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4 unusual facts about Luján


Abadía de San Benito

The monks were forced to consolidate their efforts, abandoning many of their previous apostolates and transferring the monastery to a rural location near Luján on April 12, 1987.

Catedral Basílica de Mercedes-Luján

Catedral Basílica de Mercedes-Luján ("Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Mercy") is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mercedes-Luján and a minor basilica in Mercedes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Francisco Javier Muñiz

He was promoted to Army Surgeon Major that year and transferred to Luján in 1828 to be a physician to police and military troops.

Jozef Cíger-Hronský

Jozef Cíger-Hronský (original name Jozef Cíger; born 23 February 1896 in Zvolen, present-day Slovakia, died 13 July 1960 in Luján, Argentina) was a Slovak writer, teacher, publicist, later secretary and manager of the Matica slovenská.


AALC

Asociación Atlético Luján de Cuyo, a football club from Luján de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina

Architecture of Mexico

The September 23, 1568, its walls witnessed the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa, in which a fleet of bodyguards of the Spanish Armada, led by General Francisco Luján beat a fleet of British pirates under the command of Francis Drake and John Hawkins.

Ben Luján

Ben Luján's son, Ben R. Luján, is a member of Congress from New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District.

David Lujan

In 2010, Lujan was narrowly defeated in the Democratic primary when he ran for the position of Attorney General in the Arizona 2010 election.

Eduardo Luján Manera

Eduardo Luján Manera (22 August 1944 - 15 August 2000) was an Argentine football defender, and a manager who won the Argentine Primera with Estudiantes de La Plata as player and manager.

Feiser

Feiser performed and all fans were there, other bands that performed were JAS, Nosequien y Los Nosecuantos, Dudó and the successful ex-Telegraph Avenue, Chachi Luján also performed.

Frank Aguon

Aguon is currently married to Jennifer Lujan Aguon, who played for the Women's Softball team won a gold medal for Guam at the 1998 Micronesian Games in Palau, Aguon has five children.

French Argentine

Frenchmen were particularly numerous in the wine-producing departments of Maipú, Luján and in the French colony of San Rafael, founded by engineer Julio Gerónimo Balloffet.

Gilbert Luján

As a young teenager, Luján was heavily influenced by the Afro-American music scene in Los Angeles, for instance listening to Johnny Ace, Spade Cooley, and Mary Wells.

Leonardo López Luján

López Luján received his bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Mexico’s National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH), which he attended from 1983 to 1987 as a student of Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, who directed his thesis on the Offerings of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan (1990).

Manuel Lujan, Jr.

Other notable events of Lujan's term included frequent debates over the spotted owl, the construction of the Washington Redskins stadium on federal property in Washington, D.C., and the increased regulation of Indian casinos.

Nuvein Magazine

The Nuvein Foundation board of directors originally included the following: Jeffrey Bickel, UCLA Film and Television Archive; Juan Nunez, Valley Vista Services; Roberta Lujan, Golfland South El Monte; Miguel Sankitts, Mavrec Global; Renato Aguirre, IDM; Ryan Storms, Sk8Life Clothing; Jody Bush, El Monte/South El Monte Chamber of Commerce, Enrique D. Diaz, and Anh Lottman.

Paso del Rey

In fact, Charles Darwin could have crossed the ford in his journey from Buenos Aires to Luján on September 27 1833 (the only alternative crossing was a wooden bridge known as Puente de Márquez, 4.5 km north).

Pop Chalee

Pop Chalee was born Merina Lujan on March 20, 1906 in Castle Gate, Utah.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Zárate-Campana

Oscar Sarlinga, who as Auxiliary Bishop of Mercedes-Lujan, (from April 12, 2003) was appointed diocesan bishop of Zarate-Campana, on February 3, 2006, by Pope Benedict XVI, having taken possession of the diocese on February 18 that year.

T. S. Kerrigan

He has served as President of the Irish American Bar Association and successfully defended a law created in the Great Depression to protect workers before the United States Supreme Court in 2001 (Lujan v. G&G Fire Sprinklers, Inc., 532 U.S. 189, decided April 17, 2001).


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