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Undated photograph. Juan José de la Cruz Salvo y Poblete (Santiago; c. 1842 — c. 1917) was a Chilean soldier who fought in the War of the Pacific as a Sergeant major.He is best known for being the envoy sent by the Chilean Army to the headquarters of Francisco Bolognesi's garrison in Arica to request his surrender after the allied defeat at the Battle of Tacna, to which Bolognesi replied by ...
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]
The Muslim community of more than 100,000 is concentrated among persons of Lebanese and Syrian descent living in Nueva Esparta state, Punto Fijo and the Caracas area. Venezuela is home of the largest Druze communities outside the Middle East, [ 350 ] the Druze community are estimated around 60,000, [ 350 ] and concentrated among persons of ...
Veracruz was named after the city of Veracruz (From Latin Vera Crux, "True Cross"), which was originally called the Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. The suffix is in honor of Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos (1818–1863), who was the governor of Veracruz from 1861 to 1862.
The punto is a musical genre typical of eastern Venezuela. It is also called punto y llanto, punto cruzado, punto fuerte and punto mamp ...
Replica of a Portuguese caravel used during the Portuguese discoveries. As the Order of Christ, led by Prince Henry, the Navigator, was a leading developer of the Portuguese Discoveries, the Cross of Christ was used on the sails of the Portuguese caravels, carracks and other ships involved in the exploration of the seas.
Myriam Montemayor Cruz (born February 8, 1981), [1] better known mononymously as Myriam, is a Mexican recording artist known for winning the first season of Mexican talent show La Academia. Biography [ edit ]
The Cruz de Mañozca (Mañozca Cross), [2] otherwise known as the Cruz de Tepeapulco (Tepeapulco Cross), [3] is a 16th century atrial stone cross placed in the courtyard of the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, in the historic center of Mexico City, in the Cuauhtémoc Borough.