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Moncada (family)
Moncada can refer to: Places * Moncada, Tarlac, a municipality (3rd class) in the Philippines * Moncada, Valencia, a municipality in Spain ** Moncada, a community of Santiago de Cuba ** Moncada Barracks, named after Guillermon, notably attacked in 1953 at the start of the Cuban Revolution *** Moncada (novel) ''(Moncada, premier combat de Fidel Castro)'', a 1965 novel by Robert Merle **Estadio Guillermón Moncada, stadium named in his honour * La Moncada, a small town in the municipality of Tarimoro, Guanajuato, Mexico * in Caltanissetta, Sicily People * Eduardo Hernández Moncada (1899–1995), Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor * Freddy Moncada (born 1973), Colombian road cyclist * Gerardo Moncada (cyclist) (born 1962), Colombian road cyclist * Gerardo Moncada (footballer) (born 1949), Colombian former footballer * Guillermon Moncada, a Cuban general and folkhero * Jesús Moncada (1941–2005), writer in Catalan * José María Moncada, (1870–1945), former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moncada, Tarlac
Moncada, officially the Municipality of Moncada ( pag, Baley na Moncada; ilo, Ili ti Moncada; tl, Bayan ng Moncada), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 62,819 people. The economy is primarily based on agriculture with rice, corn, vegetables, root crops, watermelons, and mangoes as major products. The fishery sector, once a vibrant source of food and income, needs rehabilitation after the onslaught of lahar flows resulting from the Mount Pinatubo eruption. There is a growing retail and service sector in the poblacion along the national highway. Light industries are yet to evolve in the municipality to generate much needed employment. Ilocano, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan are commonly spoken, with Tagalog and English as official languages used for secondary education, business and governance. Moncada is from Manila and is from the provincial capital, Tarlac City. It is accessible via th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddy Moncada
Fredy Alonso Moncada Torres (born 10 November 1973 in Vélez, Santander) is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia. He won stages in the 1997 Vuelta a Colombia and the 2000 Vuelta a Venezuela The 37th edition of the annual Vuelta a Venezuela was held from October 17 to October 29, 2000. The stage race started in San Fernando, and ended in San Cristóbal. Stages 2000-10-17: San Fernando — San Fernando (129 km) 2000-10-18: C .... References * 1973 births Living people Colombian male cyclists Vuelta a Colombia stage winners Vuelta a Venezuela stage winners Sportspeople from Santander Department 20th-century Colombian people {{Colombia-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Moncada
Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta (born 13 June 1959) is a Venezuelan politician and diplomat currently serving as Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations since 2017 and formerly served as Alternate Representative of Venezuela to the Organization of American States from 2017 to 2019. He was Venezuela's deputy foreign minister until June 2017, when he succeeded Delcy Rodriguez as Venezuela's Foreign Minister. On August 2, 2017, following the 2017 Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, President Nicolás Maduro appointed former Vice President Jorge Arreaza to replace Moncada as the new Foreign Affairs Minister. Biography Moncada graduated in history at the Central University of Venezuela. Between 2004 and 2006, he was Minister of Higher Education of President Hugo Chavez and director of the History School of the Central University of Venezuela. Moncada was Ambassador of Venezuela to the United Nations in 2013. He also was Venezuela's ambassador to the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvador Moncada
Sir Salvador Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FMedSci (born 3 December 1944) is a Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor. He is currently Research Domain Director for Cancer at the University of Manchester. In the past, he was the Research Director of the Wellcome Research Laboratories from 1986 to 1995 and, until recently, the Director of the UCL Wolfson Institute, which he established at University College London in 1996. His research interests include inflammation and vascular biology and he is currently working on the regulation of cell proliferation. He gained fame for his discoveries related to nitric oxide function and metabolism, and his exclusion from the 1996 Lasker Award and the 1998 Nobel Prize in medicine. Early life and education Moncada was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to Salvador Moncada and Jenny Seidner on 3 December 1944, and moved to El Salvador in 1948. He studied medicine at the Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de El Salvador from 1962 to 1970. In 1971 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Moncada
José María Moncada Tapia (8 December 1870 – 23 February 1945) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1929 to 1 January 1933. Political career Born to a wealthy family of Spanish and German descent, Moncada rose to fame as one of the principal Conservative generals responsible for the overthrow of the Liberal dictator José Santos Zelaya in 1910. He had begun his career in Nicaraguan politics as a journalist for a Conservative newspaper published in Granada. During the Zelaya dictatorship, Moncada published a pro-government newspaper, but by 1906 he had fallen out with the dictator and had fled to Honduras. There he served as undersecretary of the interior until the Conservative revolt against Zelaya began. After Zelaya's ouster, Moncada served as secretary of the interior in the Conservative government from 1910 to 1911. Moncada, however, fell out with the Conservatives and switched his allegiance to the Liberal Party. Moncada was a member of the ''Liberal Party''. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesús Moncada
