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unusual facts about Monterrey, Mexico



Aldo Donelli

In a 4-2 qualifying victory over Mexico in Rome, Italy on May 24, he tallied all four times, becoming the first American to score his first three international goals with the senior team in the same match (Sacha Kljestan would become the second to achieve this feat on January 24, 2009).

Andrés de la Tovilla

He, along with Diego de Mazariegos, founded the City of “Villareal de Chiapa de los Españoles”, now San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, in 1528 as a regional base for the conquest of Guatemala.

Ann Robinson

Her career as a leading woman was effectively ended in 1957, when she eloped to Mexico to marry a matador, Jaime Bravo, with whom she had two sons; Jaime Bravo, Jr., who is a director for ABC Sports, and Estefan A. Bravo, who played the Axl Rose-like character in White Trash Wins Lotto, a musical by Andy Prieboy.

Border Incident

"Here is the All-American Canal. It runs through the desert for miles along the California-Mexico border... Farming in Imperial Valley... requires a vast army of farm workers... and this army of farm workers comes from our neighbor to the south, from Mexico. ... It is this problem of human suffering and injustice about which you should know. The following composite case is based upon factual information supplied by the Immigration and Naturalization Service..."

Carrier Air Wing Six

A year later, the air wing participated in Ocean Venture ’88 in the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea, and then provided air support for Operation Earnest Will.

Cumberland Subdivision

At its east end, the Cumberland Subdivision becomes the Metropolitan Subdivision; at its west end (at Mexico, Maryland) it becomes the Cumberland Terminal Subdivision.

Dahiana Burgos

She won the Most Valuable Player and Best Scorer awards, along with the gold medal playing in Chiapas, Mexico with her National Senior Team at the 2010 Final Four Cup.

Daniel K. Ludwig

These were: the Hamilton Princess and Southampton Princess in Bermuda; the Bahamas Princess (formerly the King's Inn) and the Xanadu Princess Tower (formerly the International) in Freeport; the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marques in Mexico; and the Francis Drake in San Francisco.

Daniel Márquez

Daniel Omar Márquez Palacios (born January 18, 1987 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico) is a Mexican professional footballer.

Dodge Spirit

It was assembled at Newark Assembly in Newark, Delaware as well as Toluca Car Assembly in Toluca, Mexico, and shared its basic design with the 1990 to 1994 Chrysler LeBaron sedan, the 1989 to 1995 Plymouth Acclaim, and the export-only 1989 to 1995 Chrysler Saratoga.

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.

El Prado

El Prado, New Mexico, an unincorporated suburb of Taos, Taos County, New Mexico, USA

F. aurea

Ficus aurea, the Florida strangler fig, golden fig or higuerón, a tree species native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama

Fusion cuisine

California cuisine is considered a fusion culture, taking inspiration particularly from Italy, France, Mexico, the idea of the European delicatessen, and eastern Asia, and then creating traditional dishes from these cultures with non-traditional ingredients - such as California pizza.

Guy Madison

Later that month, Madison married actress Sheila Connolly in Juarez, Mexico.

Heermann

Heermann's Gull (Larus heermanni), a gull resident in the United States, Mexico and extreme southwestern British Columbia

Jagua Tattoo

Genipa americana is a species of Genipa, native to northern South America (south to Peru), the Caribbean and southern Mexico, growing in profusion in rainforests.

Jerome Utley

From 1931 to approximately 1948, he had an ownership interest in the Hotel Playa Ensenada, later renamed the Hotel Riviera del Pacífico, a luxury hotel in Baja California, Mexico.

José Ulises Macías Salcedo

José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo, was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, on October 29, 1940.

Linanthus bigelovii

It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it grows mainly in dry habitat, such as the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.

Lordsburg, New Mexico

In 1928, John Philip Sousa presented Governor Arthur T. Hannett and the people of New Mexico an arrangement of the state song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican.

Luis Barragán House and Studio

During his career, he developed projects in Mexico City, Manzanillo, Guadalajara, Acapulco, La Jolla, CA but his best known work is that on Ciudad Satélite.

Martin Hodge

Hodge’s excellent form at Wednesday made him a favourite to make the England squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, however Hodge missed out at the last minute when Gary Bailey recovered from injury.

Mel Almada

A native of Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico, Almada made history by becoming the first Mexican baseball player to play in the Major Leagues.

