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Margot Debén
Margot Debén (December 12, 1922 – October 10, 2010) was a Nicaraguan-Puerto Rican actress, singer and pianist. She was also a show host and a magician. She is perhaps better known for playing "Agripina" in the major Puerto Rican television sitcom hit, " La Criada Malcriada" and for her participation, alongside daughter Angela Meyer, in the 1980s talk show, " Ellas al Mediodia". Early life Debén was born in Managua, Nicaragua, the daughter of the well-known Ricardo Richardine, Sr., a Spaniard magician of that era. Debén only stayed in Nicaragua for eleven days; on December 23, 1922, her family left that country as they returned to Puerto Rico. In her early years, Debén lead a nomadic life, as she began traveling extensively when she went to Peru at age nine, taking piano lessons there and debuting as a professional singer. She then spent time touring South America, singing and dancing as part of a show that she starred on. Later on, as part of a show in which her father w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Managua, Nicaragua
Managua () is the capital city, capital and largest city of Nicaragua, and one of the List of largest cities in Central America, largest cities in Central America. Located on the shores of Lake Managua, the city had an estimated population of 1,055,247 as of 2020, and a population of 1,401,687 in its metropolitan area. The city also serves as the seat of Managua Department. Founded in 1819, Managua became the national capital in 1852. The city underwent a rapid expansion and urbanization between 1842 and 1930, leading it to become one of the most developed cities in Central America. Several earthquakes have affected the city's growth, especially the 1931 Nicaragua earthquake, 1931 earthquake and the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake, 1972 earthquake, but the city has been rebuilt several times. Today, the city is a major economic hub for both the country and Central America. Etymology There are two possible origins for the name "Managua". It may have originated from the term ''Mana-ahua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magali Carrasquillo
Magali Carrasquillo (born on a January 17) is a Puerto Rican film and television actress. She is also a teacher, television producer and cultural manager. During the 1980s, she was known for her participation in many telenovelas in her island-country of Puerto Rico. Early life Carrasquillo born in Caguas, Puerto Rico is the daughter of Alfredo Carrasquillo, who was a dentist. As a young woman, Carrasquillo enrolled at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, where she studied theater, humanity arts and Hispanic studies. She later moved to Mexico, where she obtained a postgraduate degree from the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos in Cuernavaca, Morelos. Carrasquillo was working in Argentine theater producer Carlos Ferrari's well-known play, " Puerto Rico fua!" during 1979, when she met her future husband, singer, show host, dentist and comedian Rafael Jose Diaz. Acting career Island-wide celebrity came for her about that time, as she soon began acting in some canal 4 tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rican Actresses
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Puerto, a Spanish word meaning ''seaport'', may refer to: Places *El Puerto de Santa María, Andalusia, Spain *Puerto, a seaport town in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines *Puerto Colombia, Colombia *Puerto Cumarebo, Venezuela *Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines *Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela *Puerto Píritu, Venezuela *Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines *Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States *Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Others *Milton Jesús Puerto (born 1969), Honduran politician * ''Puerto Rico'' (board game) *Operación Puerto doping case See also * * Puerta (other) Puerta refers to the old original gates of the Walled City of Intramuros in Manila. Puerta may also refer to: People * Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer * Alonso José Puerta, Spanish politician * Lina Puerta, American artist *Mariano Puerta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicaraguan Actresses
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America after Guatemala and Honduras. Nicaragua is bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean and shares maritime borders with El Salvador to the west and Colombia to the east. The country's largest city and national capital is Managua, the List of largest cities in Central America#Largest cities proper, fourth-largest city in Central America, with a population of 1,055,247 as of 2020. Nicaragua is known as "the breadbasket of Central America" due to having the most fertile soil and arable land in all of Central America. Nicaragua's multiethnic population includes people of mestizo, indigenous, European, and African heritage. The country's most spoken language is Spanish language, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Bayamón, Puerto Rico
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] |
2010 Deaths
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1922 Births
