|
Mencía De Mendoza Y Figueroa '', moth species
{{dab, given name ...
Mencía is a feminine given name of Spanish origin, as well as a surname. It may refer to: People * Aída Mencía Ripley, Dominican scientist * Mencía Calderón (1514–1564), Spanish noble lady and expeditionary woman * Mencía López de Haro (1215–1270), Castilian noblewoman, Queen consort of Portugal * Mencía de Mendoza (1508–1554), Dutch culture patron * Carlos Mencía (b. 1967), American comedian of Honduran origin * María Mencía, Spanish artist and researcher Other uses * Mencía (grape), grape variety from Spain * Doña Mencía, Córdoba, Spain * Mind of Mencia, TV show * ''Epicopeia mencia ''Epicopeia mencia'' is a moth in the family Epicopeiidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1875. It is found in China, Vietnam, Korea, the Russian Far East, Japan and Taiwan. The wingspan is about 60 mm. Adults can be distinguished fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aída Mencía Ripley
Aída Teresa Mencía Ripley is an academic from the Dominican Republic. She is currently Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation and UNESCO Chairholder in Intersectional Gender Studies in Education and Psychology at Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Universidad Iberoamericana of the Dominican Republic (UNIBE). She was born in Santo Domingo and raised in New York City (Queens). She is the daughter of Aída Ripley Gómez (the daughter of Dominican hall of fame sportsman :es:Enrique_Ripley_Marín#Biograf%C3%ADa, Enrique Ripley Marín and former corporate lawyer Aída Gómez Rueda ) and Rafael Mencía Ochoa. She is the niece of artist Geo Ripley. Her paternal grandfather was Dominican diplomat Rafael Mencía Lister. Education and career Mencía-Ripley graduated summa cum laude from St. John's University (New York City), St. John's University with a B.A. in psychology and a minor in philosophy. She earned an M.A. from the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mencía Calderón
{{Infobox noble, type , name = Mencía Calderón y Ocampo , title = Adelantada of the New World , image = File:Calderon (escudo de armas).png , caption = Coat of Arms belonging to his paternal surname , alt = , CoA = , more = no , succession = , reign = , reign-type = , predecessor = , successor = , suc-type = , spouse = Juan de Sanabria y Alonso de Hinojosa , spouse-type = , issue = , issue-link = , issue-pipe = , full name = , styles = , titles = , noble family = , house-type = , father = Alonso Calderón , mother = Ana Ocampo , birth_date = 1514 , birth_place = Extremadura, Spain , christening_date = , christening_place = , death_date = c.1564 , death_place = As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mécia Lopes De Haro
Mécia Lopes de Haro or Mencía López de Haro (c.1215–1270) was a Castilian noblewoman, the wife successively of count Álvaro Pérez de Castro and of King Sancho II of Portugal. The subsequent annulment of her marriage by Pope Innocent IV has led to disagreement over whether she should be counted among the queens consort of Portugal. She played a central role in the Portuguese political crisis of 1245. Birth Mécia Lopes was born in Biscay, the daughter of Lope Díaz II de Haro, lord of Biscay, and of Urraca Alfonso of León. Her mother was an illegitimate daughter of Alfonso IX of León. She was thus niece of the reigning king, Ferdinand III of Castile. First Marriage Mécia was married on 29 September 1234 to Álvaro Pérez de Castro, a magnate involved in the expansion of the Castilian kingdom into the region of Cordoba, whose first marriage to Aurembiaix, Countess of Urgell had been annulled in 1228,LA FIGANIÈRE, Frederico Francisco de, ''Memorias das rainhas de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mencía De Mendoza
Mencía de Mendoza y Fonseca (30 November 1508 - 4 January 1554) was a Dutch culture patron. She was a leading figure of the Renaissance in the Netherlands and known for her progressive opinions of the education of women. Life Mencía was the daughter of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Cenete and María de Fonseca y Toledo. She married firstly Henry III of Nassau-Breda in 1524, a marriage which encouraged by the reigning monarch, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, who was actively working on a plan to make the nobility of Spain and the Low Countries mix. Together, they ultimately had one son who was born in March 1527, and would only live a few hours after his birth. Her second marriage was to Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria in 1542. The marriage was Mencía's second, and Ferdinand's third. The couple became renowned for their patronage in literary and artistic works. References Sources * * External links * Matty Klatter, Mendoza y Fonseca, Mencía d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Mencía
