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Alexandrina (name)
Alexandrina is a given name, a latinate derivative of Alexandra. Notable people with the name include: * Alexandrina Chezan (born 1939), Romanian volleyball player * Alexandrina Robertson Harris (1886–1978), Scottish–born American miniature painter * Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904–1955), Portuguese mystic of the Eucharist * Alexandrina Pendatchanska (born 1970), Bulgarian soprano boasting a very dark dramatic timbre * Alexandrina Matilda MacPhail (1860–1946), Scottish doctor * Queen Victoria, born Alexandrina Victoria * Princess Alexandrina of Baden (1820–1904) * Alexandrina Pendatchanska (born 1970), Bulgarian operatic soprano * Alexandria Riordan (born 1990), American former figure skater * Alexandrina Cantacuzino (1876–1944), Romanian political activist * Alexandrina Chezan (born 1939), Romanian volleyball player * Alexandrina Hristov (born 1978), Romanian singer * Alexandrina Jay (born 1949), British social worker and academic Alexandrina may also refer to: * Lady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra
Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "protector of man". The name Alexandra was one of the epithets given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors". The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek ( or //), written in the Linear B syllabic script.Tablet MY V 659 (61). Alexandra and its masculine equivalent, Alexander, are both common names in Greece as well as countries where Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages are spoken. Variants * Alejandra, Alejandrina (diminutive) (Spanish) * Aleksandra (Александра) ( Albanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian) * Alessandra (Italian) * Alessia (Italian) * Alex (various languages) * Alexa (English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586, it is the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics known as the Delegates of the Press, who are appointed by the vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. The Delegates of the Press are led by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as OUP's chief executive and as its major representative on other university bodies. Oxford University Press has had a similar governance structure since the 17th century. The press is located on Walton Street, Oxford, opposite Somerville College, in the inner suburb of Jericho. For the last 500 years, OUP has primarily focused on the publication of pedagogical texts and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Chezan
Alexandrina Chezan (born 29 April 1939) is a Romanian volleyball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho .... References External links * 1939 births Living people Romanian women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Romania Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Volleyball players from Bucharest {{Romania-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Robertson Harris
Alexandrina Robertson Harris (1886–1978) was an American painter of portrait miniatures. Harris was born in Aberdeen but later emigrated to the United States. She studied at Adelphi College, receiving while there a number of prize for her work. From 1933 until 1935 she was president of the National Association of Women Artists, in which role she advocated for the position of the arts in American life. She was serving as president of the American Society of Miniature Painters at its disbandment in 1965, and in conjunction with Rosina Cox Boardman arranged the presentation of twenty-two works by its members to the Smithsonian Institution. Harris was serving as a vice-president of the Brooklyn Society of Artists in 1919; three years later she received the Charlotte Richie Smith Memorial Prize for a portrait miniature from the Baltimore Water Color Club. Harris is represented in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum by three miniature portraits, all in watercolor on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Maria Da Costa
Alexandrina Maria da Costa (30 March 1904 – 13 October 1955), best known as Blessed Alexandrina of Balazar, was a Portuguese mystic and victim soul, member of the Association of Salesian Cooperators, who was born and died in Balazar (a rural parish of Póvoa de Varzim). On 25 April 2004 she was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II who stated that "her secret to holiness was love for Christ". Early life Alexandrina Maria da Costa was born on 30 March 1904, in Balazar, a rural parish of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Her father abandoned the family when she was very young. She had only eighteen months' schooling before being sent to work on a farm at the age of nine. In her teens she started to work in Balazar as a seamstress along with her sister.Freze, Michael. 1993, ''They bore the wounds of Christ'', OSV Publishing page 279 Alexandrina said that when she went with other girls to the countryside, she picked flowers that she later used to make flower carpets to the Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Pendatchanska
Alexandrina Pendatchanska (sometimes written as Alexandrina Pendachanska) ( bg, Александрина Пендачанска) (born 24 September 1970) is a Bulgarian operatic soprano. Increasingly, she is known professionally as Alex Penda. Career Pendatchanska was born in Sofia, Bulgaria into a family of renowned Bulgarian musicians. Her grandfather Sasha Popov was a violinist and conductor and the founder of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. Her mother Valerie Popova was an internationally acclaimed soprano who sung regularly at La Scala in Milan from 1983 to 1986. She studied piano from early childhood and graduated from Bulgaria's National School of Music, where her subjects were piano and singing. Her vocal teacher was her mother, Valerie Popova. Making her stage debut at age 17 in the role of Violetta in ''La traviata'', she soon won the Antonín Dvořák Competition in Karlovy Vary, was placed second in the International Vocal Competition in Bilbao in 1988, and won UNISA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Matilda MacPhail
