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Inka Martí
Inka Martí Kiemann ( Beckum, Westphalia, West Germany, January 6, 1964) is a Spanish-German journalist, editor, writer, photographer, ecological activist for the restoration of biodiversity, farmer and rancher, wife of the editor Jacobo Siruela and Countess consort of Siruela. Biography She studied Hispanic philology at the University of Barcelona. Model At age 17, she began to work as a model, appearing as the face of numerous advertising campaigns. She also worked as a model in Japan, Greece, England, Austria, and Germany. Television In 1986, at age 22, she made her debut before the cameras of Televisión Española, in the cultural contest ''Hablando claro'', supported by the Royal Spanish Academy and designed by Professor Francisco Rico. A year later she shared a set with Manuel Hidalgo on the daily magazine program ''Tal cual'', where she covered film, theater, and music, and with Isabel Gemio on ''Un verano tal cual''. In 1989 she accompanied Miguel de la Quadra-Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beckum, Germany
Beckum (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Biäkem'') is a town in the northern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is about 20 km (12 miles) north-east of Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamm and 35 km (22 miles) south-east of Münster. It gives its name to the nearby Beckum Hills. History Several Neolithic stone cists are the earliest traces of humans in the area around the three brooks, Kollenbach, Lippbach and Siechenbach (Kollenbach), Siechenbach. Because of these three brooks, the town was eventually named Bekehem or later Beckum, meaning "home upon the brooks". In 1224, Beckum was granted its town charter, and it quickly grew in wealth as merchants and craftsmen set up businesses in the town. The town quickly expanded to an area of over 22 km2 (8.5 sq miles). However wars, riots and the Black Death in the following centuries left their mark on the town. After the Thirty Years' War, legislation removed several rights from cities and towns, and as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ediciones Atalanta
Ediciones Atalanta is a private Spanish publishing house based in Vilaür. It was founded in October 2005 by the editor Jacobo Siruela and his wife, journalist and photographer Inka Martí. Catalog Main collections Atalanta, a name created from the ancient Greek myth, is represented by four collections that symbolize "Brevity", "Memory", "Imagination" and "Nature". Ars brevis Paraphrasing Shakespeare, "brevity is the soul of wit", this collection seeks "short works with long prologues". Spanning all times and places, the literary essence of the author is condensed with the greatest possible intensity. It includes authors and anthologies such as Joseph Conrad, Vivant Denon, Apuleius, Vernon Lee, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Ivan Turgenev, Thomas De Quincey, Oscar Wilde, the ''Sarashina Nikki'', Heinrich von Kleist, Alejo Carpentier, Naiyer Masud, Eliot Weinberger, an anthology about vampires, Salvador Elizondo, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Francisco Tario, Felisberto Hernán ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organic Beef
Organic beef is beef grown according to organic food principles scientifically. Organic beef According to the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) Standards rules passed on October 22, 2002, certified organic livestock, including beef, must come from a fully verifiable production system that collects information on the history of every animal in the program, including its breed history, veterinary care, and feed. Further, to be certified as organic, all cattle should meet the following criteria: *"Produced without genetic engineering, use of ionizing radiation or sewage sludge" *Allowed continuous access to the outdoors except in specific conditions such as inclement weather *Fed feed and raised on land that meets all organic crop production standards *Never receive antibiotics *Never receive growth hormones *Never receive prohibited substances such as urea, manure, or arsenic-containing compounds *Managed organically from last third of gestation Gestation is the period of deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organic Farming
Organic farming, also known as organic agriculture or ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 o''Regulation (EU) 2018/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2024 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007.''/ref> is an agricultural system that emphasizes the use of naturally occurring, non-synthetic inputs, such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation, companion planting, and mixed cropping. Biological pest control methods such as the fostering of insect predators are also encouraged. Organic agriculture can be defined as "an integrated farming system that strives for sustainability, the enhancement of soil fertility and biological diversity while, with rare exceptions, prohibiting synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, and growth hormones". It originate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the variability of life, life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and Phylogenetics, phylogenetic diversity. Diversity is not distributed evenly on Earth. It is greater in the tropics as a result of the warm climate and high primary productivity in the region near the equator. Tropical forest ecosystems cover less than one-fifth of Earth's terrestrial area and contain about 50% of the world's species. There are latitudinal gradients in species diversity for both marine and terrestrial taxa. Since Abiogenesis, life began on Earth, six major mass extinctions and several minor events have led to large and sudden drops in biodiversity. The Phanerozoic aeon (the last 540 million years) marked a rapid growth in biodiversity via the Cambrian explosion. In this period, the majority of Multicellular organism, multicellular Phylum, phyla first appeared. The next 400 mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girona
