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28 unusual facts about Tucson


Angolan War of Independence

The USA granted the company Aero Associates, from Tucson, Arizona, the permission to sell seven Douglas B-26 Invader bombers to Portugal in early 1965, despite Portugal's concerns about their support for the Marxists from Cuba and the USSR.

Arizona State Route 286

State Route 286 (SR 286) is a highway in southern Arizona that runs from its junction with State Route 86 west of Tucson to the US-Mexico border at Sasabe.

Arizona State Route 989

This route number was initially intended as part of a proposed highway network for the Tucson area (in this case, the Tangerine Highway) that was never implemented.

Aztec Middle College

Aztec Middle College is a program operated by the Tucson Unified School District, Pima Community College, and the city of Tucson, Arizona.

Battle of Kamdesh

The US soldiers killed in the battle were: Justin T. Gallegos (Tucson, Arizona), Christopher Griffin (Kincheloe, Michigan), Kevin C. Thomson (Reno, Nevada), Michael P. Scusa (Villas, New Jersey), Vernon W. Martin (Savannah, Georgia), Stephan L. Mace (Lovettsville, Virginia), Joshua J. Kirk (South Portland, Maine), and Joshua M. Hardt (Applegate, California).

Cochise Airlines

Cochise Airlines was founded in 1971 in Tucson, Arizona.

Edward Banker Willis

From San Diego, Willis marched with James H. Carleton's expedition across New Mexico Territory and was involved in the capture of Tucson, an old Spanish presidio defended by a handful of milita.

George H. Smith

Smith grew up mostly in Tucson, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona for several years before leaving without a degree; he relocated to Los Angeles during 1971.

Glynn Ross

Glynn Ross (December 15, 1914 – July 21, 2005, Tucson, Arizona) was an American opera impresario.

High Tide in Tucson

The book is titled after the first essay, in which she realizes that a hermit crab she accidentally brought home while beachcombing still times its activity to the rise and fall of the tides, even in an aquarium in Tucson, Arizona where there are no oceans or tides for hundreds of miles.

Hipster Daddy-O and the Handgrenades

Hipster Daddy-O and the Handgrenades (HDH) is a band that was formed in 1997 in Tucson, Arizona.

Human Arts Ensemble

Human Arts Ensemble co-founder, saxophonist James Marshall, continues to pursue the vision of HAE to this day in Tucson, Arizona.

Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon

She also revealed the album cover, in which she is seen from behind in the desert of Tucson, Arizona.

Lena Pierpont

After Harry's arrest in Tucson, Arizona on January 25, 1934 and subsequent return to Lima, Ohio for trial, Lena secured the services of city solicitor Charles W. Long to defend her son.

Lizzie's Loot

Lizzie's Loot is a charity organization based out of Tucson, Arizona.

Machita Incident

When the scuffle was over, the police retreated to Tucson and Machita fled into the desert with 25 followers.

Melanotan II

A pilot Phase I clinical trial conducted on three males by the College of Medicine, Pharmacology Department, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona published in 1996 reported that, "Melanotan II has tanning activity in humans given only 5 low doses every other day by subcutaneous injection."

Outbound Plane

The "Outbound Plane" music video was filmed on location at the aircraft boneyard of Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.

Patricia Dobler

She moved, as the spouse of a writer and professor, to Iowa City; Exeter, New Hampshire; Putney, Vermont; Anchorage, Alaska; Tucson, Arizona; El Paso, Texas; and finally Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Petrocelli

Tony Petrocelli was an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who grew up in South Boston and gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest called San Remo (filmed in Tucson, Arizona).

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

He eventually enjoys their company and the three take a road trip to Las Vegas and end up in Tucson, Arizona.

Richard Greenwell

He later travelled to Tucson, Arizona, where he was appointed research coordinator for the Office of Arid Land Studies at the University of Arizona.

Rufous-winged Sparrow

The Rufous-Winged Sparrow in Pima County: This species was discovered by Charles Emil Bendire in 1872, near old Fort Lowell, Tucson, where it was common.

Sanctuary movement

In 1980, Jim Corbett, Jim Dudley, John Fife and a handful of other residents of Tucson, Arizona began providing legal, financial and material aid to Central American refugees.

Southern Pacific class AC-9

Between 1939 and 1952, all the twelve AC-9 engines were in service between Tucumcari, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona, where they mainly pulled freight trains and occasionally also passenger trains such as the Golden State Limited.

Truly Nolen

The company integrated the business originally owned by the current executive officer, Truly David Nolen, in Tucson, Arizona and the business of his father, Truly Wheatfield Nolen, owned prior to his death in 1966 in South Miami Beach, Florida.

Ultima: Escape from Mt. Drash

The seller from Tucson, Arizona, had bought the game about a decade earlier from a Commodore enthusiast, along with other games, and had it in his closet for ten years.

Universal Avionics

Universal Avionics Systems Corporation is an international company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.


2011 BCS National Championship Game

Before the match a moment of silence was held for the victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona two days before the game in which US Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and 6 others, including Federal Judge John Roll, were killed.

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

The title was later used by Tucson, Arizona industrial rock band Machines of Loving Grace, formed in 1989, and in its full form by British musician Martin Carr as the title of a 2004 album, as well as a 2011 television series by documentary maker Adam Curtis.

Anti-Saloon League

Ministers had launched several efforts to close Arizona saloons after the 1906 creation of League chapters in Yuma, Tucson, and Phoenix.

Arizona State Route 77

State Route 77 (or SR 77) is a state highway in Arizona that traverses much of the state's length, stretching from its northern terminus at the boundary of the Navajo Nation north of Holbrook to its junction with I-10 in Tucson.

