Portal:Argentina/Did you know/7
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- ...that Juan Manuel de Rosas killed 3,200 indigenous people during the First Conquest of the Desert?
- ...that during the Argentine Decembrist revolution, José María Paz was captured when his horse was entangled with bolas?
- ...that slavery of indigenous people in modern Bolivia was temporarily abolished during the First Upper Peru campaign?
- ...that the Flag of Macha (pictured) is considered to be the first physical flag of Argentina?
- ...that 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?
- ...that in the mid-nineteenth century Argentina successfully resisted a two-year naval blockade by France?
- ...that Miguel Angel Galluzzi's Ducati Monster is credited with both reviving the retro standard motorcycle and creating a new naked bike niche?
- ...that Manuel Gálvez promoted Juan Manuel de Rosas as an archetype of Argentine values?