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La Guardia (other)
La Guardia (Italian and Spanish, 'The Guard') or variants may refer to: Places * La Guardia, Bolivia * La Guardia, Catamarca, Argentina * La Guardia, Spain * La Guardia, Pontevedra, Spain, also known as A Guarda * La Guardia de Jaén, Jaén, Spain * La Guardia, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela *Laguardia, Álava, Spain * Campo de La Guardia, a wine region in Spain * Roc de la Guàrdia (Balenyà), a mountain in Catalonia, Spain People de la Guardia * Alfredo de la Guardia (fl. 1940s), Argentine screenwriter * Bernardo de la Guardia (1900-1970), Costa Rican fencer * Ernesto de la Guardia (1904–1983), former president of Panama * Miguel de La Guardia, Spanish chemist * Ponç de la Guàrdia (1154–1188), Catalan knight * Reverter de La Guardia (died 1142 or 1144), Catalan adventurer * Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango (1899–1969), former president of Panama * Tony de la Guardia (1939–1989), Cuban administrator La Guardia * Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947), American politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Guardia, Bolivia
La Guardia is a town of 50,000 inhabitants in the Santa Cruz Department Santa Cruz () is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory. With an area of , it is slightly smaller than Japan or the US state of Montana. It is located in the e ... of Bolivia. It is the 16th most populous town in the country, and is the fastest growing town in Bolivia. External links Municipio La Guardia - Detailkarte und Bevölkerungsdaten(PDF; 756 kB) Populated places in Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia) {{SantaCruzBO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony De La Guardia
Tony de la Guardia (born Antonio de la Guardia y Font in 1939 in Havana, Cuba - 1989 in Havana, Cuba) was a Colonel in the Cuban Ministry of Interior An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry .... He worked in Fidel Castro's administration, and in 1989 was executed, convicted of cocaine trafficking. He was the son of Mario de Guardia y Curbelo and Graziella Font. He had an older brother, Mario and a twin brother, Patricio de la Guardia y Font who was sentenced to 30 years of prison in 1989, eventually being released in July 2019. References Cuban spies De la Guardia, Tony Executed Cuban people Cuban drug traffickers People executed for drug offences 20th-century executions by Cuba 1939 births 1989 deaths People from Havana People executed by Cuba by firing squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardia (other)
Guardia (Italian and Spanish, 'guard') may refer to: People *Guardia (surname), including a list of people with the name *Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900–1970), Costa Rican politician *Francisco Calderón Guardia (1906–1977), Costa Rican politician Places Argentina * Guardia Mitre, a municipality in Rio Negro Province Italy *Guardia Lombardi, a municipality in the Province of Avellino * Guardia Perticara, a municipality in the Province of Potenza *Guardia Piemontese, a municipality in the Province of Cosenza *Guardia Sanframondi, a municipality in the Province of Benevento *Villa Guardia, a municipality in the Province of Como Police and military forces *Cuerpo Guardia de Infantería, an Argentinian police force *Guardia Civil, the Spanish gendarmerie * Costa Rican Civil Guard, a former gendarmerie *Civil Guard (Peru), a gendarmery *Guardia de Asalto, the urban police force of Spain during the Second Republic *Guardia di Finanza, an Italian police force *Guardia di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarda (other)
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Guarda may refer to: * Guarda, Portugal, city in Portugal * Guarda District, the district containing that city * Roman Catholic Diocese of Guarda, Portugal, the diocese containing that city * Guarda, Switzerland, municipality in Grisons, Switzerland ** Guarda railway station, a Rhaetian Railway station * Guarda Veneta, municipality in the province of Rovigo, region of Veneto, Italy * A Guarda, municipality in the province of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain * Guarda-Mor, municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil See also *Garda (other) *Guard (other) *Guardia (other) *Guardian (other) *La Guardia (other) La Guardia (Italian and Spanish, 'The Guard') or variants may refer to: Places * La Guardia, Bolivia * La Guardia, Catamarca, Argentina * La Guardia, Spain * La Guardia, Pontevedra, Spain, also known as A Guarda * La Guardia de Jaén, Jaén, Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guard (other)
Guard or guards may refer to: Professional occupations * Bodyguard, who protects an individual from personal assault * Crossing guard, who stops traffic so pedestrians can cross the street * Lifeguard, who rescues people from drowning * Prison guard, who supervises prisoners in a prison or jail * Security guard, who protects property, assets, or people * Conductor (rail) § Train guard, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India Computing and telecommunications * Guard (computer science), in programming language, an expression that directs program execution * Guard (information security), a device for controlling communication between computer networks * Guard interval, intervals in transmission, used in telecommunications * Aircraft emergency frequency, commonly referred to as "guard" Governmental and military * Border guard, a state security agency * Coast guard, responsible for coastal defence and offshore rescue * Colour guard, a detachment of soldiers assigned to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedimma Nkemdili "Nnedi" Okorafor (formerly Okorafor-Mbachu; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer of science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. She is best known for her ''Binti Series'' and her novels ''Who Fears Death'', '' Zahrah the Windseeker'', ''Akata Witch'', ''Akata Warrior'', ''Lagoon'' and ''Remote Control.'' She has also written for comics and film. Her writing is Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism, which is heavily influenced by her dual Nigerian and American heritage. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Eisner Award and World Fantasy Award. She is considered to be among the third generation of Nigerian writers. Background and personal life Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1974 to Igbo Nigerian parents who travelled to America in 1969 to attend school but purportedly could not return to Nigeria due to the Nigerian Civil War. Okorafor is the third child in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaGuardia (comics)
