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4 unusual facts about Zapata


Emiliano Zapata

A movie called Zapata: El sueño de un héroe (Zapata: A Hero's Dream) was produced in 2004, starring Mexican actors Alejandro Fernandez, Jaime Camil, and Lucero.

Lake Harney

There are several landmarks that are named after him in his honor; such as Harney Peak in South Dakota as well as Camp Harney in Zapata, Texas.

Swinging Radio England

It states that the Laissez Faire became the MV Earl J. Conrad, Jr., owned by the Zapata companies which in the 1990s announced plans to turn a new Internet service called "ZAP!" into a bigger company than Yahoo!.

Zapata, Texas

The library is known as a site for viewing white-collared seedeaters.


Angie Zapata

Ozomatli references Zapata in their song "Gay Vatos in Love", on their 2010 album Fire Away.

Bella Vista, Buenos Aires

One of its most popular residents is Rodolfo Zapata (popular singer) and his son Rolo Zapata, a well known soccer player and coach.

Celia Correas de Zapata

Celia Correas de Zapata (born 9 October 1935 in Mendoza, Argentina) is an academic, poet, and author, and a leading scholar of the history of Latin American women writers.

Club Deportivo Zapata

The club was founded in 1967 as Club Deportivo Zapata A.C playing out of Jojutla.

Darío Gómez

Darío de Jesús Gómez Zapata, also known as El Rey del Despecho, (born February 6, 1951 in San Jerónimo, Antioquia) is a Colombian singer and composer of vals, corridos and boleros.

Dúber Zapata

Dúber Alexander Zapata Carrillo (born 2 November 1976 in Zorritos) is a Peruvian footballer who plays primarily as a full back.

Duván Zapata

On 13 February 2011, Zapata not only scored his first goal but also his first hat trick in a 3-2 victory against Deportivo Pereira.

Emiliano Zapata

El compadre Mendoza of the Revolution Trilogy by Fernando de Fuentes includes character of General Felipe Nieto, a fictitious Zapata cousin resembling Zapata's life and zapatism itself.

Garbage Pail Kids

Packs contained randomly inserted chase cards including lenticular Loco Motion, authentic Printing Plates, four levels of Parallels, and hand-drawn Artist Sketches by pop-culture artists including Layron DeJarnette, Brent Engstrom, Dave Gross, Mark Pingitore, Joe Simko, Colin Walton, Fred Wheaton, Jeff Zapata, and veteran GPK artists Tom Bunk and Jay Lynch.

Gustavo Zapata

Gustavo Miguel Zapata (born October 15, 1967 in Saladillo) is a retired Argentine football player.

Hilario Zapata

Zapata went to Japan in March 1980, and on the 24th day of that month he beat defending world champion Shigeo Nakajima to become world Jr.

Jackup rig

The first one was designed by R. G. LeTourneau for Zapata Oil, owned by George H. W. Bush, who later became the 41st president of the United States.

Jaime Zapata

Jaime Jorge Zapata (May 7, 1978 – February 15, 2011) was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent who was ambushed and murdered by the Mexican criminal group Los Zetas in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

Lordship of Albarracín

Peter III of Aragon, upon capturing the city, gave it as a gift to his illegitimate child with Inés Zapata, Ferdinand of Aragon.

Luis Eduardo Zapata

For the second half of the 2009 season Zapata joined América de Cali.

Piedras Negras, Coahuila

On 15 June 1850, a group of 34 men (commanded by Andrés Zapata, Gaspar Salazar and Antonio Ramírez) met with Colonel Juan Manuel Maldonado to give the news that they had created a pass point at Piedras Negras, to the right of the Rio Grande, south of Fort Duncan; and having given it the name of: Nueva Villa de Herrera.

Raulín Rodríguez

Rodríguez was born in San Fernando de Monte Cristi, Monte Cristi, related to the Zapata family of Monte Cristi, in the northwest coast of the island.

Sam Clayton

After seeing Lester Horton and the modern dancers, "Zapata", he was enthralled by seeing the conga player.

Santos Benavides

On May 22, 1861, at the Battle of Carrizo (also called Battle of Zapata), Benavides engaged the local Tejano leader Juan Cortina (who had invaded Zapata County, an event usually referred as the Second Cortina War), and drove him back into Mexico.

Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74

The wing operates two squadrons of Eurofighter Typhoons, the Falken (Falcons) squadron and the Viva Zapata squadron.

The Winter of Our Discontent

The novel was the last that Steinbeck completed before his death during 1968; The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights and the screenplay for Zapata were both published posthumously in unfinished forms.

Vivian Zapata

Vivian Zapata was selected as the official artist of the 6th Annual Latin Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles CA.

Zapatista Army of National Liberation

The Zapatistas are featured prominently in Rage Against the Machine's songs, in particular "People of the Sun", "Wind Below", "Zapata's Blood", and "War Within a Breath".


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