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2 unusual facts about Margarita


Citrus japonica 'Margarita'

It has been grown for profit since 1895, most prolifically in Saint Joseph, known as the "Kumquat Capitol".

Margarita

Another common origin tale begins the cocktail’s history at the legendary Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas where, in 1948, head bartender Santos Cruz created the Margarita for singer Peggy (Margaret) Lee.


Ajay Naidu

Naidu's most recent theatre credits include The Master and Margarita with Complicite, a world tour of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure with Complicite, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Al Pacino, directed by Simon McBurney and The Little Flower of East Orange alongside Ellyn Burstyn at New York's Public Theater directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Andrés Soriano

It is also interesting to note that the first president of the Third Republic (Philippines), Manuel Roxas, descended from Dońa Margarita's uncle Antonio Roxas who migrated to Capiz to set up a plant making alcohol out of palm, and therefore Congressman Dinggoy and his father Senator Gerry Roxas are close relatives of the Roxas-Ayala-Zobel-Soriano clan.

Bizcocho

Margaritas are always sweet and they got their name from the flower they resemble (a daisy, known in Spanish as "margarita").

Claudia Lars

Claudia Lars, born in Armenia, El Salvador on December 20, 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Salvadoran poet.

Cointreau

In the 1980s, Ex Avirex LTD., now Cockpit USA, issued an A-2 limited edition leather flight jacket featuring Cointreau Original Margarita nose art on the back of the jacket.

Colonial Venezuela

This expedition discovered the so-called "Pearl Islands" of Cubagua and Margarita off the northeastern coast of Venezuela.

Copán

This larger platform has been named Margarita and had stucco panels flanking its access stairway that bore entwined images of quetzals and macaws, which both form a part of K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo's name.

Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra

It is rarely performed today, although recordings exist of live performances in Palermo (1970), in Arles (1975), at the Teatro Regio di Torino (1985, the only DVD), at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples (1991), in New York (1998, given by Opera Northwest), at the Teatro Margarita Xirgu, Buenos Aires (2004), and at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro (2004).

Emil Gorovets

In 1972, Gorovets and his wife, the actress Margarita Polonskaya (in Russian Маргарита Полонская), his partner and assistant, applied to emigrate to Israel, where they arrived in 1973.

Francisco Fajardo

In 1555 to 1557 he made several expeditions from Margarita to conquer the Caracas tribe (near present-day Caracas).

Gálvez, Santa Fe

The original settlement was an agricultural colony called Colonia Margarita, in lands belonging to José Gálvez, then governor of the province, who rented it for farming, mainly to Italian immigrants from Piamonte and Lombardia.

Hasta Que el Dinero Nos Separe

La Sonora Santanera featuring Margarita, la Diosa de la Cumbia as themselves

Hispanic American naming customs

For example, Gregorio Pérez Companc is the adopted son of Margarita Companc de Pérez, and Carlos Miguens Bemberg is the son of the architect Carlos Miguens and the film director María Luisa Bemberg.

Horacio Guzmán

Horacio Gregorio Guzmán was born in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy to Margarita Ocampo and Stanislaus Flavio Guzmán, in 1913.

Iron Cactus

Iron Cactus: Mexican Grill & Margarita Bar is a Mexican restaurant chain with 5 locations in Texas: Downtown Austin, North Austin, Hill Country Galleria Mall, Dallas, & San Antonio.

Jelle Taeke de Boer

“The Bacchanale” from Puvis de Chavannes, “Dans le Foret” from Monticelli, “L’Homme a Table” from Toulouse-Lautrec and finally the top piece, the “Infanta Margarita” from Manet.

Jose Antonio Bengoechea

He married in 1915 to Margarita Nachiondo Achabal, a Basque from Ispaster who had arrived at the country in 1912 and resided of Ogden, Utah.

Juan Antonio Buschiazzo

Born in 1845 in Pontinvrea, Province of Savona, Liguria, Buschiazzo was the son of Margarita Bresciani and Carlos Buschiazzo.

Juan Fermín de Huidobro

Juan Fermín de Huidobro was born in La Asunción, Isla Margarita, and joined the royal army at an early age.

Mailu Island

All the nearby land including the coast of New Guinea was called by the Spaniards Magna Margarita to honour the wife of the king of Spain at that time Philip III, Margaret of Austria.

Manny Manuel

Manuel released his next album titled Es Mi Tiempo in 1998 which included the hits "Como duele", "Margarita", and a cover of Alejandro Sanz' song "Corazón partío".

Margarita Bowl

Margarita Bowl was a 1997 ninety-minute Television sports show which was hosted by Yasmine Bleeth.