Jesús Moncada i Estruga (; Mequinenza, 1941 – Barcelona, 13 June 2005) was a narrator and translator. His work is a re-creation, somewhere between realism and fantasy, of the mythical past of the old town of Mequinenza -now submerged beneath the waters of the river Ebro-. Considered one of the most important Catalan authors of his time, he received various prizes for his work, among them the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona and the Premio Nacional de la Crítica in 1989 for ''Camí de sirga'' (''The Towpath'') and the Creu de Sant Jordi, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2001. In 2004—a few months before his death—he received the Premio de las Letras Aragonesas. Moncada is one of the most translated authors of Catalan literature. ''Camí de sirga'' has been translated into fifteen languages, among them Japanese and Vietnamese. He also translated into Catalan many Spanish, French, and English works of authors such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Alexandre Dumas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillermon Moncada
Guillermo Moncada (nicknamed "Guillermón" since his childhood, due to his large size) was one of 29 Cuban generals in the Cuban War of Independence. He was born in Santiago de Cuba, Santiago, Cuba, on June 25, 1841. A former carpenter, he later became a black folk hero, renowned for ending the business of slave trader, slavehunter Miguel Pérez Céspedes. His father, Narciso Veranes, was a freed slave and did not want his children have his name, so Guillermó took his mother's last name, Dominga Moncada. He learnt to read and write when he was a child and later turn out to be a writer. He became a carpenter, a job with which he could earn money for his living. Activities in Revolution Guillermo Moncada, could improve in the Cuban Revolution and fought for independence. He became a notable black officer in three wars against Spain (1868–1878, 1879–1880, 1895–1898). José Martí appointed him head of the easternmost province of the country during the preparation of the Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerardo Moncada (footballer)
Gerardo Moncada (born 27 May 1949) is a Colombian former footballer who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... References 1949 births Living people Men's association football defenders Colombian footballers Olympic footballers for Colombia Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Atlético Nacional footballers {{Colombia-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerardo Moncada (cyclist)
Gerardo Moncada Guiza (born July 25, 1962 in Chipatá) is a Colombian former road cyclist, who was a professional from 1986 to 1994. Major results ;1981 : 1st Overall Vuelta de la Juventud de Colombia ;1989 : 9th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme ;1993 : 6th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ::1st Stage 2 Grand Tour general classification results timeline References * 1962 births Living people Colombian male cyclists Vuelta a Colombia stage winners Sportspeople from Santander Department 20th-century Colombian people {{Colombia-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Hernández Moncada
Eduardo Hernández Moncada (September 24, 1899 – December 31, 1995) was a Mexican composer, pianist, and conductor. He is one of the essential musicians representative of the Nationalist Movement of the Post-Revolutionary years in Mexico. His music strives for a balance between modern influence and folk roots. His compositions include orchestral music, opera, ballet and film scores. Biography Born in Xalapa, Veracruz, son of a clarinetist. Hernández Moncada started piano lessons at an early age and at 19 moved to Mexico City to enter the National Conservatory. While still in school, he was hired to provide piano accompaniment to silent films playing at a local movie theater. In 1925 he married Teresa de Anda, an opera singer. While working in the movie theater, he met Carlos Chávez, and they began a long friendship. In 1929, Chávez invited Hernández to join the Mexican Symphony Orchestra as pianist, at the same time Silvestre Revueltas became assistant conductor. When Revue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moncada, Valencia
Moncada is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Horta Nord in the Valencian Community, Spain. Place names On the official writings in Latin ''Monscatanus'' was used, from ''mons'' ('mountain') and Celtic ''catanus'' ('juniper'?), making ''Montcada'' the correct original spelling and Moncada a vulgarization of the name. However, officially the town's name is written ''Moncada'',Moncada i CIVIS: Municipal Information System of the Generalitat Valenciana but also in accept dual ''Montcada/Moncada'' denomination, as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta (; scn, Nissa or ) is a ''comune'' in the central interior of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Caltanissetta. Its inhabitants are called ''Nisseni''. In 2017, the city had a population of 62,797. It is the 14th largest ''comune'' in Italy measured by area, the sixth highest ''comune'' in Italy by elevation (568 m), the second highest elevation in Sicily after the city of Enna (912 m). Its patron saint is Archangel Michael. Geography The town lies in an area of rolling hills with small villages and towns, crossed by the river Salso. It borders on the municipalities of Canicattì, Delia, Enna, Marianopoli, Mazzarino, Mussomeli, Naro, Petralia Sottana, Pietraperzia, San Cataldo, Santa Caterina Villarmosa, Serradifalco and Sommatino. Its ''frazioni'' are the villages of Bifaria, Borgo Petilia, Borgo Canicassè Casale, Cozzo di Naro, Favarella, Prestianni, Villaggio Santa Barbara, Santa Rita and Xirbi. Territory Caltanissetta dominate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
