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66 unusual facts about San José


Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa

She graduated from the College of Notre Dame in San Jose, California in 1900.

Acromyrmex echinatior

In Costa Rica this species prefers open dry habitats such as urban areas around San Jose and seasonally dry habitats of Guanacaste Province.

Aga Muhlach

But on December 21, 2012 the Commission on Elections nulls Muhlach and Charlene Gonzales voter's registration in San Jose, Camarines Sur due to lack of residency status, he appeals to the local court but it was denied.

Agua Imara AS

The headquarters is located in Oslo and regional branch offices have been established in San José, Costa Rica and Johannesburg, South Africa.

Alexander Trevino

Trevino moved to San Jose, California to train with Shamrock Submission fight team until December 2009.

Bruce Cutler

Cutler—and his brother Rich, a federal prosecutor in San Jose, California before joining the law firm Dechert in 2007—grew up in Brooklyn and were good athletes.

Bushmaster M17S

The distributor was Edenpine (USA) Inc., the American branch of Edenpine of Australia, headquartered in San Jose, California.

Camilo Daza International Airport

In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.

Carlos Salazar Herrera

Carlos Salazar Herrera (1906–1982) was born in San José, Costa Rica, where he attended primary and secondary school.

Catherine Naglestad

Catherine Naglestad, born in San Jose of Scandinavian parentage, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, is an American soprano singer.

Central Luzon Link Expressway

Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEx) is a proposed toll road that will connect the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) to the proposed North Luzon East Expressway in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija towards San Jose City, Nueva Ecija.

Charlie Shrem

Shrem spoke at the Bitcoin 2013 conference in San Jose, California describing the potential for initial fights between Bitcoin companies and regulators and the need for close collaboration between them to develop standards of 'Knowing Your Customer' policies.

Copa Centroamericana

The most recent championship, hosted by Costa Rica, was won by the host nation who beat Honduras 1–0 at the final in San José.

Costa Rican Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Its original constituent members were five churches in metropolitan San José that separated from the Association of Biblical Churches in Costa Rica (AIBC).

David Clary

He undertook post-doctoral research at IBM in San Jose, California, and at the University of Manchester.

Debbie Lee Carrington

Deborah "Debbie" Lee Carrington (born December 14, 1959 in San Jose, California) is an American actress and stuntwoman known for her diminutive size due to dwarfism.

Diermissen

Julius Friedrich Max Diermissen (*07.01.1870 Hamburg- ✝ 28.03.1927 San José, Costa Rica, German vice-consul in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, from 1894-1902, and U.S. consular agent in the same port from 1894-1901.

Don Sebastiani

He attended St. Francis Solano School in Sonoma, Bellarmine Prep in San Jose, and the University of San Francisco (USF).

Earth Charter Initiative

The Secretariat is composed by a very small staff, and it is based at the University for Peace campus in San José, Costa Rica.

Edward Alexander Walker

They never had any children and after retirement they moved to San Jose, California.

He was killed in an auto accident October 24, 1946 in San Jose, California.

Erik Rosales

Erik Rosales was the South Bay bureau reporter and a field reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco and San Jose, California, United States.

Escats

Para que estés... en el Concierto - Recorded Live in San José, Costa Rica

Festival Siembra y Lucha

Festival Siembra y Lucha is an open air metal festival held annually in San José, Costa Rica since 2012.

Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children

In 2005, FIMRC established a clinic in San Felipe, Alajuelita (approximately 5 km outside San José).

German School New York

In addition, the school shares ties with the Alexander von Humboldt German International School of Montréal, Canada, the German School Washington, D.C. and the Colegio Humboldt in San José, Costa Rica, allowing numerous programs between schools.

History of newspapers in California

San Jose, California's first city, has one of the oldest newspapers in the state.

History of the floppy disk

In 1967, IBM gave their San Jose, California storage development center a task to develop a reliable and inexpensive system for loading microcode into their System/370 mainframes in a process called Initial Control Program Load (ICPL).

Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education

The mandate of the Arrupe Partnership program is to establish a mutually beneficial partnership between Santa Clara University and the Eastside neighborhood of San Jose, California in order to emphasize the Jesuit concern for justice within the University’s curriculum.

International human rights law

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights.

Jermaine Beckford

He then got his second cap four days later in the 2–0 defeat against Costa Rica at Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San José.

John C. Caldwell

He then entered the diplomatic service as the U.S. Consul in Valparaíso, Chile, from 1869 to 1874; U.S. Minister to Uruguay and Paraguay, 1874 to 1882; U.S. Consul to San José, Costa Rica, 1897 to 1909.

Jorge Hine Saborío

He married Ana María García Bottino, the daughter of Vespancio García Cuervo and Colomba Bottino Capiro, on June 17, 1904 in San José.

