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Blas Hernández
Blas is mainly a Spanish given name and surname, related to Blaise. It may refer to Places *Piz Blas, mountain in Switzerland * San Blas (other) People * Ricardo Blas Jr. (born 1986) Judo athlete from Guam * Blas Antonio Sáenz (fl. 1845), Nicaraguan politician * Blas Avena, American martial artist * Blas Cabrera Navarro, American physicist * Blas Cabrera (1878–1945), Spanish physicist * Blas Cantó (born 1991), Spanish singer * Blas Castano (born 1998), Dominican baseball player * Blas Chumacero (1905–1997), Mexican trade union leader *Blas Cristaldo (born 1964), Paraguayan football (soccer) defender * Blas de Lezo (1689–1741), Spanish admiral * Blas de Ledesma (1556—1598), Spanish painter * Blas Elias (born 1967), American drummer * Blas Galindo (1910–1993), Mexican composer *Blas Gallego (born 1941), Spanish artist * Blas García Ravelo (17th century), Spanish sculptor * Blas Giunta (born 1963), Argentine football player * Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, global language with 483 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 558 million speakers total, including second-language speakers. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries, as well as one of the Official languages of the United Nations, six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Gallego
Blas Gallego (born 1941 in Barcelona) is a Spanish artist, painter and illustrator with a career spanning six decades. He has created and drawn comic books and strips, book covers, film posters, role-playing game cards, and portraits, among other formats, for publishers in tens of countries. Gallego is internationally known for his specialization in erotic art. Work history Gallego learned artistic drawing while working for the movie advertisement industry in 1955–56, for companies such as Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and RKO Pictures, among others. In 1960 he founded a publicity company. From 1962 to 1966 he worked for Creaciones Editoriales, before going in 1966 to work for Selecciones Ilustradas, where he remained until 1968. The next year he moved to England, but came back to Barcelona to get married in 1973. Around that time, he drew the comic of '' Twins of Evil'' (1974), started oil painting, lived for a few years in London and for a short while in Stockholm, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Piñar
Blas Piñar López (22 November 1918 – 28 January 2014) was a Spanish far-right politician. Having connections to Catholic organizations, during the Francoist dictatorship he directed the Institute of Hispanic Culture (''Instituto de Cultura Hispánica'') and served as ''procurador'' in the Cortes and as national councillor (1955–1977). He later became a member of the Congress of Deputies in 1979. He led the far-right New Force and National Front political parties. Biography Piñar was born in Toledo. He was a law student in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War broke out and took refuge in the embassies of Finland and Paraguay, later doing work as a clandestine "fifth columnist" for the Nationalist forces. From 1957 to 1962, he was in charge of the Institute of Hispanic Culture that was dedicated to managing scholarships between Latin American and Spanish universities. After a trip to Latin America and the Philippines, Piñar wrote an article for the Madrid newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Pérez
Blas Antonio Pérez Ortega (born 13 March 1981) is a Panamanian former professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Dallas Sidekicks in the Major Arena Soccer League. Club career Pérez began his career in his native Panama with Panamá Viejo. He made his debut with the club in 1998 and went on to score 27 goals in 56 matches. In 2001, he joined Árabe Unido and continued his goal scoring form. In 2002, he joined top Uruguayan side Nacional. The following season, he left for Colombia signing with Envigado, scoring a goal on his debut against Independiente Medellin in the process. After one season at the club he joined Centauros and went on to score 29 goals in 37 matches, catching the attention of one of Colombia's top clubs Deportivo Cali. For the 2005 season he signed with Cali and remained at the club for two years in which he continued with his goal scoring form. In 2006 Perez joined Cúcuta. With Cúcuta, Perez won the Copa Mustang in 2006 against Depor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Parera
Blas Parera Moret (3 February 1776 – 7 January 1840) was a Spanish music composer and teacher. He lived his part of his life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was born in Murcia, Spain to two Catalan parents. In 1797, he moved to Buenos Aires where he contributed in the defense of the port of Buenos Aires during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata. He composed the ''Marcha Patriotica,'' which became the Argentine National Anthem, together with songwriter Vicente López y Planes in 1813. He also was a organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ... in the Metropolitan Cathedral, the Church of St. Ignatius, and the Basilica of Our Lady of Mercy. On October 14, 1809, Parera married Facunda del Rey, a fifteen-year-old orphan who was a student of his. Befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Ople
Blas Fajardo Ople (February 3, 1927 – December 14, 2003) was a Filipino journalist and politician who held several high-ranking positions in the Executive Departments of the Philippines, executive and Congress of the Philippines, legislative branches of the Politics of the Philippines, Philippine government, including as President of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate President from 1999 to 2000, and as Department of Foreign Affairs (Philippines), Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 2002 until his death. Perceived as a Left-wing nationalism, leftist-nationalist at the onset of his career in public service, Ople was, in his final years, a vocal supporter for allowing a limited United States military presence in the Philippines, and for American initiatives in the War on Terrorism, War on Terror including the Iraq War, 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Ople's most enduring role was his nineteen years as Secretary (later Minister) of Department of Labor and Employment (Philippines), La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Monaco
