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4 unusual facts about Boca Raton


Mauro E. Mujica

He is fluent in five languages and lives in Washington, D.C. while spending weekends in Boca Raton, Florida.

Paul Reinman

Reinman's sister Alice and her husband Alex Leopold moved to Boca Raton, Florida, in Palm Beach County, and Reinman, following the death of wife Dora in 1967 and his leaving comics in the mid-1970s, settled nearby with his second wife, Celia.

Statutory college

Starting in 2004, the Miller School began offering instruction on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Troy Gentile

Gentile was born in Boca Raton, Florida, the son of Debbie Gentile, who once worked at the advertising department of the Boca Raton News, He moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was four.


John C. Oxley

A five-goal player, he won U.S. Open Polo Championship in 1983, the Cowdray Park Gold Cup with the Boca Raton team in 1970, the C.V. Whitney Cup, the Rolex Gold Cup, the America Cup, the Monty Waterbury Cup, the Pacific Coast Open, the 12 and 16 Goal Championships, three Chairman's Cups, the Butler Handicap, the North American Cup and numerous Sunshine League titles.

Nelson Famadas

At the time of his death he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Sun American Bank in Boca Ratón, Florida, as Chairman and CEO of Gables Holding Corporation, real estate development company and is an Adjunct Professor, lecturing in Operations Management, at the School of Business Administration at Florida International University (FIU).

Tyco Integrated Security

The company's principal place of business in the US is Boca Raton, Florida; and Mississauga Ontario in Canada with over 10,000 employees and nearly 200 offices throughout North America.

William C. Lowe

Lowe was the director of IBM's Boca Raton Labs in 1980 when Atari proposed to make microcomputers which IBM would sell.


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Bob Schieffer

Schieffer also moderated the third debate of the presidential candidates in 2012, between President Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, on October 22 in Boca Raton, Florida.

Boca Raton Army Airfield

Boca Raton AFAF was one of many research sites scattered around the country, including Immokalee, Belle Glade, and Ft. Pierce in Florida.

Cris Lankenau

After leaving high school in Boca Raton, Lankenau moved to New York and joined with the growing creative community centered in Williamsburg, Brooklyn working as a DJ and writing occasionally for Vice magazine.

Emerson Buckley

He merged that Symphony with the Boca Raton Symphony to create the Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida.

National Marrow Donor Program

The Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, based in Boca Raton, Florida, was established in 1991 as a recruitment organization for donors of Jewish ethnic ancestry (now serving the broader community).

Oriented matroid

Richter-Gebert, J. and G. Ziegler, Oriented Matroids, In Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry, J. Goodman and J.O'Rourke, (eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1997, p.

Pedro Sandoval

The works of Pedro Sandoval are part of the collection of Guggenheim Museum in New York, at the Art Museum of Boca Raton (Florida) or Museum of Fine Arts in Salta or the Museum of Contemporary Art at Osaka, among others.

WBEC

WBEC-TV, a television station (channel 63) licensed to Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Yamato Colony

Yamato Colony, Florida, an early 20th-century Japanese agricultural community between Boca Raton and Delray Beach