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unusual facts about Merced


UC Merced Golden Bobcats

The UC Merced Golden Bobcats are the intercollegiate athletics teams of the University of California, Merced (UCM).


Arthur Samish

There he met his future wife, Merced, daughter of Dan Sullivan, State Printer and President of the California State Federation of Labor.

Casa Diablo

Casa Diablo, California, a location in the Sierra Nevada near El Portal along the Merced River.

Cressey

Cressey, California, a census-designated place in the northern part of Merced County, California

ESW

Engineers for a Sustainable World, a national not-for-profit based in Merced, California.

Ethel Hall

Ethel Hall (1898 - 1927) was an American silent film actress who died at the age of 29 on June 29, 1927 when her boat capsized in the rapids of the Merced River near the town of Merced in the San Joaquin Valley.

Gerry Parsky

Chairman Parsky oversaw the Regents’ governance of the University, including oversight and negotiations on behalf of the U.S. nuclear labs at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, student admissions, expansion of the U.C. Merced campus, as well as budget and fiscal issues, including pension plans for the faculty and staff.

Greenlaw Grupe

Mr. Grupe is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and has served on a number of councils and boards including the Urban Land Institute as a former President, University of the Pacific (United States) as a former regent, and Founding Chair on the University of California, Merced.

GXF

Gaby's Xtraordinary Files, an educational ABS-CBN television series hosted by Gaby Dela Merced.

KGDM

KGDM-LP, a low-power radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Merced, California, United States

León, Nicaragua

In the 18th century the present Church of la Merced was erected with drawings attributed to Mercedario Friar Pedro de Ávila and conducted by master builder Pascual Somarriba.

Luis Chávez y González

He was parish priest in Ilobasco, San Juan Cojutepeque and the historic La Merced church in San Salvador.

McSwain

McSwain, California, census-designated place in Merced County, California, United States

Merced County Arts Council

The Merced County Arts Council's re-energized programming, launched from their new home, received the League of California Cities' 2001 "Helen Putnam Award for Excellence" Grand Prize for Arts and Quality of Life.

Merced District

Merced District lies in the north of the canton, limiting only with Tibás Canton from San José Province to the north, and with the districts of Uruca to the north, Mata Redonda to the west, Hospital to the south, and Uruca and El Carmen "distritos" to the east, all of them from the same canton of San José.

Merced Falls, California

A pair of sawmills in Merced Falls cut wood for the Yosemite and Sugar Pine Lumber Company, which shipped lumber down from the Sierra Nevada on the Yosemite Valley Railroad.

Mosco de la Merced

Mosco de la Merced (Juan Valdez Valentino) is a Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler, best known for his time in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) where he was a part of Los Vipers for many years.

Orlando Merced

Orlando Luis Merced Villanueva (born November 2, 1966 in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico) is a former Major League Baseball first Baseman and outfielder.

Steven Stayner

Steven, taking a leave of absence from his job, acted as an advisor for the production company (Lorimar-Telepictures) and had a non-speaking part, playing one of the two policemen who escort 14-year-old Steven (played by Corin Nemec) through the crowds to his waiting family, on his return to his Merced home.

Thomas D. Harp

Harp was nominated on August 28, 1890, by the Democratic convention of the 30th Senate District to represent Merced, Tuolumne and Stanislaus counties.

Wilnelia Merced

Merced lives with her husband and their son, Jonathan Joseph, on the Wentworth Estate in Surrey, England.


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