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99 unusual facts about Arizona


51430 Ireneclaire

It was discovered at the Tenagra II Observatory in Nogales, Arizona, on March 20, 2001.

7th Regiment California Volunteer Infantry

They were assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco in November, 1864, then to Fort Yuma in March, 1865, and finally Fort McDowell, Arizona Territory in September, 1865.

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They were assigned to the Presidio of San Francisco in December, 1864, then to Fort Yuma in June, 1865, then to Fort McDowell, Arizona Territory and Maricopa Wells in September, 1865.

Amanda Aguirre

In May 2012, Aguirre announced that she was entering the race to represent Arizona's 3rd congressional district.

Annie Rockfellow

In 1905, She moved to Tombstone, Arizona to care for her father, Samuel, then living with his son, John A. Rockfellow.

Arizona flagstone

Although flagstone and dimension stone are quarried from all over the state the town of Ash Fork, Arizona is well known as the center of production and has claimed itself "The Flagstone Capital of the World".

Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority

In February 2002, AZSTA made its first spring training decision when it voted to increase the funding commitment for the City of Surprise spring training facility.

Arizona State Route 277

State Route 277 (SR 277) is a highway in Navajo County, Arizona that runs from its junction with SR 260 in Heber to its junction with SR 377 in Snowflake.

Arizona State Route 587

The entire highway is just six miles (10 km) long, traveling entirely within the Gila River Indian Reservation, and serves as a shortcut from the far southern suburbs of the Phoenix metropolitan area to Interstate 10.

Arizona State Route 989

This route number was initially intended as part of a proposed highway network for the Tucson area (in this case, the Tangerine Highway) that was never implemented.

Bear Valley Raid

After the attack on Peck's ranch the Apaches continued on towards Sycamore Canyon and the nearby homesteads, some twenty miles south of Arivaca.

Brendan Connor

In 2008, he did stories on Turkish NBA star, Hedo Türkoğlu, covered the Davis Cup Tennis Finals in Argentina, reported from the Super Bowl in Phoenix, profiled Indy Racing and driver Danica Patrick, South Korean golfers on the LPGA Tour, and produced a series of pre-Olympic stories on athletes and teams headed to Beijing.

Buckeye Union High School

Finally, the towns of Buckeye, Palo Verde, Arlington, and Liberty came together with the goal of forming an accredited high school.

Burley E. Parke

Having made his contribution to American thoroughbred racing he retired in 1967 and moved with his family to Phoenix, Arizona, spending summers in his beloved Idaho.

Byrd Baylor

Baylor currently lives in Arivaca, Arizona, in an adobe house that does not have electricity, but with three manual typewriters.

Byron Schlomach

Dr. Byron Schlomach (born September 24, 1961) is the Director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the Goldwater Institute, an independent watchdog group in Phoenix, Arizona.

CAE Global Academy Phoenix

The same year, it was decided to carry out practical training in flight to Phoenix in the U.S.A because the weather in Arizona allows flights 365 days per year in a high and complex air traffic.

Catalina Magnet High School

In the 1960s Catalina was known as the Disneyland for the higher income students who attended Catalina from central Tucson and the Catalina Foothills.

CDS Global

The company employs over 2,500 individuals worldwide, with sites located on three continents; Australia (Sydney), Europe (Market Harborough; Brighton), and North America (Boone, Iowa; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Harlan, Iowa; Tipton, Iowa; West Des Moines, Iowa; Wilton, Iowa; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Prescott, Arizona; New York City; Markham, Ontario; and Montreal).

Club Disney

Three more Club Disney locations were also built in 1999, including one at 56th Street and Ray Road in Chandler, Arizona, and 75th Avenue and Bell Road in Glendale, Arizona, both suburbs of Phoenix, as well as one in Lone Tree, Colorado, near Park Meadows Mall, south of Denver.

Colonel DeBeers

As of February 2009, Wiskoski was happily living in retirement in Sun City, Arizona.

Coolidge Unified School District

The Coolidge Unified School District serves San Tan Valley and Coolidge, Arizona.

