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17 unusual facts about Santa Rosa


Brandon Whiting

Brandon Renee Whiting (born July 30, 1976 in Santa Rosa, California) is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers.

Cestoball

Cestoball is a sport created in Argentina, during the conference in Buenos Aires and Santa Rosa in 1986, with the purpose of making the old Argentine sport called 'pelota al cesto' (ball to basket) more dynamic and homogenising its rules with korfball and netball.

Chaco Rally

Then they used an alternative route of Pozo Olga to Mision Santa Rosa, that is still used nowadays and from there went to Mariscal Estigarribia.

Convergys

Convergys has approximately 89,000 employees in 70 customer contact centers and other facilities in India (New Delhi, Pune, Thane, Hyderabad, and Bangalore), the Philippines (Manila, Cebu City, Davao City, Baguio City, Santa Rosa and Bacolod), Vietnam, Indonesia, United States, Canada, Costa Rica, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Juventus Atlético Clube

Juventus Atlético Clube, commonly known as Juventus, is a Brazilian football club based in Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul state.

KKJY

KSSR-FM, a radio station (95.9 FM) licensed to Santa Rosa, New Mexico, United States, which held the call sign KKJY from March 2009 to July 2010

Leo Trepp

He ultimately moved to Northern California, where he led three congregations, including Beth Ami in Santa Rosa, California and Beth El in Berkeley.

Mary Ruthsdotter

After living in Windsor and Santa Rosa, she and her husband were among the founders of the Two Acre Wood cohousing community in Sebastopol, California, where they lived since 2000.

Patricio Mac Allister

Born in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Mac Allister began playing football with local side General Belgrano de Santa Rosa.

Ron Joseph

He created his own version of a teen disco on television and syndicated his television show independently to such cities as Newark/New York City's WBTB-TV 68, KEMO-TV 20 and KTSF-TV 26 in San Francisco, KBSC-TV 52 in Los Angeles, KSCI-TV 18 in Hollywood and KFTY-TV 50 in Santa Rosa, California.

Santa Rosa, Guyana

Santa Rosa contains the second of the region's two secondary schools, Santa Rosa Secondary School, established in 1992.

The village is actually a collection of at least ten settlements spread out in the Savannah wetlands along a ten mile stretch of the Moruka River.

Santa Rosa, La Pampa

City sights include the Fitte neighbourhood (1930), the monument to San Martín, the Palace of Justice, the Teatro Español Theatre (1908), the Provincial Art Museum (with paintings by Raúl Soldi, Antonio Berni, Quinquela Martín and other important Argentine painters) and the Provincial Natural History Museum.

Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul

The city is the birthplace of the popular Brazilian celebrity Maria da Graça Meneghel known as Xuxa and Brazilian World Cup Winning Goalkeeper Cláudio Taffarel.

Shareef Abdur-Rahim

Prior to joining the NBA, Abdur-Rahim was the USA's leading scorer and rebounder at the 1994 COPABA Junior World Championship Qualifying Tournament held in Santa Rosa, Argentina.

Verónica Páez

She twice won the Argentine title in the women's marathon, both in Santa Rosa (2003 and 2005).

Yulon

In 1999 Yulon bought a 75% ownership of Nissan's newly built production base in Santa Rosa, Laguna province.


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.

Asian Boyz

In Santa Rosa, California, four men were convicted in June 2012 of abducting 24-year-old Vutha Au, driving him to near Goat Rock Beach, and shooting him nine times resulting in his death, which occurred in March 2008.

Chauliodes pectinicornis

pectinicornis has a wide distribution in the eastern United States, from Maine in the north-east to Alachua, Liberty and Santa Rosa counties in Florida to the south-east, and as far west as Kansas.

Claudio Biaggio

Claudio Darío Biaggio (born July 2, 1967 in Santa Rosa, La Plata) is an Argentine football striker.

El Rey Inn

In 1937 the New Mexico State Legislature removed the US 66 designation from the original 1926 road through Santa Fe, sending traffic onto a bypass road (constructed in Arthur T. Hannett's final days as state governor) which ran as a straight line from Santa Rosa to Albuquerque.

Jackson Temple

He married Christine Hood in 1870; they had six children and settled in Santa Rosa, California.

Keith Dorney

From 2003 to 2006, Dorney was on the faculty of Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, California, teaching freshman English.

Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues

It was recorded at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, California (which has since been renamed the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts).

McKenna Faith

On August 21, 2011 McKenna opened the Sonoma Country Music BBQ in Santa Rosa, California, playing with country music superstars Dierks Bentley, Thompson Square and Luke Bryan to a crowd of more than 7,500 people.

Northwestern Pacific Railroad

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad was featured in films, used from backgrounds to on-board filming, most notably is Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, which was filmed in downtown Santa Rosa, California in the summer of 1942, using the stone depot and railroad yard as a background.

Patrick Vaughan

Patrick Vaughan was enrolled in Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa, California and attended post-secondary instruction at California State University, Chico where he became friend with the NYPD Blue and Prison Break producer Matt Olmstead, who encouraged Patrick to journalistic and academic writing.

Peruvian Pacific sardine

The most important location of the fish in Peru is Paita, Parachique, Santa Rosa, and Chimbote.

Santa María, Paraguay

It's located 253 km south of Asuncion, the capital of the country, one arrives at Santa Maria, taking the National Route Number 1, and then taking a detour between the cities of San Ignacio and Santa Rosa.

Shirlee Busbee

She attended high school in Kenitra, Morocco and when she returned to California, went to Burbank Business College in Santa Rosa, where she met her furute husband Howard Busbee, she received a certificate in 1962.

Texhoma, Oklahoma

Expansion of the Rock Island Railroad tracks from Liberal, Kansas to Santa Rosa, New Mexico spurred the settlement's formation.

Think Tank Photo

Think Tank Photo was founded in 2005 in Santa Rosa, California by designers Doug Murdoch and Mike Sturm and by professional photographers Deanne Fitzmaurice and Kurt Rogers.

Vicente Bokalic Iglic

Iglic received his episcopal consecration on the following May 29 from Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, the later pope Francis, with archbishop of Corrientes, Andrés Stanovnik, and bishop of Santa Rosa, Mario Aurelio Poli, serving as co-consecrators.