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Rigo Sanchez
Rigo may refer to: People * Rigo 23, a Portuguese artist active in San Francisco, California * Blessed Rigo, also known as Henry of Treviso, a medieval Italian saint * Frank Rigo (c. 1868–1936), American opera director in Australia * Marek Rigo, a Slovak footballer * Ondrej Rigo, the most prolific serial killer in the history of Slovakia * Rigo Tovar, a Mexican cumbia singer * Rigoberto 'Rigo' Urán, a Colombian professional road cyclist Other * Staff (music) (from Italian usage) * Rīga, the capital of Latvia * Rigó (Hungarian) may refer to the bird Fekete rigó (''Turdus merula The common blackbird (''Turdus merula'') is a species of true thrush. It is also called the Eurasian blackbird (especially in North America, to distinguish it from the unrelated New World blackbirds), or simply the blackbird where this does not ...'') or to the pastry Rigó Jancsi {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigo 23
Rigo 23 (born Ricardo Gouveia, 1966) is a Portuguese-born American muralist, painter, and political artist. He is known in the San Francisco community for having painted a number of large, graphic "sign" murals including: ''One Tree'' next to the U.S. Route 101 on-ramp at 10th and Bryant Street, ''Innercity Home'' on a large public housing structure, ''Sky/Ground'' on a tall abandoned building at 3rd and Mission Street, and ''Extinct'' over a Shell gas station. He resides in San Francisco, California. Early life and education Rigo was born in 1966 and raised on the island of Madeira in Portugal. In his youth he joined Center for Cultural Action (CACF) in Funchal and connected with older artists. Rigo arrived in San Francisco in 1985, using the name Rigo 85. He earned a BFA degree from San Francisco Art Institute in 1991, and an MFA degree from Stanford University in 1997. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Of Treviso
Henry of Treviso (german: Heinrich von Bozen; it, italic=yes, Arrigo nricoda Bolzano) (died 1315), also known as Henry of Bolzano or Blessed Rigo, was a lay pilgrim and holy man, a German from Bolzano (Bozen), who established himself in Treviso after the death of his wife and son. There he lived in extreme poverty, subsisting on alms, the excess of which he distributed among the poor. His death was accompanied by "a popular outpouring of emotion" and he was declared the patron saint of Treviso as early as 1316, just one year after his death. In 1317 the commune tried and failed to obtain official ecclesiastical sanction for Henry’s cult. He was beatified in 1750 by Pope Benedict XIV. A Trevisan priest, Count Rambaldo degli Azzoni Avogari, published a hagiography of him in 1760.''De B. Henrico qui Tarvisii decessit anno Christi MCCCXV commentariorum pars altera'' (Venice: P. Valvasense). The first novel of the second day of the ''Decameron'' by Giovanni Boccaccio Giovann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Rigo
Frank Rigo (c. 1868 – 5 August 1936) was an American director of grand opera who had a substantial career in Australia, where he died penniless, leaving an orphaned daughter. History Rigo was born in America and grew up in New York, where he developed a love of opera. He was associated with the production side of the business at the Met and in Covent Garden, London. He left for Australia in 1911 to work as producer for the Melba- Williamson combination, and remained in the country after his period of contract was over. He made several attempts at founding a permanent opera company and mounted several important productions. His ''Rigo Grand Opera Company'' was in 1919 taken over by J. C. Williamson's. Among the performers whose careers he promoted were Browning Mummery, Strella Wilson and Frederic Collier. Other stars of Rigo's operas include Constance Burt, who played Gretel in '' Hänsel und Gretel'', Marguerite in ''Faust'' and Pamina in ''The Magic Flute ''The Magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Rigo
Marek Rigo (born 15 December 1997) is a Slovak footballer who currently plays for Austrian Regionalliga East club Wiener Viktoria as an attacking midfielder A midfielder is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As #Cent .... Club career ŠK Slovan Bratislava Marek Rigo made his professional Fortuna Liga's debut for ŠK Slovan Bratislava on September 10, 2016 against Spartak Myjava. 11.09.2016, skslovan.com References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ondrej Rigo