Julian Feoli-Gudino

Julian Feoli-Gudino (born June 22, 1987, in San José, Costa Rica) is a Canadian football wide receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.

Li Zhenshi

After retiring from competition, Li and his wife Zhang Li moved to the USA, where they direct the World Champions Table Tennis Academy in San Jose, California.

Lola Castegnaro

She was born in San José, Costa Rica, and studied music with her father, Italian-born composer Alvise Castegnaro.

Luis Guillermo Solís

Most of Solís' support came from the Central Valley provinces of San José, Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago.

Manuel Argüello Mora

Manuel Argüello Mora was born in San José, Costa Rica in 1834.

Manuel de Jesús Jiménez Oreamuno

He collaborated with Monsignor Victor Sanabria Martínez, second Archbishop of San José, Costa Rica in his work "Genealogy of Cartago from 1650 until 1850", managing to prove a profound knowledge of the collection of protocols of the National Archive of Costa Rica, and contributing important elements to the understanding of the studied lineage in said work.

Marco Antonio Rigau

Rigau has also studied at the Instituto Interamericano de Estudios Políticos in San José, Costa Rica, Harvard University Law School, and New York University Law School.

Melodious Blackbird

Prior to 1989 there was only one Costa Rican record, but it is now easily seen at least as far south as San José, and it is expected to colonise Panama.

Mesoamerican Society for Ecological Economics

After the second biennial meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in 1994 at San José, Costa Rica, several professionals in the region became interested in creating a branch of this organization in their own countries to respond to the increasing development and worsening of social-environmental conflicts by the conventional-economics-based policies.

MiniScribe

The company then went bankrupt in 1990, and their assets, sans liabilities, were subsequently purchased by Maxtor of San Jose, California.

Oliver Winchester

William's wife Sarah believed the family was cursed by the spirits killed by the Winchester rifle, and moved to San Jose, California and began building a chaotic mansion now known as the Winchester Mystery House with her inheritance, intending to confuse the spirits seeking revenge.

Oscar Núñez Oliva

Oscar Núñez Oliva (born May 21, 1955 in San José) is a Costa Rican journalist and author.

Paleteros

In San Jose, California an individual is fined $278 every time they are caught selling paletas without a permit.

Parque en el Espacio

The album was produced by ‘Automata’ in San José, Costa Rica and later masterized by World Mastering Studios in England.

Peter Daniel Young

Young was arrested in San Jose, California on March 21, 2005 on charges of shoplifting CDs from a local Starbucks and was extradited to Wisconsin to face trial for the fur farm raids.

Ralph C. Smedley

After he spent over two years with an architect working on YMCA architecture he accepted the post of YMCA Secretary at San Jose, California in September 1919, and soon had a Toastmasters Club flourishing at his new YMCA.

Ralph Rambo

He was born in San Jose, California on May 16, 1894 and died in Palo Alto, California on May 19, 1990.

Ranjit Singh Gujjar

As a table tennis player, Gujjar has represented India at two international tournaments: the August 2010 Copa Costa Rica International Table Tennis Tournament (San José, Costa Rica), and the December 2010 Asian Para Games (Guangzhou, China).

Renz Julian

Formerly known as Playa Renz, the Bay Area native originates from the cities of Oakland, Antioch, and San Jose, California.

Repertorio Americano

Repertorio Americano was a cultural magazine published in San José, Costa Rica by Joaquín García Monge, on and off between 1919 and 1958.

San Jose Maverick

San Jose Maverick (later Maverick) was an underground newspaper published in San Jose, California monthly from Feb. 1969 to Fall 1970.

San José, Andrés Ibáñez

San José is the central town of Cantón San José and is located in La Guardia Municipality in Andrés Ibáñez Province.

San José, El Petén

The town is home to Heredia Jaguares de Peten of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala, the top level in Guatemalan football since it moved from Morales in summer 2008.

Santa Teresa, California

Santa Teresa, San Jose, California, a neighborhood in southern San Jose, California, USA

Santiago Polanco-Abreu

He was one of the founders of the Institute for Democratic Studies in San José, Costa Rica.

Silicon Valley BART extension

The extensions will be to the Warm Springs District, Berryessa District, and lastly to Downtown San Jose and/or Santa Clara.

Strassner Editing Systems

Over 400 systems were sold up to the time, in 1995, that Mr. Strassner sold the company to a San Jose based company - Videomedia, Inc., makers of the "V-LAN" hardware he used to physically control video tape machines (VTRs), video and audio switchers and special effects devices.

Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis

The Supreme Court of Justice Hostage Crisis was a 1993 attack in which five gunmen from a group calling itself the "Death Commando" group took over the Costa Rican Supreme Court in San José on April 26 and held 19 supreme court judges (magistrates) and five administrative employees as hostages.

