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Fun Facts About Names Day motivates you to discover regarding the historical definitions and influences behind your name and the names of your loved ones. Uncover historic and spiritual influences, which you were called after, and view exactly how name fads have altered over generations!

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Did you know that the Cathedral of Lima is build on top of an ancient temple of the local inhabitants (that's why it is elevated with respect to everything else in the main square)? Did you know that the columns of the cathedral use bamboo instead of the usuall hardwood of the times, because of the earthquaques that levelled it at least twice during colonial times? Bamboo is flexible and will not break with the movement.

Did you know that the bridge behind the palace of Government (known as the "puente de piedra" or stone bridge) was built in 1610 (probably one of the first in South America) was build with something called "Argamasa" (there was no cement at the time) that required egg whites and left the city with no eggs for more than a month?

Did you know that the citi of Lima was not originally named like that? it was founded by Pizarro as the "Ciudad de los Reyes" (City of the Kings) because it was founded close to the day of the 3 wise men (Called in spanish "los reyes magos" thus the name "ciudad de los reyes"). The name Lima is a misspronunciation of the mane of the river that flows righ by the city: Rimac (which in quechua means "speaker").

Did you know that the angel on top of the fountain at the main square points to an identical one on top of the tower of the church of Santo Domingo, close to the postal service?

Did you know that the Osambela House (a litlle further down the road from the Santo Domingo Church? has a little tower that you see at the entrance so that the owner could see his ships sail into Callao harbour?

Did you know that the oldest firefighter station in Lima was actually founded by Italians and is called the "Bomba Roma" (Roma Pump) and it sits by the old tribunal of the inquisition by the side of the house of congress?

Did you know that the statue of Pizarro that sits at the "Parque de la Muralla" in downtown Lima was actually one of Cortez sent to Mexico and , since Mexico didn't want it, it was sent to Peru? Did you know that the statue has a sword, but no sword sheath?

Did you know that the Italian Museum donated to Peru by the local italians on the centenial of Peru's independence has a stained glass of Flora from Botticceli's Primavera that was destroyed in the 1980's by a bomb and reconstructed by the same venetian glassblowers that constructed the original?

Did you know that the statue of one of Peru's greatest heroes, Miguel Grau, has riding boots on, when he was an admiral and commanded a monitor-class ship, which would have made impractical the use of such boots ( a little artistic licence from the artist)? Did you know that the smoke coming from the smokestack of his monitor, carved on a brass plate on the back of the monument, blows forward instead of backwards (artistic boo-boo)?

Any fun facts on new york?

Manhattan Fun Facts

•In the 1660s New York City's “skyline” was dominated by a two-story-high windmill.

•When the Dutch still controlled the region, Wall Street was the city limit and there was actually a wall there.

•Manhattan's Chinatown is the largest Chinese enclave in the Western Hemisphere.

•The vaults 80 feet beneath the Federal Reserve Bank on Wall Street store more than 25% of the world's gold bullion (and you thought it was all in Fort Knox!).

•Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,000-year-old Egyptian ruin, can actually be found in New York's Central Park. In 1879 it was given to the city as a gift by the Khedive of Egypt. The 220-ton, 66-foot-high monument took a decade to be fully transported.

New York Fun Facts

•Why are New York Yellow Cabs yellow? Because John Hertz, the company's founder, read a study that concluded yellow was the easiest color for the eye to spot.

•The Bayonne Bridge is almost identical to the world-famous Sydney Harbour Bridge, but it is actually two feet longer. Completed a few months beforehand, the Bayonne Bridge was the world's longest steel arch bridge. Rumor has it that the only reason for those two extra feet was to beat the Australians.

•The Outerbridge Crossing, connecting Staten Island and New Jersey, is actually named in honor of Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge.

Interesting Facts about New York City

•The Manhattan grid pattern produces an effect known as “Manhattanhenge” (like Stonehenge) as, on two days - around May 28th and around July 12th - sunset is directly aligned with the street grid pattern. This means the sun can be seen setting exactly over the centerline of every Manhattan street. A similar effect occurs during sunrise on two winter days, understandably less popular.

