Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen - Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen Ambrose LAU Hon-chuen, GBS, JP (劉漢銓) (born July 16, 1947) is currently the Chairman of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (HKPA), a pro-business and pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong. He is a Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), elected from the constituency of Election Committee. Professionally he is a solicitor and Notary Public. Lau obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of London. He served as the Chairman of the Central and Western District Board from 1988 to 1994, and was the President of the Law Society of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1993. He was appointed by the PRC government as a Hong Kong Affairs Adviser in 1993. He established the HKPA in 1994 and chaired.
Hong Kong Progressive Alliance - considered a pro-business and pro-Beijing one. It merged with the Liberal Democratic Foundation (LDF) in 1997. The current Chairman is Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen. The basic platform of the party is to defend "One country-two systems" and the Basic Law, the mini-constitution of Hong Kong. It advocates handling political and social issues in a moderate, pragmatic and harmonious manner, and develop democracy progressively. Stability, prosperity and progress is emphasized. Party members maintain close relationships with Mainland China authorities. A number of them are deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of the People's Republic of China. The party won 5 seats in the 1998 election of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, of which 2 were from functional constituencies and 3 were from the.
Politics of Hong Kong - Administrative Region conventional short form: Hong Kong local long form: Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu local short form: Xianggang abbreviation: HK Data code: HK Dependency status: Special administrative region of People's Republic of China Government type: NA Administrative divisions: none (Special administrative region of PRC) Independence: NA (special administrative region of PRC) National holiday: National Day, 1 October; note - 1 July 1997 is celebrated as Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day Constitution: Basic Law approved in March 1990 by China's National People's Congress is Hong Kong's "mini-constitution" Legal system: based on English common law Suffrage: Direct election 18 years of age; universal for permanent residents living in the territory of Hong Kong for the past seven years; indirect election limited to about 100,000 members of functional constituencies and an 800-member election.
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Archibald Prize - McInnes - Portrait of a Lady 1924 - W B McInnes - Portrait of Miss Collins 1925 - John Longstaff - Portrait of Maurice Moscovitch 1926 - W B McInnes - Silk and Lace 1927 - George W Lambert - Mrs Murdoch 1928 - John Longstaff - Portrait of Dr Alexander Leeper 1929 - John Longstaff - W A Holman, KC 1930 - W B McInnes - Drum-Major Harry McClelland 1931 - John Longstaff - Sir John Sulman 1932 - Ernest Buckmaster - Sir William Irvine 1933 - Charles Wheeler - Ambrose Pratt 1934 - Henry Hanke - Self Portrait 1935 - John Longstaff - A B ('Banjo') Patterson 1936 - W B McInnes - Dr. Julian Smith 1937 - Normand Baker - Self Portrait 1938 - Nora Heysen - Mme.
Wesleyan University - Meredith Bergmann (graduated 1976) - Sculptor of Women's Memorial (Boston). William Blakemore (graduated 1965) - Correspondent, ABC News Amy Bloom (graduated 1975) - Author of Come to Me, Love Invents Us, and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You Joshua Boger (graduated 1973) - President and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Linda Brinen (graduated 1988) - Scientific and technical programs manager, Joint Center for Structural Genomics, Stanford University Ethan Bronner (graduated 1976) - Assistant editorial page editor, The New York Times Dominique Browning (graduated 1977) - Editor-in-chief, House & Garden Magazine Ambrose Burfoot (graduated 1968) - First collegian to win the Boston Marathon; executive editor, Runner's World Magazine Majora Carter (graduated 1988) - Founder and executive director, Sustainable South Bronx Richard Cavanagh (graduated 1968) - President and CEO, The Conference.
List of English language poets - Marvell (1621-1678) John Masefield, (1878-1967) Colleen McElroy Roger McGough, (born 1937) Thomas McGreevy (1893-1967) Claude McKay Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) Thomas Merton, (1915-1968) George Meredith (1828-1909) W. S. Merwin Máire Mhac an tSaoi Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950) Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913) Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) John Milton (1608-1674) Adrian Mitchell Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715) Marianne Moore, (1887-1972) Robin Moore, (1954- ) Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Barbara Moraff Edythe Morahan de Lauzon William Morris (1834-1896) Andrew Motion Paul Muldoon (born 1951) Anthony Munday (1553-1633) Les Murray (born 1938) N-P Ogden Nash (1902-1971) Thomas Nashe (1567-1601) Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Lorine Niedecker (1903[?]-1970) Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson Howard Nemerov Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938) John Henry Newman, (1801-1890) Frank O'Hara Terry A. O'Neal George Moses Horton Charles Olson (1910-1970) Mary Devenport.
