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unusual facts about Pomona, Río Negro



Andy Willsheer

Willsheer achieved worldwide acclaim while photographing an NHRA Funny Car drag race featuring Steve Gasparelli at Pomona raceway on 14 December 2009.

Ballarat Botanical Gardens

The 12 statues were figures from classical mythology: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Hercules, Pomona, Bacchante, Hebe, Flora Farnese, Leda, Mercury and Flora.

Brazil–Uruguay relations

The first permanent settlement on the territory of present-day Uruguay was founded by the Spanish in 1624 at Soriano on the Río Negro.

Brown-banded Puffbird

Other localized, small populations occur notably on four tributary rivers: the central Tapajós River, lower Madeira River, lower Rio Negro, and lower Ucayali River; also on the Amazon River, one region downstream of the Tapajós-Amazon River confluence.

C Lanzbom

Lanzbom is the founder of Sherwood Ridge Studio, located in Pomona, New York.

Cal Poly College of Engineering

Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering, a college of engineering in the city of Pomona, California

Cardinal tetra

An entire industry is in place in Barcelos on the banks of Brazil's Rio Negro in which the local population catches fish for the aquarium trade.

Chris Karamesines

In 2009, he became the first driver in NHRA history to compete and become the fastest driver at over 78 years old at the final event of the 2009 season at Pomona driving in the Top Fuel category.

Clarence Glacken

His second wife was Mildred Mosher (b. 1913 in Pomona, CA died around 1982) with whom he had 2 children - the novelist Karen Kijewski, and a son Michael.

Claudio Basso

Claudio Basso is an Argentine singer born in Cipolletti, Río Negro on August 6, 1977.

Damian Rolls

In 2011 The Rockland Boulders, an American professional baseball team based in Pomona, New York in the County of Rockland and member of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball hired Rolls to serve as the club’s hitting coach for the 2011 season.

Darwin's Rhea

The specific name was bestowed in 1834 by Darwin's contemporary and rival Alcide d'Orbigny who first described the bird to Europeans, from a specimen from the lower Río Negro south of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

For You, and Your Denial

The song was the first to debut live from the new album, as the band debuted the song on their show at the Glass House in Pomona, California on November 13, 2010, the band's first live show since reforming after the 2008–2010 hiatus.

Foxwhelp

This is one of the oldest surviving varieties of cider apple; it is first mentioned in John Evelyn's Advertisements Concerning Cider in his work Pomona of 1664, in which it is commented that "cider for strength ... is best made of the Fox-whelp of the Forest of Dean, but which comes not to be drunk until two or three years old".

Freddie Rodriguez

Prior to being elected to the state assembly, he was a Pomona city councilmember.

Gershom Craft House

Craft planted over 100 different species of fruits on the farm and named it after the Roman goddess of fruit trees, Pomona.

J. Jon Bruno

From 1983 to 1986, he was associate at St. Paul's Church in Pomona, California.

John Eldredge

John received his undergraduate degree in theater from California Polytechnic University (Pomona) and his MA in biblical counseling from Colorado Christian University under the direction of Dr. Larry Crabb and Dr. Dan Allender.

John Lyle

John T. Lyle, professor of landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona

Julio Mázzaro

Julio Eduardo Mázzaro (born 30 January 1979 in Villa Regina, Río Negro) is an Argentine professional basketball player.

Kawai Musical Instruments

-- Conducted by whom? --> at California Polytechnic University (Pomona) in 1998, Kawai's ABS action parts were shown to be stronger than comparable wooden parts and far less susceptible to shrinking and swelling due to humidity.

Kurt Johnson

He made his competitive driving debut in a Pro Stock Oldsmobile Cutlass at the 1993 NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, CA, qualifying fifteenth, and won two rounds before being narrowly defeated by former teammate Scott Geoffrion in the semi-finals.

Lawrence B. Harkless

Lawrence B. Harkless, DPM, FACFAS, MAPWCA, is Founding Dean and Professor of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery at the College of Podiatric Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California, USA.

Louis Phillips

He moved to Spadra (now part of Pomona) in 1862 and began engaging in sheep herding and cattle raising.

