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Juan de Herrera
Juan de Herrera The Spanish architect Juan de Herrera (ca. 1530-1597) helped to plan the Escorial and introduced there a style that influenced Spanish architecture for over a century. Juan de Herrera was born in Mobellán, Santander Province. He completed his studies at the University of... Read more |
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Escorial
Escorial or Escurial , monastery and palace, in New Castile, central Spain, near Madrid. One of the finest edifices in Europe, it was built (1563-84) as the monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial by Philip II to commemorate the Spanish victory over the French at Saint-Quentin (1557). The somber... Read more |
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Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera: 1939—: Fashion designer Carolina Herrera's designs offer a certain chic, well-heeled style, with a classic feminine sensibility, for her devoted base of...... Read more |
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Panama Invasion 1989
PANAMA INVASION PANAMA INVASION (1989). The invasion of Panama by U.S. forces in December 1989 was designed in part to end the rule of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. A graduate of the Peruvian Military Academy in 1962, he had supported Colonel Omar Torrijos Herrera, the ruler of Panama, during... Read more |
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Mariano Arista
Mariano Arista , 1802-55, Mexican general and president (1851-53). A royalist in the revolt against Spain, he later joined Agustín de Iturbide. He fought in the Mexican army that tried to put down the Texas revolt (1836). In command of the army in N Mexico in the Mexican War, he was defeated... Read more |
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Una
Una ♀ Anglicized form of Irish Úna. In Irish legend Úna is the mother of the hero Conn Cétchathach (Conn of the Hundred Battles). It was also the name of the beloved of the 17th-century poet Tomás Láidir Costello: banned by her parents from seeing him, Úna... Read more |
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Maria Luisa Bemberg
BEMBERG, Maria Luisa Nationality:Argentinian. Born:Buenos Aires, 1925. Family:Divorced, four children. Career:Established Argentina's Teatro del Globo theater company, 1950s; wrote her first screenplay, Cronica de una Senora (Chronicle of a Woman),... Read more |
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El Capitan
El Capitan (1896), a comic opera by Charles Klein (book), John Philip Sousa (music, lyrics), Tom Frost (lyrics). [Broadway Theatre, 112 perf.] Don Medigua ( De Wolf Hopper), the viceroy of Peru, captures the rebel El Capitan, executes him, and assumes his place in disguise. The rebels capture... Read more |
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