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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)?

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