Francisco Jesus Mendez Cestero (born September 3, 1976 in Sabadell) is a track and field athlete from Spain. He is also a screenwriter. He has a physical disability: He is T54/F54 type athlete. He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He finished third in the discus F53 event. He competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. He finished third shot put F54 event. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics.
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Dirk Klingenberg
Dirk Klingenberg (born 23 July 1969 in Duisburg) is a former professional water polo player from Germany.
Klingenberg is counted as the best water polo player in Germany in the 1990s. He began his career in 1980 in Duisburg and started playing for the ASC Duisburg. A year later he moved to the Duisburger SV 98. After 10 years he left his hometown in 1991 and moved to Berlin, where he played for the Wasserfreunde Spandau 04. He won 17 national titles during his time in Berlin. He also became the top-scorer of the water polo Bundesliga twice. As a member of team Germany he competed in 190 international games. He was able to achieve his goal to participate in the Olympic Games in 1996. He was team speaker of the water polo national team in 1998, and was selected for the World-All-Star-Team in 1999. Because of personal and job-related reasons, Klingenberg began to slowly end his career in Düsseldorf, where he led the Düsseldorfer SC in the first league in 1999/2000.
Besides his activities as a competitive sportsman, Klingenberg always focused on his occupational career. From 1999 to 2008 he worked in sports marketing as the head of marketing communications and sporting events of the Deutsche Telekom AG. He founded his own agency Klingenberg Sportconsulting GmbH in 2009, and worked from then on as an independent consultant. The main fields of activity are strategic consulting, conception and planning for companies and brands, as well as creative event and project management.
He also works as a lecturer at a media-university in Cologne, and as a consultant of the water polo Team Germany.
He is married to Kirsten Klingenberg, has two children and lives in Cologne.
Wedding March
"Wedding March" (1842) is a piece of music for orchestra. Felix Mendelssohn wrote it in C major. It is one of the pieces he wrote for a performance of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". At weddings, somebody usually plays it on a pipe organ when the bride and groom leave the church.
The march became popular for weddings when Victoria, The Princess Royal, married Prince Frederick William of Prussia on 25 January 1858 and chose the piece. The bride was the daughter of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria loved Mendelssohn's music.
Sometimes people call the "Bridal Chorus" from Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" the Wedding March. This music usually plays when the bride goes into the church.
María Beatriz Mendoza Rivera
Maria Beatriz Mendoza Rivera (born November 18, 1975 in Santa María de Guía) is a track and field athlete from Spain. She has a disability: She is blind and a T12/B2 type athlete. She raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. She finished first in the 100 meter T12 race and she finished first in the 200 meter T12 race. She raced at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and finished second in the 200 meter race and third in the 100 meter race.
Marta Arce Payno
Marta Arce Payno (born July 27, 1977 in Valladolid) is a judo athlete from Spain. She has a disability: She is blind and a B3 type athlete. She competed in judo at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics. She finished second at the 2004 Games in the Up to 57 Kg group. She finished second at the 2008 Games in the Up to 63 Kg group. She finished third in the 2012 Games Up to 63 Kg group.
She got a job with help from the Employment HPOD PROAD Program, which is helped by ONCE.
Jorge Nuñez Piris
Jorge Nuñez Piris (born Jue 18, 1972 in Madrid) is a track and field athlete from Spain. He has a disability: He is blind and a T12/B2 type athlete. He raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. He finished first in the 4 X 100 meter T11-T13 race. He finished third in the 100 meter T12 race.
Vanesa Ortega Godoy
Vanesa Ortega Godoy (born March 24, 1981 in Málaga) is a track and field athlete from Spain. She has a disability: She is blind and a T12/B2 type athlete. She raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. She finished in second in 400 meter T12 race. She raced at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
Purificacion Ortiz Ortiz
Purificacion Ortiz Ortiz (born June 6, 1972 in Madrid) is a track and field athlete from Spain. She has a disability: She is blind and a T11/F11/B1 type athlete. She competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in the F11-F12 long jump and finished third.
Francisco Javier Perez Canduelas
Francisco Javier Perez Canduelas (born March 17, 1969 in Valencia) is a track and field athlete from Spain. He has a disability: He is blind and a T12/B2 type athlete. He raced at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in the T12 marathon and he finished third.
Egoz (ship)
The Egoz (, literally: "walnut", originally: "Pisces") was a ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea on 10 January 1961. It was carrying 44 Jewish emigrants sailing from Morocco. It also carried one Israeli that was deputy of the Israeli government, and two Spanish crew members. Only 22 bodies were found. They were buried at a Jewish cemetery in Morocco. In 1992, the 22 bodies were buried in the National Civil Cemetery of the State of Israel at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. An empty grave was built to honor the people who were never found. A memorial for all of the victims was built beside the graves.
Salvador (immigration ship)
The Salvador was a ship that sank in the Sea of Marmara on 12 December 1940. It was carrying Jewish emigrants from Bulgaria. The ship sank next to the beach of Silivri, Turkey. There were 238 Jews, 3 crew members, and 2 volunteers on board -204 passengers {including 66 children} were lost. Of 123 survivors-63 were sent back of Bulgaria; the rest resided in Instanbul and were on the immigrant ship Darien II which was intercepted by the british March 29, 1941; the emigrants were interred in Atlit for a year and half. In 1964, the 223 bodies were buried in the National Civil Cemetery of the State of Israel at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Twenty-one of the bodies were not identified. A memorial for all of the victims was built beside the graves.
Patria disaster
The SS "Patria" was an passenger ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea on 25 November 1940. It was sailing from the port of Haifa. It was carrying about 1,800 Jewish refugees from Europe during World War II. The British government were deporting them from Palestine to Mauritius because they did not have visas. Zionist organisations opposed the deportation, and the paramilitary group Haganah planted a bomb in the ship to stop it from leaving Haifa. However, the Haganah miscalculated the size of the explosion: it killed 260 people and injured 172. The rest of the passengers were rescued by British and Arab boats that rushed to save them.
The British allowed the survivors to remain in Palestine on humanitarian grounds. 221 passengers were buried in the Carmel Beach cemetery in Haifa.
Richard More
Richard More (circa. 1614–1696) was a passenger on the "Mayflower" in 1620. He became a sailor and later a ship captain. He saved at least one colony from starvation and helped to keep the colonies prosperous by trading goods to and from England and the West Indies. He fought sea battles against the French in 1664.
Richard and his siblings were taken from their mother and given to the care of Mayflower passengers as indentured servants. Only Richard survived and lived a long and prosperous life. Richard has descendants that can be traced to present day.