•The Dutch traded New Amsterdam (a.k.a., New York City) to the British in the 1667 Treaty of Breda in exchange for Pulau Run, an obscure tiny Indonesian island once known for its nutmeg.

•For decades, the title of “tallest building in the world” switched hands almost 10 times, all the while remaining in Manhattan, before settling on the Empire State Building, which retained the title for decades to come. It was finally overtaken by One World Trade Center in 1970.

Brooklyn Fun Facts

•The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is so long, 4,260 feet to be exact, that the towers on either end were built a few inches out of parallel to accommodate for the curvature of the earth.

•Brooklyn was an independent city, rivaling New York, until 1898.

•Once the third largest city in The United States, Brooklyn would now be the fourth largest, right behind Chicago and Los Angeles.

•The Battle of Brooklyn was the first major battle in the Revolutionary War after independence was declared. General George Washington led the American troops. He lost the battle, but, of course, won the war.

New York City was once the capital of the United States. George Washington was inaugurated as the first president in downtown Manhattan.

Over 6 million people visit Niagara Falls each year to watch over 200,000 cubic feet of water splash over 167-foot-high cliffs—some even have gone over in barrels.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island near Manhattan served as a symbol of freedom to immigrants seeking a better life in the United States.

One might think that the city of Buffalo was named after the animal, but historians think otherwise. In 1780, Seneca Indians established a village on the site of the future city in an area long visited by French explorers, and named it for a nearby stream known as Buffalo Creek. But the likely origin of the stream's name was not the animal, but a corruption of the French term beau fleuve, which means beautiful river.

A brewer named Matthew Vassar founded Vassar College in Poughkeepsie in 1861.

The 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair was actually held in Bethel.

New York City has 722 miles of subway track.

Chittenago was the home of L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz. It features yellow brick inlaid sidewalks leading to Aunti Em's and other Oz-themed businesses. Chittenago is the location of an annual Munchkins parade.

The first daily Yiddish newspaper appeared in 1885 in New York City.

The "New York Post" established in 1803 by Alexander Hamilton is the oldest running newspaper in the United States.

The first railroad in America ran a distance of 11 miles between Albany and Schenectady.

The Genesee River is one of the few rivers in the world that flows south to north.

On July 28, 1945, an Army Air Corps B-25 crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building.

European settlers who brought seeds to New York introduced apples in the 1600s.

The oldest cattle ranch in the United States was started in 1747 at Montauk on Long Island.

Adirondack Park is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Olympic Parks combined.

The name Canandaigua (pronounced Can-an-DAY-gwa) is derived from a Native American word meaning "the chosen spot."

The term "The Big Apple" was coined by touring jazz musicians of the 1930s who used the slang expression "apple" for any town or city. Therefore, to play New York City is to play the big time—The Big Apple.

1. New York City's Chinatown is the largest Chinese enclave in the Western Hemisphere.

2. It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times.

3. The Outerbridge Crossing, connecting Staten Island and New Jersey, is actually named in honor of Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, the first chairman of the New York Port Authority.

4. Hellmann’s Mayonnaise, the world's most famous sandwich spread, was first introduced by Hellmann’s Delicatessen in Long Island City, Queens in the early 1900's.

5. The Brooklyn Children’s Museum was the world’s first museum exclusively for kids.

6. Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village was originally used as a graveyard for yellow fever victims and later as a site for public executions.

7. Calvary Cemetery, established in the borough of Queens in 1848, is the burial site of nearly 3 million people, more than any other cemetery in the United States.

8. At 772 miles long, the New York City subway system is 81 miles longer than the state’s 641 mile thruway system.

9. Annual location shoots on the streets of New York number 40,000 — including commercials, feature films, television shows and series, music videos and documentaries.

10. The Dead Rabbits and other gangs mentioned in the film "Gangs of New York" were real gangs of New York during the 19th century. The character Bill "The Butcher" Cutting, played by actor Daniel Day-Lewis, is based on infamous New York gang leader Bill "The Butcher" Poole.