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Cruz (other)
Cruz is mostly a surname but is also used as a first name. It is of Iberian origin, first found in Castile, Spain, and later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portuguese, the word means "cross", either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways. For example, in the Philippines, the adopted Tagalog word is rendered to "krus" in plain usage, but the Spanish spelling survives as a surname. The word "Cruz" (Spanish for "Cross"), as well as "Vera Cruz" ("True Cross") and "Santa Cruz" ("Holy Cross") are used as surnames and toponyms. Its origin as a surname particularly flourished after the Alhambra Decree of 1492 and the increasing activities of the Spanish Inquisition, when New Christian families with Crypto-Jewish, Moorish, and/or mixed religious heritage converted to the state-enforced religion of Catholicism and subsequently fashioned and adopted surnames with unambiguous religious affiliation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Cross
The Christian cross, seen as representing the crucifixion of Jesus, is a religious symbol, symbol of Christianity. It is related to the crucifix, a cross that includes a ''corpus'' (a representation of Jesus' body, usually three-dimensional) and to the more general family of cross, cross symbols. The term '':wikt:cross, cross'' is now detached from its original specifically Christian meaning, in Early Modern English, modern English and many other Western languages. The basic forms of the cross are the Latin cross with unequal arms and the Greek cross with equal arms; there are numerous Christian cross variants, variants, partly with confessional significance—such as the tau cross, the Patriarchal cross, double-barred cross, Papal cross, triple-barred cross, and Jerusalem cross, cross-and-crosslets—and many heraldic cross, heraldic variants, such as the cross potent, cross pattée, and cross moline, cross fleury. Pre-Christian symbolism A version of the cross symbol was use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Cruz (other)
Alex Cruz may refer to: * Alex Cruz (astronomer), American astronomer * Álex Cruz (businessman) (born 1966), Spanish businessman, ex Chief Executive of Vueling Airlines, and Chief Executive of British Airways * Alex Cruz (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian football attacking midfielder * Álex Cruz (footballer, born 1986), Spanish football left-back * Álex Cruz (footballer, born 1990), Spanish football midfielder {{hndis, Cruz, Alex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amina Cruz
Amina Cruz is a photographer known for capturing queer punk scenes within the Latino community and breaking cultural barriers with her work. Cruz captures the intimate moments shared between queer folk and is trying to expand the Latino identity with their work. Biography Cruz was born in Los Angeles, California and has lived in Tampa, Florida as well as New York and received a BFA in photography in 2002 from Parsons School of Design in New York. Cruz graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with an MFA in photography in 2023 where she worked under the tutelage of Catherine Opie. She first starting taking film photographs when she was a 14 year old teenager as a way of navigating her emotions. During her teen years she was inspired by punk music and the photography that accompanied it via magazines and album inserts, as well as news and war photography that she encountered at her school library. She has gone on to develop a unique style; Spin Magazine des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terri Cruz
Teresita del Niño Jesús "Terri" Cruz (1927–2017) was a community advocate and a founder of Chicanos Por La Causa. Early life Teresa Cruz was born in Tucson, Arizona. Her parents were from Hermosillo and Durango. She was orphaned as a young child and raised by her aunt and uncle in Salt River Valley The Salt River Valley is an extensive valley on the Salt River (Arizona), Salt River in central Arizona, which contains the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Although this geographic term still identifies the area, the name "Valley of the Sun" popularl .... After eighth grade, she left school and worked as a house cleaner. She began working with her local community by campaigning for John F. Kennedy. After twenty-two years, she decided to earn her GED and pursue a career in social services for the poor. Career Cruz worked with a War on poverty program. While in that position, she was approached by Chicano activists, including Joe Eddie Lopez, asking to use the spirit duplicator. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cruz (other)
Ricardo Cruz may refer to: * Ricardo Cruz (athlete) (born 1946), Salvadoran Olympic athlete * Ricardo Cruz (Brazilian footballer) (born 1962), Brazilian football manager and former goalkeeper * Ricardo Cruz (lawyer) (1943–1993), American lawyer * Ricardo Cruz (singer) (born 1982), Brazilian singer * Ricardo Cruz (Mexican footballer) (born 1997), Mexican football midfielder {{hndis, Cruz, Ricardo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oswaldo Cruz
Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz (; August 5, 1872 – February 11, 1917), was a Brazilian physician, pioneer bacteriologist, epidemiology, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Oswaldo Cruz Institute. He occupied the fifth chair of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1912 until his death in 1917. Early years Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz was born on August 5, 1872, in São Luis do Paraitinga, a small city in São Paulo Province, to the physician Bento Gonçalvez Cruz and Amália Bulhões Cruz. As a child, he moved to Rio de Janeiro with his family. At the age of 15 he started to study at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro and in 1892 he graduated as a medical doctor, with a thesis on water as vehicle for the propagation of microbes. Inspired by the work of Louis Pasteur, who had developed the germ theory of disease, four years later he went to Paris to specialize i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parkland High School Shooting
