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Consuelo (name)
Consuelo is a female given name meaning "solace" or "consolation" in Spanish (a reference to Mary, mother of Jesus, Nuestra Señora del Consuelo i.e. Our Lady of Consolation). Notable people named Consuelo * Baby Consuelo, Brazilian performer and composer * Consuelo Crespi (1928–2010), American-born Italian countess and editor of ''Italian Vogue'' * Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry (1901–1979), wife of novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry * Consuelo Hernández (born c. 1952), Colombian/American poet and writer * Consuelo Mack, journalist * Consuelo Moreno-López (1893–2004), a supercentenarian * Consuelo Portela Audet (1885–1959), Cuban-born Spanish cuplé singer * Consuelo Silva, Texas-born singer in the Mexican ranchera genre * Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough (1877–1964), a member of the Vanderbilt family * Consuelo Velázquez (c. 1916 – 2005), Mexican songwriter * Consuelo Yznaga, Duchess of Manchester (1858–1909) Fictional characters * Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Portela Audet
Consuelo Portela Audet (1885–1959), commonly called La Bella Chelito and La Chelito, was a Cuban-born Spanish cuplé singer from the early 20th-century, and a theater business owner. She was a pioneer in the genre of picaresque cuplé. Biography She was born in Placetas, Las Villas, Cuba, to Spanish parents Antonia Audet and Isidro Portella. Her father was the captain of the Civil Guard in Cuba. She started singing at the age of 14, while living in Cuba and performed at the Payret, Molino Rojo and Alhambra theaters. She had critics including clergy, who labeled her as “libidinous satan” in Diario de la Marina, the Cuban newspaper. In 1910, her family returned to Spain. She performed mostly in the theaters in Barcelona and Madrid. In 1915, an erotic novel about the life of Chelito was written by Joaquín Belda in the work "La Coquito"; which was later made into a 1977 film of the same name, released in Spain. Her only film appearance was in the silent film ''El Conde Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahuel And The Magic Book
''Nahuel and the Magic Book'' ( es, Nahuel y el Libro Mágico) is a 2020 Chilean-Brazilian animated fantasy-adventure coming-of-age film produced by Carburadores, co-produced by Chilean Punkrobot Studios and Brazilian Levante Films and directed by Germán Acuña Delgadillo. This is the first animated feature that was made in Chile in collaboration with Brazil and this is the first Chilean-Brazilian 2D animated film that entered the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in Annecy, France on June 15, 2020 and in Chile on January 20, 2022. Premise Nahuel lives with his father in a fishing town, yet he has a deep fear of the sea. One day, he finds a magical book that seems to be the solution to this problem, but a dark wizard is after it and captures Nahuel’s father. This is where his fantastic adventure begins: to rescue his father while overcoming his deepest fears. Cast * Consuelo Pizarro as Nahuel, a young, curious, shy and introvert 12-year-old titular protagonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Yznaga, Duchess Of Manchester
Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester (1853 – 20 November 1909), née María Francisca de la Consolación "Consuelo" Yznaga (also spelled Iznaga by some sources), was a Cuban American heiress who married George, Viscount Mandeville, in 1876. She became the Duchess of Manchester when her husband succeeded to the dukedom in March 1890. Family background Consuelo Yznaga was born in 1853, in New York City, the second of four children of diplomat Antonio Modesto Yznaga del Valle (Trinidad, Cuba, Spain, 28 December 1823 – Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, 28 May 1892) and wife (1850) Ellen Maria Clement of Ravenswood Plantation, Concordia Parish, Louisiana (Upstate New York, 1833 – Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi, 24 January 1908), paternal granddaughter of José Antonio Yznaga y Borrell and wife María Francisca del Valle y Castillo and maternal granddaughter of the steamboat Captain and plantation owner Samuel Clement from Dutchess County, New York, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Velázquez
Consuelo Velázquez Torres (August 21, 1916 in Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco – January 22, 2005, Mexico City), also popularly known as Consuelito Velázquez, was a Mexican concert pianist and composer. She was the composer of famous Mexican ballads such as "Bésame mucho", "Amar y vivir", and " Cachito". Beginning Years Originally from Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico, she was the youngest of five daughters born to the soldier and poet Isaac Velázquez de Valle and his wife, María de Jesús Torres Ortíz. At four years old she started to demonstrate a good ear and an aptitude for music, and at barely six years old she began studying music and piano at the Académia de Música Serratos in Guadalajara. After several years of study, when she was eleven, she moved to Mexico City, where she continued