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unusual facts about South American



Biotope

An example of one South American biotope type might be lots of bog-wood, a few native plants, with dark substrata and subdued lighting with floating plants, along with marbled hatchets, angels, cardinals, otos, corys and plecostomus.

Juan Cruz Mascia

He has also been favourably compared to 2010 FIFA World Cup star Diego Forlán in the English and South American media.

Mummy: The Resurrection

This resurrected mummy character was revived by combining his original soul with his mummified body using a magical spell granted by the god Osiris himself (in the case of Egyptian mummies), ancient Inca spirits (in the case of South American mummies) or the Eight Immortals, in the case of Chinese mummies.

The Naked Jungle

In 1901, mail order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.


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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.

2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

The fourth edition of the Sudamericano Femenino (Women's South American Championship) in 2003 determined the CONMEBOL's qualifiers Brazil and Argentina.

2014 South American Beach Games

The 2014 South American Beach Games (Spanish:Juegos Suramericanos de Playa), officially the III South American Beach Games, will be an international multi-sport event being held in Vargas, Venezuela.

Acacia floribunda

The Mature Inner Bark of this species contains the compound NN-Dimethyltryptamine (0.4%) and other substituted Tryptamines that are components of the South American visionary medicine Ayahuasca.

Bare-eyed Thrush

:For the Caribbean and South American species Turdus nudigenis, see Spectacled Thrush

BBC Entertainment

It was also launched in Mexico on the SKY México digital satellite platform in August 2008 in a deal with Televisa, and it has since extended to other Central and South American countries.

Boreogomphodon

Boreogomphodon was distinguished from other traversodontids like the African Luangwa and the South American Traversodon on the basis of its postcanine teeth.

Brazil at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Since the San Pedro authorities charged one dollar for each person who disembarked in the Port of Los Angeles, the organizers only let out of the ship the athletes they felt had a chance to win medals plus swimmer Maria Lenk - the first South American woman to compete in the Olympics - to spend less.

Brenda Asnicar

Following the success of Patito Feo, its cast, including the star, Laura Esquivel, toured several South American countries (2009).

C.F. Ball

A cultivar of the South American shrub Escallonia is named ‘C.F. Ball’ in his memory, a beautiful shrub with dark green leaves and bright red flowers, excellent for bees.

Chamaerops

In some areas, including its northernmost native location, it is seriously threatened by an introduced South American moth Paysandisia archon.

Chile–Peru relations

The Battle of Callao would prove to be another disaster for the Spanish fleet as the defenses of Callao proved stronger and defeated them to the point of forcing the complete retreat of the Spanish fleet from South American coasts.

Christopher Grimes Gallery

Amnesia, 1 July - 12 September 1998: A gallery curated exhibition that which included 16 artists (Waltercio Caldas, Ernesto Neto, Tunga, Oscar Muñoz, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Roberto Obregon) from 4 South American countries (Columbia, Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil).

Death in the Garden

Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives - a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his deaf-mute daughter (Michèle Girardon) - are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle.

Essequibo

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

Euryades duponchelii

The two species in the genus Euryades are more closely related to Cressida than to other South American Papilionidae with larvae that feed on Aristolochia.

Fernando Scherer

The Brazilian 4×100-meter medley relay team of Alexandre Massura, Marcelo Tomazini, Gustavo Borges and Scherer won the race for the first time in the Pan's history, with a time of 3:40.27, breaking the Pan American and South American records and securing a place in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Gorgotoqui language

Čestmír Loukotka (1968) Classification of South American Indian Languages. University of California, Los Angeles

Harvard Common Press

In 2003, the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards named The South American Table, by Maria Kijac, the best Latino Cuisine cookbook in the world.

Jan-Erik Lundquist

Other major championships that Lundquist won was The British Hard Court Championships in 1965 and 1967, The Pacific Coast Championships (nowadays the SAP Open) in 1962, The South American Outdoor Championships (nowadays the ATP Buenos Aires) in 1962 and The Swedish Open in 1963.

