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6 unusual facts about Laredo


1983 European Marathon Cup

The 1983 European Marathon Cup was the 2nd edition of the European Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Laredo, Spain.

Centralist Republic of Mexico

On January 17, 1840, a group of notables of the three States met in close to Laredo.

Gustavo C. Garcia

Garcia was born in Laredo, Texas, to Alfredo and Maria Teresa (Arguindegui) Garcia and was reared in San Antonio.

Howard Edward Butt Sr.

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

McKinney North High School

In October 2009, Theret joined the Laredo Independent School District in Laredo in Webb County in south Texas as the new executive director of curriculum and instruction, under the supervision of A. Marcus Nelson, the district superintendent.

Tommy Herrera

(June 9, 1933 in Laredo, Texas – September 19, 1997 in Houston, Texas) had a long career as a professional baseball player and manager, beginning his professional career in 1953.


Abraham Kazen

He was an uncle of United States District Judge George P. Kazen of Laredo.

Aguilares, Texas

Oil was discovered nearby in Oilton, Texas and for a short time the town seemed to have a future - but although (or because) it was on a railroad - it lost population to the nearby county seat of Laredo, Texas.

Bernardino de Laredo

The second edition of 1538 shows much greater influence by certain authors than Laredo had shown previously – in particular of Dionysius, Herp (or Harphius, the fifteenth-century Franciscan of Malines), and Hugh of Balma.

Cash Asmussen

From a Texas horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, operate a ranch in Laredo in Webb County, Texas.

Chris Cagle discography

Eight of those singles have been in the top twenty positions on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart: "My Love Goes On and On", "Laredo", "What a Beautiful Day", "Chicks Dig It", "Miss Me Baby", "What Kinda Gone", "Got My Country On", and "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out", which reached Number One in 2001.

Diana Saldaña

During the 111th United States Congress, Democrats from the Texas House delegation and Republican Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison agreed to recommend Saldaña for a Laredo vacancy on the Southern District of Texas.

El Diario de Nuevo Laredo

El Diario de Nuevo Laredo (The Nuevo Laredo Daily) is a Spanish language newspaper published in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Estadio Nuevo Laredo

After several visits by personnel of the league to the new stadium they agreed to bring back a baseball team and in November 2007 it was announced that the Rieleros de Aguascalientes would become the Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo for the 2008 season.

Esther Buckley

In 1995, Laredo Mayor Saul N. Ramirez, Jr., a Democrat in a nonpartisan position, named Buckley as a charter member of the Laredo Commission for Women.

Estudiantes Tecnológico de Nuevo Laredo

Estudiantes Tecnológico de Nuevo Laredo is a football (soccer) club from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Henry Cuellar

Laredo's Democratic Mayor Raul G. Salinas joined Cuellar in giving his early support to Hillary Clinton, who came to Laredo in October 2008 to endorse Cuellar's reelection to the U.S. House.

Cuellar graduated in 1973 from J. W. Nixon High School, a classmate of future Webb County District Attorney Joe Rubio, Jr. Cuellar received an associate's degree from Laredo Community College (then known as Laredo Junior College), where he would later teach courses in government on an adjunct basis.

Hispanicization

Laredo, Texas; Chimayo, New Mexico; and Nogales, Arizona, for example, all have Hispanic populations greater than 90 percent.

Inter-American Highway

The only section of the IAH that was constructed without any form of American aid was the 1,600 mile strip between Nuevo Laredo and Malacatán, on the Mexico-Guatemala border.

International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor

This supercorridor uses existing highways such as the Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minnesota.

Interstate 69

Among these proposed spurs are an extension of Interstate 530 from Pine Bluff, Arkansas (known as "the Dickey Split," for its champion, congressman Jay Dickey), an upgrade of U.S. Route 59 from Texarkana, Texas, and a split in southern Texas to serve three border crossings at Laredo, Pharr-McAllen, and Brownsville.

Jaime Laredo

Jaime Laredo (born June 7, 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a violinist and conductor.

James Anthony Tamayo

On August 9, 2000, he was installed as the bishop of the newly founded Diocese of Laredo in Webb County in South Texas.

Janet Krueger

Her work is contained in such private and corporate collections as the Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, Laredo National Bank, TAMIU, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Valero Energy and the San Antonio Spurs, a professional basketball team anchored at the Alamodome.

Jerry D. Thompson

As Thompson studied both men, he concluded that Cortina "completely overshadowed Benavides", for whom a Laredo elementary school is named.

José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda

Between December 25, 1748, the date of the foundation of Llera, and 1755, he founded over twenty towns or villages and a number of missions in the colony, including Santander, Soto la Marina, Güemes, Camargo, Reynosa, Mier, and Revilla south of the Rio Grande, and Laredo and Nuestra Señora de los Dolores hacienda north of the Rio Grande.

KBDR

The main station broadcasts from Mirando City, Texas with 42 kW power, and a booster station (KBDR-FM1), which is located in Laredo, Texas with a broadcast power of 10 kW.

Laredo National Bank

Laredo National Bank's branches and headquarters names have been changed to Compass Bank on November 14, 2008 due to a merger between Laredo National Bank Compass and BBVA.

North American SuperCorridor Coalition

The project includes the largest border crossing in North America – the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario – and one of the largest inland ports, Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the ports of Manzanillo, Colima and Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.

Ralph Santolla

At a 2006 Deicide gig in Laredo, Texas that got out of control, Ralph Santolla was arrested for allegedly throwing a Red Bull can at an officer after Deicide was forced to stop playing.

Raul G. Salinas

A native of Alice, the seat of Jim Wells County east of Laredo, Salinas is a graduate of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland.

Republic of the Rio Grande Capitol Building Museum

Because of this Republic, Laredo had flown seven flags instead of the traditional Six flags over Texas.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Laredo

On July 3, 2000, the Diocese of Laredo was created by His Holiness Pope John Paul II and made Auxiliary Bishop James Anthony Tamayo, from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, the First Bishop of Laredo.

Ruthe B. Cowl

At the time, U.S. Representative Abraham Kazen, Jr., of Laredo paid tribute to her generosity and commitment in the Congressional Record.

During a trip to Mexico during the Christmas school vacation in 1952, the family stopped in the Rio Grande border city of Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas to visit people whom they had met through mutual friends in Dallas.

Society of Martha Washington

The society chooses two prominent members of Laredo's society to portray President George and Martha Dandridge Washington.

Steve Asmussen

Born into a horse racing family, his parents, Keith and Marilyn "Sis" Asmussen, are both trainers who operate El Primero Training Center off the Mines Road in Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas.

Tracy King

In the primary, King faced Jerry Garza (born 1976), a former two-term member from District 3 of the Webb County Commissioner's Court, a former television reporter for KGNS-TV, the NBC affiliate in Laredo, and a former faculty member at Laredo Community College, where he began his own college studies.

XEFE

XEFE-AM, a radio station serving the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area

XEFE-TV, a television station serving the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area

Yiddish Book Center

In 2001 Ruthe B. Cowl (1912–2008) of Laredo, Texas, donated $1 million to create the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center, which promotes "Yiddish literary, artistic, musical, and historical knowledge and accomplishment" at the Amherst headquarters.


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