* 1968 – Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called " ten-second barrier " in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9. 95 seconds.

: c ) He published a novella (" The Emissary ", under the by-line " Jim Brown ") he wrote in Mexico City in " Astounding Science Fiction ".

According to Enrique Krauze, these different opinions may owe to the very different racial attitudes held by the British colonizers in the United States and the Spanish in Mexico, the much earlier, and nonviolent, abolition of slavery in Mexico ( 1810 through federal decree in Mexico versus 1865 through a civil war in the United States ) and the nonexistence in Mexico of what in the United States were known as the " Jim Crow laws.

Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where his father worked for a nonprofit organization promoting agricultural development, Judge was raised from age 7 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, the second of three children of archaeologist Jim Judge and librarian Margaret Blue.

* Jim Henson ** ( 1936 – 1990 ) Muppets Creator (** He was cremated here and his ashes were scattered at his Santa Fe, New Mexico ranch.

The longest running effort to create a ZUI has been the Pad ++ project started by Ken Perlin, Jim Hollan, and Ben Bederson at New York University and continued at the University of New Mexico under Hollan's direction.

Fall successfully defended the three men — Oliver Lee, Jim Gilliland and Billy McNew — charged with murder in the case, at trial in Hillsboro, New Mexico.

They then flee to Mexico to escape the wrath of their boss, Amos Dade ( Jim Jarmusch ), and rob a bank along the way.

* The lynch mob scene at the Greathouse home in White Oaks, New Mexico was changed in one important way-in real life, the Greathouse establishment was a ranch with a normal saloon, not a brothel, and Billy's gang were there visiting their friend Jim Greathouse, not Jane ( who never existed ).

Bands who have recorded for the label include Dazzling Killmen, Brise-Glace ( featuring Jim O ' Rourke ), Cheer-Accident, The Strangulated Beatoffs, Zeek Sheck, The Chinese Stars, The Flying Luttenbachers, Lake Of Dracula, Gorge Trio, CoLOSSamite, Shorty, U. S. Maple, ZZZZZ, Made In Mexico, Melt-Banana, Quintron, My So-Called Lice, Flossie And The Unicorns, Yona-Kit, Nood Ham, You Fantastic !, Ruins, Space Streakings, Zeni Geva, AIDS Wolf, Mount Shasta, Arab On Radar, Yowie, Athletic Automaton, and PRE.

By the fall of 1878, the war had ended and the Regulators split up, and Jim French left New Mexico, later writing a friend from his new home near Keota, Oklahoma.

With investments in Canada, the U. S., Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia, The Jim Pattison Group is involved in a wide variety of industries including TV and radio stations, car dealerships, grocery store chains, magazine distribution, food service specialty packaging, advertising, real estate development, fishing, forest products, financial services, and entertainment.

The New Mexico team, led by paleontologists Jim Kirkland and Doug Wolfe, published their find in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology on 22 August 2001, making it the type specimen of the new species Nothronychus mckinleyi.

After losing the titles to Scott Hall and Curt Hennig in 1986 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he went to the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions.

Bonner attended the University of New Mexico and Georgetown University Law School and he began work with Jim Davidson, at the National Tax-payer's Union.

On April 28, 1957, Jack made the trip to Clovis, New Mexico, together with his friend and writing partner Jim Robinson.

Loosely picking up where Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo left off, protagonist Pete Stancheck ( Stephen W. Burns ) has inherited Herbie from Jim Douglas, and travels to Mexico ( Puerto Vallarta ) with his friend Davy " D. J.

Big Jim most likely viewed the face of The Jack of Hearts on a wanted poster due to The Jack of Hearts ' implied criminal background (..."' I know I've seen that face somewhere ' Big Jim was thinking to himself, ' Maybe down in Mexico or a picture up on somebody's shelf.

The film, which also starred cabaret singer Astrid Hadad and model / actress Claudia Ramírez — with whom Cuarón was linked between 1989 and 1993 — was a big hit in Mexico.

* Alnus jorullensis — Mexican alder, Mexico, Guatemala ( one of the few evergreen species )

The warning — a result of violent activity springing from Mexico's drug cartel debacle — took college campuses by storm, with some schools going so far as to warn their students about the risks of travel to Mexico over spring break.

* Coastel Offshore Cellular — Operated an AMPS network in the Gulf of Mexico that stretched from south of Corpus Christi, TX to south of Gulf Shores, AL.

* Corrido — a form of ballad originating in northern Mexico and the U. S. Southwest

In January 1846, to increase pressure on Mexico to negotiate, Polk sent troops under General Zachary Taylor into the area between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande — territory that was claimed by both the U. S. and Mexico.

