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Biographies

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Guatemalan

Authors

Guatemalan

Authors

Guatemalan

José Batres Montúfar

Was born in San Salvador on March 18, 1809 and died in Guatemala City

on June 09, 1844.

He was a guatemalan writer, politician and military figure.

Since he was a child, he loved reading and managed English, French and

Latin.

Son of José Mariano Batres y Asturias and Mercedes Montúfar y

Coronado.

He´s family belonged to high society in Antigua, Guatemala, where he

returned when he was still a kid. In 1836 he traveled to Nicaragua

where he worked as a surveyor in the canal project. His brother, who

also worked on the project, died there. On his return to Guatemala,

filled of pain, he never integrate into society. He finished accentuated

when he realized that his beloved Luisa Meany, under pressure from her

mother, had married Francisco Pineda.

He was a great writer of the romantic school, regarded as the greatest

poet of the XIX century of Guatemala. His poetic and humorous unique

genre works, made use of satire and irony to reveal fine against semi

establishment that oppressed, to certain extent, so critical a

personality like his.

→ Yo pienso en tí.

→ San Juan

→ El suicidio

→ Al volcán de agua

→ Don Pablo

→ El relox

→ Tradiciones de Guatemala

→ Las falsas apariencias

Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán

Born in Santiago de Guatemala in 1643. In 1661 he served as Perpetual

Regidor Guatemala. He was also Mayor of Totonicapan and Sonsonate. He

worked many years as a chronicler of the City.

He died in Totonicapan in the year 1700. His parents were the poet

Francisco Fuentes and Dona Manuela His penchant for guns they did

follow a military career earning the rank of captain. Possessing a talent

early, confirms the fact been appointed at age 18, alderman pertupetuo

of Guatemala.

His works are:

• The Miracle of America, in which he describes the opening of the

Cathedral of Guatemala.

• The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, descriptions of the celebration

events in Guatemala when King Charles II was 13 years.

• The Ceremonial Cynosura or Guatemala Policy.

• The Political North.

• History of Guatemala: O remembrance Florida.

• "Precepts Histories"

Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán


Guatemala. He was also Mayor of Totonicapan and Sonsonate. He

worked many years as a chronicler of the City.



itary career earning the rank of captain. Possessing a talent


The Miracle of America, in which he describes the opening of the

Cathedral of Guatemala.

ife of St. Teresa of Jesus, descriptions of the celebration

events in Guatemala when King Charles II was 13 years.

The Ceremonial Cynosura or Guatemala Policy.

The Political North.

History of Guatemala: O remembrance Florida.

"Precepts Histories"


Guatemala. He was also Mayor of Totonicapan and Sonsonate. He



itary career earning the rank of captain. Possessing a talent


The Miracle of America, in which he describes the opening of the

ife of St. Teresa of Jesus, descriptions of the celebration

Have retained only his most famous work, called Remembrance

Guatemala Florida or history, and "Precepts Records". In Remembrance

Florida recount the main events in the history of Guatemala so far

(XVII century) and some customs and rituals of indigenous people, and

the Conquest notes and highlights in the history of Guatemala.

Another reason why Fuentes y Guzman wrote this historical chronicle,

was to remind the Crown that the Creoles (descendants of Spanish)

dominated a race of valiant combatants.

Sources

• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Batres_Mont%C3%BAf

ar

• http://cultura.muniguate.com/index.php/component/content/articl

e/62-batresmontufar/384-biografia

• http://www.poesiagt.com/2013/01/jose-batres-

montufar.html#.UeVSlaXcmSo

• http://www.deguate.com.gt/artman/publish/personajes_escritore

s/biografia-de-jose-batres-montufar.shtml#.UeVXEqXcmSo

• http://www.guatezona.org/biografia-de-jose-batres-montufar/

• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Antonio_de_Fuentes_y_Gu

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Inventors

Inventors

Inventors

Is a line of tablet computers designed by Apple Inc. The first iPad was released

on April 3, 2010.

Now Apple Inc, has presented the fourth

November 2, 2012.

An iPad can shoot video, take photos, play music, it has games, reference, GPS,

social networking and perform Internet functions such as web

emailing. The user interface is built around the device's multi

including a virtual keyboard.

There are five generations of the iPad.

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 and died on October 5,

computers and smartphones to music and movies".

Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios;

he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in

2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

iPad


Now Apple Inc, has presented the fourth-generation iPad and iPad Mini, on


social networking and perform Internet functions such as web-browsing and

emailing. The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen,

oard.

There are five generations of the iPad.


2011 because of the cancer.

He was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and

inventor,[who was the co-founder, chairman, and

CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely

recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal

computer revolution and for his influential career in

the computer and consumer electronics fields,

transforming "one industry after another, from

martphones to music and movies".

founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios;


2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.


generation iPad and iPad Mini, on


browsing and

touch screen,


He was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and

founder, chairman, and

f Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely

recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal

computer revolution and for his influential career in

the computer and consumer electronics fields,

transforming "one industry after another, from

founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios;


Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

Car´s inventor

The first steam vehicle (1769) is the "Fardier" created by Nicolas Cugnot.

(Void-Vacon, France, September 25, 1725 - Paris, October 2, 1804) was a

French inventor whom the French government attributes the invention of

the first self-propelled vehicle or automóvil. This claim is disputed by several

sources that suggest instead that Ferdinand Verbiest, a member of the

Jesuit missions in China was the first to build a steam car around 1672.2 3

Cugnot received instruction as a military engineer. Models tested for

vehicles powered by steam engines for the French Army, intended to drag

heavy guns, a task that began in 1765.

