KESA - KESA Kingfisher Electricals SA, European high-street electrical retailer formed in 2003 by demerging from Kingfisher plc. Based in Paris and owns several European retailers including Comet in the United Kingdom, Darty in France and Wegert in Germany. Dual-listed on the London and Paris stock exchanges..
Ibn Saud - Ibn Saud was first monarch of Saudi Arabia. He was born into the House of Saud (also Sa'ud), which had historically mantained dominion over an area of what was then known as Arabia called Nejd. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Losing and Reclaiming Power 2 Oil and the Rule of Ibn Saud 3 Foreign Wars 4 Family and Succession Losing and Reclaiming Power In 1890, at the age of ten, Saud followed his family into exile in Kuwait following the conquering of the families lands by the Rashidi. He spent the remainder of his childhood in Kuwait as a "penniless exile" [1]. In 1901, at the age of 21, Ibn Saud succeeded his father to become the leader of the Saud dynasty with the title Sultan of Nejd. It was at.
Isaac D'Israeli - operation, his sight was not restored. He continued writing, however, and with his daughter's assistance he produced Amenities of Literature (1841) and completed the revision of his work on Charles I. He died at age 82, at his home, Bradenham House, in Buckinghamshire on January 19, 1848, less than a year after the death of his wife, Maria Basevi D'Israeli, in the spring of 1847. They had been married for some forty years and had four children: Sarah ("Sa"), Benjamin ("Dizzy"), Raphael ("Ralph"), and Jacobus ("James"). Isaac had changed the spelling of his children's last name to make it less foreign-sounding, and he had them baptized as Christians in 1817, although he himself remained a Jew. This was what allowed his famous son Benjamin to enter Parliament, years before Jews could.
Hassanal Bolkiah - Predecessor: Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin Sa'adul Khairi Waddien Date of Birth: July 15, 1946 Place of Birth: Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Sir Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzadin Waddaulah (born July 15, 1946) is the sultan of Brunei, the eldest son of Omar Ali Saifuddin, the previous sultan. In addition to being sultan, he is also the Prime Minister, Defence Minister, and Finance Minister of Brunei. He became Crown Prince in 1961 and became sultan on October 5, 1967, after his father abdicated, voluntarily. He has a vast private fortune, and is opposed to moves to democratise Brunei. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Fritz Sauckel - 1922 to 1923. He joined the NSDAP in 1923 (member 1,395), he also married in that year and went on to have ten children. He remained a party member over its dissolution and publicly rejoined in 1925. Sauckel was appointed party Gauleiter of Thüringia in 1927 and became a member of the regional government in 1929. Following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 he was promoted to Reich Regent of Thuringia and Reichstag member. He was also given a honourary rank of Obergruppenführer in the SA and the SS in 1934. During WW II he was Reich defense commissioner for the Kassel district (Reichsverteidigungskommissar Wehrkreis IX) before being appointed General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labour (Generbevollmächtigter für den Arbeitseinsatz) on March 21, 1942, by the recommendation of Albert Speer..
Francisco de sa de miranda - Francisco de sa de miranda SA DE MIRANDA, FRANCISCO DE (1485-1558), Portuguese poet, was the son of a canon of Coimbra belonging to the ancient and noble family of Sa.
Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - George V of Great Britain ordered his name removed from the register of the Knights of the Garter in 1915. In July 1917, in an effort to further distance his dynasty from its Germanic origins, George V took the further step of changing the name of British Royal House from the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the House of Windsor. That year, the British Parliament passed the Titles Deprivation Act which empowered the Privy Council to investigate "any persons enjoying any dignity or title as a peer or British prince who have, during the present war, borne arms against His Majesty or His Allies, or who have adhered to His Majesty's enemies." Under the terms of that act, an Order in Council on 28 March 1919 formally removed the Duke's British peerages,.
