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62 unusual facts about Santa Cruz


2009 California college tuition hike protests

At UC Santa Cruz, over 100 students participated in a sit-in at the campus' Kerr Hall.

37th parallel north

Landmarks on the 37th parallel include Santa Cruz, California; Gilroy, California; Madera, California; Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley; Colorado City, Arizona; the Four Corners at the intersection with the 32nd meridian west from Washington (the only place where four U.S. states meet at a point); Cairo, Illinois; Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Newport News, Virginia.

Angus Ellis Taylor

Taylor was also an astute administrator and would eventually rise through the UC system to become provost and then chancellor of UC Santa Cruz.

Arthur Torres

He holds a Bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall).

Augusto A. Lim

Lim was born in Santa Cruz, Marinduque, Philippines, the first of seven sons of Leon B. Lim and Beatriz R. Alandy Lime.

Beatbeat Whisper

In early 2007, Beatbeat Whisper self-released a 10-track, self-titled album, recorded mostly in their Santa Cruz apartment.

Beth Shapiro

She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Blumentritt Road

It runs through the border of the City of Manila with Quezon City and Caloocan from Rizal Avenue in Santa Cruz district to Gregorio Tuazon Street (formerly Calle Balic Balic) in Sampaloc district.

Broke-ass Stuart

In 2003 he graduated from University of California Santa Cruz with a Bachelors in American Studies.

California Mathematics Project

Host Institution: UC, Santa Cruz

Casa da Moeda do Brasil

Its current headquarters and industrial facilities occupy a modern plant with 110,000 square metres (1.2 million square feet) in Rio de Janeiro's western suburb of Santa Cruz.

Caves of Aruba

The villages inhabited by them were near the towns of Santa Cruz and Savaneta, and the carvings inside the caves and rock faces testify to this inference.

Charles E. Merrill, Jr.

The Merrill Trust donated the money used to endow Merrill College at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968.

Darren Bravo

Darren Michael Bravo (born 6 February 1989 in Santa Cruz, Trinidad) is a West Indian cricketer who plays domestic cricket for Trinidad and Tobago and has appeared for the West Indies cricket team in One Day International (ODI) cricket and Test cricket.

David Cope

David Cope (b. San Francisco, California, United States, May 17, 1941) is an American author, composer, scientist, and former professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Diemonds

In March 2010, Diemonds toured through Canada once again as direct support to Santa Cruz, California glam metal band Dirty Penny.

Edmund Burke III

Edmund Burke III is Professor Emeritus of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Eduardo Quisumbing

Eduardo Quisumbíng y Argüelles (1895, Santa Cruz, Laguna–1986) was a Filipino biologist a leading authority of plants in the Philippines.

Eintou Pearl Springer

Eintou Pearl Springer (formerly Pearl Eintou Springer) (b. Cantaro village, Santa Cruz, Trinidad, 24 November 1944) is a poet, playwright, librarian and cultural activist from Trinidad and Tobago.

El Puente Municipality

El Puente Municipality, Santa Cruz, Guarayos Province, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia

Elizabeth Stephens

Elizabeth M. "Beth" Stephens is an artist, sculptor, film maker, photographer, Professor and former Chair of the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz.

Endangered spiders

This species makes large orb shaped webs at the entrance of caves and as of 2001 has only been found in caves located in Santa Cruz, California (Ubick, 2001).

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz

Federico Aguilar Alcuaz was born on June 6, 1932 in Santa Cruz, Manila.

Inktank Storage

CTO and founder Sage Weil started the open source Ceph project in 2004 for his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

J. Doyne Farmer

The Eudaemons were a small group headed by graduate physics students Doyne Farmer and Norman Packard at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the late 1970s.

Doyne went to graduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied chaos theory and the physics of roulette.

James Charles Kopp

He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1976, with a bachelor’s degree in Biology, going on to take a master's degree in Embryology from California State University Fullerton.

Jay Moriarity

Jay Moriarity (June 16, 1978–June 15, 2001) was a surfer from Santa Cruz, California.

Born in Georgia in 1978, Jay Moriarity and his family moved to Santa Cruz, California, soon after his birth.

John Dizikes

John Dizikes Ph.D. (born 1932) is a Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who served as Cowell College provost and who is a recipient of the UCSC Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award.

John E. McMurry

Following completion of his Ph.D., he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1967 and moved to Cornell University in 1980.

Jonathan Beecher

Jonathan French Beecher (born 1937) is a historian who has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz since the early 1970s.

Madison Nguyen

Madison received her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Manila Chinese Cemetery

Two hundred and sixty people died during the collapse of the 6-story Ruby Tower, located near the corner of Teodora Alonzo and Doroteo Jose streets in Santa Cruz, Manila.

Marcel Soros

Growing up at Pleasure Point, Santa Cruz, California, Marcel Soros spends a part of each day surfing and exploring the California coastline.

Marshall Hodgson

Much of it was rediscovered and subsequently published through the efforts of Edmund Burke III of the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Martin Manley

He graduated from Lowell High School in Whittier, California and UCSC, with honors degrees in Politics and Community Education.

