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北
北, meaning "north", may refer to: *Kita (surname), a Japanese surname *A given name (pronounced Běi in Mandarin and Buk in Korean) **Choe Buk (), Joseon Dynasty painter **Law Pak (born 1929), Hong Kong football coach See also * *Bei River, tributary of the Pearl River in southern China *Buk-gu (other), various districts in South Korea *Kita-ku (other), various districts in Japan {{Disambiguation, Chinese Kyōiku kanji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kita (surname)
Kita is a Japanese and Polish surname. As a Japanese surname it might be written various ways in kanji (e.g. meaning "north"; meaning "field of trees"; meaning "many happinesses"). Notable people with the surname include: * , Japanese baseball outfielder * Candace Kita (born 1967), American actress * , Japanese long-distance runner * , Japanese philosopher * , Japanese football goalkeeper * , Japanese vocalist and guitarist * , Japanese novelist * Przemysław Kita (born 1993), Polish football striker * Regina Wasilewska-Kita (born 1951), Polish politician * , Japanese ''ryūkōka'' singer * , lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army * , Japanese gymnast * , Japanese basketball coach * , Japanese furniture designer * , Japanese football defender * Waldemar Kita (born 1953), Polish businessman References See also * {{surname, Kita Japanese-language surnames Polish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Pak
Law Pak (born 25 May 1933) is a former football coach and former Republic of China (Taiwan) international footballer. However, he spent his entire playing career in the British Hong Kong. As a coach, he coached teams from Hong Kong and Taiwan; he also resided in Taiwan temporary but in recent year followed his daughter to migrate to the United States. In 2014, during an interview, he claimed that himself, Mok Chun Wah and Lau Tim () were the only surviving gold medalists of the 1958 Asian Games football tournament. Club career Law was a player of KMB in the 1950s. He was also employed by the owner of the football club, Kowloon Motor Bus, as a bus station manager, according to an interview of Law by John C.W. Lee (). At that time the footballer were registered as amateur footballer but in fact professional, receiving income from various source. International career Law represented the Republic of China (Taiwan) in the 1958 Asian Games, the 1960 Summer Olympics, the 1960 AFC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kita-ku (other)
Kita or KITA may refer to: People * Kita (surname) * Kita Alexander (born 1996), Australian singer-songwriter * João Leithardt Neto, Brazilian footballer nicknamed Kita * Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician whose stage name is Kita Places In Japan * Kita-ku (北区), meaning “northern ward”, is a ward name found in several cities: ** Kita-ku, Hamamatsu ** Kita-ku, Kobe ** Kita-ku, Kumamoto ** Kita-ku, Kyoto ** Kita-ku, Nagoya ** Kita-ku, Niigata ** Kita-ku, Okayama ** Kita-ku, Osaka ** Kita-ku, Saitama ** Kita-ku, Sakai ** Kita-ku, Sapporo ** Kita-ku, Tokyo * Kita, Hokkaidō (北村), a village in Hokkaidō * A local term for the northern commercial district of Osaka (part of, but not the same as, Kita-ku) * Kita District, Ehime (喜多郡) * Kita District, Kagawa (木田郡) * Kita Station (喜多駅), a railway station in Miyazu, Kyoto Prefecture * Mount Kita (北岳), a mountain of the Akaishi Mountains in Yamanashi Prefecture Elsewhere * Kita, Mali, a town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choe Buk
Choe Buk ( fl. 1755–85), was a Korean painter of the late Joseon period. He used many pen names, Samgijae, Hosaenggwan, Songjae, Giam, Geogijae among them. Life His childhood remains unknown, as well as the social status of his family. The ''Grove'' says 'floruit c. 1755–85'. Nevertheless, the Korean wiki page :ko:최북 says: 최북(崔北, 1712년 – 1760년)은 조선 숙종, 영조 때의 화가이다 ... and gives a reference to AKS ... that explains why 1720 can be guessed as his birth year. It seems that, despite the fame of Choe Buk in Seoul, his excessive drinking left him perpetually short of cash, and he resorted to making trips to other cities to sell his works. He may have died in Seoul, but the year remains unrecorded. He was known as a skilled landscape painter, but also drew portraits, flowers and animals. Legend tells of a powerful aristocrat that forced him to draw, but Choe refused to do so and as a result had one eye pierced, leading to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bei River
Bei River (北江; literally "The North River"; pinyin: ''Běi Jiāng''; wade-giles: ''Pei3 Chiang1''; jyutping: ''Bak1 Gong1'', literally "North River") is the northern tributary of the Pearl River in southern China. The other two main tributaries of the Pearl River are the Xi Jiang and the Dong Jiang. The Bei River is long, and is located in northern Guangdong. See also * Pearl River Delta * Geography of China * List of rivers of Asia A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References Rivers of Guangdong Tributaries of the Pearl River (China) {{China-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buk-gu (other)
Buk-gu, (), or "Northern District", is the name of a ''gu'' in several South Korean cities: * Buk-gu, Busan * Buk-gu, Daegu * Buk-gu, Gwangju * Buk-gu, Pohang Buk-gu is a non-autonomous district in the City of Pohang in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Administrative divisions Buk-gu is divided into one town (''eup''), 6 townships (''myeon''), and 8 neighbourhoods (''dong''). Points of int ... * Buk-gu, Ulsan See also * Northern District (other) {{Set index ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North
North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating Direction (geometry), direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is etymology, related to the Old High German ''nord'', both descending from the Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European unit *''ner-'', meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word ''borealis'' comes from the Ancient Greek, Greek ''Anemoi#Boreas, boreas'' "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was personified as the wind-god Anemoi#Boreas, Boreas, the father of Calais and Zetes. ''Septentrionalis'' is from ''septentriones'', "the seven plow oxen", a name of ''Ursa Major''. The Greek ἀρκτικός (''arktikós'') is named for the same constellation, and is the source of the English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
