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GUATEMALAN AUTHORS

ENRIQUE GOMÉZ CARRILLO

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(Guatemala City, February 27, 1873 – Paris, November 29, 1927)

Were a Guatemalan literary critic, writer, journalist and diplomat, and the

second husband of the Salvadoran –French writer and artist. He also became

notable for his travels.

He study in Spain, he went to Paris, where he met several writers. He moved

to France in 1892. The following year he published his first book, Esquisses

which includes profiles of several writers of the time, and contributed to several

publications. Years later, the Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen also appoints him

as a representative of Argentina. In 1895 he became a member of the Royal Spanish

Academy.

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He contributed to numerous publications in Spain, France and Latin

America, and headed El Nuevo Mercurio (1907) and Cosmópolis (1919-

1922). Gomez Carrillo lived mainly in Madrid and Paris. It was in Madrid

where he decided to change his surname from "Gomez Tible" to "Gomez

Carrillo," mortified by the joking of others. He was also the author of

several essays, autobiographies and literary criticisms on Art Sensation

(1893) Foreign Literature (1895), Modernism (1905), Exotic literatures

(1920), Sappho, and other seductive courtesans (1921), The mystery of

life and death of Mata Hari (1923), The hundred masterpieces of world

literature (1924) and New French literature (1927).Other

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• He changed his last name (tible) because the people made jokes

about it, for this reason he changes his last name for Enrique

Goméz Carrillo. The people say him “Comestible”.

• He got married 3 times with 3 beautiful and famous women.

• He died because he was victim of brain death in 2 weeks.

AUGUSTO MONTERROSO

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Monterroso was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to a Honduran mother and

Guatemalan father. In 1936 his family settled definitively in Guatemala

City, where he would remain until early adulthood. Here he published his

first short stories and began his clandestine work against the dictatorship

of Jorge Ubico. To this end he founded the newspaper El Espectador with a

group of other writers.

He was detained and exiled to Mexico City in 1944 for his opposition to

the dictatorial regime. Shortly after his arrival in Mexico, the revolutionary

government of Jacobo Arbenz triumphed in Guatemala, and Monterroso was

assigned to a minor post in the Guatemalan embassy in Mexico. In 1953 he

moved briefly to Bolivia upon being named Guatemalan consul in La Paz. He

relocated to Santiago de Chile in 1954, when Arbenz's government was

toppled with help from a North American intervention.

• AchivementsAchivementsAchivementsAchivements

• Obras completas (Y otros cuentos), 1959.

• (trans. Complete Works and Other Stories)

• La oveja negra y demás fábulas, 1969.

• (trans. The Black Sheep and Other Fables)

• Movimiento perpetuo, 1972.

• (trans. Perpetual Motion)

• Lo demás es silencio (La vida y obra de Eduardo Torres), 1978.

• Viaje al centro de la fábula, 1981.

• La palabra mágica, 1983.

• La letra e (Fragmentos de un diario), 1987.

• Esa fauna, 1992. drawings.

• Los buscadores de oro, 1993.

• La vaca, 1998.

• El Eclipse

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• In his youth, he was associated with the revolutionary government of

Jacopo Arbenz, the government that disappeared after the CIA coup

of 1954 (a coup—this was my only other Guatemalan fact—that was

lamented by Guy Debord in Paris as an early proof of the society of

the spectacle).

• He knew a third language.

• When he was 11 years old he abandoned his school.

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Inventors

Robert Noyce

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Robert Noyce was born on December 12 1927 in

Burlington, Iowa. He died on June 3 1990 in

Austin, Texas.

In 1949, Noyce received his B.A. from Grinnell

College in Iowa. In 1953, he received his Ph.D. in

physical electronics from the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology.

Robert Noyce worked as a researcher for Philco Corporation until 1956,

when Noyce started working for the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in

Palo Alto, California, making transistors.

In 1957, Robert Noyce co-founded the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation.

