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Juana Berrío
Juana is a Spanish female name. It is the feminine form of ''Juan'' (English ''John''), and thus corresponds to the English names Jane, Jean, Joan, and Joanna. The feminine diminutive form (male equivalent to ''Johnny'') is Juanita (equivalent to ''Janet'', ''Janey'', ''Joanie'', etc). It is very common in Spain, the other Spanish-speaking countries around the world, and in the Philippines. The name ''Juana'' may refer to: People *Juana I (1479–1555), Queen of Castile and Aragon *Juana Rosa Aguirre (1877–1963), Chilean first lady *Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1780–1862), South American military leader * Juana Barraza (born 1957), Mexican serial killer *Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (1875–1942), Mexican writer *Juana Bormann (1893–1945), German war criminal *Juana Briones de Miranda (1802–1889), American landowner *Juana Castro (born 1933), Cuban exile *Juana Cruz (1917–1981), Spanish bullfighter *Juana Dib (1924-2015), Argentine poet, journalist, and teacher * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female
An organism's sex is female ( symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes (unlike isogamy where they are the same size). The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown. In species that have males and females, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Characteristics of organisms with a female sex vary between different species, having different female reproductive systems, with some species showing characteristics secondary to the reproductive system, as with mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender in the social sense of gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana I
Joanna of Castile (6 November 1479 – 12 April 1555), historically known as Joanna the Mad (), was the nominal queen of Castile from 1504 and queen of Aragon from 1516 to her death in 1555. She was the daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Joanna was married by arrangement to the Austrian archduke Philip the Handsome on 20 October 1496.Bethany Aram, ''Juana the Mad: Sovereignty and Dynasty in Renaissance Europe'' (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP, 2005), p. 37 Following the deaths of her elder brother John, elder sister Isabella, and nephew Miguel between 1497 and 1500, Joanna became the heir presumptive to the crowns of Castile and Aragon. When her mother died in 1504, she became queen of Castile. Her father proclaimed himself governor and administrator of Castile.Bergenroth, G A, Introduction. Letters, Despatches, and State Papers to the Negotiations between England and Spain. Suppl. to vols 1 and 2. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Larando
Juana Larando (fl. 1630) was a female privateer from the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque city of San Sebastián, Donostia in Spain. She was a widow who had an inn as well as part ownership of a sailing/rowing ship called a Patache, pataché with which her crew captured and plundered enemy ships off the coast of France and England. Although she never sailed, she had financial agreements with her privateers giving her a share of their spoils from captured loot. Biography Juana Larando was a widow who owned an inn in San Sebastián, Donostia (officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián in northern Spain) and housed privateers in her rooms. (Privateer, Privateering is the practice of authorized sea-raiding and is not the same as Piracy, which is unauthorized.) The Basque port had a reputation that attracted local and foreign privateers and shipowners from all over the country as well as other regions of the north. These people lived in local inns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Inés De La Cruz
Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, better known as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (12 November 1651 – 17 April 1695), was a Hieronymite nun and a Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period, nicknamed "The Tenth Muse", "The Mexican Phoenix", and "The Phoenix of America" by her contemporary critics. She was also a student of science and corresponded with the English scientist Isaac Newton. She was among the main contributors to the Spanish Golden Age, alongside Juan de Espinosa Medrano, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón and Garcilaso de la Vega "''el Inca"'', and is considered one of the most important female writers in Spanish language literature and Mexican literature. Sor Juana's significance to different communities and has varied greatly across time- having been presented as a candidate for Catholic sainthood; a symbol of Mexican nationalism; and a paragon of freedom of speech, women's rights, and sexual diversity, making her a figure of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Enríquez
Juana Enriquez, 5th Lady of Casarrubios del Monte (1425 – 13 February 1468) was Queen of Aragon and de facto Queen consort of Navarre as the wife of King John II. Juana Enríquez was the Regent of Navarre during the absence of her husband in the Navarrese Civil War (1451–1455); she also served as Governor of Catalonia in 1462 in the place of her son (who was his father's nominal governor) and, finally, as Regent of Aragon during the absence of her husband in the Catalan Civil War between 1465 and 1468. Biography Juana Enriquez was a daughter of Fadrique Enríquez and Mariana Fernández de Córdoba, 4th Lady of Casarrubios del Monte, and succeeded her mother in 1431. Born in Torrelobatón, she was a great-great-granddaughter of Alfonso XI of Castile. Queen of Navarre The marriage between Juana Enriquez and John of Aragon was arranged because John wished to ally himself with the powerful noble faction she belonged to, a faction which had major power in Castile at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana De Ibarbourou
Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou, also known as Juana de América, (March 8, 1892 – July 15, 1979) was a Uruguayan poet and one of the most popular writers of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earliest of which is often highly erotic, is notable for her identification of her feelings with nature around her. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1959, 1960 and 1963. Biography She was born Juana Fernández Morales on March 8, 1892, in Melo, Cerro Largo, Uruguay. The date of Juana's birth is often given as March 8, 1895, but according to a local state civil registry signed by two witnesses, the year was actually 1892. Juana began studies at the José Pedro Varela school in 1899 and moved to a religious school the following year, and two public schools afterwards. In 1909, when she was 17 years old, she published a prose piece, "Derechos femeninos" (women's rights), beginning a lifelong career as a prominent feminist. She married Captain Lucas Ibarbourou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Dib
