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Merce Rodoreda
Merce, Mercè or Merče may refer to: People * Mercè Boada Rovira (born 1948), Catalan neurologist * Mercè Bonell (), Andorran politician * Mercè Canela (born 1956), Catalan writer and translator * Mercè Foradada (born 1947), Spanish writer * Mercè Prat i Prat (1880–1936), Spanish beatified Roman Catholic nun and martyr * Mercè Rodoreda (1908–1983), Spanish novelist * nickname of Mercier Merce Cunningham (1919–2009), American dancer and choreographer * nickname of Mercer Reynolds (born 1945), American businessman * José Mercé (born 1955), Spanish flamenco singer born José Soto Soto Other uses * Merče, a village in Slovenia * La Mercè, an annual festival in Barcelona, Spain See also * Mercês (other) Mercês can refer to: * Mercês (Minas Gerais), a place in Brazil * Mercês (Lisbon), a place in Portugal * Merces (Goa) Mercês is a neighborhood located in the northeastern part of the city of Panaji, capital of the Indian state of Goa. It is ... {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercè Boada Rovira
Mercè Boada y Rovira (born Barcelona, 14 October 1948) is a Catalonia, Catalan Neurology, neurologist. She has dedicated her professional career to Neurodegeneration, neurodegenerative diseases. More specifically, dementia and Alzheimer's disease. She was a co-founder of the ACE Foundation, a private non-profit entity dedicated to diagnosis, treatment, research, and helping people with Alzheimer's and their families. Boada received the "Creu de Sant Jordi", Catalonia's highest honor, in 2016. Career Boada, who received a doctorate in medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, has focused her professional activity in the field of dementia, especially Alzheimer's disease, and has specialized in research on biomarkers and signaling proteins for this disease, the genetic and environmental factors involved in its appearance, and the application of therapeutic models of cognitive psychostimulation. She has been the founder and medical director of the ACE Foundation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercè Bonell
Mercè Bonell i Bertran is an Andorran politician. She became the first female member of the General Council after replacing a councilor on 20 November 1984, an office she held until 1986. She was member of the Liberal Party of Andorra. She was a pioneer for Andorran women in politics. Mercè Bonell was appointed to replace a councilor in the General Council in 1984, just eleven years after women had become elibile in Andorra in 1973, and fourteen years after the introduction of women's suffrage in 1970. Since she was appointed, she was not the first woman elected: that was Maria Teresa Armengol Bonet Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ... in 1986. Women were rare in the Andorran General Council until the election of 2005. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercè Canela
Mercè Canela (born 1956, Sant Guim de Freixenet, la Segarra) is a Catalan writer and translator. She studied archaeology in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where she worked as a librarian later before she went to Brussels to work as a documentalist in the European Union. She started writing when she was very young, and she considers herself basically a writer. In 1976, the publishing house La Galera published one of her books for teenagers ''De qui és el bosc?'', and she won the Josep M. Folch i Torres award with ''L'escarabat verd''. She published several children's and teenagers' novels later and she has won several prizes for them. In 1984, she was included in the Honour List of IBBY with ''Asperú, joglar embruixat''. She has translated to Catalan several works in German, French and Italian. Besides, she published: ''Un passeig pel Poble Espanyol'' (Beta, Barcelona, 1998), a book which explains the history of Poble Espanyol, in Montjuïc, in Barcelona. In 1980, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercè Foradada
Mercè Foradada ( Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona; January 16, 1947) is a Spanish writer who was a teacher of the Catalan language. In her creative corpus, the main characters are mostly women. Her first published work was ''En el prestatge'' and was released in 2002, after winning the 2001 Don.na award. This first work, as the author recognized, has some autobiographical characteristics and approaches the figure of a woman who has to face a change in his life after overcoming 50 years. Later, in 2003, she published the narrative work ''Velles, amb V de vida'' with Edicions 62 and delves into the memories of the life of ten old woman. Foradada published ''Bruixes'' with Cossetània Edicions in 2011 and was awarded with 23rd Juan Sebastian Arbó award by the city of Sant Carles de la Ràpita. The book is a plea for freedom of spirit. The argument is based on the witch-hunts of the seventeenth century and the lost children of Francoism The lost children of Francoism (; ; ) we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercè Prat I Prat
Mercè Prat i Prat (6 March 1880 - 24 July 1936) was a Spanish member of the ''Societatis Sanctae Teresiae a Iesu''. With her entering a Teresian congregation she assumed the religious name of ''Maria Mercè of the Sacred Heart''. She was killed during the Spanish Civil War on the charge of being a religious sister. Pope John Paul II beatified her on 29 April 1990 in Saint Peter's Square. Life Mercè Prat i Prat was born on 6 March 1880 in Barcelona as the eldest of four children to Juan Prat i Serra and Teresa Prat i Bordoy. She was baptized on 7 March and received her First Communion on 30 June 1890. She attended Mass on a frequent basis as a child and excelled in painting as well as needlework. Prat had to fend for herself and her siblings after the death of her father in 1895 and the death of her mother not long after in 1896. Prat travelled to Tortosa in 1904 and entered the Teresian Sisters while commencing her novitiate on 27 August. Prat was vested in the habit