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50 unusual facts about México City


1990 Atlantic hurricane season

By August 8, Diana weakened back to a tropical depression near Mexico City.

2007–08 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Mexico

The 2007–08 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Mexico is an A1 Grand Prix race, held on March 16, 2008 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico.

Batesville Casket Company

In addition to Batesville, Indiana, there are factories in Batesville, Mississippi, Chihuahua, Mexico, Manchester, Tennessee, Mexico City, Mexico, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Bryolymnia viridimedia

It is found from south-eastern Arizona (Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains) southward in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Mexico City area.

Capromeryx minor

Its fossils have also been found at least as far east at as the Texas coast, as well as in Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Sonora, Baja California, and near Mexico City.

Carlos Cavazo

His father, Roberto, originally from Mexico City, married a belle from the South and owned an energy plant.

Born July 8, 1957, Cavazo is originally from Mexico City where his first band—of which his brother, Antonio Cavazo, was also a member—was called Speed of Light.

Christopher Carley

He was born in Mexico City to Elizabeth (Mona) Carley and Gerard Carley and grew up in Pearl River, New York.

Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery

By 1859 he was based in Mexico, and in traveling from Chiapas to Mexico City he reported having been robbed of almost his entire fortune, estimated at $50,000.

Craveri's Murrelet

The bird is named for Federico Craveri (1815–1890), an Italian chemist and meteorologist who was a professor at the National Museum in Mexico City, then later at University of Turin in the city of his birth.

Darren Croft

Croft was first called up to represent Australia in 2000 where he joined the national under-20 team to compete in the 2000 IIHF World U20 Championship Pool D tournament being held in Mexico City, Mexico Australia finished seventh while Croft managed one goal from his four games.

Dorothy Stewart

In the winter of 1955, with a grave medical condition, Stewart was accompanied by her dear friend Maria Chabot to Oaxaca, Mexico where Dorothy was quoted as saying, “If I have to be sick, I would rather be sick here where I hear the street sounds of Mexico.” As Dorothy's condition worsened, Chabot moved her to the American British Cowdry Hospital in Mexico City, where Stewart died of a brain hemorrhage on December 24, 1955.

Dream Home Heartache

Williams and Demone toured Europe and North America in support of the album, provoking a riot in Mexico City when fans were unable to enter the sold-out venue.

El Papagayo

The graphic novel also explains why Papagayo despises Hex so much; as a young man growing up in the wilderness of Mexico, his family collected and trained parrots which they would later sell to Americans and the rich of Mexico City.

El Salón México

The work is a musical depiction of an eponymous dance hall in Mexico City and even carries the subtitle, "A Popular Type Dance Hall in Mexico City." Copland began the work in 1932 and completed it in 1936.

Everybody's Changing

Keane appear on a scene representing a sunset – their performance is broken up with clips of gigs in London, Mexico City and United States.

Fred Spiksley

Both teams played in the Primera Fuerza, a Mexico City-based league whose champions were also considered to be champions of Mexico.

Gaukhar Rakhmetaliyeva

Gaukhar Rakhmetaliyeva (born c. 1983) is the winner of Miss Kazakhstan 2006, and represented Kazakhstan in Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico on 28 May 2007.

Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport

Aerolíneas Argentinas used to use Jujuy Airport for refuelling before long flights to Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Lima.

Italika

Italika maintains a motorcycle factory and parts warehouse in Toluca, Mexico, near Mexico City.

J. Marvin Hunter

In 1899, he plunged into the tasks of Two Republics, a bilingual daily in Mexico City.

Jack Micheline

He was also a painter, working primarily with gouache in a self-taught, primitive style he picked up in Mexico City.

Karim Malpica

Karim Malpica Torres (born August 24, 1978 in Mexico City) is a Mexican professional basketball player.

Kerry Dixon

His scoring feats earned him an England call-up; he made his debut against Mexico in 1985 during a friendly international tournament in Mexico City.

Kunishige Kamamoto

Kunishige Kamamoto (釜本 邦茂 Kamamoto Kunishige, born April 15, 1944) is a former association football player from Japan, who won the bronze medal with the Japan national team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, finishing as the tournament's top scorer with seven goals.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

Stations of Line 2 provides female only waiting area during hours of operation, following the example of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Tehran and Mexico City, to protect female riders from sexual harassment.

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.

Marisa Carrasco

Born and raised in Mexico City, Carrasco received her Licentiate in psychology from the National University of Mexico and her Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University.

Miami-Dade County Courthouse

Engineers consulted with an architect from Mexico City, whom had encountered a similar problem while building the city's opera house.

