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2 unusual facts about Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco


Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco

It must not be confused with other species also known as quebracho, but belonging to the genus Schinopsis.

Quebracho blanco

Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco, a South American tree species in the family Apocynaceae


Abraham Kahlil Mitra

He is the youngest son of former House of Representatives Speaker Ramon Mitra, Jr. and Cecilia Aldeguer Blanco.

Alberto Granado

Granado's journey ended in Caracas, Venezuela, where he remained to work at the Cabo Blanco leprosarium in Maiquetía.

Alfonso Blanco Antúnez

Alfonso Blanco Antunez (born July 31, 1987 in Tamiahua, Veracruz) is a Mexican footballer.

Andrés Blanco

Blanco had surgery on his left shoulder on September 29, 2006, to repair a posterior labrum tear in his left shoulder, which he injured during a swing five days prior against the Tigers.

Blanco Webb

Also in the hospital is Norris (played by Colin Farrel), who is considered "scum" even by the other inmates, who had managed to con Blanco out of his only possessions: an antique silver snuff box, a Japanese wireless radio, and a musical box that played Waltzing Matilda when opened.

Blanco y Negro Music

Blanco y Negro Music is a partner of the enterprise Pulsive Media in Burgwedel in Germany.

Blanco y Negro Records

Blanco y Negro Records (Spanish: "White and Black"), a subsidiary of WEA Records Ltd., was established in 1983 by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records and Mike Alway of Cherry Red.

Cabo Blanco, Peru

Ernest Hemingway stayed more than a month at the famous "Cabo Blanco Fishing Club" and caught a 700 pound marlin while filming the motion picture based on his novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

Cabo Blanco is a fishing village in northwestern Peru, 3 km northwest from El Alto, Talara, Piura.

César Augusto Blanco-Gramajo

Blanco received a business administration degree from San Carlos University in Guatemala, and his thesis was awarded as the best in the country (1985) in the economics area.

Prior to joining Kelloggs, Blanco-Gramajo worked in various roles for both the Bank of America and Citibank.

Chilean torpedo gunboat Almirante Lynch

Early in April a portion of the revolutionary squadron, comprising the Blanco Encalada and other ships, was sent southward for reconnoitring purposes and put into the port of Caldera.

Christopher McDougall

Micah True, an ultrarunner who appears in Born To Run under his nickname "Caballo Blanco"

Eenie Meenie

The song was written by Kingston, Bieber, Carlos Battey, Steven Battey, Benny Blanco, Marcos Palacios and Ernest Clark, and was produced by Blanco.

For a Few Dollars More

The town of Agua Caliente, where Indio and his gang flee after the bank robbery, is Albaricoques, a small "pueblo blanco" on the Níjar plain.

Francisco Llera

Francisco Llera Blanco (born January 18, 1981 in Ribadesella) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-2000s.

Gallaecimonas

nov. isolated by Rodríguez Blanco et al. in 2010 from intertidal sediments of the ria of Corcubión (Galicia, Spain).

Gregor Blanco

On June 13, 2012, Blanco made a fully extended diving catch in deep right-center field, catching the ball in the end of his mitt, to rob Jordan Schafer of a hit in the top of the 7th inning of Matt Cain's perfect game.

Henry Blanco

Blanco signed a one-year contract on December 15, 2010 with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Ismael Blanco

On 26 September 2007 in a match against Veria, after putting AEK Athens in front, Blanco revealed a Zorro mask from his sock and drew a big Z in the air celebrating the winning goal.

Jéssica Guillén

Jéssica Adriana Guillén Blanco (born March 27, 1985, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder who represented Amazonas in Miss Venezuela 2009, on September 24, 2009, and won the title of 2nd runner up.

Jorge Blanco

Blanco's early works were influenced by his teachers Gertrude Goldschmidt (Gego) and Cornelis Zitman and by the work of artists such as Auguste Herbin, Paul Klee and Joan Miró.

José de Diego

While in Spain, de Diego collaborated with the newspaper El Progreso (Progress) which was founded by José Julián Acosta y Blanco and which attacked the political situation in Puerto Rico; this led to various arrests which eventually forced him to leave the Madre Patria (Motherland) to return to the island.

