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Pons (personal Name)
Pons () is a surname of Catalan origin. It is also given name. Within a person’s personal name, it is sometimes used as a first name or middle name. Pons is also sometimes used mononymously (''e.g.'', by someone who is known simply as Pons, as Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) is sometimes known as "Francis"). Notable people with this name include: Surname A–J *Abel Molinero Pons (born 1989), Spanish footballer *Alain Pons (born 1995), Gibraltarian footballer * Antoinette de Pons-Ribérac (1560–1632), French courtier *Antonio Pons (1897–1980), Ecuadorian politician *Axel Pons (born 1991), Spanish motorcycle racer and model; son of Sito Pons, brother of Edgar Pons *Beatrice Pons (1906–1991), American actor *Bernadeth Pons (born 1996), Filipino volleyball player *Bernard Pons (born 1926), French politician and physician * Bonne de Pons d'Heudicourt (1644–1709), French courtier *Cipriano Pons (1890–unknown), Argentine fencer and Olympics competitor *Edgar Pons (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalan Language
Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as '' Valencian'' ( autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eastern Spain: Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands. It also has semi-official status in the Italian comune of Alghero. It is also spoken in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of France and in two further areas in eastern Spain: the eastern strip of Aragon and the Carche area in the Region of Murcia. The Catalan-speaking territories are often called the or "Catalan Countries". The language evolved from Vulgar Latin in the Middle Ages around the eastern Pyrenees. Nineteenth-century Spain saw a Catalan literary revival, culminating in the early 1900s. Etymology and pronunciation The word ''Catalan'' is derived from the territorial name of Catalonia, itself of disputed etymology. The main theory suggests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eolo Pons
Eolo Pons (1914–2009) was an Argentine painter. Eolo Pons was born in Buenos Aires. He studied from 1935-38 in the studio of the influential Argentine painter and teacher Lino Enea Spilimbergo; among Pons' fellow students were his close friends figurative painters Leopoldo Presas (b. 1915) and Luis Lusnich (1911–1995). Subsequently, Eolo Pons worked in the printmaking studio of Surrealist graphic artists Jose Planas Casas (1900–1960), Juan Batlle Planas (1911–1966) and Pompeyo Audivert (1900–1977). Eolo Pons' work is sometimes associated with that of his philosophical mentor Carlos Giambiagi (1887–1965), a native of Uruguay who was known for his writings on art and aesthetics and for his small paintings of Misiones Province landscapes. From 1958-1964, together with indigenous painter Medardo Pantoja (1906–1976), Jorge Gnecco (1914–1965), and Luis Pellegrini, Eolo Pons established and taught at the Provincial Fine Arts School of Jujuy, in the Andean northwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaurés Lamarque Pons
Jaurés Lamarque Pons ( Salto, 6 May 1917 - Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ..., 11 June 1982) was an Uruguayan composer and pianist.Latin American lives: selected biographies Page 552 Macmillan General Reference Staff, Macmillan Publishing - 1998 "Jaurés Lamarque Pons (b. 6 May 1917; d. 11 June 1982), Uruguayan composer and pianist. Lamarque Pons was born in Salto, where he began his music studies with Maria Victoria Varela.. " He composed, often milongas and film music, while performing. From 1940 he was pianist at the Café Tabarís in the orquesta típica of Luis Caruso. Among works known outside Latin America his concerto for classical guitar was recorded for Decca by fellow Uruguayan Eduardo Fernández. References Uruguayan composers Uruguay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaufre De Pons
Jaufre de Pons or Pon (french: Geoffroy or , oc, Jaufré, modern English: ''Geoffrey'') was a 13th-century knight and troubadour from the castle of Pons in the March of Poitou in the Saintonge.Egan, 98. He composed ''tensos'' with his castellan, Rainaut de Pons. There is joint ''vida'' of Jaufre and Rainaut. Only two of his ''tensos'' survive and only one that has survived is with Rainaut ("Seign'en Jaufre, respondetz mi, si·us platz"). The other is a ''partimen'' with Guiraut Riquier ("Guiraut Riquier, diatz me," composed probably 1270 or 1280–1).Pfeffer, 107. Jaufre's part in the debate consists in asking plain youthful questions about love only to receive the bitter and experienced answers of Guiraut in proverbial form.Pfeffer, 108. Jaufre was probably the husband of Isabeau, daughter of Henry II of Rodez, a patron of troubadours. In 1292 he rendered homage to the lord of Châteauroux. Some scholars have suspected that there were more than one Jaufre de Pons (one from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Pons
