Portal:Argentina/Did you know/13
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- ...that Argentine celebrity Calu Rivero was the first actress from Catamarca Province to appear in national television, thus being named Illustrious Citizen of her hometown Recreo?
- ...that art critic Jorge Romero Brest was the director of Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts from 1955 to 1963?
- ...that the Rufous Hornero (pictured), a common species in the ovenbird family, is the national bird of Argentina?
- ...that Sancti Spiritu, the first European settlement in modern Argentina, was destroyed by natives two years later?
- ...that the Argentine "San Lorenzo march" was played when the Germans entered Paris during World War II, then again by U.S. forces when they liberated the city?
- ...that adventurer Emilio Scotto had only US$306 when he left Buenos Aires in 1985 on his record-breaking 10-year motorcycle journey?
- ...that Buenos Aires besieged and captured Montevideo during the Second Banda Oriental campaign?
- ...that on September 13, 2012, nearly 200,000 Argentines protested against the policies of the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (pictured)?