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T.C. Boyle was born Thomas John Boyle, the son of Thomas John Boyle, a school bus driver, and his wife Rosemary Post Boyle (later Rosemary Murphy), a school secretary. [4] He grew up in Peekskill, New York and changed his middle name to Coraghessan when he was 17 after an ancestor of his mother.
A more recent example can be found in the name of Francisco de Asís Franco y Martínez-Bordiú (born 1954), who took first the name of his mother, Carmen Franco, rather than that his father, Cristóbal Martínez-Bordiú, 10th Marquis of Villaverde, in order to perpetuate the family name of his maternal grandfather, the Caudillo Francisco ...
Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez [a] (born 15 May 1971) is a Spanish computer scientist and an expert in artificial intelligence at the University of Salamanca, [1] the oldest university in the Hispanic world and the third oldest in the world.
The often flamboyant outcomes of his stories are a result of his personal theory about writing—that like music, it is ultimately a form of entertainment. [6] He believes that reading has declined in America because stories have become a high art that is incomprehensible to the average person. [3]
The Cojuangco (Kapampangan: [koˈ(x)wəŋku]; Tagalog: [kɔˈhwaŋkɔ]; Chinese: 許寰哥; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khó͘-hoân-ko; Min Nan Chinese: [kʰɔ˥˧huan˨˦ko˦]) clan is a prominent Filipino family descended from Co Yu Hwan (許玉寰; Khó͘ Gio̍k-khoân), who migrated to the Philippines in 1861 from Hongjian Village, Jiaomei Township, Zhangzhou, Fujian. [1]
Salcedo was born in 1549 in the Spanish territory of Mexico on the colony of the viceroyalty of New Spain.He was the son of Pedro de Salcedo and Teresa López de Legazpi. He had one older brother named Felipe de Salcedo, who was also a soldier in the Spanish army, and who accompanied him and his grandfather during their campaigns to the Philippine
Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega (Spanish: [xoaˈkin roðˈɾiɣeθ oɾˈteɣa]; 17 February 1903 – 1 January 1984), [4] professionally known as Cagancho (Spanish: [kaˈɣantʃo]), was a Spanish bullfighter much of whose career was spent in Mexico, although he did sometimes perform in his native Spain, and one of his performances there, in Almagro, Ciudad Real in 1927 even gave rise to a now well ...
And So Was His Grandfather (Spanish: Hasta su abuelo) is an aquatint by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya. Created between 1797 and 1799 for the Diario de Madrid , it is the 39th of the 80 aquatints making up the satirical Los caprichos .