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Records of the Recoleta Cemetery about the burial of Juan Baustista Túpac Amaru, proposed as King of the United Provinces of South America.. The Inca plan was a proposal formulated in 1816 by Manuel Belgrano to the Congress of Tucumán, aiming to crown a Sapa Inca to lead the independent territory.
Juan Cortada y Quintana (c. 1820 – 22 August 1889 [6]) was a Puerto Rican politician, businessman, and landowner. He served as Mayor of Ponce , Puerto Rico , from 27 September 1872 to 4 February 1874.
El Caballito, officially Cabeza de caballo ("horse's head"), [1] [2] is an outdoor 28-metre (92 ft) tall steel sculpture by Sebastián (Enrique Carbajal) depicting a horse's head, installed along Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, in Mexico. It was dedicated on January 15, 1992.
The origins of the wathiya or earth-oven, date back to pre-Columbian South America; the first Western chronicler to speak of the huatia was the priest Francisco de Ávila who around the year 1600, when compiling the myths existing among the people of Huarochirí, in the mountains of Lima, in the manuscript Huarochirí Manuscript, pointed out the figure of the god Huatiacuri, more strictly ...
Cabezas cortadas (English: Severed Heads, [2] [3] [4] sometimes translated as Cutting Heads; [5] [6] Portuguese: Cabeças Cortadas), is a 1970 Spanish-Brazilian film ...
The area where Central Cortada is located was originally called Estancia Descalabrado, owned by Catalan settlers named Juan de Quintana (from 1737 to 1789) and later Juan Cortada Manzo (from 1800 to 1865), who build the trapiche. The Cortada family kept operating the farm as part of their crop financing business, the Ponce-based Cortada & Cia.
He was apparently working as an independent sculptor by 1687, when he accepted an apprentice named Jerónimo de Soto, about whom nothing is known. In 1718, he did a Saint John the Baptist for the altarpiece at Badajoz Cathedral and, in 1723, some stone sculptures for the Bridge of Toledo , which were minor works of a decorative nature.
Rafael de Amat i de Cortada (10 July 1746 – 15 February 1819), popularly known as Baron of Maldà, was a Catalan writer. He wrote a personal diary called Calaix de sastre . [ 1 ]