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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?

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