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unusual facts about Rawson, Chubut


Languages of South America

Welsh remains spoken and written in the historic towns of Trelew and Rawson in the Argentine Patagonia.


Albert Rawson

Albert Noble Rawson (October 1900 – 1949) was an English professional footballer born in West Melton, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, who played in the Football League for Sheffield United, Birmingham and Barnsley.

Arturo Rawson

Born in Santiago del Estero, Rawson attended Argentina’s Military College, which he graduated from in 1907 and subsequently taught at for a time.

Biedma

Biedma Department, a department located in the north east of Chubut Province, on the Atlantic coast of Argentina

Caucete Department

Rawson, the father of William Rawson, chaired the Founding Society of Caucete, which divided the land into 25 blocks and each of them into two parts, through a ditch central allowed to hold irrigation in the plot.

Eduardo Belgrano Rawson

Eduardo Belgrano Rawson is a writer born in 1943 in San Luis, Argentina.

Goddard and Townsend

However, this alone is not proof of Goddard or Townsend origin- recently rediscovered cabinetmakers such as Benjamin Baker (1734–1822) of Newport or Grindal Rawson (1719–1803) of Providence are also known to have used the carved shell pattern when constructing case furniture.

Greater Need

#"She Walked Beside the Wagon" (Lynn Gillespie Chater, Kerry Chater, Cyril Rawson) – 3:39

J. J. Haverty

The book entitled "Villa Clare: The Purposeful Life and Timeless Art Collection of J.J. Haverty" by Haverty's great grandson, William Rawson Smith, and published by Mercer University Press tells the self made retailer's story and describes his many contributions to the arts, religion and business.

Marion Nicholl Rawson

Throughout her life, Rawson spent the summers in her home in East Alstead, New Hampshire, a small town north of Keene.

Northern Cricket Club

The original clubhouse was in Rawson Road in nearby Seaforth until 1879, when the club moved to Haigh Road in Waterloo Park.

Peter Rawson

An opening bowler and useful lower-order batsman, Rawson represented Zimbabwe at the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and 1987-88.

RaDene R. Hatfield

RaDene Rawson Hatfield (born July 26, 1962) is the daughter of former Utah State Legislator and last Democrat Majority Leader in Utah's House of Representatives, Roger Rawson.

The Tearjerkers

Brian Rawson went to London to join Jim Lyttle (Pretty Boy Floyd, Rogue Male) in his new band, and they recorded a three track demo in Alvic Studios with Jimmy Bain (Rainbow, Dio) producing and playing bass guitar on the track, "Rough, Tough and Pretty Too".

Thomas Waddell

When See resigned in June 1904, he recommended to Governor Sir Harry Rawson that he appoint Paddy Crick, but Rawson did not favour Crick because of his excessive drinking in Executive Council meetings and in due course asked Waddell to be premier.

Tomás Eloy Martínez

On 22 August he was fired at the behest of the government, whereupon he went to Rawson and the neighboring city of Trelew where he reported the Massacre of Trelew in his book The Passion According to Trelew.

On 15 August 1972 he learned of the uprising of political prisoners in the jail at Rawson, Chubut Province.

Trelew massacre

The Trelew Massacre was the retaliatory government killing of 16 militants of different Peronist and left organizations held as political prisoners in Rawson Penitentiary.


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