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La Plata

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La Plata is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. [1]

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Aesculus hippocastanum

Aesculus hippocastanum is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae.

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Agustín Creevy

Agustín Creevy (born 15 March 1985 in La Plata) is an Argentine rugby union player.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.

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Argentina national football team

The Argentina national football team (Selección de fútbol de Argentina) represents Argentina in football and is controlled by the Argentine Football Association (AFA), the governing body for football in Argentina.

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Argentina national rugby union team

The Argentina national rugby team is organised by the Argentine Rugby Union (UAR, from the Spanish: Unión Argentina de Rugby).

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Argentine Primera División

The Primera División (First Division), named Superliga Argentina (Argentine Superleague) since the 2017–18 season, by Daniel Avellaneda, Clarín, 3 May 2017 is a professional football league in Argentina, organised by the homonymous entity, that is administrated independently and has its own statute.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Autódromo Roberto José Mouras

Autódromo Roberto José Mouras is a motorsports circuit located in La Plata, Argentina.

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Auto racing

Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition.

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Banco de la Nación Argentina

Banco de la Nación Argentina (Bank of the Argentine Nation) is the national bank of Argentina, and the largest in the country's banking sector.

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Banco Hipotecario

Banco Hipotecario (BCBA) is a leading commercial bank in Argentina and the nation's premier mortgage lender.

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Banco Itaú

Banco Itaú was a former Brazilian bank that merged with Unibanco on November 4, 2008, to form Itaú Unibanco.

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Benjamín Rojas

Benjamín Rojas Pessi (born April 16, 1985 in La Plata) is an Argentinian actor, singer, musician and former occasional model.

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Berazategui Partido

Berazategui is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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Berisso Partido

Berisso Partido is a small eastern partido of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.

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Bolivia national football team

The Bolivia national football team (Selección de fútbol de Bolivia), also known as La Verde or Los Altiplanicos, has represented Bolivia in international football since 1926.

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Brandsen Partido

Brandsen is a north-eastern partido of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Buenos Aires Province

Buenos Aires (Provincia de Buenos Aires; English: "good airs") is the largest and most populous Argentinian province.

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Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Carlos Saavedra Lamas (November 1, 1878 – May 5, 1959) was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Cathedral of La Plata

The Cathedral of La Plata in La Plata, Argentina, dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, is the 58th tallest church in the world.

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Champ Car

Champ Car is the general name for a class and specification of American professional top-level open wheel cars used in American open-wheel car racing for many decades, associated primarily with the Indianapolis 500.

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Chevrolet

Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).

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Citigroup

Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City.

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Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata

Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata ((La Plata Gymnastics and Fencing Club), also known simply as Gimnasia or the acronym GELP, is a professional Argentine sports club based in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province. Founded in 1887 as "Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima",Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, 100 Años, by Carlos Asnaghi, Editorial Ceyne, 1988 – the club is mostly known for its football team, which currently plays in the Primera División, the first division of the Argentine football league system. Apart from football, GELP also hosts other activities such as athletics, basketball, fencing, futsal, gymnastics, field hockey, martial arts, tennis, roller skating and volleyball.

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Club San Luis

Club San Luis is an Argentine rugby union and field hockey club from the city of La Plata in Buenos Aires Province.

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (born 19 February 1953), sometimes referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015.

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Curutchet House

The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is a building by Le Corbusier.

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Dardo Rocha

Dardo Rocha (September 1, 1838 – September 6, 1921) was an Argentine naval officer, lawyer and politician best known as the founder of the city of La Plata and of the University of La Plata.

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Distillation

Distillation is the process of separating the components or substances from a liquid mixture by selective boiling and condensation.

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El Día (La Plata)

El Día is an Argentine daily newspaper published in the city of La Plata.

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Emilio Pettoruti

Emilio Pettoruti (1892–1971) was an Argentine painter, who caused a scandal with his avant-garde cubist exhibition in 1924 in Buenos Aires.

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Enrique Mosconi

Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi (21 February 1877 – 4 June 1940) was an Argentine military engineer, who is best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum exploration and extraction in Argentina.

