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- ...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?
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- ...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?
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