Girona (; ) is the capital city of the Province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 106,476 in 2024, but the population of the Girona–Salt urban area is estimated to be about 156,400 (2020). Girona is also capital of the ''comarca'' of the Gironès and the vegueria of Girona. Since much of the old quarter of this ancient city has been preserved, Girona is a popular tourist destination. The city is located northeast of Barcelona. History The first historical inhabitants in the region were Iberians; Girona is the ancient Gerunda, a city of the Ausetani. Later, the Romans built a citadel there, which was given the name of ''Gerunda''. The Visigoths ruled in Girona until it was conquered by the Moors in 715. Charlemagne reconquered it in 785 and made it one of the fourteen original counties of Catalonia. It was sacked by the Moors in 827, 842 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilaür
Vilaür () is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The municipal term is to the right of the Fluvià river. There is a flat sector along the river and the rest is stuck by the mountains that mark the end of the Alt Empordà fluvial plain (140 m maximum altitude to the east). In 2005 it had 115 registered inhabitants. It is grouped around the parochial church and conserves remains of the medieval walled area. It forms a small monumental complex, outside which there are several farmhouses. The main economy is agriculture, livestock Livestock are the Domestication, domesticated animals that are raised in an Agriculture, agricultural setting to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, Egg as food, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool. The t ... and the wood industry. Vilaür is a toponym that is considered formed by the Catalan word ''vila'' and a Germanic personal name. The town celebrates the festival in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuartel Del Conde-Duque
The Cuartel del Conde-Duque ( Spanish: ''Cuartel del Conde-Duque'') is a building located in Madrid, Spain. It was declared ''Bien de Interés Cultural (, , , ) is a category of the heritage register in Spain. The term is also used in Colombia and other Spanish-speaking countries. The term literally means a "good of cultural interest" ("goods" in the economic sense). It includes not only mater ...'' in 1976. It was used by the military up until 1969. It officially became an art center in 1983 and a contemporary art museum in 2001. Gallery File:Antique Wooden Door, Front Entrance Cuartel del Conde-Duque 02.JPG, Entrance File:Cuartel del Conde-Duque 02.JPG, Courtyard File:Cuartel del Conde-Duque.JPG, Main Building, viewed thru the entrance File:Cuartel del Conde-Duque, Interior Photograph.JPG, Interior References Buildings and structures in Universidad neighborhood, Madrid Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in Madrid Barracks in Spain {{Madrid-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Masnou
; ) is a municipality in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the coast between Montgat and Premià de Mar, to the north-east of the city of Barcelona, in the ''comarca'' (county) of el Maresme. The town is both a tourist centre and a dormitory town in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. The main N-II road and a Renfe railway line run through the town, while a local road links it with the A-19 ''autopista'' at Alella. The town center has buildings in a wide range of styles: neoclassical, ''modernista'', ''noucentista'' and simply eclectic. The municipal museum has collections of archeology and of Catalan ceramics, and there is also a private museum of pharmacy and medicine. A Roman village called ''Cal Ros de les Cabres'' was one of the first settlements located on the site of the current town. The agriculture of El Masnou is mainly of flowers, especially carnations, and the industry has a predominance of textile, with several industries about cera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historic Center Of Mexico City
The historic center of Mexico City (), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on the Zócalo (or main plaza) and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central. The Zocalo is the largest plaza in Latin America. It can hold up to nearly 100,000 people. This section of the capital lies in the municipal borough of Cuauhtémoc, has just over nine km2 and occupies 668 blocks. It contains 9,000 buildings, 1,550 of which have been declared of historical importance. Most of these historic buildings were constructed between the 16th and 20th centuries. It is divided into two zones for preservation purposes. Zone A encompasses the pre-Hispanic city and its expansion from the Viceroy period until Independence. Zone B covers the areas all other constructions to the end of the 19th century that are considered indispensable to the preservation of the area's archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of The Cloister Of Sor Juana
The University of the Cloister of Sor Juana () is a private university located in the former San Jerónimo Convent in the historic center of Mexico City. This convent is best known for having been the home of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for over twenty five years, she produced many of her writings here. After the convent was closed in the 19th century, the large complex was divided and was home to a number of institutions and businesses, including a large dance hall in the mid 20th century. In the 1970s, the government expropriated the complex, explored it and began the restoration process. In 1979, the current university was founded at this site and it is currently the benefactor and guardian of the complex. The institution offers bachelors, two masters and two certificates, mostly in the humanities. The institution also sponsors or co-sponsors a number of cultural and educational activities, mostly situated in the historic center of the city. The cloister complex The cloiste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
