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6 unusual facts about Vargas


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.

Armando Reverón

Reverón built several ranches in the terrain that he bought in Macuto, the principal ranch was his workshop and the walls were tables and the thatched roof.

José Miguel de Carvajal-Vargas, 2nd Duke of San Carlos

One daughter from his second marriage, Maria Luisa, married in Bordeaux, France, in 1821, aged 17, Vicente Pio Osorio de Moscoso, (1801–1864), aged 20 and the holder of 14 Grandees of Spain.

Mudslide

On December 14, 1999 in Vargas, Venezuela, a mudslide known as The Vargas tragedy, which significantly altered more than 60 kilometers (37 mi) of its coastline, was triggered due to heavy rainfall and caused estimated damages of USD $1.79 to $3.5 billion, a death toll considered to be between 10,000 and 30,000, 85,000 people evacuated and led to the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Vargas, Venezuela

According to the 160 article of the Constitution of Venezuela, the governor must be Venezuelan, greater of twenty-five years and Secularity state, is chosen by a four years term, by simple majority, and can be reelected by another period.

Venezuelan Marine Corps

Headquartered in Meseta de Mamo, Vargas, the estimated numerical strength of this unit is of approx.


2 in a Room

Vargas, also known under Dose Material, was also member of 740 Boyz from 1991.

Alto Mayo Protection Forest

It is situated in the departments of San Martín, in the Yorongos, Rioja, Elías Soplín Vargas, Nuevo Cajamarca districts, and in the Rioja and Moyobamba provinces.

Alvaro Obertos de Valeto

Genoese family of Fíeseos who participated in the capture of Seville and Jerez in the service of Kingdom of Castile Fernando III and Alfonso X. His parents were Francisco de Morla and Francisca Martinez Obertos de Valeto, the daughter of Miguel Vargas Obertos de Valeto and Juana and Martinez Trujillo.

Andres de Saya

Later on, in 1980, it was adapted into a film with Vic Vargas on the title role, and Gloria Diaz as his wife.

Andrés de Vargas

His style was called by Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez "feeble," and injurious to his art was Vargas’ practice of regulating the quality of his pictures by their price.

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Vargas Llosa's novel was later adapted as a Hollywood feature film, Tune in Tomorrow, in which the setting was moved from Lima to New Orleans.

Benito Salas

Benito Salas Airport, an airport in Neiva, Colombia, named after Benito Salas Vargas

Bernard Diederich

After Mario Vargas Llosa published ‘’The Feast of the Goat’’, a fictionalized novel about Trujillo’s death, in 2000, Diederich accused Vargas Llosa of plagiarism.

Chavela Vargas

Although the name Chavela Vargas is associated to México and its culture, she was born in Costa Rica, as Isabel Vargas Lizano was born in San Joaquín de Flores, daughter of Francisco Vargas and Herminia Lizano.

Claudia Liliana González

As of 2009, she plays Captain Lina Vargas in the Caracol TV telenovela Bermúdez, and presents Deco Art in the cable channel Utilísima.

Dharma Mittra

Dharma Mittra was born Carlos Augusto Vargason May 14, 1939, in Pirapora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

DZFE

The station's studio and transmitter are located at 46th floor of One Corporate Centre, Meralco Avenue corner Doña Julia Vargas Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

Efraín Medina

Efraín Medina Berry Vargas (born May 25, 1979 in Pachuca, Hidalgo) is a Mexican singer who participated in and was among the final three contestants of the first season of Latin American Idol.

Filinto Müller

He was dismissed from his post when Vargas switched sides, approaching Brazil to the Allies against Adolf Hitler.

Fulanito

With the growing success of many young urban Latin groups such as Proyect Uno, Ilegales and Sandy y Papo surging in South America, Vargas and Rosa were eager to tap in.

Germán Vargas Lleras

Germán Vargas Lleras began his political career while in college at 19 years of age in a successful campaign that got him elected as councilman of Boyacá, Cundinamarca in 1981 under the flags of the New Liberalism, a dissident political movement founded by the then young Senator Luis Carlos Galán.

Guillermo Vargas

In August, 2007, Vargas displayed his "Exposición N° 1" in the Códice Gallery in Managua, Nicaragua.

João do Rio

In November, makes his third voyage to Europe, having visited Lisbon (where his play A Bela Madame Vargas – The Beautiful Madame Vargas – is staged with great success), Paris, Germany, Istanbul, Russia, Greece, Jerusalem and Cairo.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Vargas founded "Define American" in 2011, a non-profit project aimed at facilitating dialogue about immigration issues including the DREAM Act, which would allow undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship through education or service in the military.

In 2012 Vargas worked with filmmaker Chris Weitz on a group of four short documentaries entitled Is this Alabama? about the effects of Alabama's immigration legislation.

José María Villalta Florez-Estrada

Then he was advisor of the deputy Gerardo Vargas with Partido Acción Ciudadana (Citizens Action Party) and again with José Merino's advisor in 2002-2006 with the Frente Amplio (Broad Front).

