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The island of Santa Maria was attacked by French corsairs in 1576; a squadron of Gauls, that included three boats (a galleon, a carrack and a zabra) disembarked with an armed force of arcabuzes. [2] After defeating local combatants, the French set Vila do Porto aflame.
Santa Maria (Spanish for "St. Mary") is a city in the Central Coast of California in northern Santa Barbara County.It is approximately 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Santa Barbara and 150 miles (240 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Aflame: Learning from Silence is a 2025 memoir by Pico Iyer, published by Riverhead Books. It concerns Iyer's experiences with his many retreats to a hermitage in Big Sur and his reflections on solitude and spirituality. [1] The book is due to release on January 14, 2025.
Incorregibles de Santa Martha is a Mexican comedy drama television series created by Carlos Murguía and Eduardo Murguía. The series follows a group of troubled students enrolled in the Santa Martha Institute, a school that promises to reform them with their own particular technique. [ 1 ]
The Santa Maria Times formed in 1882. [9] The Bank of Santa Maria was founded in 1890 [10] or 1906, [4] and later became the Security-First National Bank. It was demolished in the late 1960s and turned into a gas station. [4]
[1] [2] Santa María was a medium-sized commercial nau or carrack, about 62 ft (18.9 m) long on deck, and according to Juan Escalante de Mendoza in 1575, Santa María was "very little larger than 100 toneladas" (about 100 tons, or tuns) burthen, or burden, [3] [4] [5] and was used as the flagship for the expedition.
KSMA was the first radio station in Santa Maria, signing on in 1946 at 1450 AM. Its original owners were Hugh G., Charles A., and Mareby Cardella Shurtliff, and Cleo Agnes Center. [ 4 ] In 1947, the station was sold to Santa Maria Broadcasting Company, owned by R.H. Hardenbergh and W.J. Davison, for $32,500. [ 5 ]
Vera Santamaria is a Canadian Emmy-nominated television and feature writer. [1] She is executive producer and Co-showrunner of How To Die Alone for ABC Signature / Hulu / Onyx Collective [2] starring co-showrunner & EP Natasha Rothwell.