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58 unusual facts about Santa Fe


1986 South American Games

The Games were organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR) and were initially awarded to Brazil at its 1982 congress held in Rosario.

5 Steps to Danger

He is offered a ride by a stranger, Ann Nicholson, who is driving to Santa Fe and asks him to take turns behind the wheel.

Agrinar

Agrinar SA is a tractor manufacturer located in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Alan V. Tishman

They had Two daughters (Pat T. Hall of Santa Fe, New Mexico and Virginia Nina Tishman Alexander of New York City) as well as one son David Tishman, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Antonio Corti

Hugo Antonio Corti (born June 3, 1963 in San Martin, Sante Fé) is a retired boxer from Argentina, who competed in the middleweight division (– 71 kg).

Arnaldo Sialle

Born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Sialle began playing professional football with Newell's Old Boys in the Primera División.

Balthasar Seña

He defended them against slave-dealers, and declined an offered preferment at Santa Fe in order to remain with his mission work.

Battle of Rio San Gabriel

Although Kearny had superior orders from the United States War Department, he had previously sent most of his troops back to Santa Fe, New Mexico, believing that the war in California had ended, and his remaining force sustained heavy losses in the United States defeat at the Battle of San Pasqual.

Black Beaver

When Captain Randolph B. Marcy escorted the first 500 emigrants from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Santa Fe during the gold rush days of 1849, he engaged Black Beaver as his guide.

Carlos Leonardo Herrera

Carlos Leonardo Herrera (born March 27, 1983 in San Justo, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine boxer in the Middleweight division.

Charlie Siringo

They attempted to have Siringo prosecuted for libel, requesting extradition from his ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico to Chicago.

Club de Rugby Ateneo Inmaculada

Club de Rugby Ateneo Inmaculada, also known for its acronym CRAI is an Argentine rugby union and field hockey club, located in Santo Tomé, Santa Fe Province.

Diana Bellessi

Bellessi Diana (born 1946 Zavalla, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine poet.

Dragon Festival

In 2010 an estimated 1500 people created a free festival in Santa Fe, 4 km to the west of Granada (60 km north of Orgiva) and is widely perceived as the new home of the Dragon Festval.

Eilen Jewell

Jewell grew up in Boise, Idaho and attended college in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

El Litoral

El Litoral is a local newspaper published in Santa Fe, Argentina.

Elena Nikolaidi

Madame Nikolaidi retired from teaching in 1994 and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where she died at 92 years of age in 2002.

Emilio Badini

He was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Argentina and had Argentine citizenship but represented Italy internationally.

Ernesto Mastrángelo

Ernesto Enrique Mastrángelo (born July 5, 1948 in Rufino) is a former Argentine football striker who played for both River Plate and Boca Juniors in Argentina.

Fabio Díez

Fabio Ricardo Diez Steinaker (born November 18, 1965 in Santa Fe, Argentina) is a former beach volleyball player, who represented Spain at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Farm to Market Road 1764

The next year, the highway was expanded westward to its current terminus at SH 6 at Arcadia.

Fernando Batiste

Fernando Nicolás Batiste (born March 11, 1984 in Tacural (Santa Fe), Argentina) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for the Colombian club La Equidad in the Categoría Primera A.

Georgelle Hirliman

Georgelle Cynthia Hirliman (June 11, 1936, Los Angeles, California – January 29, 2010, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American writer and adopted daughter of Eleanor Hunt.

Gonzalo Carabajal

He fulfilled roles and expeditions in almost all provinces as Salta, Corrientes, Santa Fe.

Gonzalo Carabajal was an General, Mayor of the province of Buenos Aires and Lieutenant General of Santa Fe during Viceroyalty of Peru.

Gordon Granger

In 1876, Granger died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was serving in command of the District of New Mexico.

Héctor Cavallero

Cavallero was born in Las Parejas, Santa Fe, but went to high school in the General Paz Military Liceum in Córdoba, and studied Biochemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

Hospital Tobar García

Tobar Garcia was founded in 1968, two years after its construction started; in-patient services began in 1969 with a contingent of children from Montes de Oca in Belgrano Department, Santa Fe.

John Chisum

In 1866-67, Chisum formed a partnership with cattlemen Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving to assemble and drive herds of cattle for sale to the Army in Fort Sumner and Santa Fe, New Mexico, to provide cattle to miners in Colorado as well as provide cattle to the Bell Ranch.

Jorge Obeid

He became a member of the legislative council of Santa Fe and, as the President of the Council, became the mayor when the incumbent resigned.

José Inés Salazar

A Federal jury in Santa Fe acquitted him of the smuggling charge in May 1914, but he was then taken to a detention camp at Fort Wingate, New Mexico to face charges of violating American neutrality laws.

