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Wikipedia portals: Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology For a topic outline on this subject, see List of basic Argentina topics. edit   Shortcut: P:ARG The Argentine Republic is a federal republic of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, in southern South America. Argentina has five land borders, with Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Of the 23 provinces, only Tierra del Fuego is not contiguous with any other state. Argentina claims over Antarctica, as well as overlapping claims made by Chile and the United Kingdom, are suspended by the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. Argentina also claims the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Argentina traces its national origin to the May Revolution in Buenos Aires in 1810, the starting point of the Argentine War of Independence. After an economic crisis from 1999 to 2002, the country has had a recent economic recovery. Argentine culture has significant European influences. Buenos Aires, its cultural capital, is largely characterized by both the prevalence of people of European descent, and of conscious imitation of European styles in architecture. The other big influence is the gauchos and their traditional country lifestyle of self-reliance. Finally, indigenous American traditions (like yerba mate infusions) have been absorbed into the general cultural milieu. More about...Argentina, its history and diversity edit   Selected article Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (born 24 June 1987 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina national team as a striker or winger. Considered one of the best football players of his generation, Messi received several Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations by the age of 21, and won in 2009 and 2010. His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to Diego Maradona, who himself declared Messi as his "successor". Messi was the top scorer of the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship with six goals, including two in the final game. Shortly thereafter, he became an established member of Argentina's senior international team. In 2006, he became the youngest Argentine to play in the FIFA World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the Copa América tournament the following year. In 2008, in Beijing, he won his first international honour, an Olympic gold medal, with the Argentina Olympic football team. At international level Messi has scored 17 goals in 61 games. ...Archive/Nominations Read more... edit   Picture of the month Only protograph ever taken of José de San Martín, in his old age Archive edit   Anniversaries for November 22 1907 Bernardo Verbitsky, writer and journalist is born in Buenos Aires. 1919 Francisco Moreno, (known in Argentina as Perito Moreno), prominent explorer and academic dies. 2009 Juan Carlos Muñoz footballer from Argentina who played right wing for River Plate, from 1939 to 1950 dies. More November anniversaries edit   Did you know? ...that Dr. René Favaloro was the first surgeon to perform bypass surgery on a patient suffering from coronary artery disease? Other "Did you know" facts... Read more... edit   Things you can do Here are some tasks you can do: Article requests: Horacio Guaraní, Romina Gaetani, Sin código Cleanup: 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector Expand: Argentine Civil Wars, Valientes Good article nominations: Juan José Castelli Infobox: Manuel Dorrego, Carlos María de Alvear Stubs: Roque Sáenz Peña, Hijitus, Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba Update: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Club Atlético River Plate Verify: Alberto Olmedo edit   Wikiprojects WikiProject Argentina: Wikipedia's premier organization related to Argentina's articles and categories. Argentine football task force: Task force dedicated to maintaining articles on Argentine football (soccer) Argentina-related regional notice board: If you create a new article related to Argentina, please list it here. Wikipedians in Argentina: A comprehensive list of Wikipedians from our country. edit   Argentina News 17 October: The airports of Ezeiza and Jorge Newbery become operational again, after ceasing activities for a day due to a cloud of volcanic ashes. However, each specific airline may decide on its own whether to offer the service or stay delayed. Aerolíneas Argentinas and Austral are fully operational, but LAN would only became operational by Tuesday.Buenos Aires Herald 6 October: The IMF's spokeswoman Jennifer Beckman points that the data provided by the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina (INDEC) is not up to international standards. The comuniqué pointed as well that the IMF mision in Argentina will end on January 2012, and by that time it will have to evaluate progress and take measures.Buenos Aires Herald 3 October: The annual pilgrimage to the basilica of the virgin of Luján (pictured) had more than a millon participants, according to police estimations. The pilgrimage left from the Liniers Buenos Aires neighbourhood on Saturday and headed to the city of Luján, a distance of 70 kilometers (43 miles), arriving the following day. The governor of Buenos Aires province Daniel Scioli joined the pilgrimage for some time, and the Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio celebrated a mass a the end.Latin American Herald Tribune 26 September: A house exploded in Monte Grande, killing a woman and injuring eight people. The cause of the explosion remains unknown, but neighbours mention a fireball from the sky as the cause. The study of the remains ruled out a gas explosion. Buenos Aires Herald 22 September: The president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner adress the United Nations. She supported the requests from Palestine to have a seat in the United Nations, blamed Iran for the 1994 AMIA bombing and threatened to cancel the fligths from Chile to the Faklands/Malvinas, ir order to advance the Argentine sovereignty claims over the islands. Bernama 13 August: The naked body of Candela Rodríguez, an 11-year-old who had been kidnnaped for ten days, was found dumped in the city of Hurlingham. Her disappearance received widespread media coverage and shocked the whole nation. Candela's disappearance was widely reported and a huge police operation was launched to find her. Thousands of people tried to help in the search, many using social media to spread news of her disappearance. Mr Moreira, 40, is the seventh person to be arrested in connection with the crime. BBC News 19 May The umbrella organization of Argentina's Jewish community, DAIA, has won an injunction against Google, preventing the world's most popular search engine from “suggesting” anti-Semitic and racist websites to its users. The presiding judge at the Buenos Aires court, Dr. Molina Portela, also ruled that Google cannot run adverts on these websites, which are illegal under Argentine law. The DAIA request for the injunction listed some 76 websites which it described as “highly discriminatory,” including some which deny the Holocaust took place. The common denominator of the sites, said the DAIA on its website, “is the incitement to hatred and the call to violence”. Mercopress 19 May A Sol Air Lines (Saab 340) plane carrying 22 people crashed and exploded Wednesday in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, killing all on board. Sol Air Lines said its Flight 5428 carrying three crew members and 19 passengers, including a baby, communicated an emergency while flying from Neuquen near the Andes to Comodoro Rivadavia along the coast of Patagonia. The company confirmed that the wreckage was found about 25 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of the town of Los Menucos, and that local firefighers and police found no one alive. Time 14 May Construction workers picketing over wages blocked roads in Argentina's top crude-producing region on Saturday, halting output from an oilfield operated by YPF, company and union officials said. The Manantiales Behr field operated by YPF, in the southern province of Chubut, was shut down by the blockade staged by contractors working at the production site. YPF is the local unit of Spain's Repsol. The protest is the latest in a recent flurry of labor disputes to hit the Patagonian province. Work stoppages have raised concerns about possible fuel shortages in Argentina as double-digit inflation stokes ever-higher salary demands. Reuters 5 May Tax inspectors raided the local offices of Chilean retail giant Cencosud on Thursday, accusing the company of evading $2.8 million in Argentine taxes by claiming charitable exemptions on merchandise it shipped to Chile as earthquake aid. Argentina’s tax agency raided 12 administrative offices of Cencosud — one of Latin America’s largest retail companies — in Buenos Aires and the province of Mendoza, which borders Chile. The agency said it suspects the company used humanitarian aid rules to evade paying taxes on merchandise that it sold to Chile’s national emergency office for $7 million. 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