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1999 Brasil Open – Doubles

Argentinian team Laura Montalvo and Paola Suárez won the title, in what was the team's second title of the year, defeating Janette Husárová and Florencia Labat in the final.

2013–14 Monterrey Flash season

Legendary Argentinian midfielder Walter Gaitán joined the Flash roster at the start of the season but announced his intention to return to Argentina after the November 21 match against Saltillo Rancho Seco.

Albert Bowen

Sir Albert Bowen, 1st Baronet (1858–1924), British-Argentinian businessman

Angel T. Tuninetti

Angel T. Tuninetti (born 1960) is an Argentinian professor of Latin American literature and Latin American cultures, specialising in travel literature from the 20th century.

Antonio Asis

There is a strong group of Argentinian artists (Antonio Asis, Julio Le Parc, Louis Tomasello) as well as a strong group of Venezuelan artists (Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Dario Perez-Flores, Narciso Debourg) working with the possibilities of vision, movement, and light.

Arturo Fontaine Talavera

He attended several workshops in the writing division of Columbia University and was a student of Manuel Puig -the Argentinian novelist- Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Joseph Brodsky, Daniel Halpern, Frank MacShane, among others.

Bomarzo

The story behind Bomarzo and the life of Pier Francesco Orsini are the subject of a novel by the Argentinian writer Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910–1984), Bomarzo (1962).

Brian McLean

On 18 July 2008 he suffered significant damage to his knee in a tackle by Argentinian striker Diego Ruiz during an ill-tempered preseason 'friendly' against CFR Cluj.

Camino a Idilia

Camino A Idilia is the fourth LP released by the argentinian Punk rock formerly Hardcore punk band Shaila, released on November 18, 2006.

Chapter Two: Hasta Siempre

Chapter Two: Hasta Siempre is a live album by Argentinian saxophonist and composer Gato Barbieri featuring three tracks recorded in the studio released on the Impulse! label.

Enrico Marone Cinzano

Other notable relatives include Argentinian diplomat Amancio Alcorta and former President of Argentina José Figueroa Alcorta.

Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport

On June 24, 1935, internationally renowned Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel and a group of his musicians were killed in a collision between two small airplanes at the Olaya Herra Airport.

Ernesto Belis

Ernesto Antonio Belis (born February 1, 1909, date of death unknown) was an Argentinian football defender who played for Argentina in the 1934 FIFA World Cup.

Fabio Vázquez

Fabio Francisco Vázquez (Viedma, 19 February 1994) is an Argentinian professional football player who currently plays for Argentinos Juniors.

Fabricio Poci

Fabricio Leonel Poci (born 10 April 1986 in Buenos Aires), is an Argentinian footballer with Italian citizenship who plays for A.O.Chania in the Greek Football League, as a midfielder.

Favio

Leonardo Favio, an Argentinian singer, actor, film director and screenwriter

Federico Bravo

Federico Bravo (Jesús María, 5 October 1993) is an Argentinian professional football player who currently plays for Boca Juniors.

Fioroni

Andrea Fioroni (born 1969), Argentinian former female field hockey player

Fortuna Glacier

When Argentina militarily occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, the British Armed Forces recaptured the island in 'Operation Paraquet', thereby removing the Argentinian military presence and restoring the island to British Sovereignty.

Francisco Rodón

Known for his portraits of important local, regional and world figures, such as Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, Puerto Rican patriarch Luis Muñoz Marín, Cuban dancer Alicia Alonso and Perú's Mario Vargas Llosa, Marta Traba he is also known for his landscapes and still lifes.

Gershom Scholem

Various stories and essays of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges were inspired or influenced by Scholem's books.

Giorgio Gaslini

He collaborated with leading American soloists, such as Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Eddie Gomez, Max Roach, Nacci Alberto, but also with the Argentinian Gato Barbieri and Frenchman Jean-Luc Ponty.

Héctor Morales

Héctor Gabriel Morales (born 1989), Argentinian footballer for Ferencvárosi TC

HMS Sheffield

HMS Sheffield (D80) (1971) - a Type 42 destroyer badly damaged by the Argentinian air forces on 4 May 1982 during the Falklands War.

Jaime de Armiñán

In 2008 Armiñán returned to directing films with 14, Fabian Road , starring Argentinian actress Julieta Cardinali, Ana Torrent and Ángela Molina.

Joaquín Estévez

Joaquín Estévez (born 22 September 1984) is an Argentinian professional golfer who plays on the Challenge Tour and the Tour de las Américas.