In 1968, Noyce co-founded the Intel Corporation with Gordon Moore.

Inventions

Integrated circuits are used in almost all electrical equipment in

use today, and they have revolutionized the world of electronics.

The invention was a major improvement over the manual assembly

of electric circuits, and mass production made electronic devices

cheaper and more common.

Now the integrated circuit is

broken into many more

categories based on what the

chip does. For example, the

microprocessor is an integrated

circuit that processes all the

information in a computer.

The evolution of the

integrated circuit has continued in respect to the size; the most

advanced circuits contain several hundreds of millions of circuit

components on an area no larger than a fingernail.

Born in Iowa, he received a B.A. from Grinnell College (Iowa) in

1949 and a Ph.D. in physical electronics from the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology in 1953. He did research at Philco

Corporation until 1956, when he joined Shockley Semiconductor

Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, to work on transistor

technology.

As research director of Fairchild Semiconductor, he was responsible

for initial development of the firm's silicon

mesa and planar transistor product lines. In

1957 Noyce cofounded the Fairchild

Semiconductor Corporation in Mountain

View, California. He was research director

until early 1959 when he became vice

president and general manager.

In July 1968 he cofounded Intel Corp. with

Gordon E. Moore, who had also been a

cofounder of Fairchild Semiconductor and a

member of the Shockley laboratory staff. Noyce served as

president of Intel until 1975 and chairman of the board from

1975 to 1979.

Gottlieb Daimler

Biography

March 17, 1834 – March 6, 1900]) was an engineer, industrial

designer andindustrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a

federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany. He

was a pioneer ofinternal-combustion engines and automobile development. He

invented the high-speed petrol engine and the first four-wheel automobile.

Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two

inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be mounted

in any kind of locomotion device. In 1885 they designed a precursor of the

modern petrol (gasoline) engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-

wheeler, the first internal combustion motorcycle and, in the next year, to

a stagecoach, and a boat. Daimler baptized it the Grandfather Clock engine

(Standuhr) because of its resemblance to an old pendulum clock.

Inventions

In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler invented a gas engine that allowed for a

revolution in car design. On March 8, 1886, Daimler

took a stagecoach and adapted it to hold his engine,

thereby designing the world's first four-wheeled

automobile.

Noyce held 16 patents for semiconductor devices, methods, and

structures.

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Gottlieb Daimler's connection to Nicolaus Otto was a direct one; Daimler

worked as technical director of Deutz Gasmotorenfabrik, which Nicolaus Otto

co-owned in 1872. There is some controversy as to who built the

first motorcycle Nicolaus Otto or Gottlieb Daimler.

Also in 1889, Daimler and Maybach built their first automobile from the

ground up, they did not adapt another purpose vehicle as had always been

done previously. The new Daimler automobile had a four-speed transmission

and obtained speeds of 10 mph.

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RELIGIOUS PEOPLE

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(26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was

an Albanian born, Indian

Sister.

After her father's death, her mother raised her as

a Roman Catholic. Her father, Nikollë Bojaxhiu was

possibly from Prizren, Kosovo while her mother was

possibly from a village near

she should commit herself to a religious life. Her final resolution was taken

on 15 August 1928, while praying at the shrine of the Black Madonna of

Letnice, where she often went on pilgrimage.

She left home at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. She

never again saw her mother or sister.

She arrived in India in 1929, and began her novitiate in Darjeeling, near the

Himalayan Mountains, where she learnt Bengali and taught at the St.

Teresa’s School, a schoolhouse close to her convent. She took her first

religious vows as a nun on 24 May 1931. At that time

she chose to be named after Thérèse de Lisieux, the

patron saint of missionaries, but because one nun in the

convent had already chosen that na

the Spanish spelling Teresa.