Martin Milmore

By his 20th birthday Milmore received a commission for three giant figures ("Ceres", "Flora" and "Pomona") for the front of the Horticultural Hall in Boston; the restored versions are now on display at the Elm Bank Horticulture Center.

Myron Hunt

They were soon designing large houses in communities throughout Southern California including the summer ranch home for cereal magnate Will Keith Kellogg at the present day campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).

Oxtoby

David W. Oxtoby, the ninth and current president of Pomona College

Palisades Sill

It is at this point that the sill makes a turn to the west, where it disappears near Pomona.

Plan de Sánchez massacre

On 2 September 1996, Ombudsman Jorge Mario García Laguardia issued a historic resolution in which he denounced the massacre of Plan de Sánchez (and two others that took place in Rabinal the same year: Chichupac and Río Negro) as crimes against humanity, laid the blame for them firmly at the feet of the government and the military, and said that they had been carried out as part of a premeditated state policy.

Pomona University

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (also known as Cal Poly Pomona), a public polytechnic university in Pomona, California and part of the California State University

Pomona College, a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California (originally founded in Pomona) and part of the Claremont Colleges consortium

Pomona, New York

Pomona was named after the goddess of fruit trees, gardens, and orchards, for the area's many apple orchards.

Pomone

Prix de Pomone, a French horserace named after Pomona (French name Pomone), the Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards.

Redstreak

Thomas Knight's Pomona Herefordiensis (1811), noted that "trees of the Red-streak can now no longer be propagated; and the fruit, like the trees, is affected by the debilitated old age of the variety, and has in a very considerable degree, survived those qualities to which it was owing its former fame".

Richard Brookshaw

The last record of him are some plates in the "Pomona Britannica" (a botanical work illustrated by George Brookshaw, Richard's brother, and published in 1804).

Río Negro Municipality

José Solano set up his exploration base in that place, in the margins of the Rio Negro, and there he settled with the few men that had survived the ascent along the Orinoco River, since most, including the famous Swedish botanist Pehr Löfling that accompanied the expedition, they had succumbed prey of the tropical diseases, especially the yellow fever.

Santiago Roth

Roth extended his range of paleontological expeditions to Patagonia, including the areas along the Rio Negro, Limay River and Chubut River, partly together with F. Machon, another researcher from Switzerland from 1885 to 1891.

Sisco, Florida

During the 1920s, there was a steamboat stop along Dunn's Creek that provided wood and water to the ships loaded with citrus and it was used also as a post office for the towns of Pomona and Cisco.

Slate-coloured Hawk

This corridor is about 700 km wide, and includes the confluence areas downstream of the major rivers: Rio Negro, Madeira, Tapajós, Xingu, and the outlet section of the Tocantins River in the southeast Basin's neighbouring river system, Araguaia-Tocantins.

Stanley Dashew

He spent most of his childhood on a sixty-five-acre agricultural property his parents owned in Pomona, New York, with his two sisters.

Tewantin, Queensland

Tewantin replaced Pomona on 1 December 1985 as the location of the Noosa Shire Council until 15 March 2008 when the Council was amalgamated with Maroochy Shire and the City of Caloundra to create the Sunshine Coast Regional Council.

Triage tag

The example Triage Tag shown in this article is the All Risk(R) Triage Tag manufactured by Disaster Management Systems (DMS) located in Pomona, California.

U.S. Route 60

US 60 passed through Pomona and Riverside, meeting US 70 and US 99 near Beaumont, east of which it coincided with US 70 and US 99 as far to the east as Indio.

Victor J. Glover

Glover is a Lt. Commander in the U.S. Navy who hails from Pomona, California and Prosper, Texas.

West Puente Valley, California

West Puente Valley is an unincorporated community located in the heart of the San Gabriel Valley, between Downtown Los Angeles and Pomona.

White-winged Potoo

The main range of the White-winged Potoo is the central Amazon Basin at the confluence of four rivers, from the Rio Negro on the north, to the Madeira River on the south, in eastern regions of Brazil's Amazonas state.


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