Conchita

There quickly followed a romance and an engagement between an imperial court official, Count Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, who held a tsarist monopoly on trade along the Pacific Northwest, and Conchita Arguello, daughter of the San Francisco Presidio’s commandant.

Then he laid eyes on 15-year-old Conchita Arguella, who was also, conveniently, the daughter of the commandant of the San Francisco Presidio.

Deep-seated landslides also hit the Ventura County hamlet of La Conchita in 1995 and 2005.

Looking back at the last decade, Tom Neuwirth is amazed by how far his 2014 Eurovision win as the drag queen Conchita Wurst has reverberated.

Yet none of those performers received as explosive a reception as Conchita Wurst, whose victory arrived amid widespread advancements in L.G.B.T.Q. rights in Western Europe that included a wave of legalization for same-sex marriage.