Minor basilica

The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Mexico City, is considered the second most important sanctuary of Roman Catholicism, second to the Vatican City on the basis of the number of pilgrims it hosts each year (between 12 and 20 million).

National Pyrotechnic Festival

In 1988, a major fire at the La Merced Market in Mexico City, prompted city authorities to ban the manufacture and wholesale of fireworks in the city limits.

NWEAMO

In 2005 the festival expanded further, with an additional night added in Mexico City.

Odón de Buen y del Cos

Odón de Buen y del Cos (1863 in Zuera, Zaragoza Province, Aragon, Spain – 1945 in Mexico City) was a Spanish naturalist, politician and publicist.

Renee Montgomery

In addition, Montgomery led the USA U-20 National Team to a gold medal during the summer prior to the start of the season at the FIBA U-20 Championship for Women in Mexico City.

Roy Heenan

Born in Mexico City, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957 and a Bachelor of Civil Laws degree in 1960 from McGill University where he also joined the Kappa Alpha Society.

Salvador Medina

Salvador Medina Cárcamo (born January 27, 1988 in Distrito Federal) is a Mexican professional football defender who currently plays for Pumas Morelos in the Liga de Ascenso.

Second Spanish Republic

The government in exile of the Second Spanish Republic had an embassy in Mexico City until 1976 and was formally dissolved the following year.

Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, which passed through the area, was the main transportation route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Mexico City, Mexico.

Sin Mirar Atrás

Sin Mirar Atrás was recorded in studios from cities as Madrid, Miami, Los Angeles, Mexico, Bratislava, London, Stockholm and São Paulo.

Stein Rønning

Stein Widar Rønning (May 28, 1965 – January 23, 2008) was a Norwegian karate master who had won international competitions, including the 1990 Karate World Championship, Male Kumite -60 kg, in Mexico City.

Teotihuacan Priests

The Teotihuacan Priests are a semi-professional ice hockey team in Mexico City, Mexico.

The Balfa Brothers

They made their first new recordings that year, and played at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Tommy Butler

By November 1965, Wilson was in Mexico City visiting old friends Bruce Reynolds and Buster Edwards.

Urban secession

Some would apply that classification to the District of Columbia in the United States or Distrito Federal in Mexico, but these are federal government districts and not ordinary municipalities.

Walter Nicks

Forming a small company, "El Ballet Negro de Walter Nicks," in Mexico, he performed at the Insurgentes Theatre in Mexico City in a production starring Cantinflas; at the Sans Souci in Havana; on television in the Dominican Republic, and at the Condado Beach Hotel in San Juan.

Willi Gutmann

He was the artist representing Switzerland at the 1968 Summer Olympics Route of Friendship in Mexico City.

William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock

Augustus Waldegrave (4 February 1803 – November 1825), killed in a hunting accident near Mexico City

William Whitaker Reed

Robertson gained control of the colony in 1834 while Austin was imprisoned on false charges in Mexico City.

Winston M. Scott

Winston Mackinley Scott (1909 - 26 April 1971) was a Central Intelligence Agency officer who served as Mexico City station chief from 1956 to 1969, having joined the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Yashira Jordán

In 2004 Jordán spent time in New York, Washington DC and Mexico City, training in various workshops and courses under the direction of American and Mexican filmmakers.


2005 Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis

However, rather than apologizing, Chávez simply recalled Venezuela's own ambassador to Mexico City, Vladimir Villegas.

Álvaro Delgado

Delgado studied journalism at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has worked in the Mexican national newspapers El Nacional, El Universal, and El Financiero, as well as the political newsmagazine Proceso.

Antonio F. Coronel

Antonio Francisco Coronel (October 21, 1817 Mexico City – April 17, 1894) served as the fourth mayor of Los Angeles from 1853 to 1854.

Barrio 19

Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.

Benjamín G. Hill

Benjamín Hill (Choix, Sinaloa, 31 March 1874 – Mexico City, 14 December 1920) was a military commander during the Mexican Revolution.

Cárcamo de Dolores

The Cárcamo de Dolores (Sump of Dolores) is a hydraulic structure located on the Second Section of Chapultepec Park, in Mexico City, comprising the building designed by architect Ricardo Rivas, inside the originally underwater mural Agua, el origen de la vida (Water, source of life) of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, the art installation Cámara Lambdoma by Ariel Guzik, and in outside, the Tlaloc Fountain, also of Rivera.

Carlos María Abascal Carranza

Carlos María Abascal Carranza (born Mexico City, June 14, 1949 - Mexico City, December 2, 2008) was a Mexican lawyer and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Vicente Fox.

Charadra coyopa

It is known only from the holotype specimen from the Mexico City area.

