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Barceló
Barceló is a Catalan surname, which originally appeared in Montpellier (Lords of Montpellier), today Languedoc-Roussillon (Southern France) then established in other Crown of Aragon areas like the Balearic Islands (circa 1232) or Catalonia, and finally extended to the rest of Spain and its old territories beyond Europe in America (particularly the Caribbean) and Asia. Variants exist in other languages, e.g. ''Barcelo'' and ''Barsalou'' in French. People with the surname *Antonio Barceló (1717–1797), Spanish mariner and Admiral of the Spanish Armada *Clara Barceló, a fictional character in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's novel ''The Shadow of the Wind'' *Elia Barceló (born 1957), Spanish-Austrian writer *Hélène Barcelo (born 1954), mathematician from Québec * José Luis Barceló (born 1959), Colombian lawyer and academic *Lorenzo Barceló (born 1977), Dominican Major League Baseball pitcher * Miquel Barceló (writer) (born 1948), Spanish editor, writer and professor *Miquel Barceló ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Rafael Barceló
Antonio Rafael Barceló y Martínez (April 15, 1868 – December 15, 1938) was a Puerto Rican lawyer, businessman and the patriarch of what was to become one of Puerto Rico's most prominent political families. Barceló, who in 1917 became the first President of the Senate of Puerto Rico, played an instrumental role in the introduction and passage of legislation which permitted the realization of the School of Tropical Medicine and the construction of a Capitol building in Puerto Rico. Early years Barceló was born in the City of Fajardo, Puerto Rico, to Jaime José Barceló Miralles (son of Antonio and Catalina) and Josefa Martínez de León (b. 1842). His father Jaime had emigrated from Palma, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain to Puerto Rico where he married Josefa (b. Naguabo, Puerto Rico) in Fajardo. He became an orphan by the age of three; his father had died in 1870 and his mother in 1871. He went to live with his aunt, Carmela de Leon, and his grandmother Belen de Leon, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Romero Barceló
Carlos Antonio Romero Barceló (September 4, 1932 – May 2, 2021) was a Puerto Rican politician who served as the governor of Puerto Rico from 1977 to 1985. He was the second governor to be elected from the New Progressive Party (PNP). He also served 2 terms in Congress as the 16th Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. Romero Barceló was the grandson of Antonio R. Barceló, a Union Party leader and advocate of Puerto Rican independence during the early 20th century, and the son of Josefina Barceló, the first woman to preside over a major political party in Puerto Rico. Early life Romero Barceló was born in 1932 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Antonio Romero Moreno and Josefina Barceló Bird. His father was a lawyer and engineer who served as a superior court judge. His maternal grandfather was Antonio Rafael Barceló the son of Jaime José Barceló Miralles from Palma, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain and Josefa Martínez de León from Naguabo. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Gertrudis Barceló
Maria Gertrudis "Tules" Barceló (c. 1800 – January 17, 1852), commonly known as "La Tules," was a saloon owner and master gambler in the Territory of New Mexico at the time of the U.S.-Mexican War. Barceló amassed a small fortune by capitalizing on the flow of American and Mexican traders involved with the nineteenth-century Santa Fe Trail. She became infamous in the U.S. as the Mexican "Queen of Sin" through a series of American travel writings and newspaper serials before, during, and after the war. These depictions, often intended to explain or justify the U.S. invasion of Mexico, presented La Tules as a madame and prostitute who symbolized the supposedly immoral nature of the local Mexican population. Early life Barceló may have been born in the state of Sonora, Mexico around 1800 but one correspondent of the time, Wilkins Kendall of the ''New Orleans Picayune'', argued in his book ''Narrative of the Texas—Santa Fe Expedition'' that she was French, referring to her as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miquel Barceló
Miquel Barceló Artigues (born 1957) is a Spanish painter. Career Barceló was born at Felanitx, Mallorca. After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, he enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. However, he only studied at this school for a few months. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of the group "Taller Llunàtic", a conceptual avantgarde group. He also took part in the creation of their artist periodical ''Neon de Suro'' (21 issues from 1957–1982). A year after his return to Mallorca he had his first one-man show at the Palma Museum. Initially the Avant-garde, Art Brut and American abstract Expressionism (e.g. Pollock had a big impact on him) influenced Barceló's work. On the other hand, he was always particularly interested in the Baroque paintings of Diego Velázquez, Tintoretto and Rembrandt. Jean Dubuffet inspired Barceló in adopting an experimental attitud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Barceló
José Luis Barceló Camacho (born 1959) is a Colombian lawyer and academic, former president of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia. Personal life Barceló was born to José Barceló from Spain, and Lilia Camacho from Boyacá. Barceló and his first wife had a daughter Sonia Carolina, who died in 2003 aged 17. Career Barceló is a graduate of the Nueva Granada Military University in Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ..., Colombia. Barceló joined the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia in 1991, and has worked as Criminal Examining Judge of Bogotá and Advocate Counsel of the Second Delegate Procurator for the Criminal Function. From 2011 to 2018, he worked for the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, including working as assistant magistrate to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Barceló
