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Hernando Sun (1990-2013), French-trained racehorse, winner of the 1993 Prix du Jockey Club
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Hernando is a common Spanish given name, equivalent to Fernando and the English Ferdinand. It may refer to: Places ;Argentina * Hernando, Córdoba ;Canada * Hernando Island, British Columbia ;United States * Hernando, Florida * Hernando County, Florida * Hernando, Mississippi People * Hernando de Soto (economist) * Hernando de Soto (explorer) * Hernando de Lerma * Hernando Cortes, alternate spelling of Hernán Cortés * Alejandro Hernando (born 1976), Argentine taekwondo practitioner * Ana María Hernando (born 1959), Argentine visual artist * Mila Hernando (1957–2017), Spanish diplomat Horse * Hernando (horse) Hernando (8 February 1990 – February 2013) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He established himself as one of the best European colts of his generation in 1993 by winning the Prix Lupin, Prix du Jockey Club and Prix Niel and finishi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando
Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, and former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa and Asia (like the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka). It is equivalent to the Germanic given name Ferdinand, with an original meaning of "adventurous, bold journey". Given name * Fernando el Católico, king of Aragon A * Fernando Acevedo, Peruvian track and field athlete * Fernando Aceves Humana, Mexican painter * Fernando Alegría, Chilean poet and writer * Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula One driver * Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer * Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter * Fernando Antogna, Argentine track and road cyclist * Fernando de Araújo (other), multiple people B * Fernando Balzaretti (1946–1998), Mexican actor * Fernando Barrichello (born 2005), Brazilian racing driver * Fernando Baudrit Solera, Costa Rican president of the supreme court * Fernando Boter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand
Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "courage" or "ready, prepared" related to Old High German "to risk, venture." The name was adopted in Romance languages from its use in the Visigothic Kingdom. It is reconstructed as either Gothic language, Gothic or . It became popular in German-speaking Europe only from the 16th century, with House of Habsburg, Habsburg rule Habsburg Spain, over Spain. Variants of the name include , , , and in Spanish language, Spanish, in Catalan language, Catalan, and and in Portuguese language, Portuguese. The French language, French forms are , ''Fernand (other), Fernand'', and , and it is ''Ferdinando (other), Ferdinando'' and ''Fernando'' in Italian language, Italian. In Hungarian language, Hungarian both and are used equally. The Dutch language, Dutch forms are and ''Ferry (other)#Giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando, Córdoba
Hernando is a town in Córdoba Province, Argentina. Geography It is located in the Tercero Arriba department and it is part of the Llanura Pampeana region, which is an Argentinian region with an important agricultural and livestock development. Hernando possesses fertile soils for peanut cultivation. Fiesta Nacional del Maní In this city, the Fiesta Nacional del Maní is held every year in November. External links * Municipal website Populated places in Córdoba Province, Argentina {{CórdobaAR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando Island
Hernando Island is one of the Discovery Islands on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. The isle is in the Salish Sea between Campbell River and Powell River. Natural features The land area is and coastline is . The island has a temperate oceanic climate. The maximum elevation is and mean elevation is . The 92 per cent tree coverage is primarily pine and fir. In the 1890s, Stag Bay was the only good anchorage, being a sandy section along the rocky shore. First Nations and explorers The traditional territory of the Tla'amin Nation (formerly called Sliammon) includes the smaller off-shore islands such as Hernando. Underground houses for fortification have been unearthed on the island. Along with the nearby Cortes Island, it was named in 1792 by Valdés and Galiano after Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico. Although the Spanish never settled the area, these names remained. Logging and farming Non-native settlers farmed and logged from the 1880s, but most ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando, Florida
Hernando is a census-designated place in Citrus County, Florida, Citrus County, Florida, United States. The population was 9,284 at the 2020 census, up from 9,054 at the 2010 census. At one time it was a city but it was disincorporated in the 1970s. It is part of the Homosassa Springs, Florida Citrus County, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Hernando is located in northeastern Citrus County at (28.929498, -82.374340). It is bordered by Citrus Springs, Florida, Citrus Springs to the northwest, Pine Ridge, Citrus County, Florida, Pine Ridge to the west, Citrus Hills, Florida, Citrus Hill to the southwest, Inverness Highlands North, Florida, Inverness Highlands North to the south, and Marion County, Florida, Marion County to the north. The eastern edge of the CDP extends into Tsala Apopka Lake, a network of lakes and wetlands that are part of the Withlacoochee River (Florida), Withlacoochee River system. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando County, Florida