Íngrid Pons Molina (born 27 February 1975 in Montgat) is a Spanish former basketball player who played for the Spanish National team from 1996 to 2004, winning two bronze medals in the 2001 and 2003 Eurobaskets. She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Club career Pons spent her formative years in clubs in nearby Barcelona: Montgat, Mireria and Segle XXI. She played for 16 years in the Spanish top tier league at Universitari Barcelona (1992-1998, 2004-2007) and Popular Godella / Ros Casares (1998-2004), winning a total of four leagues and three domestic cups. She retired in 2008 at EBE Promociones PDV. National team She made her debut with Spain women's national basketball team at the age of 21. She played with the senior team for 8 years, from 1996 to 2004. She is one of the most capped players with a total of 127 caps and 6.1 PPG. She participated in the (Athens 2004 Olympics, two World Championships and three European Championships: * 9th 1991 FIBA Europe Under-16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffroy III De Pons
Geoffroy III de Pons, Lord of Pons, was a 12th-century French noble. Life Geoffroy was a son of Pons de Pons and Gervaise de Craon. In 1160, Geoffroy founded the Hôpital des Pèlerins (Pilgrims' Hospital), outside the walls of Pons, to replace an older hospital that was too small, to host the growing numbers of pilgrims on their way along the Way of St. James to the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in Spain. The hospital was originally run by the Knights Templar. During a revolt with Count of Angoulême and Hugh IX of Lusignan and Geoffrey de Rancon, Lord of Taillebourg against King Henry II of England,{{sfn , Vaux de Foletier , 1929 , p=30 their vassal as the Duke of Aquitaine, the Castle of Pons is destroyed by Richard Lionheart in 1179.{{sfn, Combes, 1985, p=113 Geoffroy was able to recover his lands and obtain permission to build a new castle in 1180.{{sfn, Combes, 1985, p=113 He died in 1191, and was buried in St-Vivien Church, Pons, France. Marriage and issue Geof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gastón Pons Muzzo
Gastón Pons Muzzo ( circa 1922 – January 6, 2004) was a Peruvian chemist. He was born in Tacna, Peru and joined National University of San Marcos staff in the 1960s to lecture general chemistry laboratory at the Department of Chemistry. He also was known for his teaching of physical chemistry and for his accompanying textbook. He was elected as dean in 1964 and remained in office until 1967. He was elected as president of Chemical Society of Peru between 1974 and 1977 and was rector magnificus of the university. In 1985, when his term ended, he was awarded by then Peru's official secretary of treasury, ''Miguel Ángel Cusiánovich'', in recognition of his role as rector. Before his retirement from National University of San Marcos, he was appointed to another term in Peru's chemical society from 1988 to 1989. During the late 1990s, he was elected president of the commission which eventually established ''"María Inmaculada de Magdalena University"'', but health problems le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Pons
Frédéric Pons (born in 1954) is a French Army officer and journalist. Biography Pons served as a Blue Helmet in Lebanon. He rose to the rank of colonel in parachute units of the Troupes de marine, and is now a reserve officer. He teaches at the Collège interarmées de défense (CID) and at École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr. He also works as a journalist at '' Spectacle du Monde'', and as chief redactor of the World service of '' Valeurs Actuelles''. He is president of the Association des Journalistes de la Défense (AJD), an association of journalists specialised in Defence matters. In 1996, Pons was awarder the Erwan Bergot literary prize by the Army for ''Les Français à Sarajevo''. Works * ''Esthétique et politique : les intellectuels fascistes français et le cinéma : Rebatet, Brasillach, Bardèche, 1930-1945'', Master thesis, Université Paris-I, 1977 * ''Action humanitaire et politique internationale : Politique et morale'' (co-authored with Alain-Gérard S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Moya Pons
