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Chico (Amtrak station), a railroad station in Chico, California Chico (cat) , a cat who is the narrator of an authorized biography of Pope Benedict XVI CHICO (construction company) , a Chinese construction company based in Henan
Chico's origins lie in Rancho del Arroyo Chico, a Mexican-era rancho granted by Governor Manuel Micheltorena in 1844. View of Chico in 1856 California State University, Chico was founded in 1887. The first known inhabitants of the area now known as Chico—a Spanish word meaning "little" [11] —were the Mechoopda Maidu Native Americans.
In Spanish Latin America and in the Philippines, people with the name Francisco are frequently called "Pancho". "Kiko"and "Cisco" is also used as a nickname, and "Chicho" is another possibility. In Portuguese, people named Francisco are commonly nicknamed "Chico" [2] (shíco).
Rancho del Arroyo Chico was a 22,214-acre (89.90 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Butte County, California, which ultimately laid the foundation for the city of Chico. The name Arroyo Chico means 'little stream' and refers to Big Chico Creek .
The history of Chico, California, begins with the original inhabitants, the Mechoopda Maidu. The city of Chico was founded in 1860 by General John Bidwell , a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1841.
The Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve where he conducts much of his research has already burned, with cameras indicating that nearly all of its infrastructure has been lost, including an 1870s ...
Chico's explanation: Chico never wrote an autobiography and gave fewer interviews than his brothers, but his daughter Maxine said in The Unknown Marx Brothers that, when the brothers lived in Chicago, a popular style of humor was the "Zeke and Zeb" joke, which made fun of slow-witted Midwesterners in much the same way that Boudreaux and ...
Cuchillo, that was the name of my dog. He was a mix between a Saint Bernard and a Pit Bull. I make a joke about that, 'First he bite you, and then he run for help.' But I call him Cuchi."