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María Moliner
María Moliner (30 March 1900 – 22 January 1981) was a Spanish librarian and lexicographer. She is perhaps best known for her '':es:Diccionario de uso del español, Diccionario de uso del español'', first published in 1966–1967, when she completed the work started in 1952. Biography María Juana Moliner Ruiz was the eldest daughter of Enrique Moliner, a doctor and son of a doctor, and Matilde Ruiz. At the age of two, her family moved from Zaragoza to Almazán in the border Provinces of Spain, province of Soria. While a teenager her father left for Argentina and never came back, while Moliner, according to her son Fernando, lived with her mother, sister Matilde and brother Enrique in severe poverty. She pursued her Bachillerato at the Instituto General y Técnico Cardenal Cisneros, and obtained a degree in History in 1921 from the University of Zaragoza. She married Fernando Ramón Ferrando, a physics graduate, in 1925 and had four children. Years later the couple moved to Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational corporation founded in 1892. It manufactures, sells and markets soft drinks including Coca-Cola, other non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, and alcoholic beverages. Its stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, DJIA and the S&P 500 Index, S&P 500 and S&P 100 indexes. Coca-Cola was developed in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton. At the time it was introduced, the product contained the stimulants cocaine from coca leaves and caffeine from kola nuts which together acted synergistically. The coca and the kola are the source of the product name, and led to Coca-Cola's promotion as a "healthy tonic". Pemberton had been severely wounded in the American Civil War, and had become addicted to the pain medication morphine. At the time, cocaine was being promoted as a "cure" for opioid addiction, so he developed the beverage as a patent medicine in an effort to c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instituto Cervantes
Instituto Cervantes (, the Cervantes Institute) is a worldwide nonprofit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. It is named after Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the author of ''Don Quixote'' and perhaps the most important figure in the history of Spanish literature. The Cervantes Institute is the largest organization in the world responsible for promoting the study and the teaching of Spanish language and culture. This organization has branched out to 45 countries with 88 centres devoted to the Spanish and Hispanic American culture and Spanish language. Article 3 of Law 7/1991, of March 21, created the Instituto Cervantes as a government agency. The law explains that the ultimate goals of the Institute are to promote the education, the study and the use of Spanish universally as a second language; to support the methods and activities that would help the process of Spanish language education, and to contribute to the advancement of the Spanish and Hispanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Peña
Maria Victòria Peña Carulla (born 11 January 1954) better known as Vicky Peña is a Spanish actress. She is one of the most important voice actors in Catalan and Spanish. Family and early life She is the daughter of the actors Felip Peña and Montserrat Carulla, and the mother of Miranda Gus. She started working in the 1966 TV series ''La pequeña comedia''. Since then, she has been nominated and rewarded with several prizes. In 2005, she was elected as Vice President of the Professional Actors and Directors Association of Catalonia. Selected filmography *''Werther'' (1986) *''La casa de Bernarda Alba'' (1987) *''Entre rojas'' (1995) *'' The Good Life'' (1996) *''Marquise'' (1997) *'' Secretos del corazón'' (1997) *''El pianista'' (1998) *''Em dic Sara'' (1999) . *''Sé quién eres'' (2000) . *''Morir (o no)'' (2000) *''Noche de fiesta'' (2002) *''Smoking Room'' (2002) *'' Piedras'' (2002) *''El deseo de ser piel roja'' (2002) *'' Las voces de la noche'' (2003) *''Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Of Spanish Theatre In London (Festelón)
The Festival of Spanish Theatre of London (FesTeLõn) has taken place in London every year since 2013, when it opened at the Greenwood Theatre, with a production of ''El Diccionario (The Dictionary)'' by Manuel Calzada, a play about the lexicographer María Moliner, with Vicky Peña starring in the lead role. Its objective is to bring contemporary theatre beyond the borders of Spain, working with professional Spanish theatre companies. The plays are usually performed in Spanish with English surtitles in order to ensure that they are accessible to the widest possible audience. The festival also includes a full programme of related talks and workshops to complement the stage performances, as well as bilingual “meet the cast” sessions, with Q&A. Production list * 2013: ''El Diccionario (The Dictionary)'' by Manuel Calzada * 2014: ''En un lugar del Quijote (Somewhere in Don Quixote) '' by Ron Lalá Teatro * 2015: ''Las heridas del viento (Wounded by the Wind)'' by Juan Carlos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vocento