''LaGuardia'' is a four-issue Africanfuturist comic book limited series by Nigerian-American writer Nnedi Okorafor and artist Tana Ford. The series was published by Dark Horse Comics imprint Berger Books from December 2018–March 2019, when it was also reprinted in a collected trade paperback format. The series takes place in the same universe as Okorafor's ''Lagoon'' and ''Binti'' trilogy. The story was inspired by Okorafor's own experience with TSA at LaGuardia Airport. In 2020, the collected trade won an Eisner Award and a Hugo Award. Plot ;Characters: *Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka *Letme Live *Citizen Raphael Nwabara *Future Citizen Lives Chukwebuka Development Reception The comic series was well received by critics scoring an average rating of 9.2 for the entire series based on 13 critic reviews aggregated by Comic Book Roundup. It received a starred review from '' Library Journal'' where Michael Dudley praised the glowing colors and found that although the cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaGuardia Community College
LaGuardia Community College is a public community college in New York City. It is in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in and part of the City University of New York. LaGuardia is named after former congressman and New York City mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia. The college offers associate degrees in the arts, sciences, and applied sciences, as well as continuing education programs. History LaGuardia Community College was founded on January 22, 1967, by a resolution of the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York, a New York State agency which was the precursor to the board of trustees of the City University of New York.Fitzpatrick, John"City University of New York"''U.S. History Encyclopedia'' The new college, originally designated "Community College Number Nine", was to be comprehensive: "The college will be oriented to the needs and interests of the community in which it is located, providing cultural activities, special services, continuing education and ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaGuardia Airport
LaGuardia Airport is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. Covering , the facility was established in 1929 and began operating as a public airport in 1939. It is named after former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The airport primarily accommodates airline service to domestic (and limited international) destinations. , it was the third-busiest airport in the New York metropolitan area, behind Kennedy and Newark airports, and the twenty-first busiest in the United States by passenger volume. The airport is located directly to the north of the Grand Central Parkway, the airport’s primary access highway. While the airport is a hub for both American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, commercial service is strictly governed by unique regulations including a curfew, a slot system, and a "perimeter rule" prohibiting most nonstop flights to or from destinations greater than . Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, LaGuardia was notable for having obsolete and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiorello H
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Fiorello may refer to: *''Fiorello!'', a Broadway musical * ''Fiorello!'' (album), a 1960 album by Oscar Peterson *Rosario Fiorello, also known as simply ''Fiorello'', Italian singer and TV host *Giuseppe Fiorello (born 1969), Italian actor of the cinema and television *Vinnie Fiorello (born 1974), American drummer, lyricist and a founding member of the ska punk band Less Than Jake *Fiorello H. La Guardia, former mayor of New York City *Fiorello Giraud (1870–1928), Italian operatic tenor *''Fiorello I'' and ''Fiorello II'', thoroughbred showjumpers ridden by Raimondo D'Inzeo Raimondo D'Inzeo (8 February 1925 – 15 November 2013) was an Italian show jumping rider, an Olympic champion and double world champion. Together with his elder brother Piero D'Inzeo, he was the first athlete to compete in eight consecutive O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laguardia (band)
Joshua Keith Ostrander (born April 8), also known as Mondo Cozmo, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is now based in Los Angeles, California. His solo music has been described as "chorus-heavy folk-rock." Biography and career Laguardia (2000–2005) Ostrander fronted the alt-rock band Laguardia from 2000 to 2005. It included Joshua Ostrander, Greg Lyons, Lee Bernstein and Michael Morpurgo and was signed to Universal Records and Republic Records released the album ''Welcome to the Middle'' in 2003 with "Holy Ghost" from the album released as a single. Ostrander's band, Laguardia, should not be confused with the famous Spanish Pop rock band La Guardia active 1983–1997 and relaunched in 2003. Eastern Conference Champions (2005–2015) Ostrander later became the front man of Eastern Conference Champions (ECC), which he started with his friend and collaborator Greg Lyons from Laguardia and Vern Zaborowski from CKY. The ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Guardia (band)
La Guardia is a Spanish pop-rock band. They were especially famous in the late 1980s and early 1990s, although they are still active today (after a hiatus). They have sold more than 2 million records. History The group was founded in Granada in 1983 by Manuel España (voice), Enrique Moreno "Conejo" (bass guitar) and Carlos Gilabert (keyboard), with the initial name of "La guardia del Cardenal Richelieu" ("Cardinal Richelieu's Guard"). They were only teenagers and they adopted this name because they used to rehearse in the afternoons after they watched ''Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'' on TV. Under this name they released a first single with techno and mod sounds. After this, Gilabert left the band, and Joaquín Almendros (guitar) and Emilio Muñoz (drums) joined it, giving birth to the band's most famous line-up. They moved to Madrid, where the Movida was still ebullient, looking for broader success, and in 1985, they recorded an EP, now as La Guardia, after winning the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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