Lord Mayor of London - 1548 Henry Amcotts 1549 Sir Rowland Hill 1550 Andrew Judde 1551 Richard Dobbis 1552 George Barne 1553 Thomas Whyte 1554 John Lyon 1555 William Garrarde 1556 Thomas Offley 1557 Thomas Curtes 1558 Thomas Leigh 1559 William Hewet 1560 Sir William Chester 1561 William Harper 1562 Thomas Lodge 1563 John Whyte 1564 Richard Malorye 1565 Richard Champyon 1566 Christopher Draper 1567 Roger Martyn 1568 Thomas Rowe 1569 Alexander Avenon 1570 Rowland Heyward 1571 William Allen 1572 Lionel Duckett 1573 John Ryvers 1574 James Hawes 1575 Ambrose Nicholas 1576 John Langley 1577 Thomas Ramsay 1578 Richard Pype 1579 Nicholas Woodroffe 1580 John Branche 1581 James Harvye 1582 Thomas Blanke 1583 Edward Osborne 1584 Thomas Pullyson 1585 Wolstan Dixie 1586 George Barne 1587 George Bonde 1588 Martin Calthorp 1589 Richard Martin 1589 John Harte.
Chinese Canadian - of America. There was a significant influx of wealthy Chinese from Hong Kong in the early and mid-1990s. These Chinese immigrants were worried about the pending handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China and Canada was a preferred location, in part because investment visas were significantly easier to obtain than visas to the United States. Vancouver, Richmond, and Toronto, Ontario were the major destinations of these Chinese. Prominent Chinese Canadians Within Canada Raymond Chan, former Secretary of State for the Pacific Rim Wei Chen, newscaster Denise Chong, writer Tommy Chong, comic and actor (born in Canada, though famous mainly for work in the U.S.) Raymond Chow, painter Wayson Choy, writer Adrienne Clarkson, journalist, novelist, publisher, current Governor General of Canada Chan Hon Goh, first chinese-canadian princial dancer with.
John Ambrose Fleming - John Ambrose Fleming Sir John Ambrose Fleming (sometimes also listed as Ambrose J. Fleming, November 29, 1848 - April 18, 1945) was a British electrical engineer. Early years Fleming was born in Lancaster and educated at University College School, London and UCL. Lecturer at a number of universities including Cambridge, Nottingham and UCL. Consultant to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Swan, Ferranti, Edison Telephone and later the Edison Electric Light Company. In 1892 Fleming presented an important paper on transformer theory to the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London. Later years In November 1904 he invented and patented the two-electrode radio rectifier, which he called the oscillation valve. It was also called a thermionic valve, vacuum diode, kenotron, thermionic tube, or Fleming valve. This invention is often.
Emily Lau Wai-hing - Emily Lau Wai-hing Emily Lau Wai-hing (劉慧卿) (born January 21, 1952) is currently the founder-convenor of the The Frontier, a pro-democracy political party in Hong Kong. She is a full-time legislator in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), elected from the Geographical Constituency of New Territories East. Lau obtained her BA degree in the University of Southern California, USA in 1976, and earned her M. Sc. degree in International Relations in the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. She began her career as a journalist in 1976. From 1987 to 1990 she was a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and also a lecturer of the Certificate in Journalism in the Department of.
Kuku Lau - Kuku Lau In Polynesian mythology, Kuku Lau is the goddess of mirages who tricks sailors by showing them nonexistent lands on the horizon..
Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito - Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito (The Darkness, the Hat and the Traveler of Books) is a hentai visual novel game and non-hentai, 13 episode anime series. They follow the travels of Hazuki, a quiet high-school girl, as she searches for her vanished older sister Hatsumi throughout many different "book worlds." She is accompanied by the strange caretaker of the book worlds' library, Lilith- who wears the hat referred to in the title, and what a hat it is- as well as a talking parakeet, Ken-chan. They are most popular among shoujo-ai fans, as a majority of the female characters are blatantly attracted to Hatsuki..