Darrell Issa - Issa Darrell Issa (pronounced Eye-sa) (born January 1 1954), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the 49th District of California. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, was educated at Siena Heights College in Adrian, Michigan, served in the United States Army, and was a businessman before entering the House. Issa is one of the wealthiest members of the United States Congress. He made his fortune selling car alarms. Some of his political opponents have charged that his knowledge of car alarms comes from a youth spent stealing cars. In 1971, Issa was accused by a fellow soldier of theft of an automobile. In 1972, Issa was charged with with stealing a Maserati sports car in Cleveland, Ohio; Issa blamed his.
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun - Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun Abd al-Muhsin Bey as-Sa'dun (1879-1923) was prime minister of Iraq on four different occasions: November 18, 1922 - November 21, 1923 June 19, 1925 - November 1, 1926 January 14, 1928 - January 20, 1929 September 19, 1929 - November 13, 1929 An officer in the Ottoman army, Sa'dun served as aide-de-camp to Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid II before returning to Iraq and embarking on a career in politics. After World War I, He was an outspoken opponent of the British mandate in the country. During his third term in office, Sad'un negotiated two important treaties: the Second Anglo Iraqi Treaty, ensuring that the Kurd-dominated Mosul province would remain part of Iraq (with assurances for the rights of the local Kurdish population); and the Turkey-Iraqi Treaty in which.
Amerika Samoa - mai ia tu I luga Tautua ma punou I lou Malo Ia manuia ia ulu ola Amerika Samoa Ole Malo ole sa’olotoga (repeat) Tautua ma punou I lou Malo Ia manuia ia ulu ola Amerika Samoa Ole Malo ole sa’olotoga Soifua ma ia manuia, Teine Samoa.
CASA - CASA Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (CASA) Founded in 1923 in Seville, Spain. Spain's CASA is part of EADS, the European Aerospace Corporation, since its foundation in 1999, and was before member of the Airbus Consortium together with France, Germany and the United Kingdom..
Charles de Rémusat - Rémusat constantly spoke in the chair here, but was still more active in literature, especially on philosophical subjects, the most remarkable of his works being his book on Abélard (2 vols., 1845). In 1848 he was elected, and in 1849 re-elected, for Haute Garonne, and voted with the Conservative side. He had to leave France after the coup d'état; nor did he re-enter political life during the Second Empire until 1869, when he founded a moderate opposition journal at Toulouse. In 1871 he refused the Vienna embassy offered him by Thiers, but in August he was appointed minister of foreign affairs in succession to Jules Favre. Although minister he was not a deputy, and on standing for Paris in September 1873 he was beaten by Désiré Barodet. A month later he.
Khyal - not be preceded by improvised alap without drum accompaniment; alap is given much less room in khyal than in other forms of classical music in north India. As the songs are short, and performances long (half an hour or more), the lyrics lose much of their importance. Improvisation is added to the songs in a number of ways: for example improvising new melodies to the words, using the syllables of the songs to improvise material (bolbant, boltaans), singins the names of the scale degrees - sa, re, ga, ma, pa, da and ni (sargam) - or simply intersperse phrases sung on the vowel A, akar taans. Now and then, the singer returns to the song, especially its first line, as a point of reference. History The history of khyal is closely.
Kim Philby - Born in Ambala, India the son of the British diplomat, explorer, author, Arabist and converted Muslim Harry St. John Philby, at one time an adviser to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia. After leaving Westminster School in 1928, Philby went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. While a student there Philby was introduced to, and came to admire, the ideals of Communism. He was not exactly 'recruited' as a spy - he volunteered. He asked one of his tutors, Maurice Dobb, how he could serve the Communist movement. Dobb passed him on (possibly not knowing what it would lead to) to a Communist front organisation, which passed him on to the Comintern underground in Vienna. He was recruited by the Soviet intelligence service itself (at that time known as the OGPU) on.