José Payares

He won the South American Games 2006 against Rafael Lima, at the Central American Games 2006 he finished second behind Osmay Acosta.

Kakegawa, Shizuoka

However, Kakegawa has a noticeable Nikkei (particularly, South American) population and it is more common to find signs written in Portuguese than in English.

Maipú Department, Mendoza

The department was created in 1858 and named in memory of the Battle of Maipú, which took place in Chile, 1818 during the South American Wars of Independence.

Mauricio Gonzalez Sfeir

He represented Bolivia in Junior Davis Cup tennis competition at the South American level (once defeating Ricardo Ycaza in doubles), taught tennis at the Welby Van Horn Tennis Camp, and played on the tennis teams of DePaul University (under legendary coach George Lott) and Oxford University.

Melanocharacidium

Melanocharacidium is a genus of South American darters.

Myotoxin

The first myotoxin to be identified and isolated was crotamine, from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus, a tropical South American rattlesnake, by Brazilian scientist José Moura Gonçalves, in the 1950s.

N. marginatus

Nannostomus marginatus, the dwarf pencilfish, a freshwater fish species found on the South American continent

Nelson Villagra

After a period in Europe he went on to Cuba to work with some of the most important South American directors of his time, such as Humberto Solás (La Cantata de Chile) and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, winning the Best Actor award for his role as 'El Conde' in Gutiérrez Alea's The Last Supper at the 1978 Festival Internacional de Cine de Biarritz.

New Age communities

Hot Springs, Arkansas - Spa City, also known as "Valley of the Vapors", an ancient gathering place of North, Central and South American tribes.

Nicolás Núñez

He participated in the South American championships in Arequipa, Peru, alongside Mauritius Pinilla, Mark Gonzalez, Luis Jimenez and was debuted by U. Catholic in the first division, against University of Chile.

Notioprogonia

Their dentition make them superficially similar to early primate-like (non-South American) mammals such as Plesiadapis.

Omar Samra

On 1 February 2011, Samra became the first Arab in history to climb the highest mountain in South American (Argentina) Aconcagua solo; alone and unsupported.

Quebracho blanco

Schinopsis haenkeana, a South American tree species in the family Anacardiaceae

R. palmarum

Rhynchophorus palmarum, the South American palm weevil, a beetle species

Radio Globo

Organizações Globo, South American large mass media group founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and with a big number of radio statons and other investments

Raphael Fernandes

Born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, he is trained by former South American record holder Sanderlei Parrela.

Roller Hockey South American Club Championship

The current holders of the South American Club Championship are Sport Recife, who beat San Lorenzo by a score of 5–4 in Huracán, Argentina.

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.

Texas cichlid

Its temperament differs from one individual to another, but in general can be kept with other large aquarium fishes such as tinfoil barbs, silver dollars, oscars, and other Central and South American cichlids.

The Army of the Republic

Cohen draws heavily on his knowledge of South American revolutionary movements such as the Montoneros and the People's Revolutionary Army groups active in the 1970s.

The Citizens' Revolution

This axis represents and advances the unification vision of the South American liberator, Simón Bolívar.

Thomas Sever

While most of his work has dealt with South American and ancient Mayan civilization, Dr. Sever has also used his skills in meteorology.

Toyota Cup

Intercontinental Cup (football), a football competition organised jointly by UEFA and CONMEBOL; known since 1980 to 2004 as the Toyota European/South American Cup for sponsorship reasons.

University of Nashville

George Maney, Confederate general and U.S. diplomat to several South American countries.

Víctor Hugo Carrillo

Víctor Hugo is a referee in Peruvian Primera División, Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, 2010 FIFA World Cup, and several South American qualifiers, international friendly matches and in the Copa Perú, when he reffed a match between Los Caimanes against Universitario (Trujillo) in Chiclayo.

White-tufted

White-tufted Grebe, a South American bird in the Podicipedidae family

William Wheelwright

Wheelwright built the first South American railroad from Caldera to Copiapó, and extended it nearly 40 miles into the interior of Chile.