Dan Manucci

He is currently co-host of the sports radio talk show "Calling All Sports with Roc and Manuch;" the show was previously a weekend show on Sporting News Radio, but is currently a daily local show on KDUS in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dave Stetson

He lived in Vermont until 1962 and then, at the end of his junior year in high school, his father moved the whole family to Phoenix, Arizona.

Dianne Kay

Dianne Kay (born March 29, 1954, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress, best known for her role as Nancy Bradford on the ABC television show Eight is Enough (1977–1981).

Dioptase

In addition, many small, pale-green colored crystals of dioptase have come from the Christmas Mine near Hayden, Arizona.

Doug Coleman

Doug Coleman is an American politician from Apache Junction, Arizona who has served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives since January 2013.

Eddie Baker

Eddie Baker, ASCAP writer, composer, and producer started his musical career in Indianapolis Indiana during his early years, and moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1971.

Edward Banker Willis

From San Diego, Willis marched with James H. Carleton's expedition across New Mexico Territory and was involved in the capture of Tucson, an old Spanish presidio defended by a handful of milita.

Elaine Scruggs

Elaine Scruggs (Non-Partisan), mayor of Glendale, Arizona, relocated from Pasadena, California with her husband Larry in 1971.

Erigeron piscaticus

It is endemic to Arizona in the United States, where it is known from three locations in Maricopa and Graham Counties.

Evanka Osmak

After receiving a diploma in radio and television broadcasting in 2005 at Seneca College, she changed careers as she worked at CICX-FM in Orillia, Ontario as a news anchor, then moved to Yuma, Arizona to work at KYMA-TV for two years, before returning to Canada.

Fennemore Craig

Nogales - 420 W. Mariposa Road, Suite 200 Nogales, AZ 85621

Fruit and vegetable beer

Black Mountain Brewing Company in Cave Creek, Arizona brews "Cave Creek Chili Beer", the only internationally marketed chile beer.

Furlong

Blocks in central Logan, Utah, and in large sections of Phoenix, Arizona, are similarly a square furlong in extent (eight to a mile, which explains the series of freeway exits: 19th Ave, 27th, 35th, 43rd, 51st, 59th ...).

Gordon C. James

Gordon C. James is a Phoenix, Arizona-based public relations professional, government affairs consultant and independent presidential advance contractor with links to the Republican Party and Bush family.

Harley High Cartter

Newspaper notices for his practice stated, "Will attend to business in all the court of the Territory." Foreseeing the decline of La Paz's fortunes, he lived briefly in Ehrenberg before settling in Prescott in September 1870.

Haytor

Haytor granite was used in the reconstruction of London Bridge which opened in 1831 and was moved in 1970 to Lake Havasu City in Arizona.

Henry Morello

Henry 'Hank' Morello is an 84-year-old man from Anthem, Arizona who gained notoriety after surviving 5 days in the Arizona desert after his vehicle got stuck in a ravine near Crave Creek.

Hi Corbett Field

In response, Pima County chartered a regional sports and tourism authority, funded by tourism and other taxes.

HMAS Wyatt Earp

She was purchased by the American explorer and aviator, Lincoln Ellsworth, for his 1933 Antarctic expedition, refitted and sheathed with oak and armour plate, and renamed Wyatt Earp after the marshal of Dodge City and Tombstone, Arizona.

Horne v. Flores

The case was brought in 1992 by English Language Learner (ELL) students against the state board of education and state superintendent on the grounds that the Nogales Unified School District had failed to teach the students English, which was vital to their success.

Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov

In August 2005, three months before his death, he tied for eighth place at the U.S. Open Chess Championship in Phoenix, Arizona against some of the best players in the country.

International Staff Band

They travelled to North America in March 2004 for a two-week tour that included visits to Toronto, New York and Chicago and again in 2010 for a ten-day tour that included visits to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Sacramento and Seattle.

Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon

She also revealed the album cover, in which she is seen from behind in the desert of Tucson, Arizona.

