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2 unusual facts about Buenos Aires–Rosario–Córdoba high-speed railway


Buenos Aires–Rosario–Córdoba high-speed railway

Today, the service is disrupted by serious deficiencies and delays and takes over seven hours, more than the service provided in the '50s by "El Marplatense" with speeds of up to 90 + mph (150 km/h) making the run in 3 hrs 45 min in then cutting edge Budd-built formations.

The Argentine state secretary of transport, Ricardo Jaime, announced on 27 March 2008 that the finance minister Martín Lousteau and the consortium led by the French company Alstom approved a resolution to finance the Buenos Aires—Rosario—Cordoba High Speed Train (TAVe).


1986 South American Games

The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR) and were initially awarded to Brazil at its 1982 congress held in Rosario.

Alberto Morán

Alberto Morán (born Remo Andrea Domenico Recagno, Strevi, Alessandria, Italy, 15 March 1922 - Buenos Aires, 16 August 1997) was an Argentine tango musician.

Alfredo Fiorito

Alfredo Fiorito is a DJ who was born in the town of Rosario in Argentina.

Alfredo Zecca

Zecca received his episcopal consecration on the following August 11 from Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, the later pope Francis, then archbishop of Buenos Aires.

Audi Tunnel

The Audi Tunnel is a twin-tracked railway tunnel on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed railway just north of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany.

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña (also known as Diagonal Norte), is a main artery in the San Nicolás quarter of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Baltasar Brum

In the autumn of 1917, American warships sailed to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires and a delegation issued threats to the country's President Hipólito Yrigoyen, in relation to the country's neutrality, which the United States insisted should be more clearly focused as being pro-American.

Cestoball

Cestoball is a sport created in Argentina, during the conference in Buenos Aires and Santa Rosa in 1986, with the purpose of making the old Argentine sport called 'pelota al cesto' (ball to basket) more dynamic and homogenising its rules with korfball and netball.

Charles Douglas Moffatt

Charles Douglas Moffatt (London, 5 July 1870 - Buenos Aires, 1 March 1953) was an English football player, considered one of the pioneers of the sport in Argentina.

Chuck Merriman

In 1995 Merriman was appointed Head Coach for the United States National Karate Team for the Olympic Sanctioned XII Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ciro y los Persas

The most important performances were in 2010 and made a CD, Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, in the theater Angel Bustelo, Mendoza, in San Juan, and Luna Park Stadium of Buenos Aires.

Claudio Velásquez

Claudio Matías Velásquez (born 18 February 1986 in Rosario) is an Argentine football striker who currently plays for José Gálvez in the Torneo Descentralizado.

Deportivo Español

Club Deportivo Español (commonly referred to as either Deportivo Español or simply Español) is an Argentine sports club from the Parque Avellaneda district of Buenos Aires.

El gran teatro

The whole action of the novel takes place during a performance of Wagner's Parsifal at Buenos Aires' famous opera house, the Teatro Colón.

Excursionistas

Club Atlético Excursionistas (familiarly called Excursio by fans) is an Argentine football club based in the Belgrano district of Buenos Aires.

Federico Alonso

Federico Alonso Tellechea (born August 15, 1981 in Buenos Aires) is a Spanish sailor.

Ferrocarril General San Martín

In the metropolitan sector of the City of Buenos Aires there is a diesel commuter branch that operates from the Retiro railway terminus in the city-centre northwest to Palomar, Hurlingham and Pilar.

Fundación Impulsar

Since its founding in Salta, eight other branches of the Fundación Impulsar have been established throughout the country, in Tartagal, Tucuman, Mendoza, Cordoba, Missiones, San Luis, Puerto San Julian and in Buenos Aires.

Fundacion Manantiales

These services have had successful outcomes in the most developed countries and are installed in Buenos Aires and Montevideo (Uruguay).

Giro di Castelbuono

Lirio Abbate & Rosario Mazzola, La storia del giro podistico internazionale di Castelbuono, Promos Editore (1994).

Horacio Agulla

Horacio Agulla attended St. Felipe The Apostle School in Don Torcuato, a suburb in The Province of Buenos Aires).

Hospital Escuela Eva Perón

It services the north of Greater Rosario (Granadero Baigorria, the north of Rosario proper, and Ibarlucea).

