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Girón (Málaga)
Giron or Girón may refer to: People Girón or Giron is a Spanish and French surname and refer to the following people: * Alicia Girón García (1938-2020), Spanish librarian * Gabriel Girón (born 1988), Mexican basketball player * José Antonio Girón, Falangist politician * Pedro Girón (other), several people with this name * Socorro Girón, a Puerto Rican historian * Marcos Giron, American tennis player * Charles Giron, Swiss painter Places * Giron, France * Giron, the Sami-language name of Kiruna, Sweden * Girón, Santander, a town in Colombia * Playa Girón, location of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion * Girón, Azuay, a town and canton in Ecuador Others * ''Girón'' (newspaper), official organ of the Communist Party provincial committee in Matanzas, Cuba *Girón Formation The Girón Formation ( es, Formación Girón, Jg) is an extensive geological formation stretching across from the north in Teorama, Norte de Santander, across the Mesa de Los Santos a ...
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Alicia Girón García
Alicia Girón García (1938 – 22 February 2020) was a Spanish librarian. She began working in the Madrid public library system in 1969 where she helped plan expansion and digitisation and eventually became its director. From 1983 Girón was deputy director-general of libraries at the Ministry of Culture (Spain), Ministry of Culture helping to draft a law mandating library services in settlements with more than 5,000 inhabitants. She later joined the Biblioteca Nacional de España (the national library of Spain), heading its bibliographic processing department and launching a programme to digitise its collection. Girón was appointed director of the library on 24 May 1990, the first woman to hold the position. She remained in post until 9 January 1992, overseeing the reformation of the library as an independent organisation and establishing an interlibrary loan system. Girón later headed the Biblioteca Nacional de Préstamo (national lending library) and the National Newsp ...
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Gabriel Girón
Gabriel Oscar Girón Villarreal (born 27 February 1988) is a Mexican-Panamanian professional basketball player for Libertadores de Querétaro of the Mexican Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). He was a part of the 2017 Mexican championship winning Fuerza Regia team, and was a member of the Mexico's national basketball team at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament – Turin The 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Turin was one of three 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments for Men. The tournament was held at the Pala Alpitour in Turin, Italy, from 4 to 9 July 2016. The national teams of , , , , , ..., Italy. Personal life Girón was born in Mexico to a Panamanian father and Mexican mother. His brother Daniel is also a basketball player, who represents Panama internationally. References External linksProfile at 2016 FIBA OQT
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José Antonio Girón
José Antonio Girón de Velasco (28 August 1911, Herrera de Pisuerga, Palencia – 22 August 1995, Fuengirola, Málaga) was a prominent Spanish Falangist politician. He was minister of Labor (1941–57), counselor of the Council of the Realm and member of the ''Cortes Españolas''. He was one of the most heard voices against any kind of changes during the last years of Francoist regime, taking part in the political group known as " the Bunker", for their reluctance to the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco's death. He began his political activities during his university studies in Valladolid. In 1931 he joined '' Juventudes Castellanas de Acción Hispánica'' (Castilian Youth for Spanish Action), a small political group founded in Valladolid by Onésimo Redondo, that would merge with Ramiro Ledesma's ''Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista'' (Unions of the National-Syndicalist Offensive) and José Antonio Primo de Rivera's ''Falange Española de las JONS''. He ...
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Pedro Girón (other)
Pedro Girón may refer to: *Pedro Girón, 1st Lord of Osuna (1423–1466), known as Pedro Girón Acuña Pacheco * Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Count of Ureña (died 1531) *Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna (1537–1590) *Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Duke of Osuna (1574–1624) *Pedro Téllez-Girón, 8th Duke of Osuna (1728–1787) * Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna (1755–1807) * Pedro de Alcántara Álvarez de Toledo, 13th Duke of the Infantado (1768–1841) *Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Beaufort Spontin, 14th Duke of the Infantado (1810–1844) *Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón Pedro de Alcántara Téllez-Girón y Alfonso-Pimentel, 2nd Prince of Anglona (1786–1851), was a Spanish military officer during the Peninsular War, Director of the Prado Museum between 1820 and 1823 and Captain General of Cuba (from January 184 ... (1786–1851) * Pedro Agustín Girón (1778–1842) {{Hndis, Giron, Pedro ...
