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2 unusual facts about Pampa


Brett Goode

Goode was born in Pampa, Texas, and attended Northside High School in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Walter E. Rogers

He received his law degree from the University of Texas in 1935 and became the city attorney for Pampa, Texas three years later.


Boroano people

The Boroanos, Borogas o Boroganos (also spelled with v) where a group of Mapuches native to the aillarehue of Boroa in Araucanía that got involved in several conflicts in the northern Patagonian pampas supporting figures such as José Miguel Carrera, the Pincheira brothers and Manuel Rosas.

Celtis tala

With small to medium sized spines, its one of the main components of the Gran Chaco prairies and certain areas of the Argentinian pampa.

Chuquibamba

Chuquibamba (Quechua: Chuqipampa, chuqi means "ore" and pampa means "plain") is a town in southern Peru, capital of the province Condesuyos in the region Arequipa.

Curve-winged Sabrewing

curvipennis formerly included the Wedge-tailed Sabrewing (C. pampa) of the Yucatán and the Long-tailed Sabrewing (C. excellens) of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec under the English name Wedge-tailed Sabrewing.

El Chocón Dam

The Hydroelectric Complex which holds El Chocón and Arroyito Hydroelectric Power Plants, is located in the region known as Comahue, which is formed by the Argentine provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén and the southern area of the Buenos Aires and La Pampa provinces.

Elaltitan

The holotype specimen was collected by an expedition of the Fundación Miguel Lillo and the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, led by José Fernando Bonaparte, from the right (southern) bank of the Senguerr River, in the area between the bend of this river and the Pampa de María Santísima, southeast of the southernmost part of the Sierra de San Bernardo, Chubut Province.

Fernando Birri

After directing a short film about La Pampa (La pampa gringa) in 1963, Birri retired from directing and only returned 12 years later to make a movie about Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Mi hijo el Che) in 1985.

Fernando Demaría

This work was republished in 1972 with the illustrations of Uruguayan artist Lincoln Presno, whose 40 meter memorial monument to John F. Kennedy in the vast pampa region near Quemú Quemú, a town founded by the poet's grandparents, was built upon the poet's request.

Humid Pampas

The Uruguayan savanna, which lies east of these rivers in Entre Ríos Province of Argentina, Uruguay and the south of Brazil, is sometimes considered part of the Humid Pampa.

Jainism in North Karnataka

like Pampa, Ponna and Ranna, thrived under the enlightened rule of the kings of this dynasty.

La Fuga

Belisario "El Pampa" Zacarías (Oscar Alegre): A homosexual who is incarcerated along his accomplice and lover, "The Turk", for kidnapping and murder.

Mariano Melgar

Nine years later, on December 9, 1824, the Battle of Ayacucho, or "La Quinua", took place at Pampa de La Quinua, a few miles away from Ayacucho, near the town of Quinua.

Pampa Ilusión

In the Atacama Desert, lies the Pampa saltpeter illusion that after years of economic boom, faces an uncertain future due to global crisis.

Pampa Independent School District

Matson Track was named for Pampa High’s only Olympic champion, Randy Matson.

"Dear Ol' Pampa High School" sung to the tune of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart".

Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway

In 1931, the Panhandle and Santa Fe leased two separate companies: the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad Company and the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, which together serviced the track from Clinton, Oklahoma, west to Hemphill County, Texas, and southwest to Pampa, located northeast of the headquarters city of Amarillo in Gray County, Texas.

Puka Pampa River

Puka Pampa River (Quechua puka red, pampa plain, "red plain", hispanicized spelling Puca Pampa) is a Bolivian river in the Chuquisaca Department, Sud Cinti Province, Culpina Municipality.

About 17 km south east of the village Pilaya the Puka Pampa River empties into Pilaya River which is a natural border between the departments Chuquisaca and Tarija.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Alleppey

The boundaries are: on the north, the Kuthiathodu CanalLine; on the south, a straight line from the curve of the Pampa River at Viyapuram to the Arabian Sea through Thottappally; on the east, a line along the middle of the Vembanadu Lake continued to the south by the Pallathuruthy Canal, one of the main branches of the Pampa River, to Viyapuram; on the west, the Arabian sea

Tacna and Arica Campaign

Right after Pisagua, two Allied squadrons were slightly outnumbered and crushed at Pampa Germania on November 6, and Col. Emilio Sotomayor held off a 7,400 men Allied attack on November 19 at Dolores dwell, near San Francisco.

Tiwanaku River

It empties into Wiñaymarka Lake, the southern part of Lake Titicaca, north of Guaqui (Waki) near the villages Jawira Pampa and Uma Marka.

Wanuku Pampa

Wanuku Pampa or Wanuku Marka (hispanicized spellings and names Huánuco Pampa, Huánuco Viejo, Huánuco Marca) is an archaeological site in Peru in the Huánuco Region, Dos de Mayo Province, La Unión District.


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