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Cárdenas (surname)
Cárdenas is a locational surname originating in La Rioja, Spain. In Spain, Cárdenas is the 287th most frequently surname, accounting for 0.37% of the population. It is the 296th most popular surname in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. Etymology This habitational surname derives from places named Cárdenas in the provinces of Almería, in Andalusia, and Logroño, in La Rioja. It comes from the feminine plural of , meaning "blue" or "bluish purple", by way of the Latin , from ("thistle").Dictionary of American Surnames, ed. Patrick Hanks, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 287 People *Adán Cárdenas (1836–1916), President of Nicaragua *Adrian Cardenas (born 1987), American baseball player *Agustín Cárdenas (1927–2001), Cuban sculptor *Alberto Cárdenas (born 1958), Mexican politician *Alejandro Cárdenas (born 1974), Mexican athlete *Alicia Cárdeñas (born 1943), Mexican volleyball player *Alonso de Cárdenas (fl. 1474–1493), Spanish noble *Alonso de C� ...
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Carduus
''Carduus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, and the tribe Cardueae, one of two genera considered to be true thistles, the other being ''Cirsium''. Plants of the genus are known commonly as plumeless thistles.''Carduus''.
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''Carduus''.
Flora of North America.
They are native to Eurasia and Africa, and several are known elsewhere as . This genus is noted for its disproportionately high number of

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Bartolomé De Cárdenas (painter Died 1628)
Bartolomé de Cárdenas (c. 1575–1628) was a Portuguese painter who worked in Spain. Life According to Antonio Palomino, Cardenas was a native of Portugal, who, while still very young, went to Madrid, where he became the pupil of Alonso Sanchez Coello, and achieved a deservedly high reputation. He painted most of the cloisters of the convent of Nuestra Senora de Atocha, at Madrid. In the later part of his life he went to Valladolid Valladolid () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province o ..., where he painted many altar-pieces, and decorated the cloisters of the convent of San Pablo. He died at Valladolid in 1606. References Sources * 16th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters 17th-century Spanish painters Year of birth unknown 1628 deaths Year of birth uncert ...
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Leo Cárdenas
Leonardo Lazaro Cárdenas Alfonso (born December 17, 1938) is a Cuban former professional baseball shortstop, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to for the Cincinnati Reds, Minnesota Twins, California Angels, Cleveland Indians, and Texas Rangers. Nicknamed "Mr. Automatic" and "Chico", he was a five-time all-star and one of the best-fielding shortstops of his era. Early years Cárdenas was born in Matanzas, Cuba, one of 15 children of Rafael and Roberta Cardenas. He came to the U.S. in at age 16 (although he claimed to be 17, the minimum age to be signed by a Major League team) and received a $500 signing bonus. He was among the last of the Cuban players to make it out of Cuba before the borders were sealed. He batted .316 for the Arizona–Mexico League's Tucson Cowboys in 1956, and signed with the Cincinnati Reds the following season. While playing for the Havana Sugar Kings in the International League in , Cárdenas was inadvertently shot by raucous Fidel Cas ...
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Lázaro Cárdenas Del Río
Lázaro is a Spanish or Portuguese-based given name or surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Lázaro (footballer, born 1990), full name Lázaro Vinícius Alves Martins, Brazilian footballer *Lázaro (footballer, born 2002), full name Lázaro Vinícius Marques, Brazilian footballer * Lázaro Álvarez, Cuban boxer * Lázaro Báez, Argentine entrepreneur *Lázaro Barbosa de Sousa, Brazilian serial killer and family annihilator *Lázaro Betancourt, Cuban triple jumper * Lázaro Blanco, Mexican photographer * Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter *Lázaro Botelho, Brazilian politician * Lázaro Bruzón, Cuban chess player * Lázaro Darcourt, Cuban footballer *Lázaro Francisco, Filipino novelist *Lázaro Garza Ayala, Mexican politician * Lázaro Macapagal, Filipino colonel * Lázaro Medina, Cuban pitcher * Lázaro Navarro, Cuban tennis player * Lázaro Oliveira, Angolan footballer *Lázaro Ramos, Brazilian actor *Lázaro Ruiz, Cuban weightlifter *Lázaro Reinoso, Cuban w ...
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Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (born 2 April 1964) is a Mexican politician. He served as governor of Michoacán from 2002 to 2008, representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). Prior to his election to that office in 2001, he had represented his home state in both the federal Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Cárdenas Batel is a member of a distinguished political family: his grandfather, Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, served as President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940, and his father, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, has been a presidential candidate on three occasions and was the first democratically elected Head of Government of the Federal District (Mexico City). Both father and grandfather also served as governors of Michoacán. Some PRD members criticized Cárdenas Batel for his lack of support for Andrés Manuel López Obrador during the 2006 presidential campaign; some even asked him to leave the party. On the night of election, according to ''The Wall Street Journal'', Bate ...
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Jose Cardenas
Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. *Jose ben Abin *Jose ben Akabya * Jose the Galilean * Jose ben Halafta *Jose ben Jochanan *Jose ben Joezer of Zeredah *Jose ben Saul Given name Male * Jose (actor), Indian actor * Jose C. Abriol (1918–2003), Filipino priest * Jose Advincula (born 1952), Filipino Catholic Archbishop * Jose Agerre (1889–1962), Spanish writer * Jose Vasquez Aguilar (1900–1980), Filipino educator * Jose Rene Almendras (born 1960), Filipino businessman * Jose T. Almonte (born 1931), Filipino military personnel * Jose Roberto Antonio (born 1977), Filipino developer * Jose Aquino II (born 1956), Filipino politician * Jose Argumedo (born 1988), Mexican professional boxer * Jose Aristimuño, American political strategist * Jose Miguel Arroyo (born 1945), Philippine lawyer * Jose D. Aspiras (1924–1999 ...