Alexandrina Matilda MacPhail, OBE (3 June 1860 – 6 November 1946) was a Scottish doctor who graduated from the London School of Medicine for Women. In 1887, she became a missionary and doctor in India, where she founded what would become a large hospital in Madras. During the World War I, First World War, she also worked for the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service as a doctor in Serbia and France. Early life and education Alexandrina McPhail was born in Knock, Sleat, on the Isle of Skye in June 1860. She was the daughter of Reverend John Sinclair MacPhail, first Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900), Free Church minister of Sleat, and later, minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, United Free Church; and Jessie Reid (née Finlayson). MacPhail attended the London School of Medicine for Women and graduated in 1887. Career After graduation, she travelled to Madras in India. MacPhail was the first woman physician sent by the Free Church of Scotland (1843–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Of Baden
Princess Alexandrine Luise Amalie Friederike Elisabeth Sophie of Baden (6 December 1820 – 20 December 1904) was Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 29 January 1844 to 22 August 1893 as the wife of Duke Ernest II. She was the eldest child of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and his wife Princess Sophie of Sweden. Marriage Background Before he ascended the throne, Alexander II of Russia was sent to Baden in order to present himself as a suitor for Alexandrine's hand in marriage. Alexandrine already regarded herself as his betrothed, as all the preliminary negotiations had taken place. On the journey there, however, Alexander visited the court of Hesse-Darmstadt and met Princess Marie of Hesse and eventually married her instead. At the urging of his brother Prince Albert, Hereditary Prince Ernst of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (born 1818) began to search for a suitable bride.Zeepvat, p. 1. Albert believed that a wife would be good for his brother: "Chains you will have to bear in any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria Riordan
Alexandria "Zsa Zsa" Riordan-Niechcielska (born August 14, 1990) is an American former figure skater. She most recently competed internationally on the Junior National level for Poland and won first place to get the Gold Medal. She is of Polish and Irish descent. Personal life Riordan grew up in Philadelphia. Her maternal grandparents were born in Poland and so she and her mother both speak Polish fluently. Her father is of Irish descent. Now retired from skating, Riordan decided to pursue a career in nursing and earned her RN and BSN degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014. She is a surgical intensive care nurse. She is currently enrolled in a master's level certified nurse anesthesia program. Career Skating career She competed for the USA representing the Skating Club of New York until the early autumn of 2005. Placing high enough to qualify for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and represent the USA internationally in Novice, at the Aegon Cup in the Hague, Nethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Cantacuzino
Alexandrina "Didina" Cantacuzino ( Pallady; also known as Alexandrina Grigore Cantacuzino and ( Francized) Alexandrine Cantacuzène; 20 September 1876 – 1944) was a Romanian political activist, philanthropist and diplomat, one of her country's leading feminists in the 1920s and 1930s. A leader of the National Council of Romanian Women and the Association of Romanian Women, she served as Vice President of the International Council of Women, representing the International Alliance of Women, as well as Romania, to the League of Nations. However, her feminist beliefs and international profile clashed with her national conservatism, her support for eugenics, and eventually her conversion to fascism. Cantacuzino was a member of Romanian nobility, and, after her marriage to the wealthy landowner Grigore Gheorghe Cantacuzino, claimed the title of "Princess". Her elitism and her feminism led her to join the upper-class charity SONFR, of which she became President after World War I. A wart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Hristov
Alexandrina Hristov (born 5 May 1978 in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, is a Romanian singer, who became popular with her song "Fata merge pe jos" ("The girl walks") from the album "Om de lut" ("The Clay Man") released in 2009. She is also a painter and an actress. Life and career Alexandrina Hristov grew up in a family of artists. Her father is the painter Victor Hristov and her mother was an actress and a singer. Hristov started playing the piano and composing her own songs at the age of 8. She graduated from the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chișinău and has incorporated painting and poetry in her music since then. In 2005 she played a main part in Paul Cuzuioc's movie "Trois femmes de Moldavie", whose soundtrack also included some of her songs. That same year she moved together with her family to Romania where she played a series of concerts at Cafe Deko in Bucharest. In 2009, Hristov released her first album, "Omul de lut"("The Clay Man") which included so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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