Events January * January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes. * January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann, the day after Éamon de Valera resigns. * January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto. * January 15 – Michael Collins (Irish leader), Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State. * January 26 – Italian forces occupy Misrata, Italian Libya, Libya; the Pacification of Libya, reconquest of Libya begins. February * February 6 ** Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope. ** The Washington Naval Treaty, Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty is signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Empire of Japan, Japan, French Third Republic, France and Kingdom of Italy, Italy. Japan returns some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Puerto Ricans
This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen) and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican descent. Puerto Rican citizens are included, as the government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in Puerto Rico or to anyone born outside of Puerto Rico with at least one parent who was born in Puerto Rico since 2007. Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home and consider themselves to be Puerto Ricans. The list is divided into categories and, in some cases, sub-categories, which best describe the field for which the subject is most noted. Some categories such as "Actors, actresses, comedians and directors" are relative since a subject who is a comedian may also be an actor or director. In some cases a subject may be notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Nicaraguans
This is a list of Nicaraguans and people of Nicaraguan ethnicity: Art * Omar D'León (1928–2022), painter and poet. * Franck de Las Mercedes (born 1972), painter. *Armando Morales (1927–2011), painter. * Hugo Palma-Ibarra (born 1942), painter. * Róger Pérez de la Rocha (born 1949), painter. * Julia Casimira Sacasa, (born 1972), abstract painter, sculptor, poet. CASIMIRA Business * Harry Brautigam (1948–2008), economist, banker and academic. *José Cardenal (born 1940), businessman. *Michael Cordúa (born 1961), restaurateur, entrepreneur, businessman, award-winning self-taught chef. * Carlos Reynaldo Lacayo (born 1950), businessman. * Alejandro Lacayo (born 1951), businessman. * Carlos Pellas Chamorro (born 1953), businessman, entrepreneur, Nicaragua's first billionaire. *Alfonso Robelo (born 1939), businessman, politician, diplomat who served as ambassador to Costa Rica. *Patrick Frawley (1923-1998) magnate (Paper Mate) Education * Elena Arellano Chamorro (1836–1911), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángela Meyer
Ángela del Carmen Maurano Debén (born August 2, 1947), better known as Ángela Meyer, is a Puerto Rican actress, comedian, producer of television and theatrical works, and politician. Meyer is the founder and/or co-founder of various entertainment production companies. Among the production companies which have been associated with Meyer are Meca Productions which produced theater and television productions and Meyer de Jesus Productions which produced soap operas. Currently, she serves as a member of the Municipal Legislature of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico. Early years Meyer was born as Ángela del Carmen Maurano Debén in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her mother, Margot Debén, was a Puerto Rican actress, comedian and magician (known as "La Princesa Nanglín") of Spanish descent, and her father, Mario Maurano, was a Brazilian-Argentine musician of Italian descent. Meyer was 18 months old when her parents divorced, and moved to Colombia with her mother to live wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telemundo Internacional
Telemundo Internacional is a Latin American pay television television network, network owned by NBCUniversal. Telemundo Internacional carries a variety of programs, consisting mainly of select programs from the Telemundo national schedule. History Origins as Telenoticias Telemundo Puerto Rico traces its history to June 1, 1993, when Telemundo Group (then owned by investment firm Reliance Capital) announced that it would launch a 24-hour Spanish-language cable news channel that would be distributed in Latin America, Spain and the United States. This service, christened Telenoticias, launched on December 1, 1994, becoming the second 24-hour news channel to serve Latin America that was headquartered in the region. Telenoticias – which broadcast its programming in Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese – was operated out of Telemundo's headquarters in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida. In addition to distribution on cable and satellite television, some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLII-DT
WLII-DT (channel 11), branded on-air as , is a television station licensed to Caguas, Puerto Rico, serving the Territories of the United States#Permanently inhabited territories, U.S. territory as an affiliate of Univision and UniMás. Owned by Liberman Media Group, the station maintains studio facilities on Calle Carazo in Guaynabo, with additional studios at The Mall of San Juan. Its transmitter is located near the List of Puerto Rico state forests, Bosque Estatal de Carite mountain reserve. TeleOnce operates two Broadcast relay station#Satellite stations, satellite stations: WSUR-DT (channel 9) in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Ponce and WOLE-DT (channel 12) in Aguadilla. History Telecadena Perez-Perry (1960–1981) In 1960, Rafael Perez Perry received authorization from the government to start WKBM-TV on May 23, broadcasting on channel 11, as part of his new '' chain of television stations. Some of the shows that WKBM-TV aired during these years included: * and with Myrta Silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
