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unusual facts about Uruca District, San José



1984 Morgan Hill earthquake

The communities of San Jose, San Martin and Coyote were some areas that received minor damage from the earthquake.

Acromyrmex echinatior

In Costa Rica this species prefers open dry habitats such as urban areas around San Jose and seasonally dry habitats of Guanacaste Province.

Ben Fritz

Benjamin James Fritz (born March 29, 1981 in San Jose, California) is a minor league baseball player who was a first-round selection in the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft who last played in 2010 for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Camilo Daza International Airport

In March 2008, was the epicenter for the arrival of direct international flights from Madrid, Miami, San Jose, Quito and Caracas on the grounds of the Peace Without Borders concert held in Cúcuta.

Carlos Salazar Herrera

Carlos Salazar Herrera (1906–1982) was born in San José, Costa Rica, where he attended primary and secondary school.

Charlie Shrem

Shrem spoke at the Bitcoin 2013 conference in San Jose, California describing the potential for initial fights between Bitcoin companies and regulators and the need for close collaboration between them to develop standards of 'Knowing Your Customer' policies.

Costa Rica Open

The tournament was held at the Cariari Country Club near San José every year except in 2004 when it was played over the Valle del Sol Golf Course near Santa Ana.

Costa Rican Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Its original constituent members were five churches in metropolitan San José that separated from the Association of Biblical Churches in Costa Rica (AIBC).

David Clary

He undertook post-doctoral research at IBM in San Jose, California, and at the University of Manchester.

Dean Malenko

On February 27, 2007, Mistico (later known in WWE as Sin Cara) defeated Malenko in a tryout dark match before a TV taping in San Jose, California.

Debbie Lee Carrington

Deborah "Debbie" Lee Carrington (born December 14, 1959 in San Jose, California) is an American actress and stuntwoman known for her diminutive size due to dwarfism.

Diermissen

Julius Friedrich Max Diermissen (*07.01.1870 Hamburg- ✝ 28.03.1927 San José, Costa Rica, German vice-consul in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, from 1894-1902, and U.S. consular agent in the same port from 1894-1901.

Earth Charter Initiative

The Secretariat is composed by a very small staff, and it is based at the University for Peace campus in San José, Costa Rica.

Escats

Para que estés... en el Concierto - Recorded Live in San José, Costa Rica

Gail Karp

In the years that followed, she was affiliated with Temple Israel of Omaha and Congregation B’nai Jeshurun of Lincoln in Nebraska, Temple Beth El of Aptos and Temple Emanuel of San Jose.

George Manross

For example, his findings that predicted an overwhelming victory for Chuck Reed was scoffed at by the media until Reed defeated his opponent, Cindy Chavez, by 19 points to become the mayor of San Jose; and, a $1.7 billion sales tax measure dedicated to public transportation and public transit in Fresno County, which was driven by the "findings" from two SRI voter surveys, received 77.7% voter support.

German School New York

In addition, the school shares ties with the Alexander von Humboldt German International School of Montréal, Canada, the German School Washington, D.C. and the Colegio Humboldt in San José, Costa Rica, allowing numerous programs between schools.

Infineta Systems

Infineta was headquartered in San Jose, California and attracted $30 million in two rounds of venture funding from Alloy Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners.

International human rights law

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights.

Jacinta Balbela

After her retirement from the courts, she served as the co-director of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) in San José, Costa Rica.

James Rolph

Rolph received considerable criticism for publicly praising the citizens of San Jose following the November 1933 lynching of the confessed murderers of Brooke Hart, a local department store heir, while promising to pardon anyone involved, thereby earning the nickname, "Governor Lynch".

Karen J. Warren

She has spoken widely on environmental issues, feminism, critical thinking skills and peace studies in many international locations including Buenos Aires, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Oslo, Manitoba, Melbourne, Moscow, Perth, the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), and San Jose.

Li Zhenshi

After retiring from competition, Li and his wife Zhang Li moved to the USA, where they direct the World Champions Table Tennis Academy in San Jose, California.

Lola Castegnaro

She was born in San José, Costa Rica, and studied music with her father, Italian-born composer Alvise Castegnaro.

Luiz Carlos Vieira

Luiz Carlos Vieira Junior (born July 27, 1982) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for San José in Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano .

Mario Celotto

On February 4, 2011, arranged by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, Celotto visited a physics class in Yerba Buena High School in San Jose, California to demonstrate how Newton's laws of motion apply to football.

Morales, Guatemala

The town boasted a Guatemalan top division football side in Deportivo Heredia before it was relocated to San José, El Petén Department in summer 2008 due to a lack of support.

Oliver Winchester

William's wife Sarah believed the family was cursed by the spirits killed by the Winchester rifle, and moved to San Jose, California and began building a chaotic mansion now known as the Winchester Mystery House with her inheritance, intending to confuse the spirits seeking revenge.

Oscar Núñez Oliva

Oscar Núñez Oliva (born May 21, 1955 in San José) is a Costa Rican journalist and author.

Paleteros

In San Jose, California an individual is fined $278 every time they are caught selling paletas without a permit.

Program for the future

Program for the Future recently sponsored a conference at The Tech Museum in San Jose, where several hundred people convened both face to face and online to explore the Engelbart Hypothesis.

Ralph Rambo

He was born in San Jose, California on May 16, 1894 and died in Palo Alto, California on May 19, 1990.

Rebecca Dines

She has performed numerous times for Palo Alto-based Theatreworks, as well as Kansas City, Berkeley, San Jose, and South Coast Repertory theatres, Magic and B Street theatres, and the Laguna Playhouse, among others.

Renz Julian

Formerly known as Playa Renz, the Bay Area native originates from the cities of Oakland, Antioch, and San Jose, California.

Robert Rothbart

After graduating from the private elementary The Harker School in San Jose, California, Robert has successfully played high school basketball for Saint Francis High School (Mountain View, California), Monta Vista High School (Cupertino, California) and Natomas High School (Sacramento, California).

San Jose Earthquakes Stadium

San Jose Earthquakes Stadium is the working name of an under construction soccer specific stadium that is being built in San Jose, California, for Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes.

San José, El Petén

The town is home to Heredia Jaguares de Peten of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala, the top level in Guatemalan football since it moved from Morales in summer 2008.

Santa Lucía River

For a large part of its course it forms the limit between the departments of Florida and San José on one bank and Canelones and Montevideo on the other.

Santiago Polanco-Abreu

He was one of the founders of the Institute for Democratic Studies in San José, Costa Rica.

Sathyananda Saraswathi

Saraswathi established centres of Sree Rama Dasa Mission in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Richmond, Virginia, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and San Jose in the USA.

Sergio Jáuregui

Sergio Antonio Jáuregui Landivar (born March 13, 1985 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football defender who last played for San José in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.

Take it Sleezy

It was produced by music engineer Johnny Lima and was recorded at Suspect Studios, San Jose, California.

The Midnight Patrol

The Stoke-on-Trent Laurel & Hardy tent is named 'The Midnight Patrol Tent' in honour of this film as well as the San Jose, California tent.

Ulmus mexicana

In Costa Rica the Mexican Elm is known as Tirrá; the neighbourhood (district) of Tirrases in Curridabat, San José, takes its name from the tree.

Wheel 2000

The tour visited a variety of major market cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., New York City, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Jose, and Anaheim.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.


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