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Ensenada Partido

Ensenada Partido is a district (a "partido") of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, belonging to the Greater La Plata area, just south of the Gran Buenos Aires urban conglomerate.

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Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato (June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist.

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Estadio Ciudad de La Plata

The Estadio Ciudad de La Plata (City of La Plata Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium located in the city of La Plata, Argentina.

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Estadio Jorge Luis Hirschi

Estadio Jorge Luis Hirschi was a football stadium in La Plata, Argentina.

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Estudiantes de La Plata

Club Estudiantes de La Plata, simply referred to as Estudiantes, is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Plata.

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Eva Perón

Eva María Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.

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Exposition Universelle (1889)

The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from 6 May to 31 October 1889.

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Facundo Cabral

Facundo Cabral (May 22, 1937 – July 9, 2011) was an Argentine singer, songwriter and philosopher.

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Federalization of Buenos Aires

Federalization is a term, which, in Argentine law, defines the process of assigning federal status to a territory with the purpose of making that territory the national capital.

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Felipe Pigna

Felipe Pigna (born 1959) is an Argentine historian and writer.

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Florencio Varela Partido

Florencio Varela is a partido in the south of Gran Buenos Aires urban area in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino (September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers –Carlos and Juan– Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology. From 1887 until his death, Ameghino was passionately devoted to the study of fossil mammals from Patagonia, with the valuable support of his brother Carlos Ameghino (1865–1936) who, between 1887 and 1902, made 14 trips to that region, where he discovered and collected numerous fossil faunas and made important stratigraphic observations which helped to support his journal Ameghiniana.

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Formula One

Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.

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Fractal

In mathematics, a fractal is an abstract object used to describe and simulate naturally occurring objects.

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Francisco Varallo

Francisco Antonio "Pancho" Varallo (–) was an Argentine football forward.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, English name ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Gaby Natale

Gaby Natale (born May 13, 1978 in La Plata) is an Argentinian-Italian-American journalist, author, entrepreneur, host and executive producer of the TV program SuperLatina and president of AGANARmedia.

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Gastón Mazzacane

Gastón Hugo Mazzacane (born 8 May 1975) is an Argentine racing driver.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Guillermo Barros Schelotto

Guillermo Barros Schelotto (born 4 May 1973) is an Argentine former football forward, and the current manager of Boca Juniors.

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Gustavo Barros Schelotto

Gustavo Barros Schelotto (born 4 May 1973) is an Argentine former footballer who played as a midfielder.

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HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational banking and financial services holding company, tracing its origin to a hong in Hong Kong.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Iñaki Urlezaga

Iñaki Urlezaga (La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine classical dancer of international significance.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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International Day For Monuments and Sites

The International Day for Monuments and Sites also known as World Heritage Day is an international observance held on 18 April each year around the world with different types of activities, including visits to monuments and heritage sites, conferences, round tables and newspaper articles.

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Irene Bernasconi

Irene Bernasconi (29 September 1896 – 7 July 1989) was an Argentine marine biologist specializing in Echinoderm research and best known for her work in the Antarctic.

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Joaquín Tuculet

Joaquín Tuculet (born 8 August 1989 in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine rugby union player who plays for the national Argentina team The Pumas and the country's Super Rugby team, the Jaguares.

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Juan José Arévalo

Juan José Arévalo Bermejo (10 September 1904 – 8 October 1990) was a professor of philosophy who became Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945.

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Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón (8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine army lieutenant general and politician.

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Juan Ramón Verón

Juan Ramón Verón (born 17 March 1944 in La Plata) is an Argentine football coach and former professional player, who played as a midfielder or forward.

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Juan Sebastián Verón

Juan Sebastián Verón (born 9 March 1975) is a retired Argentine footballer who as the chairman for Estudiantes de La Plata, where he had served as Director of Sports.

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Julio Alak

Julio César Alak (born January 9, 1958) is an Argentine politician, the former mayor of the Buenos Aires Province capital of La Plata, and former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina.