Isaac Ambrose - Isaac Ambrose '\Isaac Ambrose' (1604 - January 20 1663 or 1664) was an English Puritan divine, the son of Richard Ambrose, vicar of Ormskirk, and was probably descended from the Ambroses of Lowick in Furness, a well-known Catholic family. He entered Brazenose College, Oxford, in 1621, in his seventeenth year. Having graduated B.A. in 1624 and been ordained, he received in 1627 the little cure of Castleton in Derbyshire. By the influence of William Russell, earl of Bedford, he was appointed one of the king's itinerant preachers in Lancashire, and after living for a time in Garstang, he was selected by the Lady Margaret Hoghton as vicar of Preston. He associated himself with Presbyterianism, and was on the celebrated committee for the ejection of "scandalous and ignorant.
Honeywell - of Defense. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its current chief executive officer is David M. Cote. Honeywell is traded under the ticker symbol HON on the NYSE with a market capitalization of $23,651.38MIL (October 14, 2003) It is one of the thirty companies which contribute to the Dow Jones Industrial Average..
Honourable - Honourable The prefix Honourable or Honorable (abbr. "Hon." or formerly "Hon'ble") is a title of quality attached to the names of certain classes of persons. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Commonwealth usage 1.1 Entitlement 1.2 Usage 2 American usage Commonwealth usage Entitlement In the United Kingdom, all sons and daughters of peers are entitled to the prefix for life. Normally however, sons and daughters of dukes and marquesses and daughters of earls are by courtesy known e.g. as Lord/Lady A B except on formal legal documents where they are known as The Honourable A B, commonly known as Lord/Lady A B. Similarly, eldest sons of dukes, marquesses, and earls are by courtesy known by a subsidiary title, e.g. Viscount X, and do not use the style Honourable except in the circumstance.
Elmer Ambrose Sperry - Elmer Ambrose Sperry Elmer Ambrose Sperry (12 October 1860-16 June 1930) was an electrical engineer who founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company in 1910 to manufacture navigation equipment, including Sperry's marine gyrostabilizer and gyrocompass.The firm became the Sperry Corporation..
Evelyn Lau - Evelyn Lau Evelyn Lau is a Canadian poet and novelist. She was born in Vancouver on July 2, 1971 to Chinese-Canadian parents. Her parents had high expectations of her, hoping she would become a doctor. Her family life was unhappy, however, as was her school life. At age 18 she left home and began living on the streets of Vancouver as a prostitute and drug addict. Always wanting to be a writer she kept a diary which was published as Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid in 1989. The graphic book was a critical and commercial success. Her subsequent volumes of poetry and her first novel confirmed her as one of Canada's great young literary talents. She had a well publicized romance with the older writer W..
Knights of the Garter (1349-1699) - et Buzançais (1532) James V, King of Scots, nephew of King Henry VIII (1535) Sir Nicholas Carew (1536) Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland (1537) Thomas Cromwell, Lord Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex (1537) Sir John Russell, Lord High Admiral, Lord Privy Seal (1539) Sir William Kingston (1539) Thomas Audley, 1st Lord Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor (1540) Sir Anthony Browne (1540) Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, uncle of the Prince of Wales (1541) Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, son of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk, a noted poet (1541) Sir John Gage (1541) Sir Anthony Wingfield (1541) John Dudley, 7th Viscount Lisle, Lord High Admiral, father in law of Lady Jane Grey and chief adviser in the later years of Edward VI (1543) William Paulet, 1st Lord St John.
Jerome - spiritualizing exposition of his own, supplying an introduction, and making certain changes in the text. Historical Writings One of Jerome's earliest attempts in the department of history was his Temporum liber, composed c.380 in Constantinople; this is a recasting in Latin of the chronological tables which compose the second part of the Chronicon of Eusebius, with a supplement covering the period from 325 to 379. In spite of numerous errors taken over from Eusebius, and some of his own, Jerome produced a valuable work, if only for the impulse which it gave to such later chroniclers as Prosper, Cassiodorus, and Victor of Tannuna to continue his annals. Three other works of a hagiological nature are the Vita Pauli monachi, written during his first sojourn at Antioch (c.376), the legendary material of.
