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unusual facts about Santa Rosa, Guyana



2010 Commonwealth Games medal table

Aliann Pompey of Guyana was promoted to the silver medal position, with the bronze medal going to Christine Amertil of the Bahamas.

Abdur Rahman Slade Hopkinson

Slade Hopkinson is a writer who was born into a middle-class family in New Amsterdam, Guyana in 1934.

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.

Andrew Morrison

Fr Morrison's first major public episode, in view of the international community at large, was his coverage of the Jim Jones led mass suicide-massacre, which took place in 1978 in Guyana.

Arya Samaj in Guyana

After 1975, however, the board of the Guyana Arya Pratinidhi Sabha wished to loosen its ties with the People's Progressive Party (PPP) led by Cheddi Jagan to adopt a politically more independent policy.

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.

Astrocaryum

The type species, Astrocaryum aculeatum, was first described by German botanist Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer in 1818 based on a specimen from the Essequibo River in Guyana.

Boa Vista, Roraima

Business also takes place between Boa Vista and with the cities of Lethem, in Guyana and Santa Elena de Uairén, in Venezuela.

Bocoa

It was found in the Upper Essequibo region of Guyana and is most morphologically similar to B. prouacensis.

Brackette Williams

Her work has centered on the Caribbean region, and in particular, examined how racial and ethnic categories are reproduced in Guyana nationalism.

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.

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.

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

Cline Paden

The institute offers college-style instruction in Lubbock and a series of satellite schools in forty-six states and in such countries as Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Bermuda, Canada, Cuba, El Salvador, England, Germany, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, and Trinidad.

David Dabydeen

Dabydeen was born in Berbice, Guyana, his birth registered at New Amsterdam Registrar of Births as David Horace Clarence Harilal Sookram.

David Granger

David A. Granger (born 1945), Guyanese, Commander of the Guyana Defence Force, 2011 PNC presidential candidate

Emerson Samuels

He is perhaps best known for his portrait of Guyana President Forbes Burnham, completed in August 1984, which hangs in the Parliament Chamber.

Essequibo

The Essequibo River is one of the larger South American rivers located in the country of Guyana.

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean

Currently, there are five countries where the national prevalence is over 2 percent, those being the Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Jack Palladino

Palladino spent seven years investigating the Peoples Temple tragedy, in which more than 900 members of a religious cult died in Guyana in 1979.

Jonathan Z. Smith

His research includes the theory of ritual, Hellenistic religions, Māori cults in the 19th century, and the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.

Kabalebo

Clockwise, the Kabalebo resort borders the Upper Coppename River and resort to the East, it's adjacent to the Coeroeni River and resort in the South, bordered in the North across the Courantyne River to Guyana and also to Nickerie.

Mangrove oyster

Sir Walter Raleigh, as part of an expedition to Guyana, famously encountered the mangrove oyster near Pitch Lake during his stopover in Trinidad.

Mashramani

The Jaycees of Linden had, since Guyana became independent in 1966, been organizing an Independence Carnival in Mackenzie.

Neil Fraser

Mad Professor (born 1955), British music producer born Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser in Guyana

New Amsterdam Public Hospital

New Amsterdam Public Hospital, in New Amsterdam, Guyana, is outstanding example of timber architecture, and one of the two surviving architectural masterpieces designed by Cesar Castellani, an architect employed in the Public Works Department of British Guiana.

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.

Oreophrynella quelchii

This species is restricted to the transboundary summit of Mount Roraima in Venezuela (inside Canaima National Park World Heritage Site), Guyana and Brazil, and from Wei-Assipo-Tepui in Guyana.

Oyapoc

Oyapoc was a short-lived English settlement in Guyana, which was established in 1620 under Governor Roger North and abandoned in the same year.

Peruvian Pacific sardine

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

Port Kaituma Community School

Port Kaituma Community School (PKCS) is a learning centre located in Port Kaituma within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana.

Ricardo Brangman

In Guyana's successful chase, Brangman took a single catch from behind the stumps, catching Travis Dowlin for 4 runs off the bowling of Traddie Simpson.

Rudy Grant

Rudy Grant, also known as Little Brother Grant and The Mexicano (born Rudolph Grant, Plaisance, Guyana), is a reggae deejay and singer.

Santa Rosa, Guyana

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

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.

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.

Sipaliwini District

Sipaliwini district has seen occasional fighting between Guyanese and Surinamese troops over border disputes in the south-west so called Tigri Area of the Coeroeni resort.

Skiotocharax meizon

Skiotocharax meizon is a species of South American darter endemic to Guyana where it is found in the basins of the Mazaruni and Berbice Rivers.

Soesdyke-Linden Highway

The Soesdyke-Linden Highway is a 45-mile long 2-lane highway that runs between Soesdyke and Linden in Guyana.

Taylor Benjamin

On November 11, 2011, Benjamin was called up to Guyana for their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Trinidad & Tobago.

The Equals

Eddy Grant – guitar (born Edmond Montague Grant, 5 March 1948, Plaisance, Guyana)

The White Diamond

It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airship which he plans to fly over the forest canopies of Guyana.

Most of the film focuses on Dorrington's flights near Kaieteur Falls, in Guyana.

Verónica Páez

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

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.

Victor Ramdin

Annand Mahendra "Victor" Ramdin (born May 28, 1968 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a professional poker player, based in The Bronx, New York, who has won a World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship and is a member of Team PokerStars.

Zahra Freeth

She accompanied her husband to the bauxite mining town of Mackenzie, now known as Linden, in British Guiana (now Guyana) and wrote Run Softly, Demerara (1960) about her experiences there.


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