Talcahuano
Americannoun
noun
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Playing against the Saints would mark another milestone in the 25-year-old’s journey that has taken him from Talcahuano to the football field with plenty of twists in between.
From Fox News ● Oct. 6, 2021
After losing his job in Chile's 8.8-magnitude earthquake in February which destroyed his workplace in Talcahuano, near the epicentre, Zamora began work hundreds of miles north, at the San Jose Mine.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 2010
Some people in Talcahuano say the crime is simply the result of a failure on the behalf of the authorities and the growing desperation of people in need of food, water and fuel.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2010
Throughout Talcahuano, stick-wielding residents barricaded streets with tires and rubble to protect their homes in the absence of law enforcement.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2010
The Chilian squadron had just returned from a successful cruise, the gallant Admiral Blanco Encalada, who commanded it, having captured a noble Spanish 50-gun frigate, the Maria Isabel, in the bay of Talcahuano.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of
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