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Pinto or Pinta is a member of a Chicano subculture of people who are or have been incarcerated. It is an in-group moniker used to distinguish oneself from the general prison population or from "model inmates." It is a term which embraces the oppositional elements of being a Convicto. [1]
The owner of La Pinta was Cristóbal Quintero. The Quintero brothers were ship owners from Palos. The owner of the ship allowed Martín Alonso Pinzón to take over the ship so he could keep an eye on it. La Pinta was a caravel-type vessel. By tradition Spanish ships were named after saints and usually given nicknames. Thus, La Pinta, like La ...
The Wharf of the Caravels (Spanish: Muelle de las Carabelas) is a museum in Palos de la Frontera, in the province of Huelva, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.Its most prominent exhibits are replicas of Christopher Columbus's boats for his first voyage to the Americas, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María.
(in Spanish) Adám Szászdi: El descubrimiento de Puerto Rico en 1492 por Martín Alonso Pinzón, in: Revista de historia. San Juan, Año 1(1985), Nr. 2, S. 9-45. (in Spanish) Domingo Gómez: Vindicación del piloto de la carabela "Pinta", Martín Alonso Pinzón, in: Mundi hispánico. - Madrid, Año 21(1968), Nr. 241.
Dalila Puzzovio in 1962 with her piece La Novia Abandonada. In 1963, she worked alongside Germaine Derbecq to create her second exhibition Cascaras (Shells). These "cascaras astrales", or astral shells, resembled empty bodies and were made of discarded orthopedic casts and other objects.
Niña, like Pinta and Santa María, was a smaller trade ship built to sail the Mediterranean sea, not the open ocean. It was greatly surpassed in size by ships like Peter von Danzig of the Hanseatic League , built in 1462, 51 m (167 ft) in length, and the English carrack Grace Dieu , built during the period 1420–1439, weighing between 1,400 ...
La moda or La Moda may refer to: La Moda, an Argentine women's journal of the 1830s founded by Juan Bautista Alberdi; La moda, a 1761 comic opera by Antonio Boroni, to a libretto by Pietro Cipretti; La moda, a 1771 comic opera pasticcio with music by Antonio Salieri and others, to the same libretto by Pietro Cipretti; La Moda, a 2005 album by ...
Pinta, yachts owned by Willi Illbruck; Pinta (disease), a skin disease caused by Treponema carateum; Pinta Island (also known as Abington Island) in the Galapagos Islands; Pinta (software), a Paint.NET-like image drawing and editing program; Pinta, slang for pint of milk after the Drinka pinta milka day advertising slogan