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7 unusual facts about Chico


Chico Alvarez

Alfred "Chico" Alvarez (1920–1992), Canadian trumpeter and session musician with Stan Kenton

Chico, Washington

Chico Creek is the boundary between Chico on the north and Erlands Point-Kitsap Lake to the south.

Deportes Tolima

Tolima ended first in the league, and played the semifinals against Nacional, Pasto, and Chico.

A dramatic 2–1 away win over Nacional made them leaders, they advanced the final against Cúcuta Deportivo after a 2–0 win over Chico.

Jeff Stover

He retired following the season and now owns the Chico Sports Club in Chico, California.

Somali Studies

In 1994, Charles L. Geshekter, Professor of History at California State University, Chico, created an endowment for this award.

Your Show Live

It aired live weekday mornings on KNVN-TV Channel 24 in Chico, California and was rebroadcast on tape delay weekday afternoons on KHSL-TV Channel 12, also of Chico.


Alan Carney

Wally played Chico's part, while Alan Carney filled in for Harpo; the "Groucho" role was essayed by George Murphy.

Camargo, Chuquisaca

Camargo is the capital of Nor Cinti Province and is situated in Camargo Municipio, embedded between north-southerly mountain ridges, at an elevation of 2,414 m, on the banks of Río Chico which later becomes Río Pilaya.

Chico Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez (born 1975), American newsletter editor and professional wrestler under the name Chico Alvarez

Chico and the Man

Additionally, Jeannie Linero appeared in several episodes as one of Chico's more constant girlfriends, nurse Liz Garcia.

Chico Che

Francisco José Hernández Mandujano (December 7, 1945 - March 29, 1989), better known as Chico Che, was a musician, singer, songwriter, and performer from Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico.

Chico Salmon

Ruthford Eduardo "Chico" Salmon (December 3, 1940 in Colón, Panama – September 17, 2000 in Bocas del Toro, Panama) was a Panamanian Major League Baseball utility player.

Chico Science

Around 1991, Chico Science, along with singer Fred 04 of the band Mundo Livre S/A, founded the Mangue Bit cultural movement in response to dire economic and cultural stagnation in Recife and Olinda.

Chico Xavier

On October 3, 2012, the SBT television TV show O Maior Brasileiro de Todos os Tempos named Chico Xavier "The Greatest Brazilian of all time", based on a viewer-supported survey.

Chile Chico

Chile Chico, which has around 3,000 inhabitants, is the eponymous capital of the commune and capital of the General Carrera Province of the Aysén Region.

Chuck Billy 'n' Folks

The stories are centered on Chuck Billy (originally named Chico Bento) and his friends and parents, who are all caipiras and live in the small Vila Abobrinha (Zucchini’s Village), a fictional location on the countryside of Brazil.

Clorinda Matto de Turner

Growing up in Cuzco, the former Inca capital, Matto spent most of her days on her family’s estate, Paullo Chico, which is near the village of Coya.

Cuicuilco

According to recently adjusted chronology based on radiocarbon dating (cf. Rattray, 1991); predominant types are temporarily located in the epiclassical period, 650-950 CE, Coyotlatelco tradition (cf. Rattray, 1966), and are contemporaneous with the Tula Chico occupation (cf. Cobean, 1990), as well as other important settlements in the Valley of Mexico, as Cerro de la Estrella and Azcapotzalco (altepetl).

Efrain Chacurian

Efraín or Yeprem "Chico" Chacurian (born 22 February 1924 in Córdoba, Argentina) is a retired Argentine-American soccer forward.

El Satanico Dr. Cadillac

# "Chico Perdido" ("Lost Boy") (Vicentico, Flavio Cianciarulo) – 3:50

Gilberto Hirata

Gilberto Antonio Hirata Chico (born January 17, 1953) in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California) was state deputy representing the XIV electoral district (corresponding to the urban area of Ensenada, Baja California).

Gonzalo Gil

Gil started playing amateur football with the team of Campo Chico, the gated neighbourhood where he lived with his family.

Guy Lyon Playfair

In his first book, The Unknown Power (first published as The Flying Cow by Souvenir Press Ltd., U.K. 1975) he brings a wide reading in the literature of psychical research to bear on Brazilian paranormal phenomena, including those events connected with Francisco Candido 'Chico' Xavier, Zé Arigó and others.

Heidi Brühl

In 1959, Brühl obtained a record deal with the Philips label, and her first single "Chico Chico Charlie" reached #5.