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Socorro Girón
Socorro Girón (9 March 1919 – 2005) was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and scholar. She is best known for her legendary book ''"Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina: Historia de Ponce desde sus comienzos hasta la Segunda Decada del Siglo XX."'' (Ponce, el teatro La Perla and La Campana de la Almudaina: History of Ponce from its beginnings to the second decade of the 20th century.) Early years and schooling Girón was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1919. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in 1984. Career Professor and scholar In 1965, after having received her M.A. degree (1962), Girón published her first major work titled "Gregorio Marañon, escritor" (Gregorio Marañon, writer). This was followed by several additional works. In 1973, mayor Luis A. Morales granted her the ad honorem title of Official Historian of the Government of Municipality of Ponce. In 1984, she became a professor of Hist ...
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Marcos Giron
Marcos Andres Giron (born July 24, 1993; ) is an American professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 49 on 16 May 2022 and a doubles ranking of No. 194 on August 1, 2022. He won the boys' singles in the Ojai Tennis Tournament in 2009 and the men’s invitational in 2011. In 2014, Giron won the singles title at the 2014 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships for UCLA. Professional career 2020: First US Open win & top 100 debut Giron reached the second round of a major at the 2020 US Open where he won his first match against Marc Polmans in five sets and at the French Open for the first time in his career. In November, Giron recorded his first top-ten win against seventh seed Matteo Berrettini at the Paris Masters. 2021: Major third round, Olympics & top 60 debuts Giron started his 2021 season at the Murray River Open, an event that was organized as a lead-up tournament to the Australian Open due to other tournaments in Australia being cancelled ...
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Charles Giron
Charles Alexandre Giron (2 April 1850 – 9 June 1914) was a Swiss painter and art critic. He specialized in portraits and scenes with figures; some of them mildly humorous. Biography Giron was born on 2 April 1850 in Geneva. His father, Antoine-Alexandre Giron, was a Catholic from Spain, who came to Switzerland via Sardinia. His mother, Marie Henriod, was a Huguenot from Neuchâtel. Initially, he was apprenticed to an Overglaze decoration, enameler, but decided to become an artist instead. He began by taking lessons from François Diday and Barthélemy Menn in Geneva. In 1872, he went to Paris, where he frequented the Hôtel de Nice, a boarding house on the that was home to some painters from Switzerland. Later, he shared several studios with Max Leenhardt. His first exhibition at the Salon (Paris), Salon came in 1876 and consisted mostly of landscapes. Eventually, he found a position in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts. During his time in France ...
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Giron, France
Giron () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Geography Climate Giron has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Giron is . The average annual rainfall is with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Giron was on 13 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 12 January 1987. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Ain
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Kiruna
(; se, Giron ; fi, Kiiruna ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The city was originally built in the 1890s to serve the Kiruna Mine. The Esrange Space Center was established in Kiruna in the 1960s. Also in Kiruna are the Institute of Space Physics (Sweden), Institute of Space Physics and Luleå University of Technology's Department of Space Science. History Origins Archaeological findings have shown that the region around Kiruna has been inhabited for at least 6,000 years. Centuries before Kiruna was founded in 1900, the presence of iron ore at Kiirunavaara and Luossavaara had been known by the local Sami people, Sami population. In 1696, Samuel Mört, a bookkeeper of the Kengis works, wrote on rumours about the presence of iron in the two hills.Kummu 1997, p. 96. The ore became b ...
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Playa Girón
:''Note: "Playa Girón" is also the title of a song included in the album " Días y Flores", by Silvio Rodriguez.'' Playa Girón (; "Girón beach") is a beach and village on the east bank of the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), which is located in the province of Matanzas, on the southern coast of Cuba. It is part of the municipality of Ciénaga de Zapata. Geography Playa Girón is located in one of the largest wetlands in the world, the Ciénaga de Zapata (Zapata Swamp). The adjoining village of Girón was named after the notorious French pirate Gilberto Giron (c.1604). History Bay of Pigs Invasion In April 1961, Playa Girón was one of two landing sites for seaborne forces of about 1,500 armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA-sponsored attempt to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Over 72 hours, fighting took place in many parts of the Cienaga de Zapata, Playa Girón being the last remaining area occupied by the inva ...
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Girón, Azuay
Girón is a town and parish in Azuay Province, Ecuador. The town has 3,518 residents, and the Girón Canton as a whole has 12,583 residents. History Girón was initially occupied by the Leoquina culture. During the Inca Empire, the area was known as Pacaybamba, meaning guava tree valley. The name Girón was given to the city by Captain Francisco Hernández Girón during his stay there in 1534. The exact date of the city's founding is unknown, as the relevant documents have been lost. When the Spanish built ranches on the land, its indigenous inhabitants moved away into the surrounding countryside and mountains. During the colonial era, land was concentrated in the hands of the rich, and there was a high level of social stratification."Reseña histórica"
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