Isaac T. Stoddard

In June 1903, while Governor Alexander Brodie was out of the Territory, Acting Governor Stoddard was faced with a strike of about 3,500 miners in Morenci, Arizona, and sent out the entire force of the Territorial Militia to preserve order.

Joe Coto

Coto was born in Miami, Arizona, one of four children, to Mexican-American parents.

John Christian Hopkins

John Christian Hopkins (born 1960) is a Narragansett journalist, author, poet and public speaker who resides in Tuba City, Arizona, United States.

Joseph Graves Olney

On December 13, 1884, The Arizona Silver Belt reported, "From The Willcox Stockman we learn that Joe Hill, a well-known cattle man, met with a fatal accident at Bowie, on Wednesday of last week.

Joseph Sanchez

Although born Taos Pueblo, Sanchez was raised in Whiteriver, Arizona on the White Mountain Apache Reservation, and was named by the Ojibway.

Kirk Adams

He ran for the Republican nomination in 2012 for Congress in Arizona's 5th congressional district and was defeated by former U.S Congressman, Rep. Matt Salmon.

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In the Spring of 2011, Adams resigned from office to announce that he would run in 2012 for Congress in Arizona's 5th congressional district, after redistricting, the seat left open by Jeff Flake.

La Costa

She graduated from Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona and began working as a medical records technician as she sang in clubs and became Miss Country Music, Phoenix.

Lalo Guerrero

Guerreo was born in Tucson, Arizona, one of 21 siblings (although only nine survived).

Lightning Bar

He was bred by his lifelong owner Art Pollard of Sonoita, Arizona, and was the offspring of Three Bars, a Thoroughbred, and Della P, a Quarter Horse mare from Louisiana, then noted for the breeding of sprint horses.

Mars Hill Church

The church recently announced its plans to plant additional churches (likely in 2014) in Tacoma and Phoenix.

Melanotan II

A pilot Phase I clinical trial conducted on three males by the College of Medicine, Pharmacology Department, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona published in 1996 reported that, "Melanotan II has tanning activity in humans given only 5 low doses every other day by subcutaneous injection."

Merweville

The surrounding region has been likened to that of Nevada or Arizona.

Michael E. Marks

Named the Poet Laureate of the Society of the 9th Infantry Division (United States) (SONID), Marks' work hangs in the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona and has been featured in numerous books, magazines and newspapers around the world, to include Stars and Stripes (newspaper) and The Washington Times.

Mike the Headless Chicken

In March 1947, at a motel in Phoenix on a stopover while traveling back from tour, Mike started choking in the middle of the night.

Navajo AIDS Network

The Navajo AIDS Network (NAN) is a Chinle, Arizona-based HIV prevention and AIDS service organization for American Indians who reside within the Navajo Nation, located in western New Mexico and eastern Arizona.

Nefesch

Nefesch is also an instructor of the Mentalism School in Phoenix Arizona in USA.

Nicholas Mann

Glastonbury, England, Avebury, England, Sedona, Arizona (USA) and Washington, DC (USA) are all locations which feature in his work.

Odell Borg

Odell Borg, of Native American (Ojibwe) and German heritage, currently living in Patagonia, Arizona, is a Native American flutist and flute maker.

Outbound Plane

The "Outbound Plane" music video was filmed on location at the aircraft boneyard of Davis–Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.

Patricia Dobler

She moved, as the spouse of a writer and professor, to Iowa City; Exeter, New Hampshire; Putney, Vermont; Anchorage, Alaska; Tucson, Arizona; El Paso, Texas; and finally Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Phineas Banning

The outpost, named Drum Barracks, or Camp Drum (1861–1871), served as headquarters for the Union's Southwestern command for the state of California and territory of Arizona.

Plan for Greater Baghdad

The Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium at Arizona State University's Tempe, Arizona campus is reputed to have been based on this opera house design.

Poachie Range

Signal, Arizona with only umimproved road access is at the northwest foothills, about 10 mi from U.S. Route 93.

Preeti Chandrakant

During this period, Chandrakant was invited to the International Conference on Thinking held in Phoenix, Arizona titled 'Creating the Future: Paradigm Shifts in all Disciplines'.

