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Alba (given Name)
Alba is a unisex given name of Latin origin meaning "white". In Spanish and Italian the name means sunrise or "dawn". In Spanish and Italian speaking countries it is considered to be a female name. It can also be used as a Spanish surname, as in the actress Jessica Alba, or a title, as in the Spanish Dukedom of Alba. It may also be considered a feminine version of Albert or Albinus or of names beginning with the Germanic Alf. Alba is also the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland and the alba is a subgenre of Occitan lyric poetry. Notable people * Alba Arikha (born 1966), French-British writer * Alba Arnova (1930–2018), Italian-Argentine ballerina and actress * Alba August (born 1993), Danish-Swedish actress and singer * Alba Aznar (born 1993), Spanish footballer * Alba Baptista (born 1997), Portuguese actress * Alba Raquel Barros (born 1952), Puerto Rican actress, comedian, and dancer * Alba Bautista (born 2002), Spanish rhythmic gymnast * Alba Gaïa Bellugi (born 1995), a F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn
Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc has reached 18° below the observer's horizon. This morning twilight period will last until sunrise (when the Sun's upper limb breaks the horizon), when direct sunlight outshines the diffused light. Etymology "Dawn" derives from the Old English verb ''dagian'', "to become day". Types of dawn Dawn begins with the first sight of lightness in the morning, and continues until the Sun breaks the horizon. This morning twilight before sunrise is divided into three categories depending on the amount of sunlight that is present in the sky, which is determined by the angular distance of the centre of the Sun (degrees below the horizon) in the morning. These categories are ''astronomical'', ''nautical'', and ''civil dawn''. Astronomical dawn Astronomical dawn begins when the Sun is 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Aznar
Alba Aznar Martí (born 2 September 1993) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a midfielder for Alavés. Club career Aznar started her career at Gimnàstic de Tarragona. References External linksProfileat La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men's ... 1993 births Living people Women's association football midfielders Spanish women's footballers People from Reus Footballers from the Province of Tarragona FC Barcelona Femení players Zaragoza CFF players Levante UD Femenino players Deportivo Alavés Gloriosas players Liga F players Segunda Federación (women) players Sportswomen from Catalonia Catalonia women's international footballers {{Spain-women-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba De Céspedes
Alba de Céspedes y Bertini (11 March 1911 – 14 November 1997) was a Cuban-Italian writer. Family De Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a Cuban ambassador to Italy)Nerenberg, Ellen. "Alba De Céspedes." Italian Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook. By Rinaldina Russell. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 104-110. Print. and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, who is the father of the nation of Cuba, and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Franco Bounous of the Italian foreign service, later ambassador to Cyprus and Pakistan. Her work De Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for ''Piccolo'', '' Epoca'', and ''La Stampa''. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, ''L’Anima Degli Altri''. Her fiction writing was greatly influenced by the cultural developments that lead to and resulted from World War II. In her writing, she instills her female charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba D'Urbano
Alba D'Urbano (born April 13, 1955) is a textile and video artist. D'Urbano's most notable work was 1995's ''"hautnah" (close to the skin)''; a series of garments imprinted with life-size digital photographs of her own skin. After an exhibition in 1999, critics stated she depicted nudity as fashionable, provoked voyeurism, and made skin (the external body) just another interface in a world. In addition to her own work, D'Urbano has been a critic and an art philosopher. Since 1995, D'Urbano has been a professor at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, in Leipzig, Germany. Early life D'Urbano was born in Tivoli, Lazio, Tivoli and studied philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome from 1974 to 1978. Her work as an artist was influenced by her affiliation with the 'Distracted Avantgarde' (Klemens Gruber), which sought to bring about a paradigm shift in the relationship between art, politics and mass communication. It was against this backdrop that Alba D'Urbano produced experimen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Marina Cotes
Alba Marina Cotes Prado (Bogota, February 15 1959), is a Colombian chemist and biologist, known for her research on biological pest control In 2009, Cotes became the first Latin American woman in receive a Honoris Causa degree by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Biography Cotes finished a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology at Free University of Colombia in 1980. Then, she started her Graduate school, graduate studies at University of Los Andes (Colombia), Universidad of los Andes in 1982. She did graduate programs in food microbiology and industrial microbiology, followed by a master's degree in microbiology (1986). Cotes did also a master's degree in agricultural biotechnology in 1988 and a Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D in Agricultural science, agricultural sciences focused on phytopathology in 1994, both at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech in Belgium. In 2009, she received a Honoris Causa An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Chrétien-Vaguet