Vocento, S.A., also known as Grupo Vocento, is a Spanish mass media group. Its flagship daily newspaper is the conservative and monarchist ''ABC'', also publishing '' El Correo''. Vocento was created in 2001 upon the merger of Grupo Correo with , the publisher of ''ABC''. The group is also a player in the regional press sector, mainly owing to former properties of Correo ('' El Diario Montañés'', '' La Verdad'', '' Hoy'', '' Ideal'', '' Sur'', ''La Rioja'', '' El Norte de Castilla'', '' El Comercio''). Through Net TV, the group also owns a digital terrestrial television license in Spain, which is leased to Paramount Network and Disney Channel. History It has its origins in 1910 with the launch of ''El Pueblo Vasco'', a newspaper founded by the Ybarra family, which merged with ''El Correo Español'', another newspaper, in 1938. In the 1940s they obtained shares in the newspaper ''El Noticiero Bilbaíno'' and in 1948 they began its development with the acquisition of most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC (Madrid)
''ABC'' () is a Spanish national daily newspaper. Along with and , it is one of Spain's three newspapers of record. History and profile ''ABC'' was first published in Madrid on 1 January 1903 by Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio. The founding publishing house was Prensa Española, which was led by the founder of the paper, Luca de Tena. The paper started as a weekly newspaper, turning daily in June 1905. In 1928 ABC had two editions, one for Madrid and the other for Seville. The latter was named ''ABC de Sevilla''. On 20 July 1936, shortly after the Spanish Civil War began, ''ABC'' in Madrid was seized by the republican government, which changed the paper's politics to support the Republicans. The same year ''Blanco y Negro'', a magazine, became its supplement. The ''ABC'' printed in Seville was supportive of the Nationalists. In 1939 ''ABC'' in Madrid was given back to its original owners by Francisco Franco. During this period the paper was one of two major dailies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with '' El Mundo'' and '' ABC)''. In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000. Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions were produced until 2015. also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America). History was founded in May 1976 by a team at PRISA which included Jesus de Polanco, José Ortega Spottorno and Carlos Mendo. The paper was designed by Reinhard Gade and Julio Alonso. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Conde
Carmen Conde Abellán (15 August 1907 – 8 January 1996) was a Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena, along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the first woman to become an academic numerary of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech in 1979. Biography At the age of 7, she moved with her family to Melilla, where she lived until 1920. The memoir from that period were collected in ''Empezando la vida''. In 1923, she passed the competitive exam for Auxiliary at the Drafting Room of the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, where she started to work. She began her contributions to local newspapers one year later. At the age of 19, she started her studies in Education at a teacher training college, the Escuela Normal de Maestras de Murcia. In 1927, she met the Spanish poet Antonio Oliver Belmás, formalizing their relationship. She wrote in ''Ley: (entregas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Laín Entralgo
Pedro Laín Entralgo (15 February 1908 – 5 June 2001) was a Spanish physician, historian, author and philosopher. He worked, fundamentally, on medical history and anthropology. Biography He was born in Urrea de Gaén (Teruel, Spain) in 1908. He obtained the degrees of Medicine and Chemical Sciences in the Central University of Madrid, and PhD in Medicine with the dissertation: "El problema de las relaciones entre la medicina y la historia" (The problem of the relationships between medicine and history". During the Spanish Civil War he contributed to ''Arriba España''. In the context of the Spanish Civil postwar period, he became an important member of the intellectual circle of the Falange. In 1942 he obtained the first chair of History of Medicine in the country, at the Central University of Madrid. He held the chair until 1978 when he retired as professor emeritus. In 1951, during the period of Joaquín Ruiz-Jiménez as Ministry of education, he became rector of the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
