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Carmen Mondragón was the fifth of eight children of General Manuel Mondragón, Secretario de Guerra y Marina in 1913 and inventor of the Mondragón rifle. Her mother was Mercedes Valseca. Carmen Mondragón received a privileged, private education in Mexico. Afterwards, she spent 1897 to 1905 in France, where she learned to speak French ...
The Monpazier Venus, also known as the "Vénus de Monpazier," is a small, prehistoric figurine of a female form that was discovered in Monpazier, a medieval town in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. It was found accidentally in 1970 outside of its archaeological context.
This is a list of montes (mountains, singular mons) on the planet Venus. Venusian mountains are all named after goddesses in the mythologies of various cultures, except for the Maxwell Montes. The four main mountain ranges of Venus are named Akna Montes, Danu Montes, Freyja Montes, and Maxwell Montes. These are found on Ishtar Terra.
On Venus, where there are no tectonic plates or seawater, volcanoes are mostly of the shield type. [citation needed] Nevertheless, the morphology of volcanoes on Venus is different: on Earth, shield volcanoes can be a few tens of kilometres wide and up to 10 km (6.2 mi) high in the case of Mauna Kea, measured from the sea floor. On Venus, these ...
Carmen returned to Mexico in 1934, accompanied by her sister Chofa aboard the French steamer "Mexique." She resided for some time in Mexico City's Colonia Roma, on Tonalá Street, in a home that belonged to her niece Teresa Castelló. On June 25, 1944, Carmen Romero Rubio y Castelló died in Mexico City at eighty years of age.
María Quinteras de Meras was a Mexican revolutionary and soldadera who rose to the rank of colonel. She dressed as a man and fought in ten battles between 1910 and 1913. Her fighting was so fierce she was thought to have supernatural powers. [1] De Meras joined Pancho Villa's army in 1910. [2]
Statue of Antonia Nava de Catalán in Tixtla de Guerrero. In honor of her heroism, Tixtla De Guerrero placed a statue of her on February 15, 1987. In the Municipal Presidency of Tixtla, there is a painting where she is seen holding her son in her arms. In Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, three schools were named after her. [11]
Entablature. Items deposited inside the Temple included a statue of Venus Genetrix by Arcesilaus as well as statues of Julius Caesar. Numerous Greek paintings by Timomachus of Ajax and Medea, six collections of engraved gems, a breastplate decorated with pearls from Britannia, and a controversial golden statue of Queen Cleopatra as the goddess Isis once filled the Temple.