Naser Qureshi

He did his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Thesis: Therahertz dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures); A.B. in Physics from Princeton University (Thesis: High-Tc superconductivity); and a post-doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz (Ultrafast magnetism).

Nate Fisher

After graduating from Bonaventure High School and attending U.C. Santa Cruz, Nate traveled through Europe and later settled in Washington State, where he managed the largest organic food co-op in Seattle.

Perito Moreno

Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz, a town in Argentina, near the Cueva de las Manos

Pleasure Point, New South Wales

A Pleasure Point can also be found in Santa Cruz, California.

Reyner Banham

As a professor, Banham taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London in the University of London, the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo, and through the 1980s at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Richard H. Lehman

He attended Fresno City College before transferring to the University of California at Santa Cruz from which he earned his degree.

Rosa-Linda Fregoso

Rosa-Linda Fregoso is the Professor and former Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz Bridge

The steel truss bridge was the fourth to span the river connecting the district of Santa Cruz from Plaza Goiti to Arroceros Street in the old city center of Manila.

Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur

In October 5, 2013, during the town's 129th anniversary of its existence, its local government leaders and populace have envisioned for a new aspiration for the town to become a city, given the presence of large industrial companies like the San Miguel Corporation, Coco Davao Inc., Franklin Baker Co., GSL Food Industries in the town.

Santa Cruz, Jamaica

A minor market village until the 1950s, the development of nearby areas for bauxite mining stimulated its growth in the 1950s and 1960s, as did the establishment of the St. Elizabeth Technical High School in 1961.

Santa Cruz, Madeira

Urban sprawl from Funchal extends along Santa Cruz's western frontier, while the eastern part of municipality is the base for Madeira's international airport.

Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro

Born and lived in the neighborhood some personalities of the country at different times as the actor André Villon, Senator Júlio Cesário de Melo, Senator Otacílio Câmara de Carvalho, the football player Thiago Silva, MMA fighter's Marcos Oliveira.

Texto apresentado na Mesa Redonda "Ecomuseologia" do 8 °Fórum Estadual de Museus/VII Encontro Estadual de Museus de Ciências Naturais "Museus e Globalização"- Sistema Estadual de Museus do RS, Rio Grande: 2002

Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte

The City is known for its St. Rita of Cascia Statue, The biggest Brazilian statue.As of the IBGE in 2000, the city had a total population of 31,294.

Sport Club Santa Cruz

Sport Club Santa Cruz, also known as Santa Cruz, are a Brazilian football team from Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte.

STACEE

The detector is operated in consortium with several universities, including McGill University, Case Western Reserve University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California, Santa Cruz, Columbia University, and the University of Alberta.

Susan Brison

Brison graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and went on to receive both a master's degree and a PhD from the University of Toronto.

Tayuman Street

It stretches 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome in Santa Cruz to Barrio Pritil in Tondo district.

The Rhythm Dukes

The band lived together in Santa Cruz and, following Stevenson's departure, was joined by Bill Champlin on organ and vocals.

Thomas Dolliver Church

He oversaw the master planning of UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Harvey Mudd College, Woodside Priory School, and the Wascana Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Timothy R. McClanahan

McClanahan received his bachelor's degree with honours in 1981, from the department of biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

UCLA Taser incident

On November 18, 2006, the University of California Students Association passed a "Police Brutality Resolution" regarding recent incidents at UC Santa Cruz and UCLA.

UCSC

University of California, Santa Cruz, a public, collegiate university and one of 10 campuses in the University of California system

Vicente Madrigal

He married Susana Paterno y Ramos, who grew up in Pangil, Laguna and was a poor relation to her own Manila relatives, the Paternos of Quiapo and Santa Cruz, Manila.

Young Homie

A music video was also created in Rene's hometown of Santa Cruz, California on February 16, 2012 and released onto YouTube and Vevo on March 20, 2012.


2007 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B

The 20 teams played home and away matches among each other and, by the end of the year, the four best-ranked (Coritiba, Ipatinga, Portuguesa and Vitória) were promoted to the first division and the four worst-ranked (Paulista, Santa Cruz, Remo, Ituano) were relegated to the third division.

Aboriginal title in California

In United States ex rel. Chunie v. Ringrose (1986), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit considered the trespass and conversion claims of Chumash tribe (joined by the federal government) over the ownership of the Channel Islands of California (and the channel beds surrounding the Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands) in California.

Álvaro Peña

Álvaro Guillermo Peña (born February 11, 1965 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a former football striker from Bolivia.

Amalia Matamoros

On October 29, 2009, she represented Costa Rica in Reina Hispanoamericana 2009 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, winning the Miss Photogenic title.

Amboró National Park

The area is bordered to the north and south by two roads that connect the cities of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.

Andrés Marzo

He executed paintings of St. Anthony of Padua, one for the parish church of Santa Cruz, and another for that of Santa Catalina.

Bolivian football league system

In order to qualify for the Nacional B there are 9 subdivisions at the 3rd level: the Departmental Championships or Regional Leagues, which comprises teams from the different Departments of Bolivia: Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Oruro, Tarija Department, Beni Department Pando Department, Potosí

Buena Vista, Ichilo

Buena Vista is administrative center of the Ichilo Province and located in the Buena Vista Municipio on the right banks of Río Ichilo, 90 km south-west of the departmental capital Santa Cruz.