Kylchap

The Kylchap was not the only advanced steam locomotive exhaust: another design, the Lemaître, had some success in France and England; noted Argentinian engineer Livio Dante Porta designed several, the Kylpor, Lempor and Lemprex designs; and several U.S. railroads including the Norfolk & Western used a concentric nozzle known as the waffle iron exhaust.

Larissa Riquelme

Following her rise to fame, and after Argentinian coach Diego Maradona promised to run naked through Buenos Aires if Argentina won the 2010 World Cup, Riquelme matched the offer and promised that she would run naked (wearing only body paint in the colors of Paraguay) through Asunción if Paraguay won the World Cup, or even if they reached the semi-finals by beating Spain.

Lemprex ejector

A Lemprex ejector is a type of Steam locomotive exhaust system developed by noted Argentinian locomotive engineer Livio Dante Porta (who died in 2003).

Lilac Wine

The Argentinian alternative rock band Panza has also covered "Lilac Wine" on their 2007 album Pequeños Fracasos (Little Failures).

Lita Stantic

Stantic is one of the most important producers working in the "New Argentine Cinema," responsible for the debut films of some of the most critically well regarded new Argentinian filmmakers such as Lucrecia Martel, Pablo Trapero, and Israel Adrián Caetano.

Mariana González

Mariana González Oliva (born 1976), Argentinian Olympic field hockey player

Maximiliano Asís

César Maximiliano Asís (born on 27 March 1987 in Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentinian footballer currently playing for FC Inter Turku of the Veikkausliiga.

Nicolás Freire

Nicolás Freire (born 18 February 1994 in Santa Lucía) is an Argentinian professional football player who currently plays for Argentinos Juniors.

Operación Fangio

Operación Fangio is a 1999 Argentinian film directed by Alberto Lecchi and starring Darío Grandinetti.

Paul Gallez

Paul Gallez (1920–2007) was an Argentinian cartographer and historian, born in Brussels, and based on the city of Bahía Blanca, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Penalty card

After the match, newspaper reports stated that referee Rudolf Kreitlein had cautioned both Bobby and Jack Charlton, as well as sending off Argentinian Antonio Rattin.

Quirino Cristiani

Some of the titles included Firpo-Dempsey (1923) on the boxing match between American heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey and Argentinian champion Luis Firpo, Uruguayos Forever (1924) on Uruguay's Olympic gold medal in soccer, and Humberto de garufa (Little Umberto's Folic, 1924), on the visit of Italian Prince Umberto of Savoy to Buenos Aires.

Rabinovich

Daniel Rabinovich (born 1943), Argentinian musician and humorist, founding member of Les Luthiers

Rugby union in Cuba

Rugby was played by famous Argentinian revolutionaries Alberto Granado and Che Guevara.

Rustam Komachkov

Besides TV appearances he also traveled throughout the world and performed works of German composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Russian ones such as Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Sviridov and Argentinian Piazzola.

San Antonio Botanical Garden

Lucile Halsell Conservatory (1988) - Designed by award winning, Argentinian architect Emilio Ambasz this subterranean structure consists of five climate specific greenhouses surrounding a central courtyard.

Seymour Island

The plaque was placed on 10 November 1903 by the crew of the Argentinian Corvette Uruguay on a mission to rescue the members of the Swedish expedition led by Otto Nordenskiöld.

Tracy Murray

Murray spent two-and-a-half seasons with Portland before being dealt to the Houston Rockets on February 14, 1995 with guard Clyde Drexler in exchange for forward Otis Thorpe, the rights to Argentinian forward Marcelo Nicola and a 1995 first-round draft choice.

Valentín Viola

Valentín Nicolás Viola (born 28 August 1991, in Moreno) is an Argentinian football player who plays as a forward for Racing Club on loan from Sporting Clube de Portugal, in the Portuguese Primeira Liga.

Vectoring nozzles

Viffing was used to great effect during the Anglo-Argentinian Falklands War, where 28 Royal Navy and 6 RAF jets did not incur any losses in dogfighting against a force of more than 200 Argentine Air Force jets.

Vicente Botín

He made a lot of reports and documentaries about the argentinian crisis caused by the fall of the President Fernando de la Rúa, the deaths caused by starvation of the childrem of Tucumán; and many others about the trial against the dictator Augusto Pinochet, the problems in Bolivia related to the coca crops; the new Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva...


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