On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting occurred when 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, part of the Miami metropolitan area, Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring 18 others. Cruz, a former student at the school, fled the scene on foot by blending in with other students and was arrested without incident approximately one hour and twenty minutes later in nearby Coral Springs, Florida, Coral Springs. Police and prosecutors investigated "a pattern of disciplinary issues and unnerving behavior". The incident is the List of school shootings in the United States by death toll, deadliest mass shooting at a high school in U.S. history. The shooting came at a period of heightened public support for gun control that followed 2017 Las Vegas shooting, mass shootings in Paradise, Nevada, and Sutherland Springs church shooting, in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in October and November 2017. Students at Parkland founded Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolas Cruz
Nikolas Jacob Cruz (born September 24, 1998) is an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Parkland high school shooting, where he shot and killed fourteen students and three staff members while injuring seventeen others on February 14, 2018. In November 2022, Cruz was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the shooting, which remains one of the deadliest high school shootings in the United States. Cruz had been known for behavioral problems since preschool, and as a teenager on social media he shared his obsessions with mass shootings and expressed racist, sexist, antisemitic, xenophobic, and homophobic views. He was a member of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He legally purchased various firearms prior to the shooting. Early life Cruz was born to Brenda Norma Woodard (June 25, 1956 – August 23, 2021) on September 24, 1998, in Margate, Florida. His biological father's identity is unknown. Nikolas was placed in an orphanage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicky Cruz
Nicky Cruz (born December 6, 1938) is a Puerto Rican Christian evangelist, the founder of Nicky Cruz Outreach, an evangelistic Christian ministry. He was also once the director of Teen Challenge, serving under David Wilkerson before founding another ministry home himself in California. Prior to his conversion he was the leader of a New York City gang, the Mau Maus. Early life Cruz was born in Las Piedras, Puerto Rico where he was raised by his parents. His parents practiced brujeria and were followers of spiritism ("espiritismo"). They mentally abused him; his own mother would call him "Son of Satan". The neighborhood in which he lived was one of the worst in Puerto Rico and Cruz was always getting into trouble. According to his book ''Run Baby Run'', his parents sent him to live with his brother in New York City when he was 15, and Cruz soon ran away and started living on the streets of the city. He became a member of the Mau Maus street gang, and about six months later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maximiano Tuazon Cruz
Maximiano Tuazon Cruz (April 4, 1923 – October 9, 2013) was a Filipino prelate of the Catholic Church The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid .... Cruz was born in Catbalogan, Philippines, and was ordained a priest on November 30, 1947. He was appointed titular bishop to Tanudaia as well as auxiliary bishop to the Diocese of Calbayog on November 10, 1987 and ordained bishop on December 1, 1987. He was appointed bishop to the Diocese of Calbayog on December 21, 1994 and retired from diocese on January 13, 1999. He died on October 9, 2013, at age 90. External linksCatholic-Hierarchy 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Philippines 1923 births 2013 deaths People from Catbalogan Filipino Roman Catholic bishops {{Philippines-RC-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Silva Cruz
Maria Silva Cruz (20 April 1915 – 23 August 1936) was an Andalusian anarchist and a hero of the Casas Viejas Uprising in Spain. She was also known as "La Libertaria." Biography Silva Cruz was born and raised in Casas Viejas (now Benalup-Casas Viejas) in Andalusia. Her parents were day laborers and her father, Juan Silva Gonzalez and her uncle were both members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), an anarchist group which supported reforms for workers. In January 1933, the CNT demonstrated in Casas Viejas and attempted to get the government's Civil Guard to give up their power. Silva Cruz and her friends, Manuel Lago and Gallinito, were part of the demonstrations on 11 January. During the demonstrations, two guards were wounded. More troops from the Civil Guard and Assault Guard were sent in to stop the CNT. Many of the villagers fled, but some anarchists attempted to hide in the house of Silva Cruz's grandfather, Francisco Cruz Gutiérrez, who was nickna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan-Carlos Cruz
Juan-Carlos Cruz (born ca. 1962) is a Dominican American chef and the former host of ''Calorie Commando'' and ''Weighing In'' on the Food Network. Cruz lost 43 pounds on the Discovery Health Channel show ''Discovery Health Body Challenge'', which encouraged him to change directions from being a pastry chef to do low-calorie cooking. In 2010, Cruz was sentenced to prison for nine years in California for soliciting homeless people to murder his wife, Jennifer Campbell. Early life and education Juan-Carlos Cruz was born around 1962 in the Dominican Republic. He has two older brothers. He moved to the United States with his family when he was three, settling in California. He learned how to cook watching Graham Kerr, Jeff Smith, and Julia Child on television. Cruz graduated in 1993 from the California Culinary Academy with a focus on pastry and found work in Los Angeles. Career After graduation from the Culinary Academy in 1993, Cruz joined Hotel Bel Air as a pastry sous-che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