Public transport in Phoenix

Towns such as Buckeye, Cave Creek and Laveen are localities in Maricopa County which are omitted from Valley Metro’s routes; people living in these areas must commute miles to the nearest bus stops in surrounding cities.

Raising Sextuplets

On September 11, 2010, Bryan Masche was arrested at his father-in-law's home in Camp Verde, Arizona for resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and threatening per domestic violence.

Real Phoenix FC

Originally based at the Barney Family Sports Complex in Queen Creek, Arizona, the team began played the final two home games of the 2012–13 season at the Arizona Sports Complex in Glendale, Arizona.

Reuben's Accomplice

Reuben's Accomplice (styled Reubens Accomplice) is an American band from Phoenix, Arizona.

Richard D. Lines

Together with his wife Helen Calvert Lines, also a keen astronomer, he built a small observatory in Mayer, Arizona.

Ron Nelson

As of August 2012, Ron Nelson resided with his wife Michele in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Roosevelt Red Ware

Dinwiddie Polychrome has a very restricted spatial distribution and may "not occur west of a line drawn through Kinishba, near Whiteriver, and the Nine Mile site, near Bowie Arizona" (Neuzil and Lyons 2005: 30).

Rudolph Stauffer

He was one of 12 cavalrymen, along with 10 Apache scouts, who guided Crook's columns in the mountainous area of the Tonto Basin where Western Apache and Yavapai bands used as a base for raiding parties and had successfully eluded the U.S. Army for a number of years.

Sacramento Wash

I-40 joins the central section of the wash proper at Yucca, Arizona and the interstate follows the valley and wash west to meet the Colorado River at Needles.

Safe in New York City

The promo CD single contained a live version of the song, which was recorded at America West Arena in Phoenix in September of 2000.

Seth Tanner

Tanner also helped with the Hole-In-The-Rock expedition; he joined the expedition as a guide for the initial exploring party, guiding them up to the Bluff area after they had reached Moenkopi in the Navajo country.

Shane Lacy Hensley

Shane Lacy Hensley is an author, game designer, and CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and is a resident of Gilbert, Arizona.

Silverlake, Texas

--June 29, 2009 was a monday--> Despite the substation, the crime rate around the area as for 2010 still mirrored that of Phoenix, Arizona.

Sotra Patera

It has been compared with terrestrial volcanoes such as Etna, Laki and volcanic cones near Flagstaff, Arizona.

Southern Pacific class AC-9

Between 1939 and 1952, all the twelve AC-9 engines were in service between Tucumcari, New Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona, where they mainly pulled freight trains and occasionally also passenger trains such as the Golden State Limited.

Stereotyperider

Stereotyperider is a post-hardcore/punk band from Phoenix, Arizona.

Tank Mountains

North, east, and southeast of the Tank Mountains lies the extensive Palomas Plain which drains southeastly towards Hyder and the Gila River valley.

TGSCOM

TGSCOM was founded in Arizona in 1999 by Eric Thompson, and was based in Tempe, Arizona until October 2006 when the entire operation was moved to Green Bay.

The Mine with the Iron Door

While shooting the film the cast and crew stayed at the Triangle L Ranch and the Wilson Ranch (Rancho Linda Vista) outside of Oracle, Arizona off Historic US Route 80.

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Van Dyke was living in Cave Creek, Arizona at the time and did not want to move back to Hollywood, so the network agreed to film the show at Southwestern Studio on Stage 1 in nearby Carefree, Arizona.

Twin Sparks

Twin Sparks (foaled 2003 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who set a new world record for six furlongs on dirt of 1:06.49 while winning the November 21, 2009 Caballos del Sol Handicap at Turf Paradise Race Course in Phoenix, Arizona.

United States v. Cotterman

On April 6, 2007 at approximately 10 AM, Howard and Maureen Cotterman drove from Mexico to the Lukeville Port of Entry (POE).

Vernon Parker

Parker was the Republican nominee in Arizona's 9th congressional district for the 2012 election, although he did not live in the district at the time.

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In 2012, Parker ran for the United States House of Representatives in Arizona's 9th district.

