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Argentina Díaz Lozano
Argentina Díaz Lozano (December 5, 1912 – August 13, 1999) was the pseudonym for the Honduran writer Argentina Bueso Mejía. She was a journalist and novelist, who wrote in the romantic style with feminist themes. She won numerous awards for her books, including the Golden Quetzel from Guatemala, the Honduran National Literature Prize Ramón Rosa" and the "Order Cruzeiro do Sud" from Brazil. She was admitted to the Academia Hondureña de la Lengua and is the only Central American woman whose work has officially contended for a Nobel Prize for Literature. Biography Argentina Bueso Mejía's year of birth has been cited as 1909, 1910 and 1917, but is generally accepted as 15 December 1912 in Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras to businessman Manuel Bueso Pineda and Trinidad Mejía. She attended Coligio María Auxiliadora in Tegucigalpa between 1925 and 1928 and then completed her secondary education at Academy of the Holy Names (Florida), Holy Name Academy in Tampa, Florida. In 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Rosa De Copán
Santa Rosa de Copán () is a municipality in Honduras. The city of Santa Rosa de Copán is the municipal seat and the departmental capital of the Honduran department of Copán. It is located approximately above mean sea level. Santa Rosa de Copán is the largest and most important city in western Honduras with a population of 61,800 (2023 calculation). Population of cities in Honduras Santa Rosa is the governmental hub of the department of Copán. The city is connected through the International Highway of the West (CA-4) with to the North and with the borders of |
Clemente Marroquín Rojas
Clemente is both an Italian language, Italian, Spanish language, Spanish and French language, French surname and a given name. Notable people with the surname include: Surname * Aldo Di Clemente (born 1948), Italian amateur astronomer * Anna Clemente (born 1994), Italian racewalker * Ari Clemente (born 1939), Brazilian footballer * Aria Clemente (born 1995), Filipina actress and singer * Art Clemente (1925–2021), American politician * C. Daniel Clemente (born 1936), American attorney and businessman * Christofer Clemente, Australian scientist * Denis Clemente (born 1986), Puerto Rican basketball player * Edgard Clemente (born 1975), Puerto Rican baseball player, nephew of Roberto Clemente * Enrique Clemente (born 1999), Spanish footballer * Fernando Clemente (1917–1998), Italian architect * Francesco Clemente (born 1952), Italian painter * Gerardo Clemente (born 1982), Swiss football player * Jacob Clemente (born 1997), American actor and dancer * Javier Clemente (born 1950), Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honduran Novelists
Honduran may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Honduras * Hondurans, persons from Honduras or of Honduran descent * Honduran population, see Ethnicity in Honduras * Honduran Spanish, the language spoken in Honduras * Honduran cuisine * Honduran culture, see Culture of Honduras See also * List of Hondurans This is a list of Honduran people: Politicians * Óscar Acosta * Salvador Aguirre (Honduras) * Juan José Alvarado * José Adolfo Alvarado Lara * Oscar Álvarez * Oswaldo López Arellano * Juan Ángel Arias * Céleo Arias * Juan Ángel Arias Boqu� ... * * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Santa Rosa De Copan
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honduran Women Activists
Honduran may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Honduras * Hondurans, persons from Honduras or of Honduran descent * Honduran population, see Ethnicity in Honduras * Honduran Spanish, the language spoken in Honduras * Honduran cuisine * Honduran culture, see Culture of Honduras See also * List of Hondurans This is a list of Honduran people: Politicians * Óscar Acosta * Salvador Aguirre (Honduras) * Juan José Alvarado * José Adolfo Alvarado Lara * Oscar Álvarez * Oswaldo López Arellano * Juan Ángel Arias * Céleo Arias * Juan Ángel Arias Boqu� ... * * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Deaths
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1909 Births
Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across drift ice, ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition, ''Nimrod'' Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the Farthest South, farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies. * January 11 – The International Joint Commission on US-Canada boundary waters is established. * January 16 – Members of the ''Nimrod'' Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect). * January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic (1903), RMS ''Republic'' sinks the day after a collision with ''SS Florida'' off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued. * January 28 – The last United States t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Guatemala Earthquake
The 1976 Guatemala earthquake struck on February 4 at with a moment magnitude of 7.5. The shock was centered on the Motagua Fault, about 160 km northeast of Guatemala City at a depth of near the town of Los Amates in the department of Izabal. The earthquake ruptured a continuous length of 240 km along the Motagua fault and might have extended further to the east and west but was blocked by vegetation and swamps. Cities throughout the country suffered damage, and most adobe type houses in the outlying areas of Guatemala City were destroyed. The earthquake struck during the early morning (at 3:01 am, local time) when most people were asleep. This contributed to the high death toll of 23,000. Approximately 76,000 were injured, and many thousands left homeless. Some of the areas affected went without electricity and communications for days. The main shock was followed by thousands of aftershocks, some of the larger ones causing additional damage and loss of life. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