Joseph Projectus Machebeuf

He served as pastor at Albuquerque (1853–1858) and at Santa Fe (1858–1860) before being transferred to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky Mountains and lamed for life.

Juan de Garay

Juan de Garay died near the Río de la Plata, while travelling from Buenos Aires to Santa Fe on March 20, 1583, his group of 40 men, a Franciscan priest and a few women entered an unknown lagoon and decided to spend the night on the banks of the Carcarañá River, near the ancient Sancti Spíritus Fort.

The governor of Asunción sent him on April 1573, with a company of eighty men, on an expedition to the Paraná River, during which he founded the city of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz.

Juan Manuel Navarrete

Juan Manuel Navarrete (born 20 February 1988 in Sastre, Santa Fe) is an Argentine football midfielder who currently plays for club Atlético de Rafaela in Argentina.

Jubilee Trail

They arrive in Santa Fe several months after leaving St. Louis and Garnet is reunited with Florinda, who was traveling "in sin" with a deacon from St. Louis.

Jules DeMun

In response to their letter appealing their detention, the Governor in Santa Fe ordered the company to leave Spanish territory.

Luis Tupatu

Later, in Santa Fe, Luis Tupatú was officially appointed governor of thirteen villages of Northern New Mexico.

Marcos Sastre

The town of Sastre, in Santa Fe Province, street names in several Argentine cities and a school on the Reconquista River, in the town of Tigre, are named after him.

Merle Settlemire

Edgar Merle Settlemire a.k.a. Lefty (January 19, 1903 in Santa Fe, Ohio – June 12, 1988) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Nambé

The alloy is exclusively produced by the Nambé Mills, Inc., which was founded in 1951 near Nambé Pueblo, some 10 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico though the products are actually manufactured in India and China.

New Mexico Highlands University

There are also many other branch campuses, including in Santa Fe, Farmington, Taos, Raton, Rio Rancho and Espanola.

Newsies

After declining to spend the night, Jack confesses his desire to escape to Santa Fe ("Santa Fe").

Pablo Vegetti

Pablo Ezequiel Vegetti Pfaffen (born October 15, 1988 in Santo Domingo (Santa Fe), Argentina) is an Argentine footballer who playing for Rangers of the Primera División in Chile.

Presidio Chapel of San Elizario

The presidio was moved to the present site in 1790, to protect travelers and settlers along the Camino Real (Royal Highway) which ran from Mexico City through Paso del Norte to Santa Fe.

Rachel Plummer

The Comanches were camped north of Santa Fe when they were approached by Comancheros who wanted to ransom Rachel in accordance with the instructions of her father.

Radio art

First collective installation of radio art and sound art, San Justo, Santa Fe, Argentina.

Ralph Levy

Levy died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, exactly fifty years to the day after the premiere of I Love Lucy, the pilot of which he had directed, although it was never shown to the public until decades later.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Rodez

At this time Conques, with Agen and Schelestadt in Alsace, was the centre of the cult of Saint Faith which soon spread to England, Spain, and America where many towns bear the name of Santa Fe.

Ruy Diaz Melgarejo

Ruy Diaz Melgarejo (Salteras 1519 – Santa Fe 1602) was a miner, military, conqueror and statesman who established the Spanish Crown in the region of Río de la Plata in South America.

San Justo tornado

The town of San Justo which was hit by the tornado in 1973 is in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and not the much smaller suburb called San Justo in the province of Buenos Aires San Justo Department, Santa Fe.

The San Justo Tornado was a tornado which struck San Justo, a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, on January 10, 1973.

Santa Fe Crater

Santa Fe Crater is an impact crater in the Lunae Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 19.5° North and 48.0° W. It is 20.5 km in diameter and was named after Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Santa Fe-Coronda Marathon

The race as been included as part of FINA's Marathon circuit (prior to 2007), and its appropriate successor: the FINA Open Water Grand Prix series.

Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway

On November 1, 1905, the SFP&P began operating the Arizona & California Railway that ran from a connection with the Santa Fe Railway in the Mojave Desert at Cadiz, California, to a connection with SFP&P at Matthie, Arizona, (located between Prescott and Wickenburg).

Santa Fe, Texas

Country music star Johnny Lee, best known for his 1980 hit "Lookin' for Love," was raised on a dairy farm in Santa Fe (then part of the unincorporated town of Alta Loma) and graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1964.

Soledad Pastorutti

Soledad "La Sole" Pastorutti (born October 12, 1980 in Arequito, Santa Fe) is an Argentine folk singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st.

USS Santa Fe

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Santa Fe, after the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico.