John Esplen

He then became a partner in his father's firm and helped to establish branches in London, Cardiff, Buenos Aires, New York City and Montevideo.

John Frederick Bateman

He carried out projects abroad as well, including designing and constructing a drainage and water supply system for Buenos Aires, and water supply schemes for Naples, Constantinople and Colombo.

José Ruíz Matos

Ruíz had four successful defenses, defeating Juan Carazo, Ángel Rosario, Wilfredo Vargas and Armando Velasco.

Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Jr.

He entered public service in 2000 as Director of the National Public Administration Institute under President Fernando de la Rúa, and in 2001 was appointed Political and Legislative Director for Buenos Aires Mayor Aníbal Ibarra, later serving Ibarra as Director of Strategic Planning from 2003 to 2005.

Kurtley Beale

The following week, he was selected again at fly-half against Argentina at Estadio Gigante de Arroyito in Rosario, setting up a try for Digby Ioane.

La Violencia

These included the director of Crítica magazine Jorge Zalamea fleeing to Buenos Aires, Luis Vidales to Chile, Antonio Garcia to La Paz, and Gerardo Molina to Paris.

Leandro N. Alem

Parque Alem, one of two large parks in Rosario, Santa Fe, is named after Alem, and has a heroic statue of him, trying to bend a quebracho log, representing the motto of the Radical Civic Union, Se quiebra pero no se dobla ("It breaks but it does not bend", an expression of commitment to principles).

Lola Berthet

Berthet began acting at a young age, in her hometown of Buenos Aires, eventually becoming a well known telenovela actress in her home country as an adult.

Loncopán

Of nomadic character, the tschen travelled through the south area of the provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Cordoba.

Luis Alberto Fernández Alara

On Januari 24, 2009, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires and titular bishop of Carpi.

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez

Marcelino Nicolas Lopez (born May 6, 1986 in Arribenos, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a boxer in the Lightweight division.

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

May Maxwell

Mary "May" Maxwell (née Bolles; born 14 January 1870 in Englewood, New Jersey; died 1 March 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an early American member of the Bahá'í Faith.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

No Nay Never

Ridden again by Rosario, No Nay Never started the 4/1 second favourite behind the Aiden O'Brien-trained Coach House in a field of fourteen runners.

One Word from You

After the hard journey to the village, Rosario admits that she must not be alone anymore, so she decided to go to Fuenlabrada, where her friend Morsa, lives.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

Patio Bullrich

Patio Bullrich is an important shopping center in the Retiro section of Buenos Aires.

Ramón Verea

Ramón Silvestre Verea Aguiar y García (Curantes, 1833 – Buenos Aires, 1899) was a Spanish journalist, engineer and writer, known as the inventor of a calculator with an internal multiplication table.

Raúl Uranga – Carlos Sylvestre Begnis Subfluvial Tunnel

Until the opening of the Rosario-Victoria Bridge, this was the only road link between two commercially important and populous regions of Argentina, and the only one between the two provinces (more to the south, Entre Ríos is connected to the province of Buenos Aires by the Zárate-Brazo Largo Bridge).

Regional-Express

Since late 2006, Regional-Express services between Munich and Nuremberg that operate on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed railway reach top speeds of 200 km/h.

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

In addition he gave guest lectures and composition seminars in Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Darmstadt, Bilthoven (the Netherlands) and Buenos Aires, and from 1973 held a professorship at the Musikhochschule in Vienna.

Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway

The Schiphol - Antwerp High-Speed Line is a high-speed rail line connecting Schiphol Airport, 9 km southwest of Amsterdam, to Antwerp, Belgium.

Tangophobia Vol. 1

It contains tracks from different neo-tango and electronic artists from Buenos Aires, including NeoShaft, B.A. Jam, Hybrid Tango and Tanghetto.

Torcuato di Tella Institute

Following its establishment, the di Tella art collection was transferred to the foundation, and Jorge Romero Brest hosted a free show at the National Museum of Fine Arts, which the leading local art critic directed.

University of Santo Tomas

Four of the University's structures are also declared National Cultural Treasures by the National Museum: Main Building, Arch of the Centuries, Santissimo Rosario Central Seminary, as well as the Grandstand and the University field.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.


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