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Life and career. Photo of Juventino Rosas, in 1890. Rosas was born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato, later renamed Santa Cruz de Galeana, Guanajuato, and still later into Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas. [1] Rosas began his musical career as a street musician, playing with dance music bands in Mexico City. In 1884-85 and 1888 he enrolled into the ...
Juan Manuel de Rosas. Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rosas (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", [A] was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation. Although born into a wealthy family, Rosas independently amassed a personal fortune ...
Piano sheet music cover (Germany) The waltz " Sobre las olas " (" Over the Waves ") is the best-known work of Mexican composer Juventino Rosas (1868–1894), who first published it in 1888. [1] It "remains one of the most famous Latin American pieces worldwide", according to the "Latin America" article in The Oxford Companion to Music. [2]
The executive offices were housed on the second floor, where there were the offices of Mr. President Dr. Soto and the government Secretary General Dr. Ramón Rosa. In 1883 the president of Honduras, the General Luis Bográn , decided that the busy house by the Plaza de la Merced was not suitable enough, and moved the offices to another building ...
Pampa Hermosa National Sanctuary. / 11.03667°S 75.48056°W / -11.03667; -75.48056. Pampa Hermosa National Sanctuary ( Spanish: Santuario Nacional Pampa Hermosa) is a protected area in Peru located in the region of Junín. [1] It preserves one of the last pristine areas of montane forests in central Peru. [1]
Las Trece Rosas. Plaque in the cemetery wall. "Las Trece Rosas" (the Thirteen Roses) is the name given in Spain to a group of thirteen young women who were executed by a Francoist firing squad on 5 August 1939, just after the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War. Their execution was part of a massive execution campaign known as the "saca de ...
The monastery of Santa Maria de Roses is mentioned in a document of the year 944. Around the monastery grew the mediaeval town of Roses, whose jurisdiction was shared by the abbots of Santa Maria de Roses and the counts of Empúries. As Rotdon, it was a suffragan bishopric of the Metropolitan Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tarragona, but faded.
The Rainbow Ballroom started its life as The Fresno Natatorium in 1918. The three-story, indoor-swimming complex had a high-dive platform, spring boards and trapeze rings set over the pool for ...