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Portal:Argentina/Did you know/11
- ...that
U2 wrote the song "
Mothers of the Disappeared" about the
Madres de Plaza de Mayo, whose children
disappeared during the
Dirty War?
- ...that
Nahuel Huapi National Park (pictured) is named after
Nahuel Huapi Lake, with Nahuel and Huapi meaning "tiger" and "island" in the
Mapuche language?
- ...that the
1957
non-fiction novel
Operación Masacre by
Rodolfo Walsh was published seven years before
Truman Capote's
In Cold Blood, which is frequently cited as creating the genre?
- ...that
Papel Prensa produced 170,000 tons of
newsprint for 170 dailies in 2009, accounting for 75% of the newsprint market in Argentina?
- ...that
Juan Esteban Pedernera was interim
President of Argentina in 1861, following the death of
Santiago Derqui?
- ...that the Argentine
investigative journalism TV program
Periodismo para todos is censored in several Argentine provinces?
- ...that
Marcelo Piñeyro's second film, Wild Horses, was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995, and was screened at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York City?
- ...that authorities believe convicted fraudster
Edward Porta escaped from the
U.S. Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia, apparently by walking out of its
minimum security area?
Portal:Argentina/Did you know/12
- ...that during the
Puna de Atacama dispute the
U.S. minister in
Buenos Aires and two delegates from
Chile and
Argentina drew the northern portion of the border between Chile and Argentina?
- ...that
Argentine painter
Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol, was adopted at the age of 6 from an
orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on March 21, 1890?
- ...that a
radio
ad
in Argentina for 'Los Andes Restaurant', which first aired in 1922, is the oldest known
radio commercial in history?
- ...that several peaks of the
Andean
Cordillera de la Ramada, including the highest,
Mercedario, were
first climbed by a
Polish expedition of 1934?
- ...that the controversial Argentine governor
Juan Manuel de Rosas, who died in
Southampton in 1877,
was repatriated over a century later?
- ...that
José de San Martín and
Carlos María de Alvear helped
depose Argentina's
First Triumvirate?
- ...that the
Viceroyalty of La Plata (pictured) —covering
Argentina,
Bolivia,
Paraguay and
Uruguay—was the last
viceroyalty created by
Spain?
- ...that when the new
Argentine
dreadnought
Rivadavia arrived in
Buenos Aires on 19 February 1915, over 47,000 people, including
President
Victorino de la Plaza, came out to see the ship?