Lorenzo Barceló (born August 10, 1977) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He played for the Chicago White Sox from –. Career MLB career San Francisco Giants Barceló was originally signed by the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent on May 23, 1994, out of San Pedro de Macorís in the Dominican Republic. In the Giants farm system, he pitched for the Bellingham Giants, Burlington Bees, San Jose Giants and Shreveport Captains. Chicago White Sox On July 31, 1997, he was traded to the Chicago White Sox (along with Mike Caruso, Keith Foulke, Bob Howry, Ken Vining and Brian Manning) in exchange for Wilson Álvarez, Danny Darwin and Roberto Hernández. This trade became known as the White Flag Trade. He made his Major League debut for the White Sox on July 22, 2000, against the Boston Red Sox, allowing 2 runs in 2.3 innings. He made his first start on August 8, 2000, against the Seattle Mariners, allowing 5 runs in 4 innings. Barceló recorde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Barceló
Antonio Barceló y Pont de la Terra (1 January 1717, in Palma, Majorca – 30 January 1797, in ''idem'') (in Catalan Antoni Barceló i Pont de la Terra) was a Spanish mariner, lieutenant general (equivalent to Admiral) of the Spanish Royal Armada. He began as privateer at the service of the Spanish Empire and thanks to his merits, he became lieutenant general of the Spanish Royal Armada and fought against Algerians pirates. He is famous for his anti-Algerian privateer campaigns, bombardments of Algiers ( Bombardment of Algiers in August 1783 and 2nd Bombardment of Algiers in July 1784) and use of Floating Batteries during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. See also *Great Siege of Gibraltar The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the War of the American Revolution. It was the largest battle in the war by number of combatants. The American war had end ... * The Defeat of the Floating Batteries a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elia Barceló
Elia Barceló or Elia Eisterer-Barceló (born 29 January 1957) is a Spanish academic and author who lives in Austria. Life Barceló was born in Elda in 1957. She became an academic and earned her doctorate in Innsbruck, Austria in 1995. She remained in Austria, working as a professor of Spanish literature. She also writes science fiction novels and works for children. She has won a number of awards. Her ''Heart of Tango'' was published in an English translation in 2010. Awards * Premio Ignotus, science fiction, 1991 * Premio TP de oro, young adult literature, 1997 and 2006 * Premio Internacional, science fiction novella, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Premio UPC), 1993 * Premio Celsius, 2014 * Premio Ignotus, 2018 * Premio Edebé Edebé Edebé is an educational and children's publisher located in Barcelona, founded in 1888 by a religious group. In the early 1990s, edebé embarked on a literary project and in 1993 edebé promoted the edebé literature award.. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miquel Barceló (writer)
Miquel Barceló (1948 – 22 November 2021) was a Spanish editor, translator and writer, who specialized in the science fiction genre. Career He was born in Mataró, Spain, in 1948. He studied towards a PhD in Computing, Aeronautics Engineering, graduating in nuclear energy. He worked as an editor for Ediciones B, where he directed the NOVA collection, specialized in science fiction tales and novels, and writing introductory articles for the books published in the collection. His last academic position was as a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) where he promoted the creation of the UPC Prize, the most important prize in Spanish science-fiction. He directed and coordinated the UPC Doctorate program on Sustainability, Technology and Humanism. He also kept a monthly column for the computer magazine "Byte" and contributed to several publications on Astronomy and Artificial Intelligence. In 1996 the Spanish Association of Fantasy and Science Fiction awarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shadow Of The Wind
''The Shadow of the Wind'' ( es, La sombra del viento) is a 2001 novel by the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón and a worldwide bestseller. The book was translated into English in 2004 by Lucia Graves and sold over a million copies in the UK after already achieving success on mainland Europe, topping the Spanish bestseller lists for weeks. It was published in the United States by Penguin Books and in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Orion Books. It is believed to have sold 15 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. Ruiz Zafón's follow-up, '' The Angel's Game'', is a prequel to ''The Shadow of the Wind''. His third in the series, '' The Prisoner of Heaven'', is the sequel to ''The Shadow of the Wind''. Plot summary The novel is actually a story within a story. The novel opens in the 1940's with the protagonist, Daniel, a boy whose father owns a bookshop in Barcelona. One day, his father takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Manuel Barceló
Víctor Manuel Barceló Rodriguez (born 1936 in Emiliano Zapata, Tabasco) is a Mexican politician and former Interim Governor of Tabasco, Mexico. He was a Secretary of Interior during the administration of Roberto Madrazo Pintado The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ... as the Governor of Tabasco. When Madrazo decides to be gone in search of the presidential candidacy of its party, the PRI in 1999, requests license to be stayed away of the charge and Víctor Manuel Barceló is appointed as Interim. Its step as the leader of the tabasqueña administration concluded once Madrazo was defeated by Francisco Labastida Ochoa in the internal and decided to return to conclude its constitutional mandate. During their management corresponds him to organize and to supervise the ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barsalou , a Catalan surname
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Barsalou is a French surname, of Catalan origin (it corresponds phonetically to the Barceló surname), with various spellings including Barsolou, Barselou, and Barcelo, and may refer to: *Lawrence W. Barsalou (born 1951), American psychologist, * Jean-Baptiste Barsalou (1706–1776), master tanner from Montreal *Joseph Barsalou (physician) (1600–1660), French apothecary and physician *Joseph Barsalou (businessman) (1822–1897), businessman and politician from Montreal *Paul Barselou (born 1922), American actor See also * Barceló Barceló is a Catalan surname, which originally appeared in Montpellier (Lords of Montpellier), today Languedoc-Roussillon (Southern France) then established in other Crown of Aragon areas like the Balearic Islands (circa 1232) or Catalonia, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
