Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In October 2017 Regis Corporation sold its Regis Salons, MasterCuts, and UK Supercuts to The Beautiful Group. [4] These salons became franchises keeping the same brand names. At the end of December 2019 Regis terminated its franchise agreements with The Beautiful Group and took back 200 salons [ 5 ] with the stated intention of finding a new buyer.
Dania Ramírez – Dominican-born American TV and film actress (Entourage, Heroes and The Sopranos) Silvestre Rasuk – actor of Dominican descent [10] Victor Rasuk – actor, Dominican parents [11] Monica Raymund – stage performer and actress (Chicago Fire and Lie to Me); her mother is from the Dominican Republic [12]
Dominican salsa continued to grow through the turn of the 21st century. For example, Juan Miguel Batista, also known as Michel "El Buenón", is an active salsero in the Dominican Republic. Michel sang with several merengue and méringue (a Haitian sound) groups, before recording his first album in 1995.
Map of the Dominican Republic. Cities in the Dominican Republic, in accordance with the definition of urban population for purposes of the 2002 census, [1] are the urban centers and seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities (municipios singular municipio), the sec level political and administrative subdivisions of the country, or of municipal districts (distritos municipales) within ...
The Dominican Order (Order of Preachers) was first established in the United States by Edward Fenwick in the early 19th century. The first Dominican institution in the United States was the Province of Saint Joseph, which was established in 1805. [1] Additionally, there have been numerous institutes of Dominican Sisters and Nuns.
The Dominican Republic, aside from being on the eastern part of Hispaniola (an island which it shares with Haiti), contains many small islands as part of a territory. There were two islands, Cabritos Island, that were in the Isla Cabritos National Park (Parque Nacional Isla Cabritos) on Lake Enriquillo .
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Colonial city of Santo Domingo: Distrito Nacional. Cultural (ii) (iv) (vi) 1990 After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas.
Four Dominican friars have served as Bishop of Rome: Pope Innocent V (r. 1276) Pope Benedict XI (r. 1303-04) Pope Pius V (r. 1566-72) Pope Benedict XIII (r. 1724-30) There are six Dominican friars in the College of Cardinals: Dominik Duka (b. 1943), Czech, Archbishop Emeritus of Prague; Christoph Schönborn (b. 1945), Austrian, Archbishop of Vienna