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Carmen Ruíz Moragas
María del Carmen Ruiz Moragas (1898 – May 20, 1936) was a Spanish actress. For years, she was the mistress of King Alfonso XIII, with whom she had two children. Early life Ruiz was born in Madrid, Spain. Her parents lived in Madrid but they were from Málaga. In her long career in the Spanish theater industry she had the honor to participate in famous works made by directors well known and even in some European co-productions. She belonged to people dedicated to theater, but at the same time to the bourgeois class of Madrid. In the 1920s and 1930s, she was a lover of King Alfonso XIII and had two children with him: Leandro and María Teresa. She died of cancer in 1936. Career She started her career as actress at age 20, when she finished working for María Guerrero company. She was a pioneer of silent films. She became a famous Spanish actress before the Spanish Civil War. She acted throughout Spain but achieved great success representing dramas as Mother Joy, Malvaloca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolfo Gaona
Rodolfo Gaona y Jiménez (22 January 1888 – 20 May 1975), was a Mexican Spanish-style bullfighting, bullfighter who performed from 1905 until his retirement in 1925, primarily in Madrid. Known as El Indio Grande (The Big Indian) and La Califa de León (The Caliph of León, Guanajuato, León), Gaona was part of the Golden Age of bullfighting in Spain alongside Juan Belmonte and José Gómez Ortega, Joselito. He invented the ''gaonera'' and ''pase del centenario'' Spanish-style bullfighting#Parts of a bullfight, moves. Biography Gaona was born in León, Guanajuato, León, Guanajuato City, Mexico on 22 January 1888 to a Navarrese father and an Indigenous Mexican mother. As a young man, Gaona was a Tanning (leather), tanner and practiced bullfighting with a group of friends at nearby ranches. He joined Saturnino "Ojitos" Frutos' bullfighting group in 1904. His first professional bullfighting appearance was at the Toreo de la Condesa on 1 October 1905 in Mexico City. In early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses From Madrid
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for Hypocrisy, hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the Tragedy, tragic Greek chorus, chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mistresses Of Spanish Royalty
Mistress is the feminine form of the English word "master" (''master'' + ''-ess'') and may refer to: Romance and relationships * Mistress (lover), a female lover of a married man ** Royal mistress * Maîtresse-en-titre, official mistress of a French king Title or form of address * Mistress (form of address) * Mistress (college), a female college head * Mistress of the Robes of the UK Royal Household * Female equivalent of schoolmaster In ancient religions * Despoina, a Greek goddess referred to as "the mistress" * Potnia ("mistress lady"), a title for a Greek goddess In arts and entertainment * Mistress (band), a band from Birmingham, England * ''Mistress'', a band from Germany, fronted by Angela Gossow * ''Mistress'' (1992 film) * ''Mistress'' (1987 film) * ''Mistresses'' (British TV series) * ''Mistresses'' (American TV series) * ''Mistress'' (TV series) * "Mistress", a song by Disturbed from ''Believe'' * "Mistress", a song by Rebecca Ferguson from ''Superwoman'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Births
Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, , is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper , accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. February * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully established, killing 266 men. The event precipitates the United States' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Deaths
Events January–February * January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House. * January 28 – Death and state funeral of George V, State funeral of George V of the United Kingdom. After a procession through London, he is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Heraldo De Madrid
The ''Heraldo de Madrid'' (originally ''El Heraldo de Madrid'') was a Spanish daily newspaper published from 1890 to 1939, with an evening circulation. It came to espouse a Republican leaning in its later spell. History The publication was founded on 29 October 1890 by , a former close acquaintance of Amadeo I. Following the death of Ducazcal in 1891, the publicacion was bought by Eugenio González Sangrador. In 1893, the newspaper was bought by the Canalejas brothers, José and , and a number of political supporters of the former. Since then, it would grow to become a major publication, as well as the mouthpiece of the Democratic Liberal political platform of José Canalejas. By the early 1910s, following the 1906 acquisition of the newspaper by the (the so-called "Trust"), the Heraldo came to adhere to the political platform of Segismundo Moret, rival of Canalejas (then prime minister) within the Liberal party. Owned by the Busquets brothers ( and Juan, holders of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leandro Alfonso Luis Ruiz Y Moragas
Leandro définition : * Super Intelligent ( environ 200 IQ) * Beau et musclé * Aime les proteines * Veut dire homme Gorille et Lion super rapide See also * Leandra (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granada
Granada ( ; ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of four rivers, the Darro (river), Darro, the Genil, the Monachil (river), Monachil and the Beiro. Ascribed to the Vega de Granada ''comarca'', the city sits at an average elevation of Above mean sea level, above sea level, yet is only one hour by car from the Mediterranean coast, the Costa Tropical. Nearby is the Sierra Nevada Ski Station, where the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1996 were held. In the 2021 national census, the population of the city of Granada proper was 227,383, and the population of the entire municipal area was estimated to be 231,775, ranking as the Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities, 20th-largest urban area of Spain. About 3.3% of the population did not hold Spanish citizenship, the largest number of these ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carola Fernán Gómez
Carola is a female given name, the Latinized form of the Germanic given names Caroline or Carol. People named Carola include: Acting * Carola Braunbock (1924–1978), Czech-born East German actress * Carola Höhn (1910–2005), German actress *Carola Lotti (1910–1990), Italian actress *Carola Neher (Karola Neher), German actress *Carola Reyna, Argentine actress and director * Carola Toelle (1893–1958), German actress Music * Carola Grindea (1914–2009), Romanian pianist and piano teacher * Carola Häggkvist, also known as just Carola, Swedish singer, winner of the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest * Carola Smit, Dutch singer * Carola Standertskjöld, Finnish jazz and pop singer Politics * Carola Reimann (born 1967), German politician * Carola Schouten, Dutch politician Others * Carola Dunn, British-American writer * Carola Pavlik, Dutch contemporary artist * Carola Rackete, German ship captain and sea rescuer * Carola Roloff, German Buddhist nun * Carola Unterberger-Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Alfonso XIII
Alfonso XIII ( Spanish: ''Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena''; French: ''Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon''; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African for his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. He became a monarch at birth as his father, Alfonso XII, had died the previous year. Alfonso's mother, Maria Christina of Austria, served as regent until he assumed full powers on his sixteenth birthday in 1902. Alfonso XIII's upbringing and public image were closely linked to the military estate; he often presented himself as a soldier-king. His effective reign started four years after the Spanish–American War, when various social milieus projected their expectations of national regeneration onto him. Like other European monarchs of his time he played a political role, ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepita Meliá
A pumpkin seed, also known as a ''pepita'' (from the Mexican , 'little seed of squash'), is the edible seed of a pumpkin or certain other cultivars of squash. The seeds are typically flat and oval with two axes of symmetry, have a white outer husk, and are light green after the husk is removed. Some pumpkin cultivars are huskless and are grown only for their edible seed. The seeds are nutrient- and calorie-rich, with an especially high content of fat (particularly linoleic acid and oleic acid), protein, dietary fiber, and numerous micronutrients. ''Pumpkin seed'' can refer either to the hulled kernel or unhulled whole seed, and most commonly refers to the roasted end product used as a snack. Cuisine Pumpkin seeds are a common ingredient in Mexican cuisine and are also roasted and served as a snack. They are a commercially produced and distributed packaged snack, like sunflower seeds, available year-round. Pepitas are known in the US by their Spanish name (usually shortened) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
