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unusual facts about Santa Clara, Gabon


Sahoué

It is located northwest of the capital at the extreme end of the Santa Clara peninsula.


1906 Atlantic hurricane season

This first hurricane of the season's effects were first noted in Santa Clara, Cuba, where rainy and windy conditions were observed on the afternoon of June

1968–69 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team

At the West Regional, played in Pauley Pavilion, the Bruins defeated New Mexico State 53–38 and Santa Clara 90–52.

2014 San Francisco 49ers season

It will also mark the 49ers' first season playing their home games at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

A. I. Shlyakhter

A.I. Shlyakhter is a Russian physicist who noted that the existence of the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo in Gabon gave evidence that the physical fine-structure constant α has changed less than 10−17 per year over the last two billion years.

Ancistrocladus letestui

Ancistrocladus letestui is a species of liana of the plant family of the Ancistrocladaceae occurring in the subtropical or tropical dry forests of Cameroon and Gabon (Lower Guinea).

Bebearia zonara

It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mayumbe, Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Ituri, Tshopo, Equateur, Cataractes, Kasai, Sankuru and Lualaba) and Uganda (Bwamba and Toro).

Beti-Pahuin peoples

Most Beti-Pahuin peoples also speak their countries’ official languages: Spanish in Equatorial Guinea (Annobonese in Annobón); French in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon; Portuguese, Angolar, Principense, and Forro in São Tomé and Príncipe, English in Cameroon.

Central African Republic parliamentary election, 2016

On 11 January 2013, a ceasefire agreement was signed in Libreville, Gabon between the government, Séléka and the political opposition.

Congress for Democracy and Justice

The Congress for Democracy and Justice (CDJ) is a political party in Gabon, led by Jules-Aristide Bourdes-Ogouliguende.

Cupidesthes thyrsis

It is found in Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ubangi, Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba).

Didier Ibrahim N'Dong

Born in Lambaréné, Gabon, Didier Ibrahim moved to Tunisia, where he made his professional debut playing for CS Sfaxien during the 2011–12 CLP-1 season.

Doha GOALS

The launch of Doha GOALS at Bayt Qatar during the London 2012 games was attended by President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon and Olympic athletes including Carl Lewis, Tegla Loroupe, Marie-José Pérec and Ian Thorpe.

Donguila

While exploring Gabon, the English writer and explorer Mary Kingsley, is known to have moored her boat at Donguila.

Florence S. Jacobsen

As a church curator, Jacobsen supervised the restoration of many church buildings, including the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City; the E. B. Grandin building in Palmyra, New York; the Brigham Young home in St. George, Utah; the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara, Utah; the Newell K. Whitney store in Kirtland, Ohio; and the interior of the Manti Utah Temple.

Gory Gopela

Over 800 immigrants are living in the commune, some of them aid workers from countries such as France, USA and Hong Kong but also people from Gabon, Libya and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Guélor Kanga

Guélor Kanga Kaku (born September 1, 1990 in Oyem) is a Gabonese professional football player.

Health in Gabon

Most of the health services of Gabon are public, but there are some private institutions, of which the best known is the hospital established in 1913 in Lambaréné by Albert Schweitzer.

Jérôme Efong Nzolo

Jérôme Efong Nzolo (born 21 September 1974 in Bitam, Gabon) is a Belgian football referee.

John J. McGrath

In 1932 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, defeating incumbent Arthur M. Free in the 8th district, which ran from San Mateo County south across Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties.

Joseph Vandor

Joseph Vandor SDB, (born as: József Wech, known too as Vándor József, José Vandor, Wech József, Father Puchner) was a Hungarian Catholic Salesian priest, missionary and Venerable * 29 October 1909, Dorog (Komárom-Esztergom County, Austria-Hungary; today: Hungary) † 8 October 1979, Santa Clara (Cuba, America).

Land grabbing

Olam International’s investment in Gabon reported at 300,000 hectares, currently operating on just 50,000

Lawrence Plaza

It is also the name of a small shopping plaza in Santa Clara, California serving the Korean community with a grocery store, bakery, coffee shop, and a food court; this article describes the shopping centre in Toronto.