RELIGIOUS PEOPLE

5 September 1997), was

Roman Catholic Religious

After her father's death, her mother raised her as

a Roman Catholic. Her father, Nikollë Bojaxhiu was

possibly from Prizren, Kosovo while her mother was

om a village near Đakovica, Kosovo. By age 12 was convinced that



Letnice, where she often went on pilgrimage.

t age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. She

never again saw her mother or sister.



ool, a schoolhouse close to her convent. She took her first




convent had already chosen that name, Agnes opted for

the Spanish spelling Teresa.

akovica, Kosovo. By age 12 was convinced that



t age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary. She



ool, a schoolhouse close to her convent. She took her first




me, Agnes opted for

She took her solemn vows on 14 May 1937, while serving as a teacher at

the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta. Teresa served there

for almost twenty years and in 1944 was appointed headmistr

Although Teresa enjoyed teaching at the school, she was increasingly

disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta (Kolkata). The Bengal

famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city; and the outbreak of

Hindu/Muslim violence in August 19

horror.

ACHIEVEMENTS ACHIEVEMENTS ACHIEVEMENTS ACHIEVEMENTS

• Started Missionaries of Charity in 1950; received Nobel Prize for

Peace in 1979; received Bharat Ratna in 1980.

• In 1962 Mother Teresa won the Pandra Shri prize for

"extraordinary services."

• Mother Teresa received the Pope John XXIII

Peace Prize in 1971.

• In 1979 Mother Teresa received the Nobel

Peace Prize "for work undertaken in the

struggle to overcome poverty and distress,

which also constitute a threat to peace."

• Mother Teresa received an award called the

John F. Kennedy International Award.

• Mother Teresa received the Templeton Award

for progress in religion.

• Mother Teresa also received the Jonaharlal

Nehru Award.



for almost twenty years and in 1944 was appointed headmistress.




Hindu/Muslim violence in August 1946 plunged the city into despair and

Started Missionaries of Charity in 1950; received Nobel Prize for

Peace in 1979; received Bharat Ratna in 1980.

In 1962 Mother Teresa won the Pandra Shri prize for

"extraordinary services."

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Peace Prize in 1971. She was 69 years old.

In 1979 Mother Teresa received the Nobel

Peace Prize "for work undertaken in the

struggle to overcome poverty and distress,

which also constitute a threat to peace."

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John F. Kennedy International Award.

Mother Teresa received the Templeton Award

for progress in religion.

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Started Missionaries of Charity in 1950; received Nobel Prize for

In 1962 Mother Teresa won the Pandra Shri prize for

QUOTESQUOTESQUOTESQUOTES

• “Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the

darkness.”

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• “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not

enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love

them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

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POPE JONH PAUL IIPOPE JONH PAUL IIPOPE JONH PAUL IIPOPE JONH PAUL II

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Pope John Paul II

(18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005), wa

Church from

16 October 1978 to his death in 2005. He was the

second-longest

serving Pope in history and the first non

Pope Adrian

VI, who died in 1523.He was acclaimed as one of the

most influential

leaders . He is credited with helping to end Communist

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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not


So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

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2 April 2005), was the head of the Catholic

16 October 1978 to his death in 2005. He was the

serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since

VI, who died in 1523.He was acclaimed as one of the

credited with helping to end Communist

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s the head of the Catholic

rule in his

native Poland and eventually all of Europe. He improved the Catholic

Church and the Angelical Communion. He was one of the most

travelled

leaders, he travelled to 129 countries.

ACHIEVEMENTS:ACHIEVEMENTS:ACHIEVEMENTS:ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Pope John Paul II was the longest serving pope of the 20th century.

The next closest was Pius XII, who was pope for 19 years (1939-1958).

• Pope John Paul made nine trips to his native Poland as pontiff. The

first was in 1979, the last in 2002.

• Pope John Paul served 26 years as pontiff.

• Pope John Paul II beatified 1,338 people during his papacy.

Beatification is the last step before sainthood.