Blas Monaco (November 16, 1915 – February 10, 2000) was an American professional baseball player who had a long career (1935–1944; 1946–1949) in minor league baseball interrupted by two brief Major League trials almost nine years apart with the Cleveland Indians in and . The native of San Antonio, Texas, an infielder, threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Career Monaco appeared in only 17 games in the Major Leagues, and collected two hits in 13 at bats, with one extra-base hit, a triple, and two runs batted in. His two hits and lone RBI came in his big league debut on August 18, 1937, at Sportsman's Park against the St. Louis Browns. In that game, Monaco pinch hit for starting second baseman John Kroner and went two-for-two and played errorless ball in the field, in an 11–6 Cleveland defeat. He would go hitless in his remaining 11 MLB at bats (five in 1937 and six in 1946), starting his only game as a second baseman four days after his debut, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Minor
Blas Minor Jr. (born March 20, 1966), is a former professional baseball pitcher who played from 1992 to 1997. He would play for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1992–1994), New York Mets (1995–1996), Seattle Mariners (1996), and Houston Astros (1997). Minor was named after Saint Blaise. He said "It goes back to my grandparents ... My name is a Mexican version of that name." After his playing career was over, Minor was a volunteer pitching coach at Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona Chandler is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and a suburb in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the List of municipalities in Arizona, fourth-most populous city in Arizona .... Minor also worked for the fire department in Chandler. He has been described as a battalion chief, spokesman and public information officer for the department. Minor is the uncle of baseball player Daulton Jefferies. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Matamoro
Blas Matamoro (born January 11, 1942) is an Argentine writer, lawyer, journalist and translator. Biography Blas Matamoro was born on January 11, 1942, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied law at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, attaining his degree in 1966. He worked as an education professor and as a lawyer. He was lawyer of political prisoner A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although ...s from the Commission of Families of Political Detainees (''Comisión de Familiares de Detenidos Políticos'', COFADE). In 1971, alongside fellow writers Juan José Sebreli, Manuel Puig, Néstor Perlongher, and Héctor Anabitarte, Matamoro co-founded the Frente de Liberación Homosexual (FLH), one of Argentina's first organisations advocating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas María De La Garza Falcón
Blas María de la Garza Falcón de Villarreal (1712 – 1767) was a Spanish settler of Tamaulipas and South Texas. Biography Capt. Blas María de la Garza Falcón de Villarreal, colonizer of South Texas and Tamaulipas and the first settler of Nueces County, Texas, was born in Real de las Salinas, Nuevo León, Mexico, in 1712 to Gen. Blas Maria de la Garza Falcón, twice governor of Coahuila, and Beatriz de Villarreal. His five brothers and six sisters spent their childhood at the hacienda Pesquería Chica near Monterrey. He probably received his education in Monterrey. By 1734, he was a captain at Presidio de San Gregorio de Cerralvo in Nuevo León. On January 4, 1731, de la Garza Falcón married Catarina Gómez de Castro, daughter of Capt. Antonio Gómez de Castro and Nicolasa Baes de Treviño, at the mining town of Boca de Leones, present-day Villaldama, Nuevo León. One daughter, María Gertrudis de la Garza Falcón, and two sons, Juan José and José Antonio de la Gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Infante
Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas (5 July 1885 – 11 August 1936) was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian nationalists. He initiated an Andalusian regionalist assembly in Ronda in 1918; the assembly adopted a charter based on the autonomist ''Constitución Federal de Antequera'' written in 1883 during the First Spanish Republic. It also embraced the current flag and emblem as national symbols, designed by Infante himself based on various historic Andalusian standards. During the Second Spanish Republic, the ''Andalucismo'' was represented by the ''Junta Liberalista'', a federalist political party led by Infante. Infante was among numerous political figures who were summarily executed by Franco's forces when they took over Seville at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. As a regional autonomist, left-wing activist and an avowed socialist, he twice "merited" inclusion on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blas Hernández
Blas is mainly a Spanish given name and surname, related to Blaise. It may refer to Places *Piz Blas, mountain in Switzerland * San Blas (other) People * Ricardo Blas Jr. (born 1986) Judo athlete from Guam * Blas Antonio Sáenz (fl. 1845), Nicaraguan politician * Blas Avena, American martial artist * Blas Cabrera Navarro, American physicist * Blas Cabrera (1878–1945), Spanish physicist * Blas Cantó (born 1991), Spanish singer * Blas Castano (born 1998), Dominican baseball player * Blas Chumacero (1905–1997), Mexican trade union leader *Blas Cristaldo (born 1964), Paraguayan football (soccer) defender * Blas de Lezo (1689–1741), Spanish admiral * Blas de Ledesma (1556—1598), Spanish painter * Blas Elias (born 1967), American drummer * Blas Galindo (1910–1993), Mexican composer *Blas Gallego (born 1941), Spanish artist * Blas García Ravelo (17th century), Spanish sculptor * Blas Giunta (born 1963), Argentine football player * Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
