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Josefa Durán y Ortega (c. 1830–1872), known by the stage name Pepita de Oliva, was a Romani Spanish dancer who performed across Europe, popularizing Spanish flamenco dancing and costumes. Despite her official marriage with her dance teacher Juan Antonio Gabriel de la Oliva in 1851, the following year she established a partnership with the ...
Pepita Inglés (1910 - 18 April 1937) was an anarcho-syndicalist fighter and member of the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War. Her code name was Rosario. Her code name was Rosario. She died on the Aragon Front in 1937 in a confrontation with fascist troops.
A pumpkin seed, also known as a pepita (from the Mexican Spanish: pepita de calabaza, 'little seed of squash'), is the edible seed of a pumpkin or certain other cultivars of squash. The seeds are typically flat and oval with one axis of symmetry, have a white outer husk , and are light green after the husk is removed.
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Pepita, or pumpkin seed, is the edible seed of pumpkins or related squashes. Pepita may also refer to: Pepita glass engraving; The Pepita, later the Maria Asumpta, a brig that sailed from 1858 to 1995; In people. Pepita de Oliva (1830–1871), Spanish dancer; Pepita Pardell (1928-2019), Spanish animator, cartoonist, illustrator, painter
Victoria was one of seven illegitimate children [3] of the English diplomat Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron Sackville, and a Spanish dancer known by the stage name of "Pepita de Oliva", (Josefa née Durán y Ortega; she was married to Juan Antonio de Oliva). Pepita was referred to as Countess West, though she never divorced her legal husband ...
Pepita Jiménez is a lyric comedy or comic opera with music written by the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz. The original opera was written in one act and used an English libretto by Albéniz's patron and collaborator, the Englishman Francis Money-Coutts, which is based on the novel of the same name by Juan Valera. The opera was later adapted ...
Josefa de Tudó y Catalán, 1st Countess of Castillo Fiel, [note 1] also known as Pepita Tudó (19 May 1779 – 20 September 1869) was the second wife of Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy. It has been suggested she was the model for two paintings by Goya , La maja desnuda ( The Naked Maja ) and La maja vestida ( The Clothed Maja ).