Ondrej Rigo (17 December 1955 – 14 June 2022) was a Slovak serial killer and necrophile who targeted women in Bratislava, Munich and Amsterdam from 1990 to 1992. He served a life sentence until his death for nine murders and one attempted murder in Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia. Rigo was diagnosed with a schizoid personality disorder and an antisocial personality disorder as well as necrophilia, finding pleasure in having intercourse with women with mutilated heads. Rigo remains the Slovak murderer with the highest number of victims and he is also the most prolific serial killer in modern Slovak history. Early life Ondrej Rigo has a daughter. According to an article in the Slovak newspaper ''SME'', Rigo was of Roma ethnicity. Even as an adult, Rigo was a man of short stature. When he was 14, he, along with his siblings, was taken into a youth corrective institution and later into an orphanage. They stayed there for a year, having been taken from their mother after their fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigo Tovar
Rigoberto Tovar García (March 29, 1946 – March 27, 2005), better known as Rigo Tovar, was a Mexican musician, singer and actor. Famous for his cumbias, Tovar infused traditional Mexican and Latin music with modern instruments like the electric guitar and synthesizer and popular styles such as rock and soul music. Tovar was born and raised in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. After moving to the neighborhood of East End in Houston, Texas, his musical career began to take off in the early 1970s. Blending cumbia, tropical, and modern pop rock, he quickly gained a large following. In 1971, Tovar released his first album entitled ''Matamoros Querido'' which garnered two hits, "Matamoros Querido" and "Lamento De Amor". During his career, Tovar broke several attendance records in Mexico and throughout Latin America (many of which still stand to this day), sold over 30 million albums, and continues to influence countless artists of all genres. Early career and success Through extensive radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rigoberto Urán
Rigoberto Urán Urán, ODB (born 26 January 1987) is a Colombian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the road race. He became the first Colombian ever to make the podium of the Giro d'Italia, when he finished second behind Vincenzo Nibali in the 2013 edition of the race, having taken leadership of following the abandonment of team captain Bradley Wiggins. He also won a mountain-top stage in that race with a solo breakaway. The previous year, he had won the white jersey for best young rider, and a seventh-place finish overall. In the 2014 Giro d'Italia he finished second again in the general classification, this time behind countryman Nairo Quintana. At the 2017 Tour de France, Urán won the ninth stage and finished second overall, fifty-four seconds down on race winner Chris Froome. Early life Urán was first introduced to the world of cycling at the age of 14 by his father, who was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staff (music)
In Western culture, Western musical notation, the staff (US and UK)"staff" in the Collins English Dictionary "in British English: also called: stave; plural: staffs or staves""staff" in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary /ref> or stave (UK) (#Usage and etymology, plural: staffs or staves) is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments. Appropriate music symbols, depending on the intended effect, are placed on the staff according to their corresponding pitch or function. Musical notes are placed by pit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rīga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava (river), Daugava river where it meets the Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers and lies above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain. Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture in 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 Riga summit, 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2013 World Women's Curling Championship and the 2021 IIHF World Championship. It is home to the European Union's office of Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts; and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population. After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turdus Merula
The common blackbird (''Turdus merula'') is a species of true thrush. It is also called the Eurasian blackbird (especially in North America, to distinguish it from the unrelated New World blackbirds), or simply the blackbird where this does not lead to confusion with a local species. It breeds in Europe, Asiatic Russia, and North Africa, and has been introduced species, introduced to Australia and New Zealand. It has a number of subspecies across its large range; a few of the Asian subspecies are sometimes considered to be full species. Depending on latitude, the common blackbird may be Resident bird, resident, partially Bird migration, migratory, or fully migratory. The adult male of the common blackbird (''Turdus merula merula'', the nominate subspecies), which is found throughout most of Europe, is all black except for a yellow eye-ring and Beak, bill and has a rich, melodious Bird vocalization, song; the adult female and juvenile have mainly dark brown plumage. This species ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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