Jay Novello

In "Small Hostage" (May 26, 1959) of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Sugarfoot, with Will Hutchins in the title role, Novello plays the vivacious Pepe Valdez, the owner of an orphanage in Mexico, who persuades a United States Army colonel, Cyrus Craig (Robert Warwick), that a blonde Anglo boy in the orphanage, "Chico" (Gary Hunley), is the colonel's grandson.

Joe Bottom

Bottom currently resides in Chico, California, where he is a management consultant and serving as Senior Manager in Accenture's Marketing Sciences Practice within the Retail Products Industry.

KCPM

KNVN, a television station (channel 24) licensed to Chico, California, United States, which used the KCPM call sign from 1983 to 1998

KHSL

KHSL-TV, a television station (channel 43) licensed to Chico, California, United States

Kim Walker-Smith

In 2005, Walker's "powerful voice won her $25,000 cash in an "American Idol" type of competition called "So You Want to Be a Star," which aired on Chico television station KRVU.

La Floresta, Uruguay

La Floresta was formed in 1909 when Dr. Miguel Perea, lawyer and founder of several banks, began planting pine and eucalyptus trees on a large area of sandy ground between the Sarandí and Solís Chico streams and from the town Mosquitos (known today as Soca) to the River Plate.

Margaret Dumont

(The other four are Harpo, Chico, his mother, and his companion Erin Fleming. Zeppo Marx was omitted.)

Miriam Allen deFord

DeFord is mentioned in Fort's book Lo! Shortly before her death in 1975, Fortean writer Loren Coleman visited Ms. deFord frequently and interviewed her about her earlier interactions with Fort and her trips to Chico, California, to investigate the case of a poltergeist rock-thrower on Fort's behalf.

Northern California News

Northern California News (or NCN for short) aired on Chico, California television stations KHSL-TV Channel 12 (now CBS 12) and KNVN-TV Channel 24 (now NBC 24) simultaneously at 5:00pm, 5:30pm and 11:00pm from 2001 to 2005.

Peter Derow

First issued in 1981 as Greek Historical Documents: The Hellenistic Period (Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press), it was somewhat overshadowed by M. M. Austin’s comparable (and excellent) collection of sources, The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest (Cambridge University Press, 1980).

Pickle Family Circus

Several members of the Pickle Family Circus were in the 1980 movie Popeye starring Robin Williams, including Bill Irwin (playing Ham Gravy), Larry Pisoni (Chico), Geoff Hoyle (Scoop), and Peggy Snider (playing Pickelina and credited as Peggy Pisoni).

Punch the Clown

PTC began playing more frequently at various clubs in Northern California including The Phoenix Theater in Petaluma, the Berkeley Square in Berkeley, The Red Room in Santa Cruz, and The Lava Lounge in Chico.

Shreddy Krueger

On February 18, 2013 the band announced that they will be recording their debut full-length album in March at Old Sailor Studios in Chico, California with Jeff Schneeweis (who previously produced Secret and Whisper's Teenage Fantasy).

Shutterbug

"Shutterbugg", a song by Big Boi on the album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty

Socialism and Freedom Party

Among the party leaders are Heloísa Helena (Alagoas), federal deputies Luciana Genro (Rio Grande do Sul) and Babá (Pará), and a number of well-known Brazilian left-wing leaders and intellectuals, such as Milton Temer, Michel Löwy, Vladimir Safatle, Marcelo Freixo, Chico Alencar, Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, Renato Roseno, Carlos Nelson Coutinho, Ricardo Antunes, Francisco de Oliveira, João Machado, Pedro Ruas and others.

Tanya Ballinger

Tanya Ballinger, born June 7, 1973, (also known as Tonya Ballinger from Chico, California) is a model and actress based in the Los Angeles area and best known for her series of Miller Lite Catfight commercials with fellow model Kitana Baker in 2002.

Theatre, Etc.

After originally putting on children's theater productions at Theatre on the Ridge, a theater in nearby Paradise, California, the owners bought a former church in Chico and transformed it in the summer of 2006 into a playhouse complete with a performance area, music room, dance room, kitchen, and an indoor activity room for young children.

Topo chico

Approximately six years after it opened, the “Gran Fábrica de Aguas Minerales de San Bernabé” was established next to the spring, and in 1908, both companies merged to form what is known today as Compañía Topo Chico, S.A. Under the leadership of Manuel L. Barragán, the company managed to navigate the business climate following the Mexican Revolutionary war and become one of the largest and most respected beverage bottlers in the country.


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