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2 unusual facts about South of the Border


South of the Border, West of the Sun

He wrote it in 1992 while he was a visiting scholar at the Princeton University in the United States.

Valentine Nonyela

He appeared in many TV programmes of the late 1980s and 1990s, including BBC television series South of the Border, The Bill, Londons Burning Holby City and A Touch of Frost.



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A74 road

The road received a substantial upgrade in the early 19th century under the direction of Thomas Telford, who made significant engineering improvements, including a new route over the Beattock Summit and the Metal Bridge just in England just south of the border.

Baja Marimba Band

Initially formed by producer Herb Alpert to cash in on the "south of the border" craze started by his own Tijuana Brass, the Baja Marimba Band outlasted the Tijuana Brass by several years thanks largely in part to TV producer, Chuck Barris, who featured the group's music on his game shows through the mid-1970s.

Battle of Wadi Al-Batin

When the Iraqi intelligence caught these "radio calls" -some of them only static hiss- they immediately concluded that the bulk of American forces were still entrenched south of the border.

Doi Chiang Dao

Doi Chiang Dao is part of a limestone massif located 6 km to the WNW of Chiang Dao town and less than 40 km south of the border with Burma at the eastern end of the Thai highlands.

Foum Zguid

Foum Zguid is on the N12 highway to the north of Tata and south of the border with the region of Souss-Massa-Drâa.

Fred Iltis

In his journeys south of the border (where he met the Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo), he portrayed the life of the Mexican Indians, particularly in Michoacán.

Gadabedji Reserve

It is a Total Faunal Reserve IUCN type IV, covering some 76,000 hectares within the northern tip of the Maradi Region, just north of the town of Dakoro, and south of the border with the Agadez Region.

Gary Hunley

In the story line, Hutchins as Sugarfoot travels south of the border with Army Col. Cyrus Craig (Robert Warwick) to reclaim from a cemetery the body of Craig's military son, who had been killed in an Apache attack.

Godfrey–Milliken Bill

The bill received widespread attention in Canada, and also some publicity south of the border including a feature on 60 Minutes.

Interstate 69 in Texas

I-69E (which connects to both Mexican Federal Highway 101 and Mexican Federal Highway 180 south of the border) begins in the middle of the Veterans International Bridge at the border in Brownsville and continues for 53 miles past Raymondville.

Peace Train Organisation

Other key figures in the organisation south of the border were the then Workers Party MEP Proinsias De Rossa, Tom French (politician) and southern secretary Seán Ó Cionnaith.

San Diego and Arizona Railway

In 1979 San Diego's Metropolitan Development Board (MTDB) purchased three portions of the SD&AE: from Plaster City to the border, from San Diego south of the border between San Ysidro. California, and Tijuana, Baja California, and from San Diego east to El Cajon.

Timothy Hunter

The story eventually moved south of the border, with a story in the Daily Mirror reporting that Gaiman had accused Rowling of plagiarism being repeated in the Daily Mail.

Wiedingharde Frisian

Wiedingharde Frisian (Wiringhiirder freesk) is a dialect of the North Frisian language spoken in the German amt of Wiedingharde south of the border to Denmark in North Frisia (historic south of the river Widau).