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On January 29, 2010, Parker announced he was running for Congress in Arizona's 3rd congressional district, aiming to succeed retiring U.S. Congressman John Shadegg.

Virgin River

The river then flows across the northwestern corner of Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge and past the towns of Beaver Dam and Littlefield.

Virgin River Gorge

The Virgin River Gorge, located between St. George, Utah, and Littlefield, Arizona, is a long canyon that has been carved out by the Virgin River in northwest Arizona.

Wayne deck

It is named after a video engineer Wayne Stockton based in Phoenix, Arizona.

William Jefferson Hunsaker

In 1879, Hunsaker married Florence McFarland in San Diego and the couple moved to Tombstone, Arizona.


2013 Pacific-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

Induction for the Hall of Honor on March 16, 2013 were: Jason Gardner (Arizona), Dennis Hamilton (Arizona State), Shareef Abdur-Rahim (California), Cliff Meely (Colorado), Chuck Rask (Oregon), Charlie Sitton (Oregon State), Ron Tomsic (Stanford), Lucius Allen (UCLA), Forrest Twogood (USC), Keith Van Horn (Utah), Nate Robinson (Washington) and Jim Keen (Washington State).

214th

214th Reconnaissance Group, a group of the United States Air Force located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

Abert's Towhee

Despite its limited range, it is classified as a species of Least Concern in the IUCN Redlist, and there has been some range expansion along the Santa Cruz River as well as in Oak Creek Canyon near Sedona.

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

The title was later used by Tucson, Arizona industrial rock band Machines of Loving Grace, formed in 1989, and in its full form by British musician Martin Carr as the title of a 2004 album, as well as a 2011 television series by documentary maker Adam Curtis.

Andrew J. Weaher

He was one of 34 men received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in several engagements against the Apache Indians, specifically in the Black Mountains of Arizona, from August to October 1868.

Andrew Leo Bettwy

Bettwy did not particularly enjoy the practice of law, but he loved Arizona and knew its history and every inch of its territory, having traveled it many times over with his father.

Arizona State Route 564

State Route 564, also known as SR 564, is a state highway in northern Arizona serving Navajo National Monument.

Arizona Summer League

All teams are based in the Yuma, Arizona, area playing all games at Desert Sun Stadium (home of the Scorpions) and utilizing the Ray Kroc Complex which used to house the San Diego Padres and Yakult Swallows spring training operations.

Athletic scholarship

In February 2012, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives proposed a bill named HB 2675 which would have required students attending a public university in the state of Arizona (Arizona State University, University of Arizona, or Northern Arizona University) to pay an additional $2,000 fee in order to attend one of the 3 universities.

Celeste McCollough

She worked on the role of colour in flight simulation displays for the Air Force Human Resources Lab at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona (e.g., Howard, 1992; Howard, 1994; Howard, 1996).

Chicana/o studies

With pressure from former Arizona Superintendent Tom Horne, who felt the courses were breaching HB 2281, and after TUSD issued an appeal stating otherwise, Superintendent John Huppenthal deemed the course to be disbanded or TUSD would lose funding.

Christopher Asher

Asher has coached professional athletes Derek Knight (top-5 USA ranked 110mHH), Sergio Santos (1st round MLB pick for the Arizona Diamondbacks), Reuben Droughns (NFL-Detroit Lions, Denver Broncos, Cleveland Browns, New York Giants) and Trevor Ariza (NBA- New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, L.A. Lakers).

Cyrene

Kyrene School District, a K-8 school district in Maricopa County, Arizona

Demsky

Danielle Demski, a Arizona beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss USA pageants.

Desert Ridge High School

In 2007 the DRHS Drama Department's production of The Odd Couple was selected to go the Arizona Thespian Society's Annual State Conference as a main stage performance, to be performed in front of the estimated 1,900 thespians attending the event in November.

Duncan, Arizona

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up near Duncan on the Lazy B ranch, which straddles the border between Arizona and New Mexico.

Edward Gibson

He completed a 53-week course in flight training at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona, and earned his Air Force wings.