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July 2007 Argentine winter storm

The July 2007 Argentine winter storm resulted from the interaction of an area of low pressure systems across central Argentina and the entry of a massive polar cold snap during the 6–8 July 2007; it was the worst winter of Argentina in almost forty years.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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La Nación

La Nación (The Nation) is an Argentine daily newspaper.

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La Plata Airport

La Plata Airport (Aeropuerto de La Plata) is an airport serving La Plata, the capital city of the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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La Plata Astronomical Observatory

The La Plata Astronomical Observatory (Observatorio Astronómico de La Plata) is an observatory located in the city of La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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La Plata City Hall

La Plata City Hall is the executive seat of government of the city of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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La Plata Fútbol Club

La Plata FC are a football club from La Plata in Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. They currently play in Torneo Argentino B, which is the regionalised fourth tier of the Argentine Football Association league system. The club were founded in 2000, making them one of the youngest teams in Argentinian football. Their stadium is Estadio Gobernador Mercante which has a capacity of 2,500, but they play most of their home games in the much larger Estadio Ciudad de La Plata which has a capacity of 45,000. La Plata FC was heavily supported by then-mayor Julio Alak. Three months after Alak's departure from office, it was announced that the club will disband.

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La Plata Museum

The La Plata Museum is a natural history museum in La Plata, Argentina.

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La Plata Partido

La Plata is a partido (department) in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, some south-east of the city of Buenos Aires.

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La Plata Rugby Club

La Plata Rugby Club is an Argentine rugby union club from the city of La Plata in Buenos Aires Province.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Leandro Cufré

Leandro Damián Cufré (born 9 May 1978) is a retired Argentinian footballer who last played as a defender for Club Universidad de Guadalajara of the Liga MX.

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Liquidambar styraciflua

American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as American storax, hazel pine, bilsted, redgum, satin-walnut, star-leaved gum, alligatorwood, or simply sweetgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central America.

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Liriodendron tulipifera

Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron (the other member is Liriodendron chinense), and the tallest eastern hardwood.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of twin towns and sister cities in Argentina

This is a list of twin towns and sister cities (see town twinning) in Argentina arranged by location.

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Lobos

Lobos is the headquarters city of the Lobos Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

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Magdalena Partido

Magdalena Partido is a partido in the north eastern part of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.

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Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear

Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco (October 4, 1868 – March 23, 1942), better known as Marcelo T. de Alvear was an Argentine politician and President of Argentina October 12, 1922 to October 12, 1928.

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Marcos Rojo

Faustino Marcos Alberto Rojo (born 20 March 1990), known simply as Marcos Rojo, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a defender for Manchester United and the Argentine national team.

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Mario Bunge

Mario Augusto Bunge (born September 21, 1919) is an Argentine philosopher, philosopher of science and physicist mainly active in Canada.

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Martín Palermo

Martín Palermo (born 7 November 1973) is an Argentine former footballer who played as a striker.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mercedes Lambre

Mercedes Rodríguez Lambre (born October 5, 1992) is an Argentine actress, singer, dancer and model.

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Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or commuter belt, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture or modernist architecture is a term applied to a group of styles of architecture which emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II.

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Modernisme

Modernisme (Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan culture, one of the most predominant cultures within Spain.

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National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts

The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, INCAA; also referred to as the Argentine National Film Board) is an Argentine government film production company in Buenos Aires.

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National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina

National Statistics and Censuses Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC) is the Argentine government agency responsible for the collection and processing of statistical data.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; pronounced, like "Noah") is an American scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere.

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National University of La Plata

The National University of La Plata (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is one of the most important Argentine national universities and the biggest one situated in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province.

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Néstor Kirchner

Néstor Carlos Kirchner (25 February 195027 October 2010) was an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and as Governor of Santa Cruz from 1991 to 2003.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Opera house

An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building.

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Pablo Bruera

Pablo Oscar Bruera (born 1 October 1964) is an Argentine politician, who was elected as mayor of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province, in the 28 October 2007 elections.