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros

Margarita Gonzalez Ontiveros (1 September 1927, Chihuahua – 29 May 2006, Cuernavaca) was a Mexican-born mezzo-soprano and contralto.

Margarita Isabel

Born as Margarita Isabel Morales y González, she is a multiple Ariel Award-winning actress.

Margarita la tornera

Chapí: Margarita la tornera – Elisabete Matos (Margarita), Plácido Domingo (Don Juan), Stefano Palatchi (Gavilán), Àngel Òdena (Don Lope), Ángeles Blancas (Sirena), María Rey-Joly ("La tornera").

Margarita Michelena

Margarita Michelena (July 21, 1917, Pachuca, Hidalgo – March 27, 1998, Mexico City) was a Mexican poet, literary critic, translator and journalist.

Margarita Morozova

Having lost all of his money and most of the family’s property in wild projects and Monte Carlo casinos, he finally shoot himself, leaving his wife Margarita Ottovna (née Loewenstein) with two young girls and without any means.

Margarita Popova

Margarita Popova graduated Bulgarian philology in University of Sofia in 1980, and later (1989) law in the same university.

Margarita Pracatan

Margarita Pracatan is a Cuban novelty singer, who found success in the 1990s when Clive James had her perform live on his TV show on numerous occasions.

Margarita Sierra

Margarita Sierra (January 5, 1936 - September 6, 1963), born as Maria Margarita Suarez Sierra in Madrid, Spain, was a singer, dancer, and actress perhaps best known for her supporting role as the nightclub-singing Cha Cha O'Brien on the early 1960s ABC/Warner Brothers television series, Surfside 6, with Troy Donahue, Van Williams, Lee Patterson, and Diane McBain.

Margarita Starkevičiūtė

Margarita Starkevičiūtė (born March 15, 1956 in Yeniseysk, Russia) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament (2004-2009) for the Liberal and Centre Union; part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Margarita Vargas

Margarita Vargas Gaviria (born October 2, 1971 in Medellín) is a Colombian singer.

Margarita Xirgu

Margarita Xirgu, also Margarida Xirgu (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, (Catalonia, Spain) – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, (Uruguay)) was a Catalan stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America.

Mariano Montilla

In 1820, in Margarita, he took command of the Irish Legion which had newly arrived under the leadership of William Aylmer and Francis O'Connor.

Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou

Marie Marguerite of Bourbon, Duchess of Anjou (née María Margarita Vargas Santaella; born 21 October 1983, Caracas) is a Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, who is considered by Legitimists to be the head of the French Royal House making Marie Marguerite the Legitimist titular queen consort of France.

Mats Bergman

He's successfully shown his range in several different theatre productions, a.o in Almqvist's Drottningens juvelsmycke, Bulgakov's Mästaren och Margarita (The Master and Margaret), Brecht's Tolvskillingsoperan (The Threepenny Opera), Botho Strauss' Rummet och tiden, Molière's Misantropen (Le Misanthrope) and Brecht's Den goda människan i Sezuan.

Olga Kokovtseva

Margarita Romanovna Kokovtseva, generally named in English sources as Olga Kokovtseva was a female soldier in an Imperial Russian Army cavalry unit during World War I.

Robosquirrel

Testing of robosquirrel was conducted at the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve (SMER) near Fallbrook, California, operated by San Diego State University.

Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord

Geographically, references are made to the country's equatorial climate, its northern coastline on the Caribbean, western coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the mountain range of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Margarita, which is similar to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Shota and Margarita Metreveli

Shota Metreveli (October 25, 1913 – April 5, 1983) (Georgian: შოთა მეტრეველი) and Margarita Metreveli (June 22, 1913 – July 22, 1984) (Georgian: მარგარიტა მეტრეველი) were artists from Georgia.

Simon Nabatov

Nature Morte is a setting of a poem by Joseph Brodsky; The Master and Margarita an all-instrumental response to the novel of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov; and A Few Incidences contains octet settings of the enigmatic texts of the poet Daniil Kharms.

Sir John Barran, 2nd Baronet

Barran married firstly Alice Margarita, daughter of Reverend Leighton Parks, in 1902.

Stefano Palatchi

He received a Latin Grammy Award for Tomás Bretón's zarzuela, La Dolores and was nominated for another Latin Grammy for Ruperto Chapí's Margarita la Tornera and a Grammy Award for El gato con botas, by Xavier Montsalvatge.

Will Keenan

Some of his starring and producing credits include Politics of Love, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Chop, Terror Firmer, Margarita Happy Hour, The Love Machine, Hoofboy, OMC, Hisss and Trick.

Yaque

Playa El Yaque, a beach in the southern side of Margarita Island, Venezuela


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