Juana Dib (Salta City, August 2, 1924 - Salta City, August 29, 2015) was an Argentine poet, journalist, and teacher. Biography The daughter of Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, Syrian Greek Orthodox Christian parents from Tumin, in the Hama Governorate, she was the third of eleven siblings. Trained as a teacher, Dib taught Spanish and administrative writing. Many of her students were immigrants and children of immigrants, whom she taught to speak and write in the Spanish language. She was a member of the Caja de Previsión Social de la Provincia, the Centro Salteño de Investigaciones de la Cultura Árabe, and the Federación de Entidades Argentino Árabes filial Salta. Much of her work was translated by Zaki Konsol, Juan Yacer, and Michael Nooman, and published in Syrian and Lebanese newspapers and magazines. After her death, the Syrian-Lebanese Union of Salta described her as (an excellent poetess, writer and intellectual guide of the Arab cause). Awards and honours * 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Cruz
Juana Cruz de la Casa (; 12 February 1917 – 18 May 1981), also known as Juanita Cruz (), was a Spanish woman bullfighter, considered one of the pioneers in Spanish women's bullfighting. Early life Even when she was a little girl, Cruz began to involve herself in the world of bulls by attending various kinds of bull spectacles, especially after moving to the Avenida Felipe II, right before the site where then stood Madrid's former Fuente del Berro bullring on the Aragón Road. She delivered her first ''estocada'' (the sword thrust meant to kill the bull) to a bull calf on 24 June 1932, when she was 15 years old, at León's bullring, and the news was published in the press, citing for the first time her full name, but the upshot from the publicity was not helpful to her: Spain's then Minister of Governance, Santiago Casares Quiroga, forbade her to fight bulls at any bullring. Even finding herself up against such difficulties, with special permission granted her by the appropria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Castro
Juana de la Caridad "Juanita" Castro Ruz ( , ; 6 May 1933 – 4 December 2023) was a Cuban-American activist and writer, as well as the sister of Fidel and Raúl, both former presidents of Cuba, and Ramón, a key figure of the Cuban Revolution. After collaborating with the Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba in 1964, she lived in the United States until her death. Early life Juana de la Caridad Castro Ruz was born in Birán, near Mayarí, in what is now known as the province of Holguín on 6 May 1933. She was the fourth child of Ángel Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz González and had three brothers — Ramón, Fidel, and Raúl — and three sisters — Angelita, Emma, and Agustina. Lina Ruz González was Ángel Castro's cook; he was married to another woman when Juanita and her older brothers were born. Castro also had five half-siblings: Lidia, Pedro Emilio, Manuel, Antonia, and Georgina, who were raised by Ángel Castro's first wife Maria Luisa Argota, as well as another h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Briones De Miranda
Juana Briones de Miranda (c. 1802 – 1889) was a Californio ranchera, medical practitioner, and merchant, often remembered as the "Founding Mother of San Francisco", for her noted involvement in the early development of the city of San Francisco (then known as Yerba Buena, California, Yerba Buena). Later in her life, she also played an important role in developing modern Palo Alto, California, Palo Alto (then known as Mayfield, California). Early life Juana Briones y Tapia was born in c.1802 at Villa Branciforte near the Mission Santa Cruz. She was of a mixed-race family, which included Native American, African-American, and European descent (including Spanish). Her grandparents, parents and others of her family members had arrived in Alta California with the Gaspar de Portolà and the Juan Bautista de Anza expeditions. Her father was Marcos Briones, a soldier posted near Monterey, who later moved to the San Francisco Presidio. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Bormann
Johanna Bormann (misspelled: Juana Bormann); 10 September 1893 – 13 December 1945) was a German prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps from 1938. She was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin after a court trial in 1945. Early life Bormann was born on 10 September 1893 in , East Prussia. Not much in known about her early life, but she was raised in the Catholic faith. She had briefly pursued a career as a missionary for ''Deutsche Mission''. Career, trial and execution At her trial, Bormann said she had joined the Auxiliary SS, on 1 March 1938, as a civilian employee "to earn more money". She first served at the Lichtenburg concentration camp in Saxony under SS '' Oberaufseherin'' Jane Bernigau with 49 other SS women. She worked in the camp kitchens. In 1939, she was assigned to oversee a work crew at the new Ravensbrück women's camp near Berlin. In March 1942, Bormann was one of a handful of women selected for guard duty at Auschwitz in occupied Polan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana Belén Gutiérrez De Mendoza
Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (27 January 1875 – 13 July 1942) was a Mexican journalist, activist, revolutionary, and teacher. She is best known for her opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz; her writings critiquing the Mexican state; and her advocacy for the rights of women, workers, and Indigenous people. She was a significant figure during the Mexican Revolution. Gutiérrez's career as an activist began in Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, where she wrote for several newspapers criticizing the Díaz regime. Because of a report she wrote concerning the mistreatment of mine workers, she was imprisoned for a year. After her release, she joined several Liberalism in Mexico, liberal anti-Díaz groups and, beginning in 1898, associated with various prominent liberal figures. In 1901, she moved to the city of Guanajuato (city), Guanajuato and, with Elisa Acuña, began publishing the anti-Díaz and anti-clericalism, anti-clerical periodical ''Vésper'' ( 'Evening Star') until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