Abilene Trail

In the year 1872, Wichita was in possession of the trade that Abilene had enjoyed for several years prior due to the completion of the Santa Fe railroad.

Abreu Camp

Jesus Gil Abreu and his wife Petra, a daughter of Carlos Beaubien, established the Abreu settlement shortly after Lucien Maxwell's departure from the area in 1857; in addition to a successful ranch, the family operated a store and cantina at which travelers on their way to Santa Fe could stop for refreshment and materials.

Animal-borne bomb attacks

In 1862, during the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War a Confederate force approached the ford at Valverde, six miles north of Fort Craig, hoping to cut Union communications between the fort and their headquarters in Santa Fe.

Antonio M. Fernández

He died after he had been reelected to the 85th congress in Albuquerque, New Mexico on November 7, 1956 and was buried in Rosario Catholic Cemetery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Battle of Moore's Mill

The Missouri State Militia commanders and Union Volunteers began to converge on Joseph C. Porter’s recruiters and associated guerrillas, fighting small action at Vassar Hill on July 19, Florida on July 22, and Santa Fe on July 24.

California Limited

The line was conceived by company president Allen Manvel as a means to "signify completion of the basic Santa Fe system." Manvel felt he could attract business and enhance the prestige of the railroad with daily first-class service from Chicago to the West Coast.

California Southern Railroad

Among the organizers were Frank Kimball, a prominent landowner and rancher from San Diego who also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, Kidder, Peabody & Co., one of the main financial investment companies involved in the Santa Fe, B.P. Cheney, L.G. Pratt, George B. Wilbur and Thomas Nickerson who was president of the Santa Fe.

Charles Tersolo

Subject matter covered by this artist includes Provincetown, Boston, Paris, the Grand Canyon, Santa Fe, Monument Valley, Valley of the Gods, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Cape Elizabeth, and Mount Desert Island, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

EnVISIONing Annapolis

Important contributors and co-sponsors include the University of Maryland, Annapolis Charter 300, and St. Johns College.

F.J. Prettyman

He was educated at Rockville Academy, Emerson Institute, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, and Washington and Lee University.

Héctor Zelada

Héctor Miguel Zelada Bertoqui (born April 30, 1957 in Maciel, Santa Fe) is a former Argentine football goalkeeper.

HSBC Finance

Children of former full-time Beneficial employees are considered for scholarships to four Maryland institutions of higher learning: Hood College, Johns Hopkins University, St. John's College and Washington College.

Jethro Marks

As a chamber musician, Marks has performed at prestigious festivals around the world including Ravinia, Aspen, Tanglewood, Santa Fe, Mostly Mozart, and the BBC Proms.

John Riley Banister

Between 1889 and 1892, Banister accepted special assignments as a detective for the Santa Fe and other railroads.

Jorge Griffa

Jorge Bernardo Griffa Monferoni (born September 7, 1935 in Casilda, Santa Fe) is a retired Argentine footballer.

Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid

Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1792, son of Domingo Vigil and María Francisca Alarid, both from military families.

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, located 40 miles southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico (near Cochiti), is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed site that was established as a U.S. National Monument by President Bill Clinton in January 2001 shortly before leaving office.

Leandro N. Alem

Parque Alem, one of two large parks in Rosario, Santa Fe, is named after Alem, and has a heroic statue of him, trying to bend a quebracho log, representing the motto of the Radical Civic Union, Se quiebra pero no se dobla ("It breaks but it does not bend", an expression of commitment to principles).

Margretta Dietrich

Dietrich moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1927 with her sister, Dorothy Stewart, an artist, and bought the Juan Jose Prada House on Canyon Road.

Marshall Barer

Marshall Barer (born Marshall Louis Barer, Astoria, Queens, 19 February 1923--Santa Fe, New Mexico, 25 August 1998 ) was a lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director.

Ninian Pinkney

Ninian Pinkney, born in the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland, on 7 June 1811, graduated from St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1829, and from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1833.

Stringfellow Barr

Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897, Suffolk, Virginia – February 3, 1982, Alexandria, Virginia) was an historian, author, and former president of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he, together with Scott Buchanan, instituted the Great Books curriculum.

Tony Lagouranis

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and graduated from high school in 1987 in New York City, going on to study Ancient Greek as part of his degree program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.

Tooth of Time

It was well-known among the overland traders on the Santa Fe Trail, who used it to mark the final seven day push to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Vincent Wetta

Wetta was born in Wichita, and lived in Wellington, where he worked as a conductor/engineer with the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway Company from 1966 to 2006.

VMI Keydets football

The Keydets went 3–0–1 in 1891, with a win and tie against Washington and Lee and defeats of St. John's and Pantops Academy.