Catalina Magnet High School

In the 1960s Catalina was known as the Disneyland for the higher income students who attended Catalina from central Tucson and the Catalina Foothills.

Company A, Arizona Rangers

Tucson was located on the Butterfield Overland Mail road, the only one between California and the Rio Grande and Mesilla valleys, and an ideal location for an advanced post to observe and delay the advance of Union forces gathering under Col. James Henry Carleton at Fort Yuma.

Eva Wansundera

While at Dharmapala Vidyalaya she won the American Field Service Scholarship which allowed her to study in the USA at Canyon del Oro High School Tucson, Arizona spending a year as an exchange student.

Every Grain of Sand

The Tucson-based band Giant Sand recorded a cover of this song for their album Swerve, which was released in 1990.

Fouquieria columnaris

The plant's English name, Boojum, was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona and is taken from Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark".

George H. Rieke

George H. Rieke (born January 5, 1943), a noted American infrared astronomer, is Deputy Director of the Steward Observatory and Regents Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Gian Piero Reverberi

He also worked with his brother Gianfranco Reverberi on the song "Last Man Standing" (or "Nel cimitero di Tucson") from the soundtrack of Django, Prepare a Coffin (Preparati la bara!), which was sampled in Gnarls Barkley's hit "Crazy".

History of Arizona State University

Citizens of Tucson also hoped the Thirteenth would restore the territorial capitol to their city since it was moved back to Prescott in 1878.

Joseph Polchinski

He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 under the supervision of Stanley Mandelstam.

KAUC

KWBA-TV, a television station (channel 58) licensed to serve Tucson, Arizona, United States, which held the call sign KAUC in 1997

KJLL

KWFM, a radio station (1330 AM) licensed to South Tucson, Arizona, United States, known as KJLL from 1999 through 2012

KPCE-LP

It was to be a Spanish-language station, rebroadcasting Tucson-area station K14HR (now KUDF-LP) from the Santa Rita Mountains near Green Valley, its community of license.

KUAT

KUAT-FM, a radio station (90.5 FM) licensed to Tucson, Arizona, United States

KWMT

KMIY, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to serve Tucson, Arizona, United States, which held the call sign KWMT-FM from 2003 to 2011

KYWD

KYWD broadcasts on the frequency of 97.1 MHz and is licensed to broadcast from Green Valley, Arizona (a southern suburb of Tucson).

Lalo Guerrero

Guerreo was born in Tucson, Arizona, one of 21 siblings (although only nine survived).

Lew Murphy

During this time Tucson's population almost doubled, the city annexed 63 square miles, and Learjet and IBM opened manufacturing plants.

Lili Lakich

Lakich was born in Washington, D.C., but soon moved to Tucson, Arizona when her father's military career transferred the family to Davis Monthan Air Base and then to California when he was sent to the Korean War.

Lukeville, Arizona

The community consists of the Lukeville Port of Entry border crossing into Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico, together with a gas station, a duty free shop, a few outlets that sell Mexican automobile insurance, and a terminal for buses that are bound for Phoenix and Tucson.

Manning Cabin

The log structure was built by Levi H. Manning, Surveyor General of the Arizona Territory and later mayor of Tucson, in 1905.

Manuel Duran Moreno

On January 12, 1982, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Moreno as the Bishop of the Diocese of Tucson.

Mount Lemmon

The Catalina Highway, also called the Mount Lemmon Highway, as well as the Hitchcock Highway (after Frank Harris Hitchcock) runs up the Santa Catalina Mountains from the east side of Tucson up to Summerhaven, at the top of Mt. Lemmon.

NAPA 200

NAPA 200, a former NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race run at Tucson Raceway Park

PADRES

After being pressured, however, the NCCB agreed to set up an "informal liaison committee" of five bishops: Furey, Manning of Los Angeles, Green of Tucson, Medeiros of Brownsville, and Buswell of Pueblo.

Pima Villages

Soon after Mexico achieved its independence, interest in reopening land communications with Alta California was revived with the arrival of a Dominican missionary, Father Félix Caballero, in Tucson in 1823.

Presidio San Augustin del Tucson

Famous military figures, prospectors, outlaws and warriors would all become part of Tucson's culture more than ever before.

Rich McKinney

He spent the entire 1976 season with Tucson, batting .317 with career highs in home runs (22) and RBI (95), but did not get a call to the majors.

San Elizario Spy Company

On January 25, 1862 two NCOs and seven privates from the Company were detached to help form Sherod Hunter's Company A, Arizona Rangers, that were sent to occupy Tucson, Arizona.

Skrappys

As a music venue, Skrappy's saw the rise of many Tucson native bands such as The Bled, Versus the Mirror, Blues, The American Black Lung, Line of Fire, The Mean Reds, Beyond the Citadel of Coup de Grace and many others.

South Tucson, Arizona

In most crime categories, South Tucson has higher 2006 crime rates than those of Camden, New Jersey, which is the United States's most dangerous city on Morgan Quitno's statistics.

Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains

In an interview with amazon.co.uk she reveals she began writing about a fat man doing yoga in the desert whilst studying on the UEA Creative Writing Course and then spent time herself living in the Arizona desert near Tucson.

Tucson Convention Center

The Tucson Convention Center has been host to many other events including the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, concerts, monster truck shows as well as many live WWE television broadcasts featuring Raw, SmackDown & ECW on Sci Fi.

Tucson High Magnet School

The 1987 film, Can't Buy Me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson, was also shot on location at the school when it was known as Tucson High School.