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Henry Cárdenas
Henry Cárdenas Ordaz (born 30 October 1965) is a retired road cyclist from Colombia, who was a professional rider from 1986 to 1997. He was nicknamed "Cebollita". Major results ;1985 : 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a Colombia ;1987 : 2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ::1st Stage 6 : 9th Overall Vuelta a España : 10th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ;1988 : 1st Stage 2 Clásico RCN ;1990 : 9th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ;1991 : 10th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ;1995 : 2nd Overall Clásico RCN ::1st Stage 4 ;1996 : 1st Stage 2 Clásico RCN The Clásico RCN (Spanish for ''RCN Classic'') is an annual cycling road race that takes place over many stages through different regions of Colombia during October. It is organized by the Colombian Cycling Federation. The event is sponsored b ... Grand Tour general classification results timeline External links * 1965 births Living people People from Sogamoso Colombian male cyclists Sportspeople from Boyacá Department {{Col ...
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Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández
Gregorio "Goyo" Cárdenas Hernández (; Mexico City, 1915 – Los Angeles, 2 August 1999), also known as The Tacuba Strangler (''estrangulador de Tacuba''), was a Mexican serial killer. He was the first serial killer whose case was widely published in the Mexican media, and became a sensation on national media. Early life Cárdenas Hernández was born in Mexico City to a family originating from the state of Veracruz. In part due to an encephalitis infection, he showed abnormal behavior as a child, including cruelty to animals. Cárdenas received a scholarship from Pemex to study chemistry at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).Antonio Avitia Hernández, ''Corrido Histórico Mexicano, Tomo V (1936-1985)'' (Mexico City: Porrúa, 1998) 71. He started visiting prostitutes from age 15 and was concerned that constant bed-wetting would prevent a long-term relationship. However he met and married Sabina Lara Gonzalez around 1932. The marriage did not last. She told peo ...
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García López De Cárdenas
García López de Cárdenas y Figueroa was a Spanish conquistador who was the first European to see the Grand Canyon. Life Cárdenas was born in Llerena, Crown of Castile, second son to Alonso de Cárdenas, 1st Count of La Puebla del Maestre, and wife Maria García Osorio. He was the Encomiendador of Caravaca. López de Cárdenas was a conquistador attached to the exploits of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Expeditions, including one led by Pedro de Tovar, had heard reports of a large river north of Cíbola (Zuñi). Cárdenas was dispatched in September 1540 by the general stationed in Cíbola with the express mission of locating such a river and returning within 80 days. Pedro de Sotomayor accompanied him to record the event as a ''cronista''. After some twenty days of marching in a northerly direction, he was successful; but his band found difficulties in reaching the river (which was the current Colorado River, that they called River Tizon), owing to the sheer vertical dis ...
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Francisco Arias Cárdenas
Francisco Javier Arias Cárdenas (born 20 November 1950) is a Venezuelan politician and career military officer, and was the governor of Zulia state. He participated in Hugo Chávez's unsuccessful February 1992 coup attempt, being pardoned in 1994 by Rafael Caldera, along with the other conspirators. He was elected Governor of Zulia state in 1995 for the Radical Cause, and challenged Hugo Chávez for the presidency in 2000. He subsequently served as Venezuelan Ambassador to the UN, and deputy to the National Assembly after the 2010 parliamentary elections. Background and military career Born at San Cristóbal in Táchira, Arias graduated from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences in Caracas, the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, and the Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogotá, Colombia. Arias joined Hugo Chávez's clandestine organization, the MBR-200, in 1985, and with Chávez went on to lead a coup attempt against the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez on ...
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Félix Cárdenas
Félix Rafael Cárdenas Ravalo (born November 24, 1973 in Encino, Santander) is a Colombian former road bicycle racer, who competed both as an amateur and as a professional between 1995 and 2014. He previously rode for UCI Professional Continental team until the team's demise in 2009. In the 2001 Tour de France, Cardenas took one of the biggest victory of his career on the mountainous stage 12. He crossed the line solo in Ax-les-Thermes, with Roberto Laiseka and Lance Armstrong rounding the podium. He performed his trademark victory salute, standing on the pedals with arms raised high in the air. Major results ;1996 : Clásico RCN ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 3 ;1998 : 6th Overall Clásico RCN ;1999 : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Colombia ;2000 : 1st Mountains classification Tour de Romandie : Tour du Limousin ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España ;2001 : 1st Mountains classification Volta a Catalunya : 1st Stage 12 Tour ...
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Eliécer Cárdenas
Eliécer Cárdenas Espinosa ( Cañar, 10 December 1950 – 26 September 2021) was an Ecuadorian novelist. Life and career In his youth he went from school to school because he questioned the repressive systems and was suspended various times. For example, he attended meetings of the Young Socialists, with whom he fought against the Ministry of Education for free college enrollments, and he was arrested in 1970 during the dictatorship of Velasco Ibarra. In 1976 he graduated from the School of Jurisprudence of the Central University of Ecuador with a degree in Social Sciences. In Cuenca he married Carmen Patiño Ullauri. From 1977 to 1978 he wrote the novel ''Polvo y ceniza'' (Dust and Ashes), which he entered into a novel contest held by the House of Ecuadorian Culture La Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana (''The House of Ecuadorian Culture'') is a cultural organization founded by Benjamín Carrión on August 9, 1944, during the presidency of Dr Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra. It ...
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