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Fernando Montes de Oca was born between 1828 and 1832 in Azcapotzalco, then a town just to the north of Mexico City and now one of its boroughs. His parents were José María Montes de Oca and Josefa Rodríguez. He had applied to the Academy on 24 January 1847, and was one of the cadets who remained in the castle.
Niño (Spanish for boy) is a given name, nickname and surname of Spanish origin. The appearance of the surname dates back to medieval Spain, where several prestigious families had the surname, such as the Niño de Guevara family of Bishops from Andalusia, and the Niño brothers, who were involved in the Discovery of the Americas.
Holy Infant of Atocha, Santo Niño de Atocha, Holy Child of Atocha, Saint Child of Atocha, or Wise Child of Atocha is a Roman Catholic image of the Christ Child popular among the Hispanic cultures of Spain, Latin America and the southwestern United States. It is distinctly characterized by a basket of bread he carries, along with a staff, and a ...
Nino Cottone, nickname of Antonio Cottone (1904/1905 – 1956), Sicilian Mafioso; Nino Culotta, pen name of John O'Grady, (1907 – 1981), Australian writer; Nino D'Angelo, nickname of Gaetano D'Angelo (born 1957), Italian singer; Nino de Angelo, stagename of Domenico Gerhard Gorgoglione (born 1963), German singer
A photograph of William Saunders Crowdy which appeared in a 1907 edition of The Baltimore Sun. The origins of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement are found in Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, who both claimed that they had revelations in which they believed that God told them that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews in the Christian Bible; Cherry established the "Church ...
A photograph of the original image of Santo Niño de Cebu from 1903. The image originally had a very dark complexion pre-World War II, which has been removed to reveal a much fairer skin tone. A photograph of the original image of Santo Niño de Cebu post-World War II, with its lighter skin tone after the dark paint was peeled off.
One of the most documented episodes of this persecution was the arrest of the Portuguese Sebastián Rodríguez, accused of being a Judaizer, meaning a practitioner of Judaism. Rodríguez led a group of Crypto-Jews, including Antonio de Ávila, González de Silva, Domingo de Almeyda, and a Mercedarian friar, all secretly practicing Judaism.
The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace, with an associated prize in Economics awarded since 1969. [1]