Lengue language

The Lengue language, also called Molengue, Balengue, Molendji, is a Bantu language of southern Equatorial Guinea, spoken by the Lengue people between Bata and the Gabon border near the coast.

Lengue people

Today Bengas inhabit the coast region of the country's mainland, between Bata and the Gabonese border.

Mbama people

The Obamba are an ethnic group located largely in Gabon's Haut-Ogooué Province.

Miya Tachibana

During the summer of 2008, she was a synchronized swimming coach for the Santa Clara Aquamaids in Santa Clara, California.

Monoplex tranquebaricus

This species is distributed in European waters, in the Atlantic Ocean along the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, West Africa, Gabon, Angola and in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys.

Negue Djogo

But Habré was able to win over the party in peace talks held at Libreville in Gabon under the patronage of the President Omar Bongo, which included also Alphonse Kotiga's Codos and Acheikh ibn Oumar's CAC-CDR.

Oboronia pseudopunctatus

It is found in Ghana (the Volta region), Togo, Nigeria (south and the Cross River loop), Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Equateur, Tshuapa, Mongala, Uele, Sankuru and Lualaba), Uganda (from the western part of the country to Bwamba) and north-western Tanzania.

Ovidiu Tender

Starting 2009, Ovidiu Tender turned his attention to the African continent, In Senegal and Gabon the businessman announced that he plans to grow, on large areas of land, Jatropha, a bush tree that can be used for making biodiesel fuel.

Perenco

It has exploration and production activities in 16 countries across the globe (the North Sea, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Belize, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam).

Pierre Aubameyang

Pierre Francois Aubameyang "Yaya" (also spelled as Aubame Eyang) (born 29 May 1965 in Bitam) is a former Gabonese football (soccer) defender.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

In July 2012, Aubameyang represented Gabon at the 2012 Olympic Games held in London.

On 15 June 2013, Aubameyang scored a hat-trick of penalty kicks in Gabon's 4–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying win over Niger.

Pleyel et Cie

In 1913, Pleyel built the "Jungle Piano" for use by Albert Schweitzer in his hospital in Lambaréné (French Equatorial Africa – now Gabon).

Pugilina morio

This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Gabon, Mauritania; in the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles and along Brazil.

Punu-Lumbo mask

A Punu-Lumbo mask is a tribal mask native to the Ogooué River basin in Gabon, especially in the south in Ngounié Province.

Reggie Otero

He began his career with the Club Acción Republicana before joining Habana (1936–1937), Santa Clara (1939–40), Cienfuegos and Almendares (1945–1946) and then the Havana Reds of the Cuban National Federation before returning to Cienfuegos, where he played for seven years from 1947 to 1953.

Reverence for Life

He also used his hospital in Lambaréné in Gabon (Central Africa) to demonstrate this philosophy in practice.

Ronald K. McMullen

Other overseas assignments include serving as Deputy Principal Officer in Cape Town, South Africa; Economic Officer in Libreville, Gabon; Political Officer in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Vice Consul in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ruth Jennifer Ondo Mouchita

Ruth Jennifer Ondo Mouchita (born 1992) is a Gabonese beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Gabon 2013 and the representative of Gabon in Miss Universe 2013.

Santa Clara, Chiriqui, Panama

In 2009 the University of Northern Colorado studied the district of Renacimiento, whose capital is Rio Sereno.

The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (aka MBC, in Spanish "Corridor Biológico Mesoamericano") passes nearby.

Santa Clara, San Vicente

Traditionally, the economy of the city has been based on agriculture, mostly subsistence farming and cultivation.

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.

Timeline of aviation – 20th century

July 18 - Daniel Maloney makes a launch in a tandem-wing glider designed by John Montgomery at Santa Clara, California.

Timeline of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season

EDT (0000 UTC September 5) – A tropical depression forms northeast of Santa Clara, Cuba.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.


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