Fort McDowell

Fort McDowell, Arizona, (also known as Camp McDowell), a community that started as a US Army fort established in 1865 on the upper Salt River in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Freddy Lockhart

In 1986, his family then moved to Arizona where he spent his formative years being influenced by Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce and Bill Cosby.

Garrya

Garrya wrightii – Wright's Silktassel; Arizona, New Mexico, Texas.

GBU-10 Paveway II

Raytheon production of the Paveway II is centered in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.

H. rubra

Hypotrix rubra, a moth species found from south-western New Mexico and south-eastern Arizona

Jay Kalk

In the Summer of 2003, Warsaw was the headlining act of the Tour de Fat, which had 13 dates in the Southwest States.Warsaw is sponsored by Jägermeister and played the Arizona date of the Jägermeister Music Tour opening for Alterbridge in 2004.

John Joseph Tuchi

On September 19, 2013, President Obama nominated Tuchi to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, to the seat vacated by Judge Roslyn O. Silver, who took senior status on September 3, 2013.

José Joaquín Moraga

José Joaquín Moraga was born on August 22, 1745 at Mission Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi in the northern frontier region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain (in present day Arizona).

Joseph Polchinski

He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 under the supervision of Stanley Mandelstam.

KTAR

KTAR-FM, a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Glendale, Arizona.

KXXT

In January 2011, after the attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords (see 2011 Tucson shooting ), KXXT National Talk Show Host Steve Sanchez of The Steve Sanchez Show offered 30 minutes of airtime to Westboro Baptist Church in exchange for the Church agreeing not to protest at the funeral of 9 year old Christina Green who was killed during the assassination attempt.

Lewis Owings

Dr. Lewis Sumpter Owings (September 6, 1820-August 20, 1875) was a medical doctor and politician in the New Mexico and Arizona territories.

Manning Cabin

The log structure was built by Levi H. Manning, Surveyor General of the Arizona Territory and later mayor of Tucson, in 1905.

Markus Gygax

In 1973 he joined the surveillance wing flying the Hawker Hunter, and in 1978 underwent conversion to the F-5 at Williams AFB, Arizona.

New River Gorge Bridge

bridges in the world, and the third highest in the United States (behind the Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge over the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, bypassing the Hoover Dam, and the Royal Gorge Bridge).

Paradise, Arizona

A fictional town named Paradise in Arizona is the main setting of the video game Postal 2.

Phoenix Air Defense Sector

PhADS was established in June 1959 assuming control of former ADC Western Air Defense Force units in Arizona; southwestern California; southern Nevada and southwestern Utah.

Prayers for the Assassin

Parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California have been claimed by the Aztlan Empire (formerly Mexico) and tension between the I.R. and A.E. have risen due to land claims.

Princess Irina of Romania

Irina married John Kreuger (born in Solna, Sweden, 3 August 1945), on 4 October 1983, in Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States in a civil ceremony, and on 11 February 1984 in a religious ceremony at Holy Trinity Church in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona.

Ragin

Charles C. Ragin, an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona

Robert Shelton

Robert N. Shelton (born 1948), former President of the University of Arizona and current director of the Fiesta Bowl.

San Luis High School

Germán Altamírano, a two-time Arizona amateur champion and an undefeated boxer signed to Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions

Springboro, Ohio

Jake Ballard - Player for the Arizona Cardinals (National Football League).

Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains

In an interview with amazon.co.uk she reveals she began writing about a fat man doing yoga in the desert whilst studying on the UEA Creative Writing Course and then spent time herself living in the Arizona desert near Tucson.

The House of the Scorpion

Nancy Farmer says that the main setting of the story is in the vicinity of the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona.

Tom Horne

Horne personally argued at the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Arizona’s law that requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Tripp Phillips

It came at the Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic in Scottsdale, Arizona, and he lost to compatriot Robby Ginepri in the first round, 6-2, 6-0.

United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona, 1998

The 1998 congressional elections in Arizona were elections for Arizona's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred along with congressional elections nationwide on November 7, 1998.