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Jorge
Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' had been rarely given in Western Christendom since at least the 6th century. The popularity of the name however develops from around the 12th century, in Occitan in the form ''Jordi'', and it becomes popular at European courts after the publication of the ''Golden Legend'' in the 1260s. The West Iberian form ''Jorge'' is on record as the name of Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (1481–1550). List of people with the given name Jorge * Jorge (footballer, born 1946), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (Brazilian singer), Brazilian musician and singer, Jorge & Mateus * Jorge (Romanian singer), real name George Papagheorghe, Romanian singer, actor, TV host * Jorge Betancourt, Cuban diver * Jorge Campos, Mexican football player * Jorge Cantú, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Papagheorghe
George Papagheorghe (born 22 June 1982, in Constanța) a.k.a. Jorge and at times GEØRGE is a Romanian singer, dancer and TV host, specially for the talent competition ''România dansează'' on Antena 1 starting 2013. Career Beginnings George Papagheorghe was born in Constanța on the Black Sea in an artistic family as his father was a well known celebrity performing in social gatherings, bars and at weddings in Macedonia. He performed at school while 11 in classical opera pieces accompanied by piano. After graduation, he specialized in management at Academia de Studii Economice in Bucarest. Musical career In band Cocktail He was cast by Media Pro Music when he was 20 to be in a musical band called Cocktail in 2002 with other members being Mihai Dăscălescu, Sandrina Agape, Raluca Coman, și Teodora Vasu and in 2003 took his band to the Romanian version of ''Popstars'' broadcast on Pro TV. They won the series with their song "Până-n zori" collecting 212 points. The band re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge (Romanian Singer)
George Papagheorghe (born 22 June 1982, in Constanța) a.k.a. Jorge and at times GEØRGE is a Romanian singer, dancer and TV host, specially for the talent competition ''România dansează'' on Antena 1 starting 2013. Career Beginnings George Papagheorghe was born in Constanța on the Black Sea in an artistic family as his father was a well known celebrity performing in social gatherings, bars and at weddings in Macedonia. He performed at school while 11 in classical opera pieces accompanied by piano. After graduation, he specialized in management at Academia de Studii Economice in Bucarest. Musical career In band Cocktail He was cast by Media Pro Music when he was 20 to be in a musical band called Cocktail in 2002 with other members being Mihai Dăscălescu, Sandrina Agape, Raluca Coman, și Teodora Vasu and in 2003 took his band to the Romanian version of ''Popstars'' broadcast on Pro TV. They won the series with their song "Până-n zori" collecting 212 points. The band rel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Cimadevilla
Jorge Cimadevilla (born November 11, 1965) is a former American football placekicker who played seven seasons in the Arena Football League The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in ... with the Orlando Predators, Tampa Bay Storm and Nashville Kats. He played college football at East Tennessee State University. References External linksJust Sports Stats {{DEFAULTSORT:Cimadevilla, Jorge Living people 1965 births Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state) American football placekickers East Tennessee State Buccaneers football players Orlando Predators players Tampa Bay Storm players Nashville Kats players People from Decatur, Georgia Sportspeople from DeKalb County, Georgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Enrique Adoum
Jorge Enrique Adoum (June 29, 1926 in Ambato – July 3, 2009 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. His work received such prestigious awards as the first Casa de las Américas Prize in Cuba, the most important honor in Latin American letters. Though hailed by Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda as the best poet of his generation in Latin America, Adoum’s work is unknown in the English-speaking world. Biography Jorge Enrique Adoum was born in Ambato, Ecuador in 1926 of Lebanese descent. He wrote close to 30 books and 3 novels. Adoum's father was Jorge Elías Francisco Adoum (1897-1958), and his mother was Juana Auad Barciona (died 1953). His father Francisco Adoum was Lebanese and migrated to Ecuador where he made Arabic-to-Spanish translations, painted, sculpted, composed music, practiced natural medicine, and wrote more than 40 volumes on occult sciences and masonry which he published u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala (23 January 1903 – 9 April 1948) was a left-wing Colombian politician and charismatic leader of the Liberal Party. He served as the mayor of Bogotá from 1936–37, the national Education Minister from 1940–41, and the Labor Minister from 1943–44. He was assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the '' Bogotazo'' and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history known as '' La Violencia'' (approx. 1948 to 1958). Early life and education Born in Bogotá to parents who were rank-and-file members of the Liberal Party, Gaitán and his family had a tenuous hold in the middle class. His birth date is given variously as 1898 and 1903. Gaitán was born in a house in Las Cruces, a neighborhood situated in the center of Bogotá, Colombia. The house has a plaque commemorating Gaitán as a legendary caudillo. Gaitán had a humble upbringing and he was exposed to poverty growing up in a neig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Ebanks
