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32 unusual facts about Corpus Christi


1851 Atlantic hurricane season

As the cyclone progressed inland, it dropped light to moderate rainfall, peaking at around 3 inches (75 mm) in Corpus Christi.

Aeroméxico Connect

The route network expanded all across the north of Mexico, and some routes to the United States were operated for a brief period, such as: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi, and Austin in Texas.

Annaville, Corpus Christi, Texas

Annaville is a neighborhood in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Bill Yates

He served as an aviator in the United States Navy during WWII, training fighter pilots in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he married Jessie Jean ("Skippy") Hardy.

Calallen, Corpus Christi, Texas

Calallen is a district in the U.S. city of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Clarkwood, Corpus Christi, Texas

Clarkwood is an area on the west side of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Coyame UFO incident

On 24 August 1974, a U.S. air defense radar detected an unknown object in the Gulf of Mexico, traveling at some 4,000 km/hr and headed towards Corpus Christi, Texas.

Edward H. Harte

Some of contributions included a 3.5 million dollar donation towards a new performing arts center at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC), $1.8 million for a library in Flour Bluff, and a $1 million challenge grant to Corpus Christi Metro Ministries which helped save two homeless shelters from closing.

Finian Maynard

When he was 7, he tried windsurfing for the first time and at the age of 15, he came 13th at the US Open at Corpus Christi, Texas.

Flour Bluff, Corpus Christi, Texas

Flour Bluff is a specified area of the city of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Gabe Nyenhuis

Gabriel 'Gabe' Nyenhuis (born June 26, 1981 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a professional American and Canadian football defensive lineman who is currently a free agent.

Gardendale, Corpus Christi, Texas

Gardendale was a community in eastern Nueces County that was annexed by the City of Corpus Christi in 1954.

Guillermo Aubone

Before turning pro, Aubone played college tennis in the United States, at the University of Corpus Christi and University of South Carolina.

Jeff Kanipe

Jeff Kanipe (born September 8, 1953, in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a science writer and author of astronomy books.

John H. Shary

He first purchased 30,000 acres (120 km²) of land between Corpus Christi and San Antonio.

John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin

John rejected the Interim and refused to participate in the Corpus Christi procession.

Juan M. Garcia III

Garcia left active service in 2004, although he retained a position in the United States Navy Reserve as the Commanding Officer of Reserve Training Squadron 28 at Corpus Christi, Texas.

KADM

KADM-LP, a low-power television station (channel 63) licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

KHCC

KHCC-LP, a low-power television station (channel 35) licensed to Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

KLRN

Corpus Christi's KEDT, while always under different ownership than KLRN, carried much of KLRN's schedule the first few years of its life, after beginning in October 1972.

Law of Protection of Commerce and Investments from Foreign Policies that Contravene International Law

The Cuban officials were meeting U.S. energy executives from organizations that included Valero, the United States' biggest oil refiner, the Louisiana Department of Economic Development, and the Texas port of Corpus Christi.

Maurice Peress

After serving as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein beginning in 1961, Peress went on to stand as leader of the orchestra in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1962.

Natalya Antonova

She also served as a jury at the Corpus Christi and both Hilton Head and Gina Bachauer International Piano Competitions.

Nerodia clarkii

Populations of the Gulf salt marsh snake (N. c. clarkii) from the vicinity of Corpus Christi, Texas, to the Gulf Hammock region of Florida are gray, tan or yellow with four brown to black longitudinal stripes.

Neverthought Films

The first film to bear the label "Neverthought Films" was the short film Hitchhiker, which premiered at the Edgeworks Short Film Festival in Corpus Christi, Texas in 2003 and went on to win the Performing Arts - Filmmaking scholarship sponsored by Golden Key.

North Beach, Corpus Christi, Texas

North Beach, also known as Rincon Point, is a section of Corpus Christi, Texas located on the far north end of the city.

Obie Bermúdez

He became engaged to Latin Popstar Jennifer Peña, they married on June 3, 2007 in a private ceremony in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Philip Dimmitt

By May, he had formed a trading post, with James Gourley, Jr., near what is now Calallen.

Raymundo Joseph Peña

Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, he was the son of Cosme A. Peña and Elisa Ramon Peña.

South Texas Oilfield Expo

Produced by trade show production company Texas Classic Productions LLC, the expo was previously held at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi.