Mercedes McNab

Mercedes McNab and her fiancé Mark Henderson got married on Saturday May 12, 2012 in La Paz, Mexico in front of family and friends.

Mexican street food

Other areas in Mexico City noted for their street food are Metro Chilpancingo, Mercado San Juan Arcos de Belen, Calle López in the historic center and the Mercado de Antojitos ("street food market") in Coyoacán.

Modern pentathlon at the 2011 Pan American Games – Qualification

There is a quota of 40 athletes (24 male, 16 female) (however one spot over quota for each gender was allowed); Mexico as the host country is guaranteed a full team of four athletes (two men and two women).

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

The name "Montezuma" was first used in 1806 when Dr. Peter Clark named his hilltop home "Montezuma" after the palace of the Aztec Emperor Montezuma in Mexico City.

Nimotuzumab

in Argentina, EL KENDI Pharmaceutical in Algeria and Laboratorios PiSA in Mexico.

P. microphyllus

Philadelphus microphyllus, the littleleaf mock-orange, a plant species native to northern Mexico and the southwestern quadrant of the United States as far north as Wyoming

Pais

Ampelographers believe that along with the Criolla Grande grape of Argentina and Mission grape of California, that the Pais grape is descended by the Spanish "common black grape" brought to Mexico in 1520 by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

Pig Business

Controversy also surrounds the half-owned Smithfield Foods pig sheds near the village of La Gloria, Mexico, where as many as 1,800 villagers living near the plant had already complained of respiratory problems and 400 had been treated before the 2009 swine flu outbreak.

Pluteus nevadensis

Pluteus nevadensis is known only from subtropical and pine forests in the states of Guerrero and Jalisco, Mexico, where it grows on the rotting wood of pine and oak.

Prayers for the Assassin

Parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California have been claimed by the Aztlan Empire (formerly Mexico) and tension between the I.R. and A.E. have risen due to land claims.

Raquel Olmedo

She started her career in her native Cuba before moving to Mexico in 1959 at the start of Fidel Castro's regime's rule of Cuba.

Religion in Mexico

However, Christmas is a national holiday and every year during Easter and Christmas all schools in Mexico, public and private, send their students on vacation.

Ron Lamothe

Starting in 2005, Lamothe spent two years shooting and editing his next documentary, The Call of the Wild, on the self-proclaimed "aesthetic voyager" Christopher McCandless, a filmmaking odyssey that took him through thirty U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and parts of Mexico.

Rosa Tavarez

Tavarez's artworks are shown at museums, art galleries and permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Casa de Las Americas in Havana, Cuba, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, the Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and the Museums of Modern Art in London, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Salvador Plascencia

Salvador Plascencia is an American writer, born 1976 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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 .

Stratos Boats

Stratos began building boats in 1984, and sells throughout a network of dealers throughout the United States, Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Italy and Venezuela.

Tarahumara salamander

The Tarhumara salamander may actually be two different species separated by the Sierra Madre Occidentental in northwestern Mexico.

Thalassia testudinum

Turtle grass is found growing in meadows in calm shallow waters throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and as far north as Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Thunderhorse

Thunder Horse PDQ, a semi-submersible oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico

Uxul

Uxul is an ancient Mayan settlement in the Campeche region of Mexico.

Virgin of Los Remedios

This image was center of one of the first annual processions to be held in Mexico, which went from the Church of Santa Veracruz in Mexico City to her home sanctuary in Los Remedios National Park.

Walt Schmotolocha

That day, he scored a goal in the 61st minute of a 2-2 tie with Mexico in 1966 FIFA World Cup qualifier.

Walther Linis

They started in France and sailed through the Suez Canal to Arabia where they unloaded oil and continued over the Pacific shoreline to San Diego in California and on into the Panama Canal to the Gulf island of Aruba, waterless island but they could get oil board and then took 12 trips between many U.S. cities in the east shore, the boat went several times to the port of Tampico in Mexico from 1957-58.

William Spratling

Using money received from commissions he organized for Rivera, Spratling bought a home in Taxco, Mexico in 1928, where he began work on a book, Little Mexico, about this small mountain town.

