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Pombo is a Galician surname. Notable people with the name include: * Harry "Pombo" Villegas (1940–2019), Cuban revolutionary * Richard Pombo (born 1961), American politician * Rafael Pombo (1833–1912), Colombian poet * Arsenio Linares y Pombo (1848–1914), Spanish military and government official * Gabriel Pombo (born 1961), Uruguayan writer and lawyer, who is known for his books, essays and interviews relating to serial murderers * Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (10 June 183818 April 1919) was a Colombian historian, translator, and genealogist. Early life and education Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo was born in Buenaventura, 10 June 1838. Her parents were José María Die ... (1838–1919), Colombian historian, translator, genealogist See also * Pombas {{Dove-surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry "Pombo" Villegas
Harry "Pombo" Villegas (10 May 1940 – 29 December 2019) was a Cuban communist guerrilla. He was born in Yara and was a descendant of African slaves. He fought alongside Che Guevara in battles from the Sierra Maestra to the Bolivian insurgency. From 1977 to 1979, and again from 1981 to 1988, Villegas was part of the leadership of Cuba's volunteer military mission in Angola, fighting alongside Angolan and Namibian forces against aggression by South Africa's apartheid regime. Villegas was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1997 to 2011, a deputy of Cuba's National Assembly, and executive vice president of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution. Villegas was also a published writer. He died aged 79 in Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pombo
Richard William Pombo, GOIH (born January 8, 1961) is an American lobbyist for mining and water-management companies and former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, having represented California's 11th congressional district from 1993 to 2007. Pombo lost a reelection bid to Democratic challenger Jerry McNerney on November 7, 2006. On January 4, 2010, Pombo announced his candidacy for Congress in California's 19th congressional district to succeed retiring fellow Republican George Radanovich, although he did not live in the district.Paul RogersEnvironmentalists' nemesis Richard Pombo returns to politics ''San Jose Mercury News'', May 31, 2010, retrieved June 1, 2010 Pombo came in third in that four-way GOP race, with 20.8 percent of the votes. Early life and career Pombo was born in Tracy, California, 18 miles south of Stockton. He attended Cal Poly, Pomona, for three years before dropping out to work for his family's cattle and dairy business. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Pombo
José Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo (November 7, 1833 – May 5, 1912) was a Colombian poet born in Bogotá. Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military school, Rafael Pombo served in the army and he traveled to the United States of America as Secretary of the Legation in Washington. After completing his diplomatic assignment, he was hired by D. Appleton & Company in New York to translate into Spanish nursery rhymes from the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition. The product of this work, more than a translation, was a transformative adaptation published in two books under the titles ''Cuentos pintados para niños'' and ''Cuentos morales para niños formales''. In spite of his extensive and diverse literary works, Rafael Pombo is mostly remembered for this contribution to children's literature. Among his most popular children's fables are ''Michín'', ''Juan Chunguero'', ''Pastorcita'', '' La Pobre Viejecita'', '' Simón el Bobito'', ''El Gato Bandido'', and ''El Renacuajo pasead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsenio Linares Y Pombo
Arsenio Linares y Pombo (22 October 1848 – 7 August 1914) was a Spanish military officer and government official. Born in Valencia, he earned the rank of lieutenant in 1868 and participated in operations against rebellions in Cuba, and in the Carlist Wars on mainland Spain putting down rebellions by Basque separatists. He occupied posts in the Philippines, Madrid, and Melilla, and later returned to Cuba. Linares described himself as passionately loyal to King Alfonso XIII. He was an antisemite and a white supremacist, in his memoirs (published 1906) he made numerous disparaging remarks about Jewish people as well as people of African descent.Discurso pronunciado por ... Arsenio Linares Pombo en la sesión del Senado del día 7 de febrero de 1906 consumiendo el primer turno en contra de la totalidad del dictamen sobre el Proyecto de ley de represión de los delitos contra la Patria y el Ejército by Arsenio Linares y Pombo, 1906 Ideologically Linares said he was opposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Pombo
Gabriel Antonio Pombo (born 11 October 1961 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan writer and lawyer, who is known for his books, essays and interviews relating to serial murderers, and particularly about the famous case of Jack the Ripper, the mysterious and never discovered murderer of London. Gabriel Pombo even wrote a humorous short story fiction, which tells how, during a foggy night a very confused Jack the Ripper mistakenly entered the offices of Scotland Yard believing that was a tavern A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging. An inn is a tavern that h .... Profile He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Uruguay (Montevideo) in 1988, and thereafter exercised their profession independently. Since 2006, he participated as an exhibitor of legal, historical, pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarita Diez-Colunje Y Pombo
Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (10 June 183818 April 1919) was a Colombian historian, translator, and genealogist. Early life and education Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo was born in Buenaventura, 10 June 1838. Her parents were José María Diez-Colunje Caballero, a native of Panama, and Natalia Pombo O'Donnell,Quintero Guzmán, Miguel Wenceslao (2006), p. 1361 niece of Enrique O'Donnell, Conde de La Bisbal,Alonso de Cadenas y López, Ampelio (2012), p. 509 and cousin of Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan and 1st Count of Lucena,Alonso de Cadenas y López, Ampelio (2012), p. 969De Burgos, Augusto (1860), p. 129 and I Conde de Lucena.Alonso de Cadenas y López, Ampelio (2012), p. 547 She was born in Buenaventura because her father was working at the time as a customs administrator in that city.Prado Arellano, Luis Ervin, y Prado Valencia, David Fernando (2017), p. 39 Her baptismal godparents were her cousin, Julio Arboleda Pombo, and María Josefa Mallarino de Holguín,Arag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
