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José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (14 May 1947 – 15 December 1989), also known by the nicknames Don Sombrero (English: Mister Hat) and El Mexicano (English: The Mexican), was a Colombian drug lord who was one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel along with the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar.
The galaxy Messier 104 is known as the Sombrero Galaxy due to its appearance. [7] Similarly, Tampa Stadium was also known as "The Big Sombrero". In mathematics, the Jinc function is sometimes called the sombrero function and in physics, the Sombrero potential is a prescription for the potential energy that leads to the Higgs mechanism.
The Sombrero Festival was founded in Brownsville, TX, in 1986 by Danny Loff in order to enhance the spirit of Charro Days and to expand the activities available to the general public. The Sombrero Festival includes a jalapeño-eating contest, 1-mile run/walk and a 5K run/walk, music and dancers, activities, numerous food stands and cooking ...
A Mexican hat is a sombrero – a broad-brimmed and high-crowned hat. Mexican hat may also refer to: Mexican Hat, Utah, a census-designated place in Utah, USA and/or the balanced rock nearby that resembles an inverted sombrero; Ratibida columnifera or upright prairie coneflower, a species of wildflower that is native to much of North America
He is visible in movies like Ahí está el detalle (There's the Detail) (1940) dressed "in drooping pants held up by a rope and a small hat in place of a broad sombrero to leave the shoulders free for carrying loads" (Pilcher 2012). This comedy film was a hit throughout Latin America but Hollywood was more reluctant to embrace the character of ...
Charro at the charrería event at the San Marcos National Fair in Aguascalientes City Female and male charro regalia, including sombreros de charro Mexican Charro (1828). Originally, the term "Charro" was a derogatory name for the Mexican Rancheros, the inhabitants of the countryside.
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Mexican mask-folk art refers to the making and use of masks for various traditional dances and ceremony in Mexico. Evidence of mask making in the region extends for thousands of years and was a well-established part of ritual life in the pre-Hispanic territories that are now Mexico well before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire occurred.