Ned Arnel "Carlos" Mencía (born October 22, 1967) is a Honduran-American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race relations, Latin American culture, criminal justice, and social class. He is best known as the host of the Comedy Central show ''Mind of Mencia'' (2005–2008). Around the time of the show's cancellation, several comedians accused Mencía of plagiarism and stealing jokes. Early life Ned Arnel Mencía was born in San Pedro Sula on October 22, 1967, the son of Mexican mother Magdelena Mencía and Honduran father Roberto Holness. He has 16 older siblings and one younger sibling. At the time of his birth, his mother was engaged in a domestic dispute with his father, and she subsequently refused to give Mencía his biological father's surname. Out of respect for his father, he later began using the Holness surname anyway, and did so until the age of 18. He moved to the U.S. as a child and was raised Catholic in Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Mencía
María Mencía () is a Spanish-born media artist and researcher working as a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University in London, United Kingdom. Her artistic work is widely recognized in the field of electronic literature, and her scholarship on digital textuality has been widely published. She holds a Ph.D. in Digital Poetics and Digital Art at the Chelsea College of Arts of the University of the Arts London and studied English Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Mencía's work has been featured in galleries as installation art, presented at conferences and art festivals, published on the Internet, and included in various curated collections of electronic literature, such as ''The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1'', an anthology available on the Internet and on compact disc, edited by N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, Scott Rettberg, and Stephanie Strickland, and the ''Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mencía (grape)
Mencía, known as Jaen in Portugal, is a grape variety native to the western part of the Iberian Peninsula. In Spain, it is planted on over , with another in neighboring Portugal. It is primarily found in the Bierzo, Ribeira Sacra, Valdeorras, Monterrei and Dão wine regions. Most wines produced from Mencía have traditionally been light, pale, relatively fragrant red wines for early consumption. This style of wine was the result of post-Phylloxera plantations on fertile plains, which tended to give high yields but diluted wine. In recent years, much more concentrated and complex wines have been produced by a new generation of winemakers, primarily from old vines growing on hillsides, often on schist soils, in combination with careful vineyard management. This has led to a renewed interest in Mencía and the denominaciones de origens using it, such as Bierzo, Valdeorras, Ribeira Sacra, Monterrei and the little-known Liébana. Since the 1990s, the grape is increasing in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doña Mencía
Doña Mencía is a city located in the province of Córdoba, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (other) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (other) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...), the city has a population of 5001. References External linksDoña Mencía- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía Municipalities in the Province of Córdoba (Spain) {{Andalusia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mind Of Mencia
''Mind of Mencia'' is an American comedy television series on the cable channel Comedy Central. Hosted by comedian Carlos Mencia, it aired from July 6, 2005 to July 23, 2008. History The first season of ''Mind of Mencia'' ran from July 6, 2005 to September 28, 2005, premiering on Comedy Central with an initial order of ten episodes. Soon after that the series was renewed for a second season, set to air in winter of 2006. Season 2 premiered on March 22, 2006. The first season was released on DVD on March 21, 2006 to coincide with the premiere. The second season became Comedy Central's ninth highest rated program. In a May 2006 ''Wall Street Journal'' article, Mencia said he initially resisted requests by his network to take a deal to do a stand-up comedy album on the Comedy Central label, but will now likely appear on one.Joe Flint"Comedy Central Corners The Laughs Business,"''The Wall Street Journal'', May 8, 2006. The series ended in 2008 after four seasons when Mencia decide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