Stephen Apostolina

Stephen F. Apostolina (Born October 9, 1958 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a voice actor who is also known as Steve Apostolina,

William Appleman Williams

After serving in the South Pacific as an executive officer aboard a Landing Ship Medium, he was stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas where he made plans to become an aviator like his father (who had been in the Army Air Corps until he died in a plane crash in 1929).


Ambrosio Martínez Bustos

He also is known to have collaborated with Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra and Cieza for the ephemeral decorations for the celebration of Corpus Christi.

Baby jumping

Baby jumping (El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish holiday dating back to 1620 that takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in the village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos.

Grace Saenz-Lopez

Reporting by KZTV news in Corpus Christi, Texas and other local news outlets was quickly picked up by national bureaus.

Howard Edward Butt Sr.

Thereafter, the company grew rapidly expanding into Laredo (1929), Corpus Christi (1931), Austin (1938), and San Antonio (1943).

Interdict

Exceptions were made for the dying, and local interdicts were almost entirely suspended on five feasts of the year: Christmas Day, Easter Sunday, Pentecost, Corpus Christi and the feast of the Assumption of Mary.

Jean IV. des Prés

On 11 June 1349, Jean des Prés was at Cambrai where he performed divine service celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi.

John Leonard Thorn

On returning to civilian life, he took up a place at Corpus Christi, graduating in 1949, and was then an assistant schoolmaster at Clifton from 1949 until being appointed headmaster of Repton in 1961.

Kristin Hanggi

Prior to Rock of Ages, Hanggi directed Bare: A Pop Opera, which won the Ovation Award and the LA Weekly Award for Best Musical; the Los Angeles productions of Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally and All Men are Whores by David Mamet; and the American Conservatory Theater production of Anything with Mark Ruffalo.

Mariano Simon Garriga

On June 20, 1936, Garriga was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Corpus Christi and Titular Bishop of Syene by Pope Pius XI.

Navy Pier

Coordinated from a central operation in Chicago, this eventually had three levels: Pre-Radio School, mainly at Chicago Junior Colleges; Primary School, initially given by six engineering colleges across the Nation; and Secondary (or Advanced) School at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C., at Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay, and at Naval Air Technical Training Center Ward Island, near Corpus Christi, Texas.

Pearlasia Gamboa

Inc. (pinksheets PROL, different from Phillips Petroleum Company) alternative energy and missionary outreach company, and its subsidiaries such as Greengold Ray, she listed Corpus Christi, Texas, as one corporate address and location of biodiesel refineries, the Philippines as the location of land and "Jatropha" plantations, and used multiple aliases in the filings.

Robert Forsyth

On 19 January 2008, Forsyth condemned Corpus Christi, a play depicting Judas seducing Jesus: "It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it."

Son de los Diablos

Much like the Diablada, the Son de los Diablos was heavily influenced by the Spanish Corpus Christi celebrations, it was predominantly practiced by an ethnic community (in this case the Afro-Peruvian community), and it was banned from religious celebrations by the Catholic Church in 1817.

Stechford Baptist Church

All of the existing church buildings within Stechford are within this triangle: Stechford Methodist (closed for services from 2005) is on Lyttelton Road, All Saints is on Albert Road, and Corpus Christi straddles Albert and Lyttelton Roads.

The Big Tree, Rockport

Before the 1931 opening of the mile-and-a-half-long Copano Causeway, visitors coming from south of Copano Bay, such as from Corpus Christi, had to drive many miles inland to get around the body of water and get to the Big Tree.

The Biscuit Brothers

The show is presented by KLRU, a PBS member station in Austin, and in addition to airing there (as of January 2006) the program is airing on Texas PBS stations in Houston, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Waco, Temple, Lubbock, and the Rio Grande Valley.

The Legend of Billie Jean

Billie Jean Davy (Helen Slater), a Corpus Christi, Texas high school girl, rides with her younger brother, Binx (Christian Slater), on a Honda Elite to a local lake to enjoy a day of swimming and relaxation.

William Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre

Dacre held the Lancashire manors of Skelmersdale, Whiston, Speke, and Parr, and he obtained a charter for the holding of a three-day market and moveable fair at Prescot, then also in Lancashire, to begin on the Wednesday following Corpus Christi.

Winchester Troper

One can be found in Oxford, in the Bodleian Library (MS Bodley 775), the other in Corpus Christi, Cambridge (MS473), but were copied out at, and originally used at Winchester Cathedral.