Buenos Aires
About Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area has a population of 16.7 million, making it the 21st most populous metropolitan area in the world.
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It was reported when Francis became Pope, so the current guy, that on his elevation to Pope, he contacted his Buenos Aires news agent personally to let him know he wouldn't be continuing his custom of returning the rubber bands from his daily newspaper at the end of each month.
from 578: No Such Thing As A Pouched Rat On The Housing Ladder, 2025-04-10 at 00:21:30 · read transcript
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I didn't know that Shagua Vera was Argentinian. Did you guys know that he was, he used to be a journalist for a rugby magazine. That's cool. He was a massive rugby union fan. He was a player as well in Buenos Aires. Played for three clubs. He founded a magazine for rugby called Tackle. It ran for three months between May and July, 1951.
NSTAAF International Factball: Iran v Argentina v Ecuador, 2014-06-25 · listen
Each letter of the alphabet represented by different taps. If you ask them, all dogs are called Rolf. Yeah. It's a real dad joke, that one. I read about a Bible-themed amusement park, which is in Buenos Aires, Tierra Santa. It is, it was meant to have like roller coasters and stuff like that. They didn't end up doing that. It's a lot of sort of plastic Bible scenes that they've made.
249: No Such Thing As A Pint Of Wine, 2018-12-28 · listen
Yeah. In the final, which was Argentina versus Uruguay, Uruguay won that final and in Argentina, they kicked off. The Uruguayan embassy was attacked. They did a morning parade through Buenos Aires and two people were reportedly shot for not saluting because the parade went past. Oh my God. Amazing. The one newspaper said that since they'd lost Argentina, probably it meant that international football tournaments were a bit useless, so they should just never do them ever again.
441: No Such Thing As Spying With Ritz Crackers, 2022-08-26 · listen
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