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• the short story "The Congress" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was published in a deluxe edition with the letters made of gold?
• the Center Region of Argentina produces 90% of the country's vegetable oil?
• the Río Pilcomayo National Park in Argentina is included in the Ramsar Convention's list of wetlands of international importance?
• the Rufous Hornero (pictured), a common species in the ovenbird family, is the national bird of Argentina?
• the Italian socialist leader Dino Rondani represented Argentina in the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International?
• the Argentinian Labour Party, which played a major role in ensuring Juan Perón's 1946 election victory, was modelled after the British Labour Party?
• in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of Argentina's thermal power plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
• more than 95 percent of the electricity generated in Paraguay is produced by two hydroelectric plants in Itaipu and Yacyretá, most of which is exported to Brazil and Argentina?
• more than a million tourists visit the wine-producing regions in Argentina annually?
• the Southern Right Whales off the coast of Argentina 'sail' by raising their flukes and catching the wind?
• the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion, with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina?
• the title story from The Book of Sand by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges describes a book with an infinite number of pages?
• when Britain took the dispute over the sovereignty of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands to the International Court of Justice in 1955, Argentina declined to cooperate?
• 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?
• the title story from Shakespeare's Memory by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is about a man who is given the memory of William Shakespeare?
• the first two books by Argentine author Ricardo Güiraldes were such a commercial and critical failure that he gathered up the unsold copies and threw them in a well?
• the Viceroyalty of La Plata—covering Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay—was the last viceroyalty created by Spain?
• the diporus subspecies of the Bothrops neuwiedi pitviper is one of the main causes of snakebite injury in Argentina?
• the first British merchant navy ship lost to enemy fire since World War II was the Atlantic Conveyor, sunk by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War?
• in 1896, Christian IX of Denmark awarded Ramon Santamarina the Order of the Dannebrog, for supporting the settlement of Danish emigrants in Argentina?
• 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?
• Guido di Tella was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999?
• Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of Argentina and Paraguay?
• 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?
• Enrique Angelelli was an Argentine Catholic bishop killed during that country's military junta?
• Eduardo Delgado has recorded the full works of Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera?
• painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
• Russian-born Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at farming, both in the Catskills and in Argentina?
• Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
• Mario Menéndez, who was the governor of the Falkland Islands, surrendered Argentine forces to the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War?
• Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
• after discovering a suitcase with US$800,000 in Maletinazo, policewoman Maria de Lujan Telpuk appeared on the cover of the Argentine and Venezuelan editions of Playboy?
• all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina?
• although she was born in Argentina, Renata Fronzi pursued a successful acting career in theater, film and telenovelas in the neighboring country of Brazil?
• a massive general strike organized by the Argentinian F.O.I.C. meat-packers union secured the release of its jailed leadership in September 1943?
• a large titanosaur nesting ground was recently discovered in Auca Mahuevot, in Patagonia in Argentina, and another colony has reportedly been discovered in Spain?
• Virginia Bolten was deported from Argentina to Uruguay in 1902 because of her anarchist activities?
• Carletonomys, a rodent related to modern rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina?
• Las fuerzas extrañas, Lugones' least successful work at the time, is now considered to be key in the development of the science fiction and fantasy genres in Argentina?
• Argentine portrait painter Antonio Alice, who was expelled from school for drawing in books, was later awarded the Prix de Rome scholarship?

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