Cugnot seems to have been the first to transform the forward-backward

motion of a steam piston into rotary motion. In 1769 got it to work a version

of its Fardier à vapeur ("steam car"). The following year he built an improved

version.

In 1885 he created the first motor vehicle internal combustion engine with

gasoline.

One of the most distinctive inventions of the twentieth century was

undoubtedly the car. these vehicles began to be seen as something

"useful".

The history of the automobile through the three phases of the major means

of propulsion: steam, electricity and gasoline.

Sources:

→ http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/iPad.html → http://ipod.about.com/od/glossary/g/ipad -defintion.htm → http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad → http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_del_autom%C3%B3vil → http://www.culturageneral.net/inventores/

Religious

Biography

Religious

People

Biography

Religious

Biography

Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II was born on 18 May 1920 and died on 2 April 2005).

He served as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Sovereign

of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death over 26 years

later.

John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of

the 20th century. He is credited with helping to end Communist rule in

his native Poland and eventually all of Europe.[1] John Paul II

significantly improved the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism,

Islam, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.

He was one of the most travelled world leaders in history, visiting

129 countries during his pontificate.

He beatified 1,340 people and canonised 483 saints, more than the

combined tally of his predecessors during the preceding five

centuries.

On 19 December 2009, John Paul II was proclaimed venerable by his

successor Pope Benedict XVI and was beatified on 1 May 2011 after

the Congregation for the Causes of Saints attributed one miracle to

him, the healing of a French nun from Parkinson's disease. A second

miracle, attributed to the late pope, was approved on 2 July 2013 and

confirmed by Pope Francis two days

later. John Paul II is

expected to be canonised

by the end of 2013.

Do you know?...

Pope John Paul II was the second-longest

serving Pope in history and the first

non-Italian since Pope Adrian VI, who died in 1523.

The future starts today, not tomorrow. Pope John Paul IIPope John Paul IIPope John Paul IIPope John Paul II

The worst prison would be a closed heart.

Pope John Paul IIPope John Paul IIPope John Paul IIPope John Paul II

Mother Therese

Teresa was born on August 26, 1910 - Calcutta and died in India September 5,

1997), born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu1, was a Catholic nun of Albanian origin

naturalized Indian, he founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity in

Calcutta in 1950.

For more than 45 years attended poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding

the expansion of his congregation, at first in India and then in other countries. After

his death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II, giving the title Blessed Teresa of

Calcutta.

Agnes found her calling at an early age, and by 1928 had already decided that

she was destined to religious life. It was then decided to change its name to

"Teresa" in reference to the patron saint of missionaries, Therese of Lisieux. He spent

the next 20 years teaching in the Loreto convent Irish, began to worry about the

sick and the poor of the city of Calcutta. This led her to found a congregation with

the aim of helping the marginalized in society, mainly the sick, poor and people

who were homeless.

In the 1970s it was known internationally and had acquired reputation of a

humanitarian and advocate for the poor and defenseless. He won the Nobel

Peace Prize in 1979 and the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna, in

1980 for her humanitarian work.

Works

o In 1948, the Vatican sent a request to start a diocesan congregation.

o In 1952 he opened the first home for the dying in Calcutta.

o After the center founded "Shanti Nagar" for those individuals suffering from

Hansen's disease, commonly known as leprosy.

o In 1982, at the height of the siege of Beirut, Mother Teresa rescued 37

children trapped in a hospital in that region after negotiating a cease-fire

between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.

Peace begins with a smile.

Mother ThereseMother ThereseMother ThereseMother Therese

Each work of love, performed with all the heart, always bringing

people achieve God.


What matters is how much love we put in the work we do.


Important

Painters

Important

Painters

Important

Antonio Berni

Born in Rosario, Argentina, 1905 and died in Buenos Aires, 1981. Was a figurative artist associated with "Nuevo Realismo", a Latin American extension of social realism. His work, depicting poverty and the effects of industrialization has been exhibited around the world. His paintings display a great protagonism of color and include Aeropuerto (Airport), Los Hippies, Calles de Nueva York (Streets of New York), Almuerzo (Lunch), Chelsea Hotel, and Promesa de castidad (Promise of Chastity).

He also produced several decorative panels, scenographic sketches, illustrations, and collaborations for books. Berni's work had gradually become more spiritual and reflective. In 1980 he completed the paintings Apocalipsis (Apocalypse) and La crucifixion (The Crucifixion) for the Chapel of San Luis Gonzaga in Las

Heras.Antonio Berni died on October 13, 1981 in Buenos Aires, where he had been working on a Martin Fierro monument.

Herbert James Draper

(1863 – 22 September 1920) was an English Classicist painter whose

career began in the Victorian era and extended through the first

two decades of the 20th century.

1894 was the beginning of Draper's most productive period. He

focused mainly on mythological themes from ancient Greece. His

painting "The Lament For Icarus" from 1898 won the gold medal at

the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900 and was later bought for

the Tate Gallery by the Chantrey Trustees. He was also responsible

for the decoration of the ceiling of the Drapers' Hall in the City of

London. Though Draper was neither a member nor an associate of

the Royal Academy he took part in the annual expositions from 1890

on. In later years as the public tastes changed and mythological

scenes became less popular he concentrated more on portraits.

During his lifetime Draper was quite famous and a well known

portrait painter. In his last years his

popularity faded, though there has

recently been a revival of interest in his

work on the art market. The sale of his

painting The Sea Maiden by the Royal

Cornwall Museum in 2010, to help secure its finances, generated

debate about the policy of disposing of art works for this purpose.

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