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Cortina De Vidro
Cortina may refer to: Things * Cortina (tango), a short piece of music played during a tango dance event * Ford Cortina, a medium-sized family car built by Ford of Britain from 1962 to 1982 **Lotus Cortina, a 1963–1968 performance variant on the above * Cortina (mycology), a cobweb-like partial veil on certain types of mushroom (which gives name to the genus ''Cortinarius'') * , a Panamanian passenger ship in service 1996-97 Places * Cortina d'Ampezzo, a town in the province of Belluno, northern Italy * ''Cortina sulla strada del vino'', Italian name of Kurtinig an der Weinstraße, a town in South Tyrol, northern Italy * Cortina Elementary School, in Queen Creek, Arizona * Cortina Indian Rancheria, California, a Native American reservation in Colusa county, California People * Adela Cortina, Spanish philosopher * Alfonso Cortina (1944–2020), Spanish businessman * Jon Cortina (1934–2005), Spanish Jesuit priest * Juan Cortina (1824–1894), Mexican rancher, politician, milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortina (tango)
A cortina (curtain) is a short piece (20–60 seconds) of music that is played between tandas at a milonga (tango dance event).Beatriz Dujovne ''In Strangers' Arms: The Magic of the Tango'' 2011 Page 62 "When the 15-minute tanda of four dances is over, and the cortina (interlude) music plays,..." The cortina lets the dancers know that the tanda has ended. The partners can then thank each other and return to their own tables, to find a new dance partner at the next tanda. Cortinas are used at many of the milongas in Argentina and Uruguay and increasingly elsewhere. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cortina (Tango) Tango dance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adela Cortina
Adela Cortina (born 1947, Valencia) is a Spanish philosopher. Biography After studying philosophy and letters in the Universidad de Valencia, she was admitted into the department of metaphysics in 1969. In 1976, she defended her doctoral thesis on the notion of God in Kant's transcendental philosophy and during some time she taught at middle schools and highschools. A research scholarship allowed her to go to the University of Munich, where she got acquainted with critical rationalism, pragmatism and marxist ethics and, more concretely, with the philosophy of Jurgen Habermas and Karl-Otto Apel. Upon coming back to the Spanish scholar scene, she devoted her research time to ethics. In 1981, she was admitted in the department of practical philosophy in the Universidad de Valencia. In 1986, she became Professor of Moral Philosophy, relative to economy, business and the discrimination of women, the war, ecology, genetics, etc. These are topics that the author cultivates in her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortina Systems
Cortina Systems, Inc. is a supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications founded in 2001. It is based in California. Cortina System was bought by Inphi Corporation in 2014. History Cortina Systems was founded by Amir Nayyerhabibi (who served as president and CEO) in 2001 in the Menlo Park, California library, located in Silicon Valley. It has development centers in USA, Canada, China, Taiwan, Israel. Cortina’s product line spans computer and telecommunication networking: the company has products for core, enterprise, metropolitan high-speed networks, as well as products for the digital home networks. Products include: * Ethernet: 1-, 2-, and 4-port 10Gbit/s Ethernet MACs; 4-, 10-, 12-, and 24-port 1Gbit/s Ethernet MACs * Transport: 2.5Gbit/s, 10Gbit/s and 40Gbit/s FEC/OTN Framers; 100Gbit/s FEC/OTN/Ethernet Framer; 2.5G and 10Gbit/s VCAT framer * Framer: SONET/SDH POS, ATM, and GFP framer for OC-3 to OC-192 with integrated SerDes; RPR framer, RPR bridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortina Cycles
Cortina Cycles is a bicycle frame manufacturer in Santa Barbara, California. It has made frames for Italian companies such as ''Bennotto'' and ''Gios''. Background Raul Cortina, his brother and uncle started Cortina Cycles in Mexico in 1955, in a small bike shop in Mexico City. It acquired factory outlets within Mexico selling Cortina frames and moved into the factory it still owns in Mexico. Cortina Cycles built frames for companies such as Bennotto and Gios. Raul Cortina's son, Esteban, started designing mountain bike frames ing the 1990s after graduating from college. He created ''Cortina Cycles USA'' in Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara ( es, Santa Bárbara, meaning "Saint Barbara") is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat. Situated on a south-facing section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coas ... with his brothers Daniel and Adrian, who are professional racers. Cortina in 1994 became one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortina Troubles
The Cortina Troubles is the generic name for the First Cortina War, from 1859 to 1860, and the Second Cortina War, in 1861, in which paramilitary forces, led by the Mexican rancher and local leader Juan Nepomuceno Cortina, confronted elements of the United States Army, the Confederate States Army, the Texas Rangers, and the local militias of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas. According to author Robert Elman, Juan Cortina and his followers were the first "socially motivated border bandits," similar to the Garzistas and the Villistas of later generations. The fighting took place in the Rio Grande Valley area, which straddles the international border of Texas and Mexico. Trouble First Cortina War The First Cortina War began at Brownsville on July 13, 1859, when Cortina shot the town marshal, Robert Shears, in the arm for his brutalizing of Cortina's former employee, Tomás Cabrera. Tension increased between Cortina and the Brownsville authorities, and on Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Cortina
Juan Nepomuceno Cortina Goseacochea (May 16, 1824 – October 30, 1894), also known by his nicknames Cheno Cortina, the Red Robber of the Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Robin Hood, was a Mexican rancher, politician, military leader, outlaw and folk hero. He was an important caudillo, military general and regional leader, who effectively controlled the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as governor. In borderlands history he is known for leading a paramilitary mounted Mexican Militia in the failed Cortina Wars. The "Wars" were raids targeting Anglo-American civilians whose settlement Cortina opposed near the several leagues of land granted to his wealthy family on both sides of the Rio Grande. Anglo families began immigrating to the Lower Rio Grande Valley after the Mexican Army was defeated by the Anglo-Mexican rebels of the Mexican State of Tejas, in the Texas Revolution. From 1836 to 1848 when Cortina was 12–24 years old, parts of the Cortina Grant North of the Rio Grande Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Cortina