On August 20, 2012 USFWS proposed setting aside 838, 232 acres in Arizona and New Mexico — an area larger than Rhode Island — as critical jaguar habitat.

In 1982 NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical observatories — Kitt Peak ; the National Solar Observatory facilities at Kitt Peak and Sacramento Peak, New Mexico ; and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

In 1984 Gell-Mann co-founded the Santa Fe Institute — a non-profit theoretical research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico — to study complex systems and disseminate the notion of a separate interdisciplinary study of complexity theory.

* Mexico — Day of the State of Chiapas entry into the Union.

Two short feature films and a short subject — Thunder Over Mexico based on the " Maguey " footage, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day respectively — were completed and released in the United States between the autumn of 1933 and early 1934.

In 1935, he began another project, Bezhin Meadow, but it appears the film was afflicted with many of the same problems as Que Viva Mexico — Eisenstein unilaterally decided to film two versions of the scenario, one for adult viewers and one for children ; failed to define a clear shooting schedule ; and shot film prodigiously, resulting in cost overruns and missed deadlines.

Fall, brought to that office a lot of political and legal experience — and also a lot of personal debt, incurred in his obsession to expand his personal estate, Three Rivers, in New Mexico.

* 500 BC — World population: 100, 000, 000 85, 000, 000 in Eastern hemisphere, 15, 000, 000 in Western Hemisphere, primarily Mesoamerica ( Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela ).

I have heard some of my townsmen say, ' I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico ; — see if I would go '; and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute.

Since at least the mid-19th century, a group of Catholic flagellants in New Mexico called Hermanos de Luz (" Brothers of Light ") have annually conducted reenactments of Jesus Christ's crucifixion during Holy Week, in which a penitent is tied — but not nailed — to a cross.

The main reason students head to Mexico is the 18 year old drinking age ( versus 21 for the United States ), something that has been marketed by tour operators along with the sun and ocean.

As the head of the Fourth International, Trotsky continued in exile in Mexico to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union.

The Politics of Mexico take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic whose government is based on a congressional system, whereby the president of Mexico is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

* November – Maria Josepha Sophia de Iturbide, head of the Imperial House of Mexico ( b. 1872 )

They head north and travel through Mexico to the United States, arriving in Los Angeles, California, after an arduous journey.

The men reunite with old-timer Freddie Sykes ( Edmond O ' Brien ), and head for Mexico.

Greater economic stability since the last major economic crisis in Mexico ( the 1995 peso crisis ) was achieved in great part through economic reforms begun under Ernesto Zedillo, who was the last successive PRI-nominated president to serve since the Mexican Revolution, and whose tenure commenced just as the peso crisis was coming to a head.

It was named for J. M. Archuleta, " head of one of the old Spanish families of New Mexico ", and in honor of Antonio D. Archuleta, who was the Senator from Conejos County at the time.

* Norm Ellenberger, former head coach of the University of New Mexico Lobos and assistant coach to the NBA Chicago Bulls

In 1598, Don Juan de Oñate, a Spanish nobleman and conquistador born in Zacatecas, Mexico, led a group of 500 colonists and 7, 000 head of livestock ( including horses, oxen and cattle ) from southern Chihuahua to settle the province of New Mexico.

In the 1980s, the citizens of the Federal District, being the most populated federal entity in Mexico, began to demand for home rule ; a devolution of autonomy in order to directly elect their head of government and to set up a Legislative Assembly.

The artist Mario Rendon, head of the Instituto Universitario de las Bellas Artes in Colima, Mexico, was selected to sculpt the statue.

After Mexico achieved Independence in 1821, the Castle became the official residence of the head of state.

Lawton was given orders to head up actions south of the U. S .– Mexico boundary where it was thought Geronimo and a small band of his followers would take refuge from U. S. authorities.

The Brazos River, called the Rio de los Brazos de Dios by early Spanish explorers ( translated as " The River of the Arms of God "), is the longest river in Texas and the 11th longest river in the United States at from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a drainage basin.

Harrar immediately set out to hire Borlaug as head of the newly established Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program in Mexico ; Borlaug declined, choosing to finish his war service at DuPont.

In July 1944, after rejecting DuPont's offer to double his salary, and temporarily leaving behind his pregnant wife and 14-month-old daughter, he flew to Mexico City to head the new program as a geneticist and plant pathologist.

He was awaiting confirmation as United States Secretary of the Navy in 2003 when he died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head at his New Mexico ranch.

" Sappensly turns to shoot but Bennie kills him, takes Garcia's head, and returns to Mexico City, " arguing " with Garcia's head all the while.