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Prior to the selection of the location, objections by local residents and the nearby San Marcos Municipal Airport (owing to concerns about circling vultures) stalled the plan. [4] But on February 12, 2008, Texas State University announced that its Freeman Ranch, off County Road 213 northwest of San Marcos, would be the site of the facility.
Rancho San Marcos was a 35,573-acre (143.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico to Nicolas A. Den and Richard S. Den. [1] The grant in the Santa Ynez Valley extended between the San Rafael Mountains and the Santa Ynez River .
San Marcos High School (Santa Barbara, California), U.S. San Marcos, a fictional Central American banana republic in the 1971 motion picture Bananas, in an episode of The A-Team, and in a 2014 episode of Archer; San Marcos, León, former monastery in León; USS San Marcos, a warship of the United States Navy
Miel San Marcos is a Guatemalan Christian music group made up of the three brothers Josh, Luis and Samy Morales. The name "Miel" (in English meaning "honey") is derived from the initials of Elim Ministries (Ministerios Elim), the initial name of the Tabernacle of Avivamiento church, and San Marcos, by the name of the department in which it is located. [1]
San Marcos (/ ˌ s æ n ˈ m ɑːr k oʊ s / SAN MAR-kohs; Spanish for "St. Mark") is a city in the North County region of San Diego County, California. As of the 2020 census , the city's population was 94,833.
The San Marcos Foothills Preserve is a 301–acre open space located between Santa Barbara and Goleta, California and owned by the County of Santa Barbara Parks Division. [1] The preserve provides views of the nearby Santa Ynez Mountains , the Pacific Ocean , and the Channel Islands . [ 2 ]
"The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme", also known as the "Spandrels paper", [1] is a paper by evolutionary biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, originally published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences in 1979. [2]
San Marcos is the birthplace of Clodomiro Picado Twight (1887–1944), [2] a Pasteur Institute scientist whose work on molds was a precursor to the formal discovery of penicillin. Anastasio Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the leader of Nicaragua from 1937 until his assassination in 1956.