on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (; 10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983) was a Catalan novelist. She is considered the most influential contemporary Catalan language writer, as evidenced by the references of other authors in her work and the international repercussion, with translations into more than thirty languages. She also has been called the most important Catalan female novelist of the postwar period. Her novel ''La plaça del diamant'' ('The diamond square', translated as '' The Time of the Doves'', 1962) has become the most popular Catalan novel to date and has been translated into over 30 languages. Some critics consider it to be one of the best novels published in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. After her death, one more of her artistic aspects was discovered, painting, which had remained in the background due to the importance that Rodoreda gave to writing: Biography Childhood (1908-1921) Mercè Rosa Rodoreda i Gurguí was born on October 10, 1908, at 340 ''carrer de B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merce Cunningham
Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years. He frequently collaborated with artists of other disciplines, including musicians John Cage, David Tudor, Brian Eno, and graphic artists Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and Jasper Johns; and fashion designer Rei Kawakubo. Works that he produced with these artists had a profound impact on avant-garde art beyond the world of dance. As a choreographer, teacher, and leader of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Cunningham had a profound influence on modern dance. Many dancers who trained with Cunningham formed their own companies. They include Paul Taylor, Remy Charlip, Viola Farber, Charles Moulton, Karole Armitage, Deborah Hay, Robert Kovich, Foofwa d'Imobilité, Kimberly Bartosik, Flo Ankah, Jan Van Dyke, Jonah Bokaer, and Alice Reyes. In 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercer Reynolds
Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III (born June 17, 1945) is an American businessman. He was the finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's presidential campaign. Education and early career Reynolds, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. After serving briefly in the United States Army (1968–1969), he worked for Coca-Cola for ten years. Career In 1979, Reynolds and business partner William DeWitt founded the investment firm Reynolds, DeWitt & Co.; he was its co-chair until 2001. Reynolds' other business ventures included Spectrum 7, an oil company which he co-chaired from 1980 to 1985 and which, in 1984 merged with the struggling firm Arbusto Energy, which was owned by George W. Bush. Reynolds was later an investor with Bush in the Texas Rangers baseball team. From 1985 to 2001, he was CEO of Reynolds Plantation, a gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Mercé
José Mercé (born José Soto Soto in 1955 in Jerez de la Frontera) is a Spanish flamenco singer. As a 12-year-old he performed at flamenco festivals. Later he moved to Madrid where he recorded his first album in 1968. Family He is the great-grandson of nineteenth-century seguiriya maestro Francisco Valencia, whose nickname was Paco la Luz. He is also the nephew of Manuel Soto Sordera, the patriarch of Jerez flamenco. Mercé's nickname comes from his participation in the choir of the Basilica de la Merced when he was a boy.Sevilla, Diario de""Se puede innovar si no se desvirtúan los cantes"" ''diariodejerez.es''. Production The youthful Mercé became one of the most sought-after singers for accompanying dance, and he has worked with the Trío Madrid, formed by Mario Maya, El Güito and Carmen Mora. From 1973 to 1983 he joined the company of Antonio Gades, with which he travelled half-way around half the world and took part in the film ''Bodas de Sangre'', by Carlos Saur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merče
Merče ( or ; it, Merciano) is a village in the Municipality of Sežana in the Littoral region of Slovenia. The local church is dedicated to Saint Andrew Andrew the Apostle ( grc-koi, Ἀνδρέᾱς, Andréās ; la, Andrēās ; , syc, ܐܰܢܕ݁ܪܶܐܘܳܣ, ʾAnd’reʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Simon Peter ... and belongs to the Parish of Povir. References External links *Merče on Geopedia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mercè
La Mercè () is the annual festival ( ca, festa major) of the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It has been an official city holiday since 1871, when the local government first organized a program of special activities to observe the Roman Catholic feast day of Our Lady of Mercy, ''La Mare de Déu de la Mercè'' in Catalan language, Catalan. Although the actual feast day is September 24, the festivities begin a few days beforehand. Some of the most important features of the festival were introduced in the year 1902, when parades included papier maché “giants” known as ''gigantes y cabezudos, gegants i capgrossos'' and a popular dance from Empordà that was becoming popular throughout Catalonia: the ''Sardana''. The holiday has enjoyed immense local popularity ever since. Among more recently introduced traditions are the annual Catalan Wine Fair, a special ''correfoc'', a 10 km race and the pyro-musical, a display featuring synchronized fireworks, water fountains and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercês (other)
Mercês can refer to: * Mercês (Minas Gerais), a place in Brazil * Mercês (Lisbon), a place in Portugal * Merces (Goa) Mercês is a neighborhood located in the northeastern part of the city of Panaji, capital of the Indian state of Goa. It is completely located on the island of Tiswadi, one of the talukas in the state of Goa. It is located between the Mandovi Ri ..., a locality besides Panaji, Tiswadi in Goa, India * Merces (Vasai), a locality besides Mumbai(Bombay), Thane in Maharashtra, India {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