her studies and obtained a degree in teaching music and concert piano at the National Conservatory of Music. Her first public concert was held in the Palacio de Bellas Artes in the capital, and soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Consuelo Vanderbilt-Balsan (formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; born Consuelo Vanderbilt; March 2, 1877 – December 6, 1964) was a socialite and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family. Her first marriage to the Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, 9th Duke of Marlborough has become a well-known example of one of the advantageous, but loveless, marriages common during the Gilded Age; as such, she was known as one of the earliest ‘dollar princesses’. The Duke obtained a large dowry by the marriage, and reportedly told her just after the marriage that he married her in order to "save Blenheim Palace", his ancestral home. Although the teenage Consuelo was opposed to the marriage arranged by her mother, she became a popular and influential Duchess. For much of their 25-year marriage, the Marlboroughs lived separately and the marriage was finally annulled. Her first marriage produced two sons, John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Silva
Chelo (Consuelo Silva) was a popular singer of Mexican bolero music who had a long career, spanning from the 1930s to the 1980s. She was born in 1922. She belongs to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Early life She was born in Brownsville, Texas, on August 25, 1922, the eldest of seven children. As a teenager, Silva performed with her school and church, eventually performing locally with a local group, Tito Crixell Orchestra. Career Silva became popular in Brownsville and was invited to perform on Americo Paredes' radio show. She continued to perform on the radio, as well as at the Continental Club in Corpus Christi, Texas, gaining popularity quickly through her spin on the romantic song style. She signed to Falcon Records in 1952, and her popularity rose throughout the Southwest. Peerless Records began to distribute her recordings in Mexico and her fame became international. She signed to Columbia Records in 1955. Usually accompanied by a guitar trio, she became known as "''La R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuplé
The cuplé was a popular risqué Spanish theatre song style in the late years of the 19th century. From 1893–1911 the songs were a feature of the "género ínfimo" (lowest type) cabaret theatre sung by solo female singers, or men in drag, and attended mainly by men. But in the second decade of the 20th century the cuplé, in a more respectable form, became more family-friendly and was associated with the makings of stars of the Spanish theatre such as Aurora Jauffret, "La Goya".Bradley S. Epps, Despina Kakoudaki ''All about Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema'' 2009 "Even the cuplé, the song with which Montiel becomes identified, derives from a tradition of risqué musical numbers filled with sexual innuendo performed by women." The term comes from French ''couplet'', but the poetic form couplet A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Moreno-López
A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is someone who has lived to or passed their 110th birthday. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Anderson ''et al.'' concluded that supercentenarians live a life typically free of major age-related diseases until shortly before maximum human lifespan is reached (theoretically estimated to be 126 years). European supercentenarians European supercentenarians are residents or emigrants from Europe who have attained or surpassed 110 years of age. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of more than 600 European supercentenarians. The oldest European ever, and the world's oldest person ever, was Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. This has been disputed by some researchers. The oldest European man ever was Christian Mortensen from Denmark, who emigrated to the United States where he died at the age of 115 years and 252 days. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It 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 languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Mack
Consuelo Mack (née Cotter, born 30 November 1949 in New York, New York) is an American business news journalist and host of ''WealthTrack'', a news program presented by WLIW-TV in New York City, distributed by American Public Television, and aired weekly, primarily on PBS-TV station affiliates. Before developing WealthTrack, she spent over a decade at ''The Wall Street Journal'' as the Anchor and Managing Editor of ''The Wall Street Journal Report'', since hosted by Maria Bartiromo and Rebecca Quick. During her tenure, it won the Overseas Press Club award. Early life and education Mack grew up in Weston, Massachusetts, and studied at the Concord Academy. She attended Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ... and graduated in 1972 with a bachelor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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