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Partidos of Buenos Aires

A partido is the second-level administrative subdivision in the.

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Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota

Patricio Rey y Sus Redonditos de Ricota were a rock band formed in La Plata, Argentina.

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Pedro Benoit

Pedro Benoit (February 18, 1836 – April 4, 1897) was an Argentine architect, engineer, and urbanist best known for designing the layout of the city of La Plata.

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Pedro Henríquez Ureña

Pedro Henríquez Ureña (born June 29, 1884 - May 11, 1946) was a Dominican essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic.

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Planned community

A planned community, or planned city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped greenfield land.

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Platanus

Platanus is a genus consisting of a small number of tree species native to the Northern Hemisphere.

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Positivism

Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that certain ("positive") knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations.

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Postal codes in Argentina

Postal codes in Argentina are called códigos postales.

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President of Guatemala

The President of Guatemala (Presidente de Guatemala) officially known as the President of the Republic of Guatemala (Presidente de la República de Guatemala), is the head of state and head of government of Guatemala, elected to a single four-year term.

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Provinces of Argentina

Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces (provincias, singular provincia) and one autonomous city (ciudad autónoma), Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation (Capital Federal) as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system.

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Raúl Alfonsín

Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín Foulkes (12 March 1927 – 31 March 2009) was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as the President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989.

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Rationalism

In philosophy, rationalism is the epistemological view that "regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge" or "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification".

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René Favaloro

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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San Vicente Partido

San Vicente Partido is a partido in the centre-east of Buenos Aires Province in Argentina.

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Standard Bank

The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited is a South African financial services groups and is Africa’s biggest lender by assets.

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Teatro Argentino de La Plata

The Teatro Argentino de La Plata is the second most important lyric opera house in Argentina, after the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

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Teatro Colón

The Teatro Colón (Spanish: Columbus Theatre) is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Teatro Municipal Coliseo Podestá

The Teatro Municipal Coliseo Podestá is located on the streets 46 and 47, avenue 10 (#733), City of La Plata, capital of the Buenos Aires Province, en Argentina.

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Telephone numbers in Argentina

In Argentina, area codes are two, three, or four digits long (after the initial zero).

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Tilia

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees, or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere.

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Time in Argentina

Argentina is located at a longitude that would naturally put it in the UTC−4 or UTC−5 time zone, but it actually uses the UTC−3 time zone.

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Top Race V6

Top Race V6 is a touring car race series held in Argentina.

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Torneo Nacional de Ascenso

The Torneo Nacional de Ascenso (abbreviated "TNA" and literally in English "National Promotion Tournament") is the second division of the Argentine basketball league system.

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Traductorado

Traductorado, or, as it is formally known, Instituto Superior del Traductorado, is a translation school in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Turismo Carretera

Turismo Carretera (Road racing, lit., Road Touring) is a popular touring car rally racing series in Argentina, and the oldest car racing series still active in the world.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), metonymically known as the Sorbonne (one of its buildings), was a university in Paris, France, from around 1150 to 1793, and from 1806 to 1970.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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Virus (Argentine band)

Virus is an Argentine new wave music band, led by Federico Moura until his death on December 21, 1988, from AIDS-related complications.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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World Rugby Sevens Series

The World Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams.

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YPF

YPF (Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales; English: "Fiscal Oilfields") is a vertically integrated Argentine energy company, engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, and the transportation, refining, and marketing of gas and petroleum products.

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1888 Río de la Plata earthquake

The 1888 Río de la Plata earthquake occurred on June 5 measuring 5.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, and shook the upper Río de la Plata at 3:20 UTC-3.

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2011 Copa América

The 2011 Campeonato Sudamericano Copa América, better known as the 2011 Copa América or the Copa América 2011 Argentina, was the 43rd edition of the Copa América, the main international football tournament for national teams in South America.

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Ciudad Eva Peron, Ciudad Eva Perón, Ciudad de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, La Plata, Buenos Aires, UN/LOCODE:ARLPG.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Plata

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