Juan de Ávalos

Author of Los amantes de Teruel (The Lovers of Teruel) in Teruel, Monumento a Luis Carrero Blanco (Monument to Luis Carrero Blanco) in Santoña, Cantabria, his most important works are those of the Valle de los Caídos ("The Valley of the Fallen"), a majestic monument in Madrid where Francisco Franco's body lies.

Katrina refrigerator

Some inscriptions advocated the refrigerator be sent to politicians whose response to the disaster were considered lacking, for example "Sent to the White House" or "Send to Blanco".

KNIC-CA

Univision had been an applicant since 2000 for a full-service television station on UHF channel 52 in Blanco, and after winning the auction to build the station, they requested that the FCC change the allocation from channel 52 to channel 17.

La hostería del caballito blanco

La hostería del caballito blanco (English: The inn of the little white horse) is a 1948 Argentine musical comedy film directed by Benito Perojo and written by Juan Carlos Muello based upon the homonymous opera of Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz.

La Viuda de Blanco

La Viuda de Blanco (double meaning: Blanco's Widow and The Widow in White) is a 1996 Colombian telenovela hit which starred Osvaldo Ríos, María Helena Doehring, Jorge Enrique Abello, and Yolandita Monge.

Lucha film

Lucha films also starred other masked luchadores including Tinieblas (The Darkness), Rayo de Jalisco, Sr. (Lightning from Jalisco), El Medico Asesino (The Killer Doctor), El Fantasma Blanco (The White Ghost) and Superzan.

Manuel Blanco Encalada

See Chilean ship Blanco Encalada for the ships named in honor of Manuel Blanco Encalada.

Norte de Almería

The area covered by this geographical indication comprises the following municipalities: Chirivel, María, Vélez-Blanco and Vélez-Rubio, in the north of the province of Almería (Andalusia, Spain).

Ogro

On 20 December 1973, a 3-man ETA commando group disguised as electricians detonated the explosives by command wire as Carrero Blanco's Dodge Dart passed.

Ohlone mythology

One Ohlone creation myth begins with the demise of a previous world: When it was destroyed, the world was covered entirely in water, apart from a single peak, Pico Blanco (north of Big Sur) in the Rumsien version (or Mount Diablo in the northern Ohlone's version) on which Coyote, Hummingbird, and Eagle stood.

Oklahoma State Highway 63

SH-63 heads northeast from Kiowa, passing through Pittsburg and crossing under the Indian Nation Turnpike near Blanco.

P. alba

Prosopis alba, the algarrobo blanco, a tree species found in Argentina

Palito Blanco, Texas

The site was first settled by Mexican ranchers who according to local legend named the town for the hackberry trees that grew in the area; however, palito blanco is Spanish for "white stick."

Pedernales River

Pedernales Falls State Park is located along the river in Blanco County east of Johnson City.

Peñas de la Cerca

The site has been excavated for two consecutive campaigns in 2007 and 2008 by the PIDPAPZ project scientific team and supervised by the archaeologists Jose Carlos Sastre Blanco (University of Granada) and Oscar Rodriguez Monterrubio (UNED).

Raymond Blanco

Raymond Sindo Blanco was the First Gentleman of Louisiana (2004–2008), being the husband of then Governor Kathleen Blanco.

Rhizophora

Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco (as R. corniculata L.)

San Dionisio, Matagalpa

Originally named Espino Blanco, the town was renamed San Dionisio in honor of Dionisio de Herrera, former President of Nicaragua.

Spain lunar sample displays

Blanco's son ultimately gifted the Apollo 17 display with the 1 gram "goodwill moon rock" to the Naval Museum in Madrid in 2007.

Spanish aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias

The Príncipe de Asturias, originally named Almirante Carrero Blanco, is an aircraft carrier and was the flagship of the Spanish Navy.

The Whispering Land

He collects animals by purchasing pets from locals in the town he is based near initially, including a red-fronted Tucuman amazon named Blanco, yellow-fronted amazon parrots, grey-necked guans an armadillo and a Geoffroy's cat kitten.

Vuit

“Blanco y Negro” is in charge of the Europa FM hits,... or the production and the promotion of international groups like Sak Noel with “Loca People”, Pitbull, Bob Sinclar,...

Zurdok

Chetes released his debut album as a solo artist in 2006: Blanco Fácil (Easy Target), which was produced by ex-Wilco Ken Coomer.


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