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5 unusual facts about Quintana


Augusto Ferrán

Ferrán's poetry assumes a break with the traditional tone that is reminiscent of Quintana.

Brazosport High School

The high school serves Freeport, as well as surrounding Jones Creek, Oyster Creek, Quintana, and Surfside Beach.

Francisco de Rioja

Quintana considers his poems the first attempts at descriptive poetry in the Castilian language.

José Roberto Guimarães

José Roberto Lages Guimarães (born 31 July 1954 in Quintana) is a Brazilian former volleyball player and current coach.

Quintana

Carlos Morales Quintana (born 1970), Spanish architect and yachtsman, husband of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark


Ana de la Reguera

In 2010, she played the historical Josefa Quintana, a mistress of Father Miguel Hidalgo, hero of the Mexican War of Independence.

Andrés Quintana Roo

She was caught in 1813 and locked in the Colegio de Belén, but managed to escape in disguise, fleeing to Tlalpujahua where she married Quintana Roo.

Charlie Quintana

Charlie Quintana (born in 1962 in El Paso, Texas) is an American rock and punk drummer.

Diego Quintana

Diego Jesús Quintana (born 24 April 1978 in Rosario) is an Argentine football player who spent his career mostly playing for Skoda Xanthi F.C. in Greece.

Eduard Ladislas Kaunitz, baron von Holmberg

At the beginning of 1814 the government commanded him to fight and capture José Gervasio Artigas, but he fell wounded at the battle of Espinillo fighting Fernando Torgués, whom pardoned his life and released him along with his adjutant, lieutenant Hilarión de la Quintana.

John Gregory Dunne

He was father to Quintana Roo Dunne, who died in 2005 after a series of illnesses, and uncle to actors Griffin Dunne (who co-starred in An American Werewolf in London) and Dominique Dunne (who co-starred in Poltergeist).

Lauro Delgado

Starting his acting career in the 1950s, Delgado primarily villainous roles in films produced by Premiere Productions and People's Pictures, and was billed as the leading actor in the 1960 film "Sa Mata ng Diyos" ("In the Eyes of God") along with Tessie Quintana, Leonor Vergara, Carlos Padilla, Jr. and child actor Aida Villegas.

MV Sound of Jura

In Mexico, Quintana Roo opened up a new car ferry route between Puerto Morelos, on the Yucatán Peninsula and the island of Cozumel.

The Mexican Government operated her to Cozumel as Quintana Roo until 2005, when she was wrecked by Hurricane Wilma.

Nairo Quintana

Quintana comes from a very humble background and his parents raised him in what the newspaper El Espectador refers to as "precariously difficult economic conditions" but still saved up to buy Quintana a second-hand mountain bike to make the 9-mile journey to school.

In 2013, Quintana won stage 3 of the Volta a Catalunya, and the following month, he won the queen stage of the Tour of the Basque Country by sprinting to victory after the final climb in EibarArrate, two seconds before a group of six fellow overall contenders.

Orlando Garcia

Orlando Quintana (Orlando Quintana García, born 1978), Spanish football goalkeeper

Paper Walls

Leanna Brand (contractor), Emme Lehmann, Vili Lehmann, Amy Fogerson, Nicholas Harper, Casey Rae Hands, Zoë Merrill, Daniel O'Brien, Antonella Quintana, Ann Marie Rizzo, Bobbi Page, Edie Lehmann, Helene Quintana

Pedro Joaquín

Pedro Joaquín Coldwell, Mexican politician and former Governor of Quintana Roo

QRSS

The Quintana Roo Speleological Survey, a project that supports safe exploration of the caves in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Villa Quintana

Villa Quintana was the first soap opera to be aired on Philippine primetime television (after Anna Liza's reign), pitted against ABS-CBN's top-rating news show TV Patrol.

Yucatán, Mexico

Mexico's portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, comprising the states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo.


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