Hernando County () is a County (United States), county located on the west central coast of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 194,515. Its county seat is Brooksville, Florida, Brooksville, and its largest community is Spring Hill, Florida, Spring Hill. Hernando County is included in the Tampa, Florida, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida, Clearwater, FL Tampa Bay Area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also part of the Nature Coast of Florida. As of 2005, Hernando was the 35th fastest-growing county in the country. History In 1767, a group of Upper Creeks from Eufaula, Alabama, migrated to the Tampa Bay region and settled in what is now Hernando County. They would eventually become a part of the Muskogee speaking Seminole. Early European Pioneers and Founding Roughly 100 settlers and over 50 slaves arrived in what would become Hernando County in February 1842. Fort DeSoto was soon e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando, Mississippi
Hernando is the county seat of DeSoto County, on the northwestern border of Mississippi, United States. The population was 17,138 according to the 2020 census records. It is located on the south side of the Memphis, Tennessee metro area. U.S. Route 51 and the I-55 freeway traverse the city from north to south, and the I-69 freeway crosses the city from east to west. The county courthouse is located within Hernando's historic downtown square. It is located at the intersection of Commerce Street and present-day U.S. 51. History At the time of encounters by French and Spanish colonists, the Chickasaw people had long inhabited this area. France had developed colonial settlements along the Gulf Coast, to the north on the middle Mississippi River in what was called the Illinois Country, and in New France (present-day Quebec in Canada). An 18th-century French colonial log house (see first photo in gallery below) in Hernando is a reminder of typical dwellings built in their settlem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando De Soto (economist)
Hernando de Soto Polar (commonly known Hernando de Soto ; born June 2, 1941) is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights. His work on the developing world has earned him praise worldwide by numerous heads of state, particularly for his publication ''The Mystery of Capital'' and ''The Other Path''. He is the current president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), a think tank devoted to promoting economic development in developing countries located in Lima, Peru.Institute for Liberty and Democracy, "Hernando de Soto – Detailed Bio". (accessed 16 March 2013) In Peru, de Soto's advisory has been recognized as inspiring the economic guidelines—includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando De Soto (explorer)
Hernando de Soto (; ; 1497 – 21 May 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River. De Soto's North American expedition was a vast undertaking. It ranged throughout what is now the southeastern United States, searching both for gold, which had been reported by various Native Americans of the United States, Native American tribes and earlier coastal explorers, and for a passage to China or the Pacific coast. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River; sources disagree on the exa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernando De Lerma
Hernando de Lerma Polanco (born November 1, 1541) was a conqueror, politician, lawyer and city founder from Salta, Argentina. On November 13, 1577, Lerma was named Governor of Tucumán, (in present Argentina) by Spanish King Philip II. Described by historians as a man of violence, de Lerma had problems with several people from the area, including fellow countrymen. Among those he persecuted were the spokesman of a Catholic bishop. He also disliked Francisco Salcedo, another Catholic man who built a church in Santiago del Estero. Many of de Lerma's opponents ended up in jail or being killed. Salcedo retired to another city and became convalescent, but he was returned to Tucumán by de Lerma's men after he found him. In Tucumán, Salcedo was tried and jailed. A large number of Salcedo's supporters were killed. In April 1582, de Lerma founded the city of Salta, next to the Arenales River. He foresaw Salta as an economic center, since the Spanish government had opened seaport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish ''conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Born in Medellín, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue adventure and riches in the New World. He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba, where he received an ''encomienda'' (the right to the labor of certain subjects). For a short time, he served as ''alcalde'' (magistrate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, which he partly funded. His enmity with the governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cué ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Hernando
Alejandro Fabián Hernando (born May 5, 1976) is an Argentine taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the men's featherweight category. He captured a bronze medal in the 68-kg division at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and represented his nation Argentina in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004). Hernando made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the men's featherweight class (68 kg). He moved directly into the quarterfinals with a first round bye, but ended abruptly by losing the match to Iran's Hadi Saei 0–3. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ..., Hernando qualified for his second Argentine team in the men's featherweight class (68 k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
