Guadalupe Garcia McCall Guadalupe Garcia McCall Guadalupe Garcia McCall is an award-winning author, poet, and educator. She was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. She is the recipient of the 2012 Pura Belpré Medal for narrative. Guadalupe Garcia McCall was born in Coauhila, a Mexican state adjacent to Texas. She immigrated to the United States with her family when she was six years old, and grew up in Eagle Pass, a small border town in South Texas. When McCall was 17 years old, “she lost her mother to cancer and found solace in her writing and in her education". She holds a B.A.
547 Praxedis 547 Praxedis Praxedis (minor planet designation: 547 Praxedis), provisional designation , is a Postremian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 52 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 14 October 1904, by astronomer Paul Götz at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southwest Germany. It was named from literature after the character "Praxedis" in Joseph Victor von Scheffel's historical romance "Ekkehard" (1857). The official naming citation was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). "Praxedis" is a member of the Postrema family (), a mid-sized central asteroid family of