Take it Sleezy

It was produced by music engineer Johnny Lima and was recorded at Suspect Studios, San Jose, California.

Tiina Saario

At the 1999 Algarve Cup Saario made two further appearances, but did not play for her country again until April 2002; a 3–0 defeat to the United States in San Jose, California.

Toyota Prius c

Since October 2012, Prius c owners are exempted from the restrictions imposed by the road space rationing implemented by plate number to restrict access to downtown San José, the country's capital.

Vo Duc Van

Vo was a Vietnamese language teacher for the young Buddhists in temples in San Jose, California, Pomona, and in Seattle.

Yubin

She attended JungAm Elementary School and Anyang High School for a while before moving to San Jose, California, where she studied at Leland High School.


1984 Morgan Hill earthquake

The communities of San Jose, San Martin and Coyote were some areas that received minor damage from the earthquake.

Ben Fritz

Benjamin James Fritz (born March 29, 1981 in San Jose, California) is a minor league baseball player who was a first-round selection in the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft who last played in 2010 for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Costa Rica Open

The tournament was held at the Cariari Country Club near San José every year except in 2004 when it was played over the Valle del Sol Golf Course near Santa Ana.

Dean Malenko

On February 27, 2007, Mistico (later known in WWE as Sin Cara) defeated Malenko in a tryout dark match before a TV taping in San Jose, California.

Gail Karp

In the years that followed, she was affiliated with Temple Israel of Omaha and Congregation B’nai Jeshurun of Lincoln in Nebraska, Temple Beth El of Aptos and Temple Emanuel of San Jose.

George Manross

For example, his findings that predicted an overwhelming victory for Chuck Reed was scoffed at by the media until Reed defeated his opponent, Cindy Chavez, by 19 points to become the mayor of San Jose; and, a $1.7 billion sales tax measure dedicated to public transportation and public transit in Fresno County, which was driven by the "findings" from two SRI voter surveys, received 77.7% voter support.

Infineta Systems

Infineta was headquartered in San Jose, California and attracted $30 million in two rounds of venture funding from Alloy Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners.

Jacinta Balbela

After her retirement from the courts, she served as the co-director of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) in San José, Costa Rica.

James Rolph

Rolph received considerable criticism for publicly praising the citizens of San Jose following the November 1933 lynching of the confessed murderers of Brooke Hart, a local department store heir, while promising to pardon anyone involved, thereby earning the nickname, "Governor Lynch".

Karen J. Warren

She has spoken widely on environmental issues, feminism, critical thinking skills and peace studies in many international locations including Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Manitoba, Melbourne, Moscow, Perth, the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), and San Jose.

Luiz Carlos Vieira

Luiz Carlos Vieira Junior (born July 27, 1982) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for San José in Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano .

Mario Celotto

On February 4, 2011, arranged by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, Celotto visited a physics class in Yerba Buena High School in San Jose, California to demonstrate how Newton's laws of motion apply to football.

Morales, Guatemala

The town boasted a Guatemalan top division football side in Deportivo Heredia before it was relocated to San José, El Petén Department in summer 2008 due to a lack of support.

Program for the future

Program for the Future recently sponsored a conference at The Tech Museum in San Jose, where several hundred people convened both face to face and online to explore the Engelbart Hypothesis.

Rebecca Dines

She has performed numerous times for Palo Alto-based Theatreworks, as well as Kansas City, Berkeley, San Jose, and South Coast Repertory theatres, Magic and B Street theatres, and the Laguna Playhouse, among others.

Robert Rothbart

After graduating from the private elementary The Harker School in San Jose, California, Robert has successfully played high school basketball for Saint Francis High School (Mountain View, California), Monta Vista High School (Cupertino, California) and Natomas High School (Sacramento, California).

San Jose Earthquakes Stadium

San Jose Earthquakes Stadium is the working name of an under construction soccer specific stadium that is being built in San Jose, California, for Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes.

Santa Lucía River

For a large part of its course it forms the limit between the departments of Florida and San José on one bank and Canelones and Montevideo on the other.

Sathyananda Saraswathi

Saraswathi established centres of Sree Rama Dasa Mission in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and San Jose in the USA.

Sergio Jáuregui

Sergio Antonio Jáuregui Landivar (born March 13, 1985 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football defender who last played for San José in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.

The Midnight Patrol

The Stoke-on-Trent Laurel & Hardy tent is named 'The Midnight Patrol Tent' in honour of this film as well as the San Jose, California tent.

Ulmus mexicana

In Costa Rica the Mexican Elm is known as Tirrá; the neighbourhood (district) of Tirrases in Curridabat, San José, takes its name from the tree.

Wheel 2000

The tour visited a variety of major market cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., New York City, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Jose, and Anaheim.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.