, [2] around 90% of which have been lost. [2]
Rocky Balboa is a 2006 American sports drama film starring, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone in his first film as director since 1985. It is the sequel to Rocky V (1990) and the sixth installment in the Rocky film series .
Balboa hit his commercial peak with 1985's Rocky IV, which remains the franchise's highest-grossing entry and also helped pave the way for his return in the Creed movies three decades later.
Still, the view from the top of the stairs inspired him to reshoot the scene without the dog. In the 2006 film Rocky Balboa, Rocky lifts his dog Punchy when he reaches the top of the steps. The closing credits of Rocky Balboa show a montage of dozens of people running up the steps. The 72 steps are grouped into six sections; the top set has ...
Robert "Rocky" Balboa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He was the only child in a Roman Catholic, Italian-American or Italian immigrant family. [a] Rocky appears to be fully or semi-fluent in the Italian language; when Rocky is spoken to in Italian by his priest, Father Carmine, it is apparent that Rocky understands the language very well or fluently, including in a scene in which he ...
Balboa (dance), a close embrace style of swing dancing; Balboa (band), a hardcore band from Philadelphia; Balboa County, a fictional county setting for the Veronica Mars television series; Rocky Balboa, protagonist of the Rocky film series; Balboa, the merged tribe name in Survivor: Pearl Islands; Balboa, a probe featured in Alien Planet
Papa John's needs to bake up some growth at the more than 40-year-old chain.As pizza demand surged during COVID, shares of the company skyrocketed to a record high of $138.53 at the end of 2021. ...