Jorge Ebanks (born March 2, 1986), is a Cayman Islands professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Worthing Thunder The Worthing Thunder are an English professional basketball team based in Worthing, West Sussex. The Thunder compete in the National Basketball League (NBL). Founded in 1999 as the Worthing Rebels after the Worthing Bears had relocated to B ... club of the NBL. He represented the Cayman Islands national basketball team at the 2015 FIBA CBC Championship where he was his team's best scorer, passer and stealer. ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM. Retrieved 28 October 2015. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Campos
Jorge Campos Navarrete (born 15 October 1966) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. A notable player of Mexico in the 1990s and early 2000s, Campos was an eccentric player, known for his constant play outside the penalty area – often functioning as a sweeper-keeper, as well as his acrobatic, risky, and flamboyant style of goalkeeping, and his colourful playing attire. His main strengths as a goalkeeper were his leaping ability, athleticism, and speed when rushing off his line, as well as his ability to organize his defense, which enabled him to overcome his short stature. He was regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation. Campos also made for an effective striker, an uncommon example of versatility in football that is rarely seen in today's game. At times, he would start a game in goal, and transfer upfield later in the match, mostly at the club level. In total, he scored 35 goals throughout his career, scoring all but one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label= Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Cham
Jorge Gabriel Cham (Spanish: xorxe (born 1976) is an engineer-turned cartoonist, writer and producer, who writes the web comic strip ''Piled Higher and Deeper'' (''PhD Comics''). Cham was born in Panama and lives in the United States, where he started drawing ''PhD Comics'' as a graduate student at Stanford University. He has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in six published book collections. He was featured on NPR on December 20, 2010. With physicist Daniel Whiteson, he is the coauthor of ''We Have No Idea'' (2017), a book about unsolved problems in physics. In September 2018, Cham and Whiteson debuted the podcast ''Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe'', produced by iHeartMedia, in which the hosts aim to explain popular questions and complex topics about science, technology, and the universe, in the simplest way possible. Cham co-creatored the PBS Kids animated series ''Elinor Wonders Why'', which premiered in September 2020. Early life and education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Chavez
Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' had been rarely given in Western Christendom since at least the 6th century. The popularity of the name however develops from around the 12th century, in Occitan in the form ''Jordi'', and it becomes popular at European courts after the publication of the ''Golden Legend'' in the 1260s. The West Iberian form ''Jorge'' is on record as the name of Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (1481–1550). List of people with the given name Jorge * Jorge (footballer, born 1946), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (Brazilian singer), Brazilian musician and singer, Jorge & Mateus * Jorge (Romanian singer), real name George Papagheorghe, Romanian singer, actor, TV host * Jorge Betancourt, Cuban diver * Jorge Campos, Mexican football player * Jorge Cantú, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Donn
Jorge Donn (25 February 1947 in Ciudad Jardin, Buenos Aires – 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland), was an Argentine internationally known ballet dancer. He was best known for his work with Maurice Béjart's '' Ballet of the 20th Century''. He died of AIDS on 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Repertoire ; Maurice Béjart * 1964: '' Ninth Symphony'' by Beethoven (1967?) * 1966: ''Webern Opus V'', ''Roméo et Juliette'' * 1967: ''la Messe pour le temps présent'' * 1968: ''Bhakti'' * 1970: ''Serait-ce la mort?'', ''Firebird'', ''Sonate N°5'' * 1971: '' The Rite of Spring'', ''Songs of a Wayfarer'', ''Nijinsky, Clown of God'' * 1972: '' Symphony for a Lonely Man'' * 1973: ''Sonate à trois'', ''Golestan ou le jardin des roses'' * 1974: ''The Triumphs of Petrarch'', ''Ce que l'amour me dit'' * 1975: ''Notre Faust'' * 1976: ''Le Molière imaginaire'' * 1977: ''Héliogabale'', ''Petrouchka'' * 1978: ''Gaîte parisienne'', ''Ce que la mort me dit'', ''Led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Coll
Jorge Coll (born 1977/1978) is a Spanish art dealer, and the CEO of Colnaghi, one of the world's oldest art galleries and dealerships. Early life The son of a Spanish art dealer, Coll grew up in Barcelona and after finishing his studies spent four years working in his family's art dealing business. Career In 2005, in partnership with Nicolas Cortés, he founded Coll & Cortés, an art dealership based in Madrid. In 2012 they expanded and opened a gallery in London's Mayfair district. In October 2015, Coll and Cortés merged with Colnaghi, one of the world's oldest art galleries, and Jorge assumed the role of CEO. Coll and Cortés had already sold works of art to more than 40 museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre and the Prado. Colnaghi has since moved into a new custom-built gallery in St. James's in London and opened a gallery space in a townhouse in New York’'s Upper East Side led by Carlos A. Picón, formerly the curator in charge of the Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