Zorro's Fighting Legion

The story takes a few liberties with Zorro's official timeline: it takes place in Mexico instead of Alta California; Zorro wears a masquerade mask, rather than the traditional bandana; the characters Don Alejandro Vega (Don Diego's father) and Bernardo are absent; and Zorro's horse, Tornado, was changed to white (much like Kaiketsu Zorro).


see also

1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Monterrey, Parte 1

1969 - Siempre, En Vivo Desde Monterrey, Parte 1' is a live album released by Jenni Rivera from Monterrey Mexico on December 3, 2013.

2013 Final Four Men's Volleyball Cup

The 2013 Final Four Men's Volleyball Cup was first edition of the annual Men's Volleyball Tournament, played by four countries from November 6–9, 2013 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Binyamin Temkin

Born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1945, he studied his BA in Economics at the Universidad de Nuevo Leon, and participated in the leftist student movements of the 1960s.

Borregos Salvajes – ITESM Campus Monterrey

"Borregos Salvajes" is an American football team from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey aka ITESM), a private managed higher education institution in Monterrey, Mexico.

Carlos Rodríguez Cárdenas

During the next few years, Rodríguez Cárdenas held solo exhibits at Obra Reciente, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico; D.F., Carlos Cardenas, Galeria Ramis F. Barquet in Monterrey, Mexico; and, in 1993, About the Blue Wall, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida; and ARCO 93 International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; and Pinturas, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables.

Edson Lopes

In 2005 the Quartet participated in the "33rd Arts Festival" in Hong Kong, in the "VII Internacional Guitar Festival" in Monterrey, Mexico and in 2006 in the "V International Guitar Festival" in the city of Aarhus, Denmark.

Fondation Napoléon

The Fondation Napoléon organises exhibitions of its collection of fine art and historical memorabilia, etc. (Exhibitions includes Paris (2004), São Paulo, (2003) Brazil, Monterrey Mexico (2005), Minden (2006) Germany ) and loans items from the collection to prestigious exhibition worldwide.

Grace Loh

Loh recently won the women's 100m Backstroke Event at the 2nd FINA World Youth Swimming Championship in Monterrey, Mexico.

Gregorio Ramirez Gonzalez

He was born in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico on March 30, 1913 and died on the 4th of February 2002 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Harris Whitbeck

He also reported on the Latin American Summit from Monterrey, Mexico.

Hector King

Between 2007 and 2008 alone, King had four of his adaptations staged, all in Monterrey, Mexico: the Mexican premieres of Sweeney Todd, Footloose and Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour and the new Mexican productions of The Scarlet Pimpernel and RENT.

Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine

The Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine (in Spanish: Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, EMIS) is the medical school division of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) founded in 1978 in Monterrey, Mexico, in order to provide medical education, training and to promote reliable biomedical investigation in Mexico with the support of the ITESM research infrastructure.

Joel Aguilar

He was selected as a referee for the first leg of the 2011 CONCACAF Champions League Final, contested by Rayados de Monterrey and Real Salt Lake in Monterrey, Mexico.

José Emilio Amores

José Emilio Amores Cañals (born March 10, 1919) was one of the first chemistry teachers at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and currently known for his work in promoting the arts from 1947 to the present in the city of Monterrey, Mexico.

Judith Grace González

She first started off being the host of one of the most successful TV shows from Televisa in Monterrey, Mexico, "Estilo".

Niels G. Larsen

Niels G. Larsen was born on December 13, 1879, in Copenhagen, Denmark and died on – October 25, 1956 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Rummana Hussain

:Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico

Selma Oxor

In both 2012 and 2013 she returned to her homecity of Monterrey, Mexico to play at NRMAL Festival, which is held annually in the state of Nuevo Leon.

Stefan Milenković

In 1991, he played for Pope John Paul II, and in 1993, Milenković gave his 1000th concert in Monterrey, Mexico.

Stevanato Group

In 2008 a new production plant called “Ompi of America” was built in MonterreyMexico.

Susan Rothenberg

Recent exhibitions include a retrospective organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo (1992–1994), which traveled to Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, and Seattle (1992); a retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Monterrey, Mexico (1996); a survey of prints and drawings presented by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (1998); and Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1999).

The Perfect Game

The film is based on a true story about a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico, who became the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series in 1957.

Yaron Kohlberg

Kohlberg has also won first prizes in the Parnassos International Competition in Monterrey (Mexico) and the Shostakovich International Competition in Hanover, and was a top prizewinner in other international competitions such as Andorra, Tivoli (Copenhagen) and Grieg (Oslo).