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• Balboa made up his mind to go at once in search of that sea.
• As for the latest installment, Robert Cashill writes, Let's put it this way: Rocky Balboa won't make any Top 10 lists, but it won't make any Bottom 10 lists, either, which for its star, punchdrunk from so many flops, is an accomplishment. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/20.
• The Fighter (review) sits at $57.8 million, meaning it will easily outgross the far more high-profile boxing dramas Ali ($58 million), Cinderella Man ($61 million), and Rocky Balboa ($70 million). Scott Mendelson: Box Office Review: True Grit Tops, Oscar-Bait Holds Strong
• The greenback also has parity with the Bermudan, Bahamian, and Liberian dollars, taking it into Africa, plus the Panamanian balboa.
• Over the years, a few coins surfaced where one could easily see the overstrike of the 1/2 Balboa on a Kennedy Half Dollar.
• Francisco de Orellana was born around 1511 to a prominent family in the hardscrabble region of Spain known as Extremadura, home to a flotilla of other explorers, including Hernán Cortés, Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Incas. Escaping The Rainforest
• Panama issues a domestic currency, the balboa (1 balboa = US $1), but it circulates only as coins.
• As word of Balboa's discovery spread, other Spaniards headed for the Gulf of Panama and returned with sackfuls of pearls.
• Enciso accompanied the expedition as "alguacil mayor" and continued to oppose Balboa until the latter's execution by Dávila in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• The U.S. dollar is the paper currency of Panama, and is also referred to as the Panama balboa.