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5 unusual facts about Jacinto


Jacinta

The girl's name Jacinta is the feminine form of the male Spanish and Portuguese name Jacinto ("Hyacinth").

Jacinto

Jacinto is a Spanish and Portuguese name meaning Hyacinth, which can refer to Saint Hyacinth, a Roman martyr (Hyacinth and Protus), or the Hyacinth flower itself.

Jacinto-class corvette

This weapon is integrated with the 76 mm primary weapon via an Ultra Electronics Command and Control System and a Radamec 1500 Series 2500 Electro-Optical Tracking/Fire Control System.

Jacinto, Minas Gerais

The city belongs to the mesoregion of Jequitinhonha and to the microregion of Almenara.

Prentiss County, Mississippi

Jacinto, historic county seat of Prentiss' parent county, Old Tishomingo County, Mississippi


1997 Young Critics Circle Awards

Eduardo Jacinto (Cinematography) and Len Santos (Production Design) – Milagros

Alfredo Fortabat

The 1926 discovery of large limestone deposits at the San Jacinto Estancia inherited from his father led Fortabat to open a cement factory in the nearby pampas hamlet of Loma Negra (south of Olavarría); the choice of location prompted him to christen the company Loma Negra ("Black Mound").

Anson Jones

The charter for Holland Lodge No. 36 arrived in April 1836, and Jones carried it in his saddlebags during the-Battle of San Jacinto.

Bulacan–Rizal–Manila–Cavite Regional Expressway

This expressway will be named Padre Jacinto Zamora Super Highway after Father Jacinto Zamora, one of the three martyr priests executed in Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park) in Manila during the Spanish Colonical Period.

Camalaniugan, Cagayan

The town has a church dedicated to San Jacinto or Saint Hyacinth which houses the oldest church bell (Sancta Maria, 1595) in the far east.

Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant

Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant is a 2009 science fiction novel by Karen Traviss, set in the Gears of War universe.

Hugh J. Glenn

Glenn became a cattle rancher, and in 1868 moved to Jacinto, then in Colusa County, California.

Jacinto Espinoza

Jacinto Alberto Espinoza Castillo (born November 24, 1969 in Bahía de Caráquez) is an Ecuadorian former football goalkeeper.

Jacinto Grau

Jacinto Grau Delgado (1877 – 14 August 1958) was a Spanish playwright associated with the Noucentisme movement.

Joseph Bennett

Joseph L. Bennett (?-1848), Texas Legislator, Lt. Colonel (Battle of San Jacinto)

Juan Ricardo Faccio

Born in the Jacinto Vera neighborhood of Montevideo, Faccio began playing football as a defender with Club Nacional de Football in the late 1950s.

Pedley, California

Pedley took its name from William Pedley a former English cricketer who became manager of the San Jacinto Land Company at Riverside, California.

Pousada da Ria

The Pousada is located along the southern arm of the isthmus between the municipality of Murtosa and Aveiro, between the beaches of São Jacinto (along the coast) and the protected natural reserve of the Ria estuary.

Robert Kleberg

Robert J. Kleberg (1803–1888), German immigrant who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto

San Jacinto Tower

2100 Ross Avenue or San Jacinto Tower, a skyscraper in Dallas, Texas

Tres de la Cruz Roja

Jacinto, Pepe and Manolo (J.L López Vázquez, Tony Leblanc and Manolo Gómez Bur) are three friends and Real Madrid supporters who are upset with the high price of tickets to Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

William Pedley

Pedley went to America where he was manager of the San Jacinto Land Company, who developed part of the Sobrante de San Jacinto land grant at Riverside, California.


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