Copachisa

Copachisa (Constructora de Parques de Chihuahua, S.A. de C.V.) is an industrial design and construction company based in the city of Chihuahua, Mexico, with regional offices in Monterrey, Ciudad Juárez, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Mexico City.

David G. Sorensen

Over the years he has also frequently worked and exhibited in Mexico and is currently represented by Ramon Quiroga in Mexico City, Galeria Vertice and Haus der Kunst in Guadalajara.

Elsie Lefebvre

There she gathered much political experience, notably as an intern at the Quebec Government House in Mexico City and as parliamentary assistant to French politician Philippe Séguin.

Endre Szász

He had several exhibitions all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City), Auschwitz Museum (Poland), the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest), and also exhibited in Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Johannesburg, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Budapest, Amman (Jordan) and Tokyo.

Gabriel Romero

Gabriel Romero (b. Mexico City) is an actor best known for his ground-breaking role as Fernandito, the first openly gay character on Spanish-language television, on the Telemundo sitcom Los Beltrán and for his role as Marco on the here! original series Dante's Cove.

Huixquilucan de Degollado

It borders (counter-clockwise from north) the municipalities of Naucalpan, Lerma, Ocoyoacac, and the boroughs of Cuajimalpa and Miguel Hidalgo of the Distrito Federal (Mexico City).

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

International Association of Sports Law

The Congress took place in the main auditorium of Torre del Caballito, at Mexico City which is the place that members of the Senate of the Mexican Republic work in these offices, from Wednesday 14 November to Thursday 15 November 2007.

Jon Riley

Because Riley deserted before the US declared war against Mexico, he was not sentenced to execution following his conviction at the court martial held in Mexico City in 1847.

Jorge Muñiz

Coque was born in Ciudad de México to parents Marco Antonio Muñiz ("Mexico's Favorite Singer / Showman") and Olga Gardner Meza.

Juan Molinar Horcasitas

He has worked in news media such as Multivision To Start and the newspapers Reforma and El Universal.

Juan Ramón de la Fuente

Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez (born 5 September 1951 in Mexico City) is a Mexican psychiatrist, academician and politician who served as Secretary of Health in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–1999) and as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1999 to 2007.

Les Olympiades

The eight tallest towers are each 104 metres (341 feet) tall and are named after cities that have hosted the Olympic games: Anvers (Antwerp), Athènes (Athens), Cortina, Helsinki, Londres (London), Mexico, Sapporo, and Tokyo.

Luna Park, Pittsburgh

Remnants of the entertainment empire remain, from Mexico City (the park is now called Luna Loca) to Melbourne to Athens (now called Ta Aidonakia).

Marco Ghibaudo

He also fought for the WMMAF Super Welterweight International Full Contact title, losing against Alessandro Riguccini on points in June 2010 in Mexico City.

Mario Carrillo

José Mario Carrillo Zamudio (born January 1, 1956 in Mexico City) is a Mexican football coach, a news anchor for television sports channel ESPN Deportes and is known for serving as an assistant coach to Javier Aguirre with Mexico national football team.

Marisa Canales

She was born in Mexico City where she started her musical studies; she later attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, then Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (PCPA), where she studied with Adeline Tomasone (Philadelphia Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra), and was awarded a Bachelor’s Degree Magna Cum Laude (1985).

Nuevo Estadio Azul

The Nuevo Estadio Azul is a planned stadium in Mexico City, intended to replace the Estadio Azul, the home of football club Cruz Azul, in 2017.

Paul A. Trivelli

He has been posted to Mexico City, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Quito, Panama City, El Salvador, Monterrey, and Managua.

Portuguese immigration to Mexico

Today, the country's largest Portuguese community is concentrated in Mexico City, especially in the Colonia Condesa, the home of many restaurants and bars popular with people of Portuguese descent.

Reuben Jones

Reuben (Ben) Jones (born 19 October 1932 in Newport, Shropshire, England; died 3 January 1990 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) was an Olympic equestrian rider who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Ricardo Ramírez

He later joined the Congregation of St. Basil, more commonly known as the Basilian Fathers, and studied at St. Basil's Seminary in Toronto from 1963 to 1965, whence he entered the Conciliar Seminary in Mexico City.

San Ildefonso College

The San Ildefonso College currently is a museum and cultural center in Mexico City, considered to be the birthplace of the Mexican muralism movement.

San Juan de los Lagos

San Juan de los Lagos is the second most visited pilgrimage site in Mexico, after the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City .

Vuelamex

The airline was established in 2002 by Asclepiodoto Abed, a former worker of TAESA, to operate as low-fare airline, with services between Mexico City and Toluca.

William Plummer Benton

When Benton was 18 years old, he enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and fought with gallantry in the mounted infantry at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and Mexico City.