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Cristal Intelligence
Cristal may refer to: * Cristal Global, chemical company * Cristal (wine), a brand of champagne * Cristal (aguardiente), brands of aguardiente * Cristal (telenovela), ''Cristal'' (1985), a Venezuelan telenovela * ''Cristal'' (2006), a Brazilian telenovela * Cristal, Rio Grande do Sul, a city in Brazil * MS Cristal, MS ''Cristal'', a cruise ship * Clube Atlético Cristal, a Brazilian football club * Cristal, a prize awarded at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival * Cristal, the iliac crest in supracristal plane * Bic Cristal, a brand of disposable ballpoint pens * Cristal, a typeface by French foundry Deberny & Peignot * Cristal (album), ''Cristal'' (album), an album by Brazilian singer Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira * Cerveza Cristal, a Chilean brand of pilsner beer People with the surname * Linda Cristal (1931–2020), Argentine actress See also * Crystal (other) * Sporting Cristal, a Peruvian football team {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristal Global
Cristal Global is the world's second-largest producer of titanium dioxide and a leading producer of titanium chemicals. It was formed when The National Titanium Dioxide Company Ltd. combined with Millennium Chemicals. The headquarters are in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It is a significant shareholder in Bemax, the world’s 5th largest Titanium dioxide, TiO2 feedstock producer. Products * Titanium Dioxide (TiO2), using both the chloride and sulfate processes. * Performance Chemicals ** Specialty Titanium Dioxides (Ultrafine TiO2) ** Titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) and related products * Ferrica™ ** Gypsum ** Hydrochloric acid ** Copperas ** Iron chlorosulfate ** Carbon dioxide ** Molten sulfur ** Sulfuric acid * Other ** Chlorine ** Caustic soda ** Zircon ** Ilmenite ** Rutile ** Sodium silicate Manufacturing plants , Cristal Global has eight manufacturing plants in 6 countries and on 5 continents. * Yanbu, Saudi Arabia * Bunbury, Western Australia, Bunbury, Australia * Stallingb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bic Cristal
The BIC Cristal (stylised as BiC Cristal and also known as the Bic Biro) is an inexpensive, disposable ballpoint pen mass-produced and sold by of , France. It was introduced in 1950 and is the best-selling pen in the world, with the 100 billionth sold in September 2006. It has become the archetypal ballpoint pen and is considered ubiquitous, to the extent that the Museum of Modern Art has made it a permanent part of its collection. Its hexagonal form and design mimics a standard pencil and it is sold in six types of point and 18 colors around the world. History In 1930, László Bíró, a Hungarian-Argentine inventor observed children playing with marbles in a puddle, noticing that the marbles left a trail of water in their wake. Inspired by this observation, he conceived of a mechanism for a pen that used a ball-shaped metal nib to place ink onto a page. He shared his idea with his brother György, a chemist, and together they began researching and experimenting to create suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Cristal
Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges (24 February 1931 – 27 June 2020), known professionally as Linda Cristal (), was an Argentine–American actress. She appeared in a number of Western films during the 1950s, before winning a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1958 comedy film '' The Perfect Furlough''. From 1967 to 1971, Cristal starred as Victoria Cannon in the NBC series '' The High Chaparral''. For her performance she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1970, and received two Emmy Award nominations. Early life The daughter of a French father and an Italian mother Rosario Pego, Cristal was born as Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges on 24 February 1931 near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her father was a publisher who moved the family to Montevideo, Uruguay due to political issues. She was educated at the Conservatorio Franklin in Uruguay. Career Cristal appeared in films in Argentina and Mexico before taking on her first English- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilsner Beer
Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewery. History Origin The city of Plzeň was granted brewing rights in 1307. Until the mid-1840s, most Bohemian beers were top-fermented. The Pilsner Urquell Brewery, originally called in (, ), is where Pilsen beer was first brewed. Brewers had begun aging beer made with cool fermenting yeasts in caves (lager, i.e., tored, which improved the beer's clarity and shelf-life. Part of this research benefited from the knowledge already expounded on in a book (printed in German in 1794, in Czech in 1799) written by Czech brewer () (1753–1805) from Brno. The Plzeň brewery recruited the Bavarian brewer Josef Groll (1813–1887) who, using the local ingredients, produced the first batch of pale lager on 5 October 1842. The combination of Plzeň's remar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerveza Cristal
Cerveza Cristal (lit. ''Cristal Beer'') is a Chilean brand of pilsner beer, introduced in 1977 and sold by Compañía de Cervecerías Unidas (CCU). History The brand was registered as "Pilsener Cristal" in August 1977 and its commercial launch occurred in 1978. In 1993, it was relaunched as "Cerveza Cristal", and in that same year, it adopted the motto "Única, Grande y Nuestra" ("Unique, Great and Ours"). In 2008, a non-alcoholic version was launched on the market, called "Cristal Cero", to which "Cristal Cero Radler" was added in 2016, which contains lemon juice. In 2023, a limited edition called "Cristal Orígenes" ("Cristal Origins") was presented as a tribute to the three natural regions of Chile: the northern zone with a touch of limón de Pica, the central zone with a touch of honey, and the southern zone with a touch of berries. Marketing In December 2003, CCU commissioned a series of commercials for Cerveza Cristal, which were broadcast at the beginning of each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Bittencourt De Oliveira
Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira (born December 25, 1949), better known as Simone, is a Brazilian singer of Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) who has recorded more than 30 albums. Biography Simone was born on December 25, 1949, in Salvador, Bahia, as the seventh daughter in a family of nine children. During her teenage years, she was a professional basketball player and moved to São Paulo to become a member of the women's national basketball team. She studied in Santos, São Paulo, majoring in physical education. Career Her music career began when a close friend and guitar teacher Elodir Barontini invited her to sing at a dinner with Odeon's marketing manager. At the end of this encounter, specially scheduled for her performance, came an offer of a contract to record not one but four albums at once. Her eponymous debut album was recorded in October 1972 at a low cost and with a few musicians, conducted by José Biamonte. It circulated only among friends, relatives, and artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deberny & Peignot
Deberny & Peignot (Fonderie Deberny et Peignot) was a French type foundry, created by the 1923 merger of G. Peignot & Fils and Deberny & Cie. It was bought by the Haas Type Foundry (Switzerland) in 1972, which in turn was merged into D. Stempel AG in 1985, then into Linotype GmbH in 1989, and is now part of Monotype Corporation. Starting in 1925, the Deberny & Peignot type was distributed in the United States by the Continental Type Founders Association. Typefaces These typefaces were produced by Deberny & Peignot:Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. ''The Encyclopedia of Type Faces.'' Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, , p. 2408-249 * Acier Noir (1936, A.M. Cassandre) * Ancien * Astrée (1921, Robert Girard), the Stephenson Blake version is known as ''Mazarin'' * Auriol, (1901–04, George Auriol) * Auriol-Labeur ( George Auriol) * Auriol-Champlevé ( George Auriol) * Banjo (1930) * Baskerville (1916), reengraved from the original punches. * Bell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
