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unusual facts about Socorro, Santander



18091 Iranmanesh

18091 Iranmanesh (2000 JN58) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.

2009 Italian Grand Prix

The 2009 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXXX Gran Premio Santander d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on September 13, 2009 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy.

Águas de Lindóia

It is a tourist spot in part due to its hot springs, being part of the Circuito das Águas, also including the cities of Amparo, Jaguariúna, Lindóia, Monte Alegre, Pedreira, Serra Negra and Socorro.

Álvaro Pombo

Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977.

Associated Universities, Inc.

The Very Large Array (VLA), an array of 27 25-meter antennas, is located on the Plains of San Agustin about 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico.

Basque Auxiliary Navy

They also played a key role in the evacuation of civilians who fled as the rebel armies advanced from coastal cities such as Gijón and Santander.

Capture of Bacharach

Córdoba left a garrison of 300 soldiers in Bacharach and sent most of his troops under the commanders Diego Ruiz and Baltasar de Santander to capture Kaub.

Crash reporter

Breakpad is typically paired with Socorro which receives and classifies crashes from users.

Custodio García Rovira

García was the son of Juan de Dios García Navas and Rosa Rovira de García, he was born on March 2, 1780, in Bucaramanga, in the province of Socorro, part of the Viceroyalty of the New Granada, in what is now Colombia.

Dale Frail

Dale A. Frail is an astronomer working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico.

Detonography

Essentially a form of giant printmaking, with the explosive acting as the stamping press, it was created by Evelyn Rosenberg in 1986 with the help of the engineers of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico.

Division of the North

Romana and his men arrived at Santander, Spain, where he was appointed Commander of the Galician Armada.

El Paso Subdivision

The line branches off from the Transcon and heads due south, passing through the communities of La Joya and Socorro, New Mexico, before running along the heavily forested Rio Grande.

Ernest Lluch

On January 2, 1989, he took up his position as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.

Fausto Vega Santander

Fausto Vega Santander was born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, his parents were Albino Vega and María Santander.

General Santander National Police Academy

The General Santander Academy holds strategic alliances primarily with the United States agencies Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) due to the recent War on Drugs and the implementation of the Plan Colombia which has become part of the War on terror and because of its experience on these it has become as one of the most apt educational centers for law enforcement in Latin America.

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Holly Hagan

Before Geordie Shore, Holly worked for HM Revenue and Customs and in sales at a Santander call centre, in hopes of launching a career as a glamour model.

Holm O. Bursum

Bursum subsequently returned to Socorro and resumed his former business interests until his death in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

HSenid Mobile Solutions

Financial institutions belonging to hSenid Mobile’s customer base include Santander Bank (Mexico), TODO 1 (USA), Seylan Bank (Sri Lanka) and HNB (Sri Lanka).

James C. Brewster

On December 31, 1850, Brewster and some his followers are listed in the 1850 United States Census at Socorro, New Mexico Territory.

Joaquín Acosta

A native of Colombia in South America, he served in the Colombian army and in 1834 attempted a scientific survey of the territory between Socorro and the Magdalena River.

José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda

Between December 25, 1748, the date of the foundation of Llera, and 1755, he founded over twenty towns or villages and a number of missions in the colony, including Santander, Soto la Marina, Güemes, Camargo, Reynosa, Mier, and Revilla south of the Rio Grande, and Laredo and Nuestra Señora de los Dolores hacienda north of the Rio Grande.

KUNM

In addition, KUNM has full-power transmitters at 88.7 Socorro (KBOM), 91.9 Espanola (KRAR), and 90.9 Arroyo Seco (KRRT).

Luis Enrique Delgado

Luis Enrique Delgado (born October 26, 1980 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian football goalkeeper.

Mayflower High School

A house on site also facilitates the staying of language assistants, natives of either Germany, Spain or France, to assist students with their language studies, and all three subjects are complimented by trips to the relevant country, previous trips having sent students to Santander and Barcelona.

Mogollon-Datil volcanic field

The Socorro, New Mexico region (Socorro-Magdalena caldera cluster) of the central Rio Grande rift hosts an inflating mid-crustal sill-like magma body at a depth of 19 km that is responsible for anomalously high earthquake activity in the vicinity.

MV Bretagne

Bretagne has previously been used on Spanish routes, operating between Plymouth and Santander.

National University of Colombia

Some landmarks in the campus are the León de Greiff Auditorium, and the Francisco de Paula Santander Plaza, also known unofficially as the "Central Plaza" or the "Ché Plaza", in honour of Ernesto el Ché Guevara.

Nigel de Gruchy

After graduating, he taught English at the Berlitz Schools at Santander from 1965-6, and Versailles from 1966-7.

Ottery St Mary

The aircraft, an Alidair Vickers Viscount turboprop, flying 62 passengers from Santander to Exeter was eleven miles short of the runway over a wooded area on East Hill, just before the town, when it ran out of fuel and all four engines stopped.

Paola Rey

Paola Andrea Rey Arciniegas (born December 19, 1979 in San Gil, Santander, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and model.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

Piro Pueblos

Currently there is an archaeological excavation which is actively pursued annually in June and July, in a location near Luis Lopez, five miles south of present-day Socorro.

Pre–University of Belize tertiary-level institutions

In 1981, Belize became embroiled in the dispute over the Heads of Agreement, and in late March when riots began in the streets of Belize City, Technical students led by Socorro Bobadilla were right in the middle of it.

Santander

Gustavo Santander, Colombian composer and brother of Kike Santander

Santander Brasil

Santander is the fifth largest commercial bank in Brazil by assets, after Itaú Unibanco, Banco do Brasil, Bradesco and Caixa Econômica Federal.

Santander Group

On 10 June 2010, Grupo Santander announced an investment of approximately US$270 million (€200 million) in Campinas, Brazil for a technology centre, research and data processing, which will include a next-generation data centre.

In March 2008, Banco Santander sold Interbanca, a subsidiary of Banca Antonveneta, to GE Commercial Finance, receiving in return GE Money businesses in Germany, Finland and Austria, and GE's card and auto-financing businesses in the UK, which it integrated with Santander Consumer Finance.

Sherman Cárdenas

Sherman Andrés Cárdenas Estupiñán (born 7 August 1989 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Atlético Nacional.

Stanislav Bartůšek

In 2000, his documentary named Za císaře... (For the Emperor...) presenting the life story of Czech cyclist Jan Veselý won the Juan Antonio Samaranch Award at the Santander Sports Movies Festival.

Vacaria

Venue of the International Crioulo Rodeo (Rodeio Crioulo Internacional), one of the most important demonstrations of the gaucho culture, the city has also other attractions, such as the Fazenda do Socorro and the beautiful stone-built Cathedral of Our Lady of the Olive Tree.


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