Dr. Rafael Francisco “Frank” Moya Pons is one of the leading contemporary historians of the Dominican Republic. He has published many important books in the history and cultural heritage of the country. One of his best-known works is ''Manual de historia dominicana'' (1992), now in its tenth edition which is a staple work of Dominican historiography. In 1985 he authored the book ''Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish'', in 1998 ''The Dominican Republic: A National History'' and in 2007 '' History of the Caribbean: plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world''. He has also conducted much work into slavery in the Dominican Republic and Caribbean. Moya has a Degree in 'Philosophy' at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD); has a Master in both 'Latin American History' and 'European History' at Georgetown University. Moya has a Ph.D. in 'Latin American History', 'Economic Development' and 'Quantitative Methods' from Columbia University. Moya Pons has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Vallejo Pons
Francisco Vallejo, son of Ángel R. Vallejo Jiménez, military academy graduate in Law, and Felicidad Pons Gomila. He was born in Mahón, where the main hospital on the island of Menorca was located, but he has never lived there, but rather in Es Castell (until 1989 called "Villacarlos"). In the family everyone played chess: his father with his grandfather and his brothers among them, so at the age of 5 he already knew how to play: he had learned by watching them. 2 A family friend, named Nissio, noticed his abilities and without knowing the rules perfectly, he was sent to the Villacarlos Chess School, where first Guillermo Simó, and later Jaume Villalonga and Pep Suárez were his teachers. His first international triumph was in 1991 when he won the title of world under-10 runner-up in Milwaukee. At the age of 11, his life radically changes: he goes to live without his family in Galicia, at the Marcote School in Mondariz-Balneario. There he combined his studies with his chess ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Pons Y Boigues
Francisco Pons y Boigues (1861-1899) was a Spanish Arabist and historian. Life Francisco Pons Boigues was born into humble circumstances in 1861 in the Valencian town of Carcaixent. He gained an early education at the seminar in Valencia. Following an opportune meeting with the Arabist Francisco Codera y Zaidín (editor of the series Bibliotheca arabico-hispana) he became his pupil. Codera encouraged him to study at the Faculty of Arts in Madrid. There his teacher was Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo. He graduated in 1885. Among his published texts were ''Apuntes de un viaje por Argelia y Túnez'' ('Notes of a trip through Algeria and Tunisia') (1888), '' Notes on the Mozarabic writings of Toledo Toledo most commonly refers to: * Toledo, Spain, a city in Spain * Province of Toledo, Spain * Toledo, Ohio, a city in the United States Toledo may also refer to: Places Belize * Toledo District * Toledo Settlement Bolivia * Toledo, Orur ... that are preserved in the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Pons
Félix Pons Irazazábal (14 September 1942, Palma – 2 July 2010, Id.) was a Spanish politician. He served as the President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain from 1986 until 1996; previously he had served as the Minister of Territorial Administration. In Congress he represented the Balearic Islands. Pons was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. He died of cancer. His brother Josep Pons is the Spanish ambassador in Austria and became the president of RCD Mallorca Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, ca, Reial Club Deportiu Mallorca , ''Royal Sporting Club Mallorca''), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Majorca in ... on 8 July 2010. ReferencesObituary(in Spanish) 1942 births 2010 deaths Presidents of the Congress of Deputies (Spain) Government ministers of Spain Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians People from Palma de Mallorca Deaths from cance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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