Charis Wilson

At the time of her death she and her daughter, Rachel, were staying at the home of poet Joseph Stroud in Santa Cruz, California.

Eddie Steeples

After graduating from Klein Oak High School in 1992, Steeples moved to Santa Cruz, where he took acting classes at a community college and sought fame and a starring role opposite Tom Cruise.

Henry Blackwood

Early in 1798 Brilliant was sent out to join Admiral Waldegrave on the Newfoundland station; and on 26 July, whilst standing close in to the bay of Santa Cruz in quest of a French privateer, she observed the frigates Vertu and Régénérée preparing to sail for Rochefort.

Human trafficking in Bolivia

The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.

In larger cities, such as La Paz and Santa Cruz, the government maintains small municipal shelters capable of caring for sex trafficking victims on a short-term basis, although some shelters limit services to girls.

Jim Cochran

He started Swanton Berry Farm in 1983 near Santa Cruz, California and subsequently developed a wide range of new methods, which include crop rotations, such as broccoli and brussels sprouts, trap crops such as mustard and alfalfa, and the use of natural predators, to control strawberry specific pests and diseases.

Joe Brovia

Joseph John Brovia (February 18, 1922, Davenport, California – August 15, 1994, Santa Cruz, California) was a minor league baseball outfielder in the Pacific Coast League with the San Francisco Seals, Portland Beavers, Sacramento Solons, and the Oakland Oaks from 1941 to 1955 (excluding 1942–45, due to World War II).

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.

José Milton Melgar

José Milton Melgar Soruco (born September 20, 1959 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder.

Llanos de Moxos

Most of the Llanos de Moxos lies within the departments of El Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, and Santa Cruz.

M. C. Bradbrook

She held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Santa Cruz, Tokyo, and Rhodes, South Africa, and received honorary degrees from many more.

María Jesús Matthei

María Jesús Matthei (born March 3, 1992) is a Chilean model and the 1st Runner-up (Virreina) of the Reina Hispanoamericana 2011 pageant, held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on October 27, 2011.

Marine terrace

An especially prominent marine terraced coastline can be found north of Santa Cruz, near Davenport, California, where terraces probably have been raised by repeated slip earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault.

Modesto Soruco

Modesto Soruco Saucedo (born February 12, 1966 in San Ignacio de Velasco, Santa Cruz) is a retired Bolivian football midfielder who played for the Bolivian national team in Copa América 1991 and Copa América 1993.

My Republic

The compact disc version of the album includes enhanced CD content consisting of video footage of a three-song live performance in Santa Cruz, California from August 2005, and a PETA documentary entitled "Meet Your Meat".

Reid-Hillview Airport

The airport was the origin for an emergency supply airlift to the Watsonville Municipal Airport following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, after mountain and coastal roads were blocked, cutting off Santa Cruz and Watsonville from relief efforts by ground.

Reina Hispanoamericana 2008

Reina Hispanoamericana 2008, the 18th Reina Hispanoamericana Beauty Pageant was held at the Manzana Uno, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on October 30, 2008.

Richard Bandler

Bateson taught at UCSC, Kresge College as did Grinder, and had moved to a community on Alba Road near the Santa Cruz mountains community of Ben Lomond.

Richard Burmer

After spending time in college studying music theory and composition, Richard moved to Los Angeles where he became a sound designer for E-mu Systems in Santa Cruz and engineer/synth programmer for EFX systems in Burbank.

San Luis Mountains

Two mountain ranges, the San Luis in the southwest, and the Cerro Colorado Mountains northwest lie west of the four-mountain sequence of the Tumacacori Highlands-(of adjacent western Santa Cruz County) of the Tumacacori, Atascosa, Pajarito, and the Sierra La Esmeralda mountain ranges.

Saúl Guillermo Klinsky Callaú

In 1997 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from Santa Cruz through the proportional representation vote as a Civic Solidarity Union (UCS) candidate.

Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa

In 1969, América substituted for Bangu as the fifth Rio de Janeiro representative, whereas the states of the Paraná and Pernambuco had been represented by its champions of the previous year, Coritiba and Santa Cruz.

Trans-Andean railways

Empresa Nacional de Ferrocarriles - ENFE, operator of the National Railways of Bolivia, and consultant Hagler Bailly, United States, have signed a contract to undertake an economic feasibility study into the proposed $US 1 billion 338 km AiquileSanta Cruz Railway (IRJ July p6).

Transport in Madeira

The islands have two airports, one in Santa Cruz (known as Funchal Airport (FNC)) on the Island of Madeira and the other in the city of Vila Baleira on Porto Santo Island.

Yapacaní

Yapacaní (or Villa Yapacaní) is the largest town in the province of Ichilo in the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz.

ZooZoo

RN Podar School, Santa Cruz, Mumbai is planning to develop an animated character, inspired by the ZooZoos to attract students and will be used to teach Environmental Studies (EVS) to class I students.