Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He assumed the name Napoleon at the age of six, when as a student at the St. Joseph Academy in Tagbilaran, one of the nuns first called him Napoleon after Napoleon Bonaparte. The name stuck, and ever since, Abueva referenced the quote from Napoleon: "If I weren't a conqueror, I would wish to be a sculptor." [4] [5]
Documentary evidence of a change of name can be in a number of forms, such as a marriage certificate, decree absolute (proof of divorce), civil partnership certificate, statutory declaration or deed of change of name. Such documents are mere evidence that a change of name has occurred and they do not themselves operate to change a person's name.
Abueva is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Calvin Abueva (born 1988), Filipino basketball player; José Abueva (1928–2021), Filipino political scientist and scholar; Napoleon Abueva (1930–2018), National Artist of the Philippines
Jennifer Lopez has filed to change what used to be her married name amid her divorce from Ben Affleck.. According to new court documents filed on August 21, obtained by US Weekly, the 55-year-old ...
Spain: After the triumph of Francisco Franco, filete imperial ("imperial beef") became a euphemism for filete ruso ("Russian beef"), "ensaladilla nacional" ("national salad") for "ensaladilla rusa" (Russian salad) and Caperucita Encarnada ("Little Red Riding Hood") for Caperucita Roja (which has the same meaning but loses its hypothetical ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Statue of Padre Diego Cera by Napoleon Abueva. The local parish houses the world-renowned Bamboo Organ. A statue of its first parish priest, Diego Cera de la Virgen del Carmen, can be found a few meters in front of its belfry. The statue was a commissioned work of National Artist for Sculpture, Napoleon Abueva. It was inaugurated on July 27 ...
The outer side is covered with 19 high relief sculptures by National Artist Napoleon Abueva, and alternates depictions of the war with 18 bronze insignia of USAFFE Division units by Talleres de Maximo Vicente, Leonides Valdez, and Angel Sampra and Sons. [5] Each bronze insignia has a flagstaff for the flags of each division. [8]