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It is always written with two vertical lines: . It is the official sign of the Cape Verdean escudo ( ISO 4217 : CVE). In 1911, Portugal redefined the national currency as the escudo , worth 1000 réis , and divided into 100 centavos ; but the cifrão continued to be used as the decimal separator , [ 26 ] so that 123 50 meant 123.50 escudos or ...
Cooperativa La Cruz Azul, S.C.L. is a cement company in Mexico.It was founded in 1881 by a British businessman named Henry Gibbon. [1]On 22 May 1927, the company's workers organized Club Deportivo Cruz Azul football club as a company team, which has gone on to become one of the most famous association football teams in Mexico, winning several national and international titles. [2]
In his De Cruce (Antwerp 1594), p. 10 Justus Lipsius explained the two forms of what he called the crux simplex.. The term crux simplex was invented by Justus Lipsius (1547–1606) to indicate a plain transom-less wooden stake used for executing either by affixing the victim to it or by impaling him with it (Simplex [...] voco, cum in uno simplicique ligno fit affixio, aut infixio).
The Cross of Lorraine (French: Croix de Lorraine), known as the Cross of Anjou in the 16th century, is a heraldic two-barred cross, consisting of a vertical line crossed by two shorter horizontal bars. In most renditions, the horizontal bars are "graded" with the upper bar being the shorter, though variations with the bars of equal length are ...
José Luis Cruz Cruz was born on September 3, 1959. He is the oldest son of Luis Benjamín Cruz Hernández and Aurea Cruz Betancourt. His grandfather, Luis Cruz Hernández, was mayor of Trujillo Alto from 1941 to 1945. Cruz received his high school diploma from Colegio Santa Cruz in Trujillo Alto.
The word cross is recorded in 11th-century Old English as cros, exclusively for the instrument of Christ's crucifixion, replacing the native Old English word rood.The word's history is complicated; it appears to have entered English from Old Irish, possibly via Old Norse, ultimately from the Latin crux (or its accusative crucem and its genitive crucis), "stake, cross".
Punto y raya (English: Step Forward) is a 2004 Venezuelan film directed by Elia Schneider. It was Venezuela's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , but failed to receive a nomination.
Ping-ay served as Provincial Board Member of 2nd District of Ilocos Sur from 1995 to 1998 [2] and Vice Mayor of his hometown from 2001 to 2004. The municipality of Santa Cruz has seen and experienced the last election with the incumbents having an opponent on the election of 2004 with Jose R. Ping-ay running as Mayor.