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Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (Mexico)
The Escuela Nacional Preparatoria () (ENP), the oldest senior High School system in Mexico, belonging to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), opened its doors on February 1, 1868. It was founded by Gabino Barreda, M.D., following orders of then–president of Mexico Benito Juárez. It is also modern UNAM's oldest institution. This institution's location was the San Ildefonso College, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (), which is located in the heart of Mexico City's Centro (Mexico City), historic center. This college was founded in 1588 by the Jesuits and was prestigious during colonial times, but it had almost completely fallen into ruin by the time of the Reform War, Reform Laws in the 1860s. These Laws secularized most of Catholic Church, Church property, including the San Ildefonso College building. In 1867, Benito Juárez began reform of the educational system, taking it out of clerical hands and making it a government function. San Ildefonso was converted int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and financial centers in the world, and is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Alpha world city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 Boroughs of Mexico City, boroughs or , which are in turn divided into List of neighborhoods in Mexico City, neighborhoods or . The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the list of largest cities#List, sixth-largest metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justo Sierra
Justo Sierra Méndez (January 26, 1848 – September 13, 1912), was a Mexican prominent liberal writer, historian, journalist, poet and political figure during the Porfiriato, in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. He was a leading voice of the ''Científicos'', "the scientists" who were the intellectual leaders during the regime of Porfirio Díaz. Sierra’s portrait appeared on the 2000 Mexican pesos banknote issued between 1985 and 1989. Life and career He was the son of Mexican novelist Justo Sierra O'Reilly, who is credited with inspiring his son with the spirit of literature. Sierra moved to Mexico City at the age of 13 in 1861, the year of his father's death, and also, coincidentally, the year of the French intervention in Mexico. Together with his fellow young students, Sierra responded with patriotic fervor to the invasion of his country, and became a lifelong militant liberal. His most enduring works are sociopolitical hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iztacalco
Iztacalco () is a borough (''demarcación territorial'') in Mexico City. It is located in the central-eastern area and it is the smallest of the city's boroughs. The area's history began in 1309 when the island of Iztacalco, in what was Lake Texcoco, was settled in 1309 by the Mexica who would later found Tenochtitlan, according to the Codex Xolotl. The island community would remain small and isolated through the colonial period, but drainage projects in the Valley of Mexico dried up the lake around it. The area was transformed into a maze of small communities, artificial islands called chinampas and solid farmland divided by canals up until the first half of the 20th century. Politically, the area has been reorganized several times, being first incorporated in 1862 and the modern borough coming into existence in 1929. Today, all of the canals and farmland are dried out and urbanized as the most densely populated borough and the second most industrialized. The borough The borou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmo Castellanos Quinto
Erasmo is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Claudio Erasmo Vargas (born 1974), Mexican race walker *Erasmo Carlos (1941–2022), Brazilian singer and songwriter * Erasmo Catarino (born 1977), Mexican singer, winner on the TV show ''La Academia 4'' * Erasmo de Sequeira (died 1997), politician, social worker and parliamentarian from Goa, India * Erasmo Escala (1826–1884), Chilean soldier, commander-in-chief of the Army during part of the War of the Pacific * Erasmo Fuentes (born 1943), Mexican-born sculptor who lives in Utah * Erasmo of Narni (1370–1443), one of the condottieri or mercenaries in the Italian Renaissance * Erasmo Oneglia (1853–1934), Italian printer and stamp forger * Erasmo Ramirez (left-handed pitcher) (born 1976), Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher *Erasmo Ramírez (right-handed pitcher) (born 1990), Major League Baseball pitcher * Erasmo Salemme (born 1946), Italian volleyball player and coach * Erasmo Seguín (1782–1857), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prepa 7
Prepa was an inland town of ancient Bithynia inhabited during Roman times. Its name does not occur in ancient authors, but is inferred from epigraphic Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ... and other evidence. Its site is located near Ekşioğlu in Asiatic Turkey. References Populated places in Bithynia Former populated places in Turkey History of Kocaeli Province Roman towns and cities in Turkey {{Kocaeli-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma
Oklahoma ( ; Choctaw language, Choctaw: , ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 20th-most extensive and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its residents are known as Oklahomans and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw language, Choctaw words , 'people' and , which translates as 'red'. Oklahoma is also known informally by its List of U.S. state and territory nicknames, nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the Sooners, American pioneer, American settlers who staked their claims in formerly American Indian-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broomfield, Colorado
Broomfield is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Consolidated city and county, consolidated city and county located in the United States, U.S. Colorado, state of Colorado. It has a consolidated government which operates under Article XX, Sections 10–13 of the Constitution of Colorado, Constitution of the State of Colorado. Broomfield's population was 74,112 at the 2020 United States census, making it the List of municipalities in Colorado, 15th most populous municipality and the List of counties in Colorado, 12th most populous county in Colorado. Broomfield is a part of the Denver metropolitan area, Denver–Aurora–Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range urban corridor. History The Broomfield post office opened on September 26, 1884. Historians speculate that the town was named for the sorghum grown in the area, also known as broomcorn, which had stalks that were sold to make brooms and whisk brooms. Several railroads figure in the development of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horizon High School (Thornton, Colorado)
Horizon High School is a public secondary institution located in Thornton, Colorado. History Horizon High School opened in 1988 to relieve crowding at Northglenn High School. Following rapid growth in Adams County throughout the 1990s, Horizon High School quickly filled to capacity and by 1999 the campus had 20 portable classrooms outside the school's main building. Originally, the school only had grades 10-12. The graduating class of 1998 was the first freshman class to attend the school. Athletics Horizon High School fields teams that compete in interscholastic competition in baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming, diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrestling. State championship titles: * Boys' basketball: 1998 (5A) * Girls' basketball: 1993 (6A) * Boys' soccer: 1991 (6A), 1992 (6A), 2000 (5A) Notable alumni * Josh Bredl, 2009, professional wrestler * Jamie Carey, 1999, WNBA player * John Denney, long sn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uberto Zanolli
Uberto Zanolli (1917–1994), the son of Amelia Pìa Balugani Vecchi and Luigi Zanolli Marcolini, was an Italo-Mexican composer, conductor and writer. An engineer official for the Italian army during World War II, he was a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps for two years. Biography Uberto Zanolli, in his childhood, studied violin, viola, piano and composition in the Conservatories of Verona, Bolzano, and Milan. At the age of 17, he made his professional debut as an orchestra director. After the war, Zanolli returned to artistic activities, working in some of the most important theatres in Italy, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain and the United States. Family In 1944 his first son, Fausto, was born from his marriage with Elsa Angelini, from whom he was widowed shortly after. From 1953, Zanolli lived in Mexico and in 1959 he married Mexican soprano Betty Fabila, becoming the father of the pianist Betty Luisa Zanolli Fabila. Career He was the docent of the Conservatorio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by Culture of Mexico, the country's popular culture, she employed a Naïve art, naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary ''Mexicayotl'' movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Born to a German father and a ''mestizo, mestiza'' mother (of Purépecha descent), Kahlo spent most of her childhood and adult life at La Casa Azul, her family home in Coyoacán – now publicly accessible as the Frida Kahlo Museum. Although s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