Korean Buddhism - Gyeyul (Skt. Vinaya) school, which focused on study and implementation of moral discipline (śīla), also initially popular in Baekje; and the Yeolban (Skt. Nirvāna) school, which was based in the themes of the Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra, and initially popular in Silla. Toward the end of the three kingdoms period, the Weonyung (Ch. Yuanrong;) school, which focused on the actualization of the metaphysics of interpenetration as found in the Huayan jing, would outstrip most of the other schools as a field of academic study, becoming especially popular with the educated aristocracy. This school, later known in Korea as Hwaeom (Ch. Huayan), would end up becoming the most long-lived of the Chinese imported schools, having strong affinities with the indigenous Korean school of Buddhist thought, called Beopseong (discussed below). During the latter Three Kingdoms Period,.
Jacques Brel - Brel's "spiritual nation" and he expressed contradictory statments about his native Belgium, many overlook this matter as some of his best compositions pay tribute to Belgium, like Le plat pays or Il neige sur Liège. His themes are extremely diverse, exploring love (Je t'aime, Litanies pour un retour, Dulcinéa), society (Les singes, Les bourgeois, Jaurès) and spiritual concerns (Le bon Dieu, Dites, si c'était vrai, Fernand). His work is not limited to one style. He was as proficient in funny compositions (Les bonbons, Le lion, Comment tuer l'amant de sa femme...) as in heart-breaking ones (Voir un ami pleurer, Fils de..., Jojo). Brel's acute perception made him an innovative and creative painter of daily life with rare poetic ease. He was a master poet. His intelligent use of words was striking.
Jacques Godbout - Les Petits Arpents Pour l'amour du stress Pour quelques arpents de neige Le Prospecteur et la Technique Quand vient l'été Québec Soft (La musique adoucit les moeurs) Rose et Landry Le Sort de l'Amérique Têtes blanches Le Tir au fusil Traître ou Patriote Travail d'équipe et Recherches agricoles Les «Troubbes» de Johnny Un monologue Nord-Sud Une Leçon de chasse Vivre sa ville Les Vrais Cousins YUL 871 See also List of Canadian writers, List of French Canadian writers, List of Canadian poets.
Jaguarundi - Herpailurus yaguarondi carcomitli, South Texas and Mexico Herpailurus yaguarondi eyra, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina Herpailurus yaguarondi fossata, Mexico and Honduras Herpailurus yaguarondi melantho, Peru and Brazil Herpailurus yaguarondi panamensis, Nicaraguar to Ecuador Herpailurus yaguarondi tolteca, Arizona and Mexico Herpailurus yaguarondi yagouaroundi, Guiana and Amazon Source/External Links: http://ds.dial.pipex.com/agarman/bco/jundi.htm http://ds.dial.pipex.com/agarman/jundi.htm http://www.canuck.com/iseccan/jagundi.html http://www.cattales.org/jagundi.html http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/sa/jag/ http://lynx.uio.no/catfolk/yaguar01.htm.
Jean-Luc Godard - critical writing however and became one of the key proponents of the nouvelle vague or New Wave. His first major work was À bout de souffle (1960), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. It was a success both critically and with audiences in France and internationally, and became a key film of the New Wave styles — American cinema influences, harsh editing, and a real pleasure in film-making. His next success was Vivre sa vie (1962). The following year he made the marvellous failure Les Carabiniers, a homage to Vigo. In 1964, Godard and his wife Anna Karina (married in 1961) formed a production company, Anouchka Films. In 1965, Godard directed Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution and Pierrot le Fou. At the end of that year he and Anna.
Jean Baptiste Massillon - a sermon which he delivered before the young king Louis XV in 1718, his sermons on the Prodigal Son, on the small number of the elect, on death, for Christmas Day, and for the Fourth Sunday in Advent, may be perhaps cited as his masterpieces. His funeral oration on King Louis XIV is only noted now for the opening sentence: "Dieu seul est grand." But in truth Massillon is singularly free from inequality. His great literary power, his reputation for benevolence, and his known toleration and dislike of doctrinal disputes caused him to be much more favourably regarded than most churchmen by the philosophes of the 18th century. The first edition of Massillon's complete works was published by his nephew, also an Oratorian (Paris, 1745-1748), and upon this, in the absence.