Albertine Marie Chrétien-Vaguet (8 March 1872 – 28 February 1963) was a French operatic soprano. Chrétien-Vaguet was born in Paris. She studied the piano at the Conservatoire de Paris and began her career at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1891. Chrétien-Vaguet’s first operatic appearance in Brussels was as Alice in '' Robert le Diable'', (7 September 1891); she followed this with roles in ''le Rêve'', ''Yolande'' by Magnard (creating the title role on 27 December 1892), and Charlotte in ''Werther''. Her debut at the Paris Opéra was again as Alice in ''Robert le Diable'' on 31 juillet 1893, going on to sing in ''Lohengrin'', ''Les Huguenots'', ''la Walkyrie'', ''Djelma'', and the premiere of ''Deïdamie'' (1 December 1893). She married Albert Vaguet (1865–1943), a tenor of the Opéra de Paris, with whom she had sung in the première of ''Deïdamie'', on 30 June 1894 in Paris. Chrétien-Vaguet sang Thanastô in the first (concert) performance of Chabrier's ''Briséïs'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Carrillo
Lucía del Alba Carrillo Pariente (Madrid, July 31, 1986), better known as Alba Carrillo, is a Spanish model and television presenter, best known for her participation in the '' Supermodelo'' program in 2007. Her participation in the contest led her to be the image of Novissima, Eleonora Amadei, or Evelyny Marcelino, as well as for other brands such as Rosa Clará, Brownie, or Triumph. Subsequently, she signed with Mediaset España, where she became a presenter, collaborator, and participant in various television formats. Biography First years Born in Madrid, where she lived and grew up with her parents, Carlos Carrillo and Luca Pariente, Alba Carrillo studied Advertising and Public Relations at the Complutense University of Madrid, a career that she combined with courses in Dramatic Art. In the middle of this stage, she decided to apply for the television contest '' Supermodelo'', broadcast on '' Cuatro'' and finished the course. Professional career After her exit from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Caride
Alba Caride (April 24, 1980, Vigo, Province of Pontevedra) is a Spanish rhythmic gymnast Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and coordi .... Caride competed for Spain in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There she tied for 11th place in the qualification and advanced to the semifinal, in the semifinal she was 19th and didn't advance to the final of 10 competitors. References External links * * 1980 births Living people Spanish rhythmic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Spain Sportspeople from Vigo {{Spain-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Calderón
Alba Calderón de Gil (July 27, 1908 – 1992) was an Ecuadorian social realist painter, leftist activist, and feminist. She founded the movement for the recognition of women's rights in Ecuador. Alba Calderón was born in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Esmeraldas and died in Guayaquil. Personal life In 1933 Alba Calderón was introduced to the novelist Enrique Gil Gilbert of the "Guayaquil Group" by Demetrio Aguilera Malta. Calderón married Gil Gilbert in 1934. Gil Gilbert's best friend and fellow social realist writer Joaquín Gallegos Lara was the best man at the ceremony. Calderón and Gil Gilbert had two sons: Enrique Gil Calderón, Enrique Gil Calderon, a choral director, and Antonio Gil Calderon, a doctor and businessman. Communist life and exile In 1953 the Communist Party of Ecuador sent Alba Calderón as a delegate to the Third Congress of the International Federation of Women, to fight for peace and the defense of women and children. She then organized the Union of Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Cabello
Alba María Cabello Rodilla (born 30 April 1986) is a Spanish synchronized swimmer. She competed at the 2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ... and 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a silver and a bronze respectively in the women's team event. Notes References External links * 1986 births Living people Spanish synchronized swimmers Olympic synchronized swimmers for Spain Olympic medalists in synchronized swimming Olympic silver medalists for Spain Olympic bronze medalists for Spain Synchronized swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Synchronized swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in synchronised swimming Synchronized swimmers at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Bouwer
Albertha Magdalena Bouwer (16 March 1920 – 5 October 2010) was a South African Afrikaans-writing journalist and author. She is best known for her series of children's stories about the experiences of a small girl called Alie growing up in the fictional location Rivierplaas in rural Free State. Late in life she published a novel for adults, ''Die afdraand van die dag is kil'' (The close of the day is cold, 1992), about two women in old age. Life Alba Bouwer was herself brought up on a farm in the Free State, and attended La Rochelle Girls' High School in Paarl, and Huguenot University College in Wellington. Most of her professional life was spent in literary and media circles in and around Cape Town. Immediately after graduation Bouwer began work as a school teacher, but she left teaching to become editor of ''Huishouding'', a newly established women's magazine. From 1948 to 1950 she was a radio producer and presenter in the children's service of the South African Broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Gaïa Bellugi
Alba Gaïa Bellugi (born Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi; 5 March 1995) is a French actress of Danish and Italian origin. She is best known for her performance as Elisa in ''The Intouchables ''The Intouchables'' (french: Intouchables, ), also known as ''Untouchable'' in the UK and Ireland, is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama film written and directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Nine w ...'' (2011). ''The New York Times'', 2012/05/25. Selected filmography References External links * 1995 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