José Ruíz Matos

Ruíz had four successful defenses, defeating Juan Carazo, Ángel Rosario, Wilfredo Vargas and Armando Velasco.

JrMan

jrMan renderer is an open source version of the Reyes rendering algorithm used by Pixar's PhotoRealistic RenderMan, implemented in Java by Gerardo Horvilleur, Jorge Vargas, Elmer Garduno and Alessandro Falappa.

Latin American literature

Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Lázaro Vargas

Lázaro Vargas Álvarez (born January 18, 1964, in San Miguel del Padrón) is a Cuban baseball player and Olympic gold medalist.

Lisa Foiles

In 2010, Foiles appeared several times on The Angry Joe Show, a video game program hosted by Joe Vargas for That Guy with the Glasses and its sister website Blistered Thumbs.

Luis Andres Vargas Gomez

He was allowed to rejoin his wife in exile when civil rights activist Jesse Jackson convinced Fidel Castro to release Vargas and 25 other political prisoners on June 28, 1984.

Margarita Vargas

Margarita Vargas Gaviria (born October 2, 1971 in Medellín) is a Colombian singer.

Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou

Marie Marguerite of Bourbon, Duchess of Anjou (née María Margarita Vargas Santaella; born 21 October 1983, Caracas) is a Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, who is considered by Legitimists to be the head of the French Royal House making Marie Marguerite the Legitimist titular queen consort of France.

Nabor Vargas García

On March 2010, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) listed several drug traffickers, including Vargas García, on the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the "Kingpin Act"), which freezes all their assets in the U.S. and prohibits American companies from doing business with them.

Nelson Vargas

In 1996, U.S. coach Bruce Arena named Vargas to the U.S. soccer team at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Osvaldo Farrés

His songs have been performed and recorded by stars such as Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Eydie Gorme, Pedro Vargas,Raquel Bitton, Charles Aznavour, Luis Miguel, Maurice Chevalier, Sara Montiel, Olga Guillot and many others.

Patricia Villarreal

Patricia Villarreal Vargas (born June 5, 1983 in Torreón) is a retired Mexican swimmer, who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.

Pedro Vargas

Pedro Vargas Mata (San Miguel Allende, 29 April 1906 - Mexico City on 30 October 1989) was a Mexican singer and actor, from the golden age of Mexican cinema.

Pichilemu political controversies

In April 2003, the councillors of Pichilemu Roberto Córdova, Aldo Polanco, Washington Saldías, and Carlos Leyton filed a complaint for the crimes of embezzlement, falsification of public documents, fraud, incompatible negotiation, bribery, fraud and conspiracy against the former head of the Department of Community Development of Pichilemu, Héctor Vargas.

R. v. Perka

In 1979 a group of Cali, Colombia marijuana traffickers headed by Jaime deJesus Cordoba-Vargas and Jaime deJesus Marin-Jaramillo organized a venture to smuggle marijuana into the U.S. aboard the 168-foot motor vessel Samarkanda, a surplus U.S. Navy net tender converted to a tug and once called Alexandra.

Ramón Vargas Colman

Ramon Vargas Colman was born in the village of Tebicuarymí, a town close to Caballero, Department of Paraguarí, Paraguay, March 3, 1925 then Tebicuarymí belonged to the Department of Guairá.

Richard Merkin

He appeared on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, (back row, right of center, in between Fred Astaire and a Vargas Girl).

Second Brazilian Republic

Two of them were pro-Vargas — the Brazilian Labour Party (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro, PTB) to the left and the Social Democratic Party (Partido social Democrático, PSD) in the center — and another anti-Vargas, the rightist National Democratic Union (União Democrática Nacional, UDN).

The liberal and rightist parties of the opposition against Vargas created the National Democratic Union.

Sniper Twins

Barry Adam Flanagan and Dax Armand Martinez-Vargas attended film school at University of Texas where they created the sketch comedy show Nothing Liquid with friends Jeff Bevill and Brandon Wilde which screened at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

University of the Philippines College of Arts and Letters

CAL is housed at three establishments – at the CAL Main Building (where most of the classes are held), Bulwagang Rizal (or Rizal Hall, also known as the Faculty Center) beside Osmeña Avenue, and the Vargas Museum (dedicated to former U.P. alumnus Jorge Vargas, and features the collection of Fernando Amorsolo's artworks as well as the Filipiniana Research Center).

Vargas Llosa

Although the name appears to consist of a first name, a middle name and a last name, Vargas Llosa is in fact the complete surname (Spanish-speaking countries use a paternal last name followed by a maternal last name), and falls alphabetically under the letter V. In a library, bookstore, bibliography or similar place, it is not correct to file the works of either of these authors under the letter L or Ll.

Venezuelan Professional Baseball League

On December 27, 1945, the owners of the Caracas Brewery (Cervecería Caracas, present day Caracas Lions or Leones del Caracas), Vargas Wisemen (Sabios de Vargas), the Magellan Navigators (Navegantes del Magallanes), and Venezuela BBC created the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.


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