• Pope John Paul wrote five books that were published during his papacy:

"Crossing the Threshhold of Hope" in 1994; "Gift and Mystery," an

account of his early priesthood, in 1996; "Roman Tryptych --

Meditations," a book of poems, in 2003; "Get Up, Let Us God," which

focuses on his years in Krakow, in 2004; and "Memory and Identity" in

2005.

QUOTESQUOTESQUOTESQUOTES

• “The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols

are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close

their hearts and become selfish.

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• “Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step

knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is

very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.


The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols


their hearts and become selfish.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly


very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.


The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols


their hearts and become selfish.”

out fearlessly


very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.”


PAINTERSGUATEMALA PAINTER

Julio Vicente Agapito Abril Mayorga

Biography

20 August 1911,

Department - 24 April 1979 in Villavicencio,

Meta) was a Colombian sculptor, painter, and

draughtsman.

Julio Abril studied in 1928 at the Salesian

school Central Technical Institute of Bogotá and

during 1929 was the student of Col

cartoonist Lisandro Serrano's mother in

Moniquirá. In 1933 he completed his studies at

the school founded by the prominent educator

Alfonso Ramirez who in timely fashion

stimulated the budding artist in Abril.

1951 he came back to Colombia with his

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Julio Vicente Agapito Abril Mayorga

20 August 1911, Moniquirá, Boyacá

24 April 1979 in Villavicencio,

Meta) was a Colombian sculptor, painter, and

Julio Abril studied in 1928 at the Salesian

school Central Technical Institute of Bogotá and

during 1929 was the student of Colombian

cartoonist Lisandro Serrano's mother in

Moniquirá. In 1933 he completed his studies at

the school founded by the prominent educator

Alfonso Ramirez who in timely fashion

stimulated the budding artist in Abril.

1951 he came back to Colombia with his wife Violeta Horpel.

Achievements

In 1936 he held his first exhibition where he presented his

wood sculpture Cabeza de India

Woman) (1936), which was comprehensively commented

by Leon Angel for El Tiempo

received first prize at the Exhibition of Barranquilla in

1938.

In 1939 he won the national competition for the

monument to the chibcha

to the Indian), with his project

The same year he organized and participated in the Exhibit of Artists of

Boyacá on the IV Centennial of Tu

sculptures: Cabeza de India Boyacense

(1936), Maternidad(Maternity) (1939),

Woman of Ráquira) (1938),

Indian (1939).

Works

• Cabeza de India

• Maternidad

• Alfarera de Ráquira

• Project for the Monument to the Indian

• Bañista, Proyecto del Monumento a las Razas

• Proyecto del Monumento a los Quimbayas

In 1936 he held his first exhibition where he presented his

Cabeza de India (Head of an Indian

Woman) (1936), which was comprehensively commented

El Tiempo (Colombia) and for which he

received first prize at the Exhibition of Barranquilla in

In 1939 he won the national competition for the

chibcha race in Boyacá, Monumento al Indio (Monument

to the Indian), with his project Monument to Quemuenchatocha


Boyacá on the IV Centennial of Tunja where he exhibited 4

Cabeza de India Boyacense (Head of Boyacense Indian Woman)

(Maternity) (1939), Alfarera de Ráquira

Woman of Ráquira) (1938), Project for the Monument to the

Alfarera de Ráquira

Project for the Monument to the Indian (1939).

Proyecto del Monumento a las Razas,

Proyecto del Monumento a los Quimbayas

race in Boyacá, Monumento al Indio (Monument

(1939).


where he exhibited 4

(Head of Boyacense Indian Woman)

Alfarera de Ráquira (Potter

Project for the Monument to the

Important dates

• In 1941 he participated with Luis Alberto Acuna, Rómulo Rozo, Leo

Matiz, and Juan Sanz Santamaría in the Exhibition of Paintings,

Sculptures and Prints of Colombian Artists living in Mexico at the

Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts)

• Boyacense (Head of Boyacense Indian Woman) (1936),

• (Maternity) (1939),

• (Potter Woman of Ráquira) (1938),

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