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Isabel Margarita Ordetx
Isabel Margarita Ordetx y Cruz Prieto (1897 – ) was a Cuban writer, poet, and feminist activist. She contributed to various publications of her country as a chronicler, including ''Heraldo de Cuba'', ''La Discusión'', ''El Fígaro'', '' la Bohemia'', ''América'', ''Las Antillas'', and ''Arte. Revista Universal''. She was also editor of ''La Mujer'', together with Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia and Domitila García de Coronado Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (7 May 1847 – 1938) was a Cuban writer, journalist, editor, and professor, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in her country. Biography Domitila García Doménico de Coronado was born .... She launched the women's magazine ''Vanidades'' with Josefina Mosquera in 1937, and was its editor-in-chief from 1937 to 1952. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ordetx, Isabel Margarita 20th-century Cuban poets Cuban magazine editors Cuban women magazine editors Cuban women poets Cuban women activists C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is founded in Prague. February * February 10 – Freedom of religion is proclaimed in Madagascar. * February 16 – The French conquer the island of Raiatea and capture the rebel chief Teraupo'o, ending the Leeward Islands War and brin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Women's Rights Activists
Cuban or Cubans may refer to: Related to Cuba * of or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban Americans, citizens of the United States who are of Cuban descent * Cuban Spanish, the dialect of Cuba * Culture of Cuba * Cuban cigar * Cuban cuisine ** Cuban sandwich People with the surname * Brian Cuban (born 1961), American lawyer and activist * Mark Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur See also * * Kuban (other) * List of Cubans * Demographics of Cuba * Cuban Boys, a British music act * Cuban eight, a type of aerobatic maneuver * Cuban Missile Crisis * Cubane Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon compound with the Chemical formula, formula . It consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a Cube (geometry), cube, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom. A solid crystalline substanc ..., a synthetic hydr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG) was an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which was part of ABC-Clio. Since 2021, ABC-Clio and its suite of imprints, including GPG, are collectively imprints of British publishing house Bloomsbury Publishing. The Greenwood name stopped being used for new books in 2023. Established in 1967 as Greenwood Press, Inc., and based in Westport, Connecticut, GPG published reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint; and scholarly, professional, and general-interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers (). Also part of GPG was Libraries Unlimited, which published professional works for librarians and teachers. Both of the latter became stand-alone imprints of ABC-Clio, in 2008–2009, after its purchase of GPG. History 1967–1999 The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. (GPI) in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz, who had a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captaincy General Of Cuba
The Captaincy General of Cuba () was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain's attempt to better defend and administer its Caribbean possessions. The reform also established captaincies general in Captaincy General of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Captaincy General of Guatemala, Guatemala and Captaincy General of Yucatán, Yucatán. The restructuring of the Captaincy General in 1764 was the first example of the Bourbon Reforms in America. The changes included adding the provinces of Spanish Florida, Florida and Louisiana (New Spain), Louisiana and granting more autonomy to these provinces. This later change was carried out by the José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, Count of Floridablanca under Charles III of Spain, Charles III to strengthen the Spanish position vis-a-vis the Kingdom of Great Britain, British in the Caribbean. A new governor-captain general based in Havana oversaw the administration of the new district. The loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domitila García De Coronado
Domitila García Doménico de Coronado (7 May 1847 – 1938) was a Cuban writer, journalist, editor, and professor, considered to be the first women to practice journalism in her country. Biography Domitila García Doménico de Coronado was born on 7 May 1847 in Camagüey, Cuba. On 17 May 1891, she founded the Academy of Women Typographers. She founded and edited various publications, including the journals ''La Antorcha'' and ''El Céfiro'' together with Sofía Estevez (1848–1901). Besides these, she was editor of ''La Mujer'', together with Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia ''Aída'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 16 January 2005 to 8 June 2014. Set in Madrid, it is a spin off of the sitcom '' 7 Vidas'', on which Aída was a recurring character. It was produced by Globomedia. The show stars Car ... and Isabel Margarita Ordetx. She also published the first anthology of Cuban women writers in 1868, titled ''Álbum poético fotográfico de escritoras cub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aída Peláez De Villa Urrutia
''Aída'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 16 January 2005 to 8 June 2014. Set in Madrid, it is a spin off of the sitcom '' 7 Vidas'', on which Aída was a recurring character. It was produced by Globomedia. The show stars Carmen Machi as Aída García, a working single mother with two teenage children who is forced to move in with her mother Eugenia, played by Marisol Ayuso, and brother Luisma, played by Paco León, to make ends meet. The show received favorable reviews and was the most-viewed show in Spain from 2007 until the end of its run. It has also received several awards, including the Ondas Award for Best Spanish Sitcom. The Polish remake of the series began airing in March 2012 on the TVP2 channel. Synopsis The series begins when Aída García, a divorced, ex-alcoholic and uneducated cleaning worker, returns to her lifelong working-class neighborhood, Esperanza Sur, when her recently deceased father leaves her the family home as an inheritance. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