Jon Cortina Garaigorta, S.J. (Bilbao, December 8, 1934 – Guatemala City, December 12, 2005) was a Jesuit priest, engineer, and activist, founder of Pro-Búsqueda, an organization dedicated to searching for the missing children of the Salvadoran Civil War. He was a professor at Central American University (UCA), the Jesuit university of El Salvador, and escaped the massacre of the Jesuit community at the university in November 1989. Life Cortina was born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1934, but his family fled to France as refugees from the Spanish Civil War, later returning. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1954, at the age of 19. The following year, while still a novice, he was sent to serve in El Salvador. After a year in the mission there, he went to the United States to do his university studies, following by seminary studies in Germany. He was ordained a priest in 1968. He then returned to Spain, where he earned a Doctorate in Engineering from the Polytechnical University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso Cortina
Alfonso Cortina de Alcocer (13 March 1944 – 6 April 2020) was a Spanish businessman. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Repsol YPF, Spain's largest oil and gas group. Biography Cortina was born on 13 March 1944 in Madrid. His father Pedro Cortina Mauri, originally from Catalonia, was foreign minister during the Francoist dictatorship. His maternal grandfather Alberto Alcocer y Ribacoba, originally from Biscay, was Mayor of Madrid in the 1920s and again in the 1930s. His brother Alberto Cortina and cousin Alberto Alcocer are both noted business executives, known collectively as 'The Albertos' due to their shared career path and prominence in public life. He graduated in Industrial Engineering and held a further degree in Economic Sciences. He began his career in the banking sector, where he held various positions at BBVA, Banco Zaragozano and Banco Central. Alfonso Cortina de Alcocer became president of the Spanish oil firm Repsol in 1996 despite his lack of experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortina Indian Rancheria, California
The Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation of the Cortina Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Indigenous people of California. They are Wintun people, who historically spoke Wintuan languages. Their headquarters are in Williams, California, and they have approximately 117 enrolled members. They were previously known as the Kletsel Dehe Band of Wintun Indians, Cortina Indian Rancheria, and Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians of California. Government Charlie Wright serves as their chairperson. Rancheria The Cortina Rancheria is an Indian reservation in Colusa County, California, at an elevation of 1,312 feet (400 m). The rancheria is 640 acres large in area.It is located about 70 miles northwest of Sacramento and 15 miles west of Arbuckle, California. As of the 2010 Census the population was 21. Activities The tribe partnered with California State University, Chico, to study water quality and purification systems. See also * Wintu-Nomlaki traditional narratives Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Cortina
The Ford Cortina is a medium-sized family car that was built initially by Ford of Britain, and then Ford of Europe in various guises from 1962 to 1982, and was the United Kingdom's best-selling car of the 1970s. The Cortina was produced in five generations (Mark I through to Mark V, although officially the last one was only the Cortina 80 facelift of the Mk IV) from 1962 until 1982. From 1970 onward, it was almost identical to the German-market Ford Taunus (being built on the same platform), which was originally a different car model. This was part of Ford's attempt to unify its European operations. By 1976, when the revised Taunus was launched, the Cortina was identical. The new Taunus/Cortina used the doors and some panels from the 1970 Taunus. It was replaced in 1982 by the Ford Sierra. In Asia and Australasia, it was replaced by the Mazda 626-based Ford Telstar, though Ford New Zealand did import British-made complete knock-down kits of the Sierra estate for local assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Higley Unified School District
The Higley Unified School District #60, abbreviated HUSD #60 is a school district in Gilbert, Arizona. The school district serves portions of Gilbert and Queen Creek. It is one of Arizona's fastest growing school districts, with modest continued growth despite the downturn in the economy at the end of the 2000s (decade). The District owns two preschools, nine elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools, and one virtual academy. In August 2013, the district opened two new middle schools and all other elementary schools that hosted grades K-8 went down to K-6. History The Higley district was incorporated in 1909 with a territory far larger than its current size, but most of the land was transferred to other Valley school districts over the years. For instance, the Queen Creek Unified School District was carved out of the Higley district in 1947. Higley Elementary School was the only school in the district for the next 53 years. The district's high school students went t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurtinig An Der Weinstraße
Kurtinig an der Weinstraße (; it, Cortina sulla Strada del Vino ), often abbreviated to Kurtinig or Cortina, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about southwest of the city of Bolzano. As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 646 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. Kurtinig borders the following municipalities: Margreid, Neumarkt, and Salorno. History Coat-of-arms The emblem is an argent embattled wall, with a portal, above an azure band in the lower half; an eight-pointed star on the left side and the crescent moon on the right, both of argent on a gules background, in the upper half. The embattled wall was built to protect the village from the flooding of the river ''Etsch''; the star and the moon are a recall to the arms of the Lords of ''Appian'' which the village belonged. Society Linguistic distribution According to the 2011 census, 68.67% of the population speak Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
