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Beata Pozniak
Beata or Beate is a female given name that occurs in several cultures and languages, including Italian, German, Polish, and Swedish, and which is derived from the Latin ''beatus'', meaning "blessed".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Beate" Retrieved on 22 January 2016. Variants include Bea, Beade and Beáta. The name may refer to: * * Beata Asimakopoulou (1932–2009), Greek actress * Beate Bille, (born 1976), Danish actress * Beata Brookes (1931–2015), British politician *Beata Bublewicz (born 1975), Polish politician * Beate Bühler (born 1964), German volleyball player * Beata Gosiewska (born 1971), Polish politician *Beata Harju (born 1990), Finnish actress and filmmaker *Beate Heister (born 1951), German billionaire * Beata Kaczmarska (born 1970), Polish race walker *Beata Kitsikis (1907–1986), Greek politician *Beate Klarsfeld (born 1939), German Nazi hunter *Beata Kozidrak (born 1960), Polish singer *Beata Losman (born 1938), Swedish archivist * Beata Mikołajczyk (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe , after Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas. It is used to contrast the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia, which were previously thought of by their inhabitants as comprising the entire world, with the "New World", a term for the newly encountered lands of the Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas. Etymology In the context of archaeology and world history, the term "Old World" includes those parts of the world which were in (indirect) cultural contact from the Bronze Age onwards, resulting in the parallel development of the early civilizations, mostly in the temperate zone between roughly the 45th and 25th parallels north, in the area of the Mediterranean, including North Africa. It also included Mesopotamia, the Persian plateau, the Indian subcontinent, China, and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. These regions were connected via the Silk Road trade route, and they have a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beate Heister
Beate Heister (born 5 October 1951) is a German billionaire heiress. She is one of the two children of Karl Albrecht, who founded the discount supermarket chain Aldi Aldi (stylised as ALDI) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when ... with his brother Theo. Together with her brother Karl Albrecht Jr., she has a net worth of US$41.3 billion, as of 2020. She is married to Peter Heister, and they have six children. She, her husband Peter, and their son Peter Max Heister, all sit on Aldi's advisory board. She is "notoriously reclusive". References 1951 births German billionaires Living people Aldi people {{Germany-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Sabina Straas
Beata Sabina Straas or Strass (died 1773) also known as Madame Åberg was a professional stage actress in Sweden. She was a member of the pioneer group of actors in the first Swedish national theatre of Bollhuset. Life Beata's birth year and the names of her parents are unknown. Her brother, Eric Jonas Straas (1707-1783, spouse Catharina Höpener) is listed as a lackey of the royal court ('') in 1729, and she herself worked as a lady's maid for the (lady-in-waiting) Josepha Pflueg, and then to a Countess Antoinetta Dorotea Rindsmaul, spouse of the courtier Otto Ludwig Ehrenrecih von Rindsmaul. Her background was reportedly of use to her as an actress, and was considered to have attributed to her acting in so-called grande dame- and noblewoman roles.Byström, Tryggve, Svenska komedien 1737-1754: en studie i Stockholmsteaterns historia, Norstedt, Stockholm, 1981 Career When the first national theatre was founded in the old premises at Bollhuset, Stockholm in 1737, where o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza
Beata Sokołowska-Kulesza (born 10 January 1974 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m event (2000, 2004). Sokołowska-Kulesza has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning ten medals. This includes a gold (K-2 500 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-2 500 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 2005), and five bronzes (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-2 500 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999, 2003). For her sport achievements, she received: Golden Cross of Merit in 2000; Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on foreigners for outstanding achievemen ... (5th Class) in 2004. ReferencesDatabaseOly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beate Sirota
Beate Sirota Gordon (; October 25, 1923 – December 30, 2012) was an Austrian-born American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate. She was the former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society and the Asia Society and was one of the last surviving members of the team that worked under Douglas MacArthur to write the Constitution of Japan after World War II. Early life and education Born in Vienna on October 25, 1923 and educated in Tokyo, Beate Sirota was the only child of noted pianist Leo Sirota and Augustine (Horenstein) Sirota. Leo, a Ukrainian Jew, had fled war-torn Russia and settled in Austria. Her uncle was conductor Jascha Horenstein. Sirota's family emigrated to Japan in 1929, when Leo Sirota accepted an invitation to become a professor at the Imperial Academy of Music – now Tokyo University of the Arts – in Tokyo.Dower, pp. 365-367 She attended the German School in Tokyo for six years, until the age of twelve, when she transfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Rosenhane
Beata Rosenhane (21 January 1638 in Norrköping – 1 June 1674) was a Swedish Baroness and writer. She was known for her learning and received an education unusual for a female of her epoch, and has as such been the subject of research. Biography Beata Rosenhane was the daughter of Beata Sparre and the diplomat Baron Schering Rosenhane. As a Swedish diplomat, her father was stationed abroad at several occasions, and it is believed that it was during his visit to Paris in France during the age of the Précieuses, when it was the fashion in France to educate females, that he decided to give his daughters equal education to that of his sons, something unique at the time at least in Sweden. The result was that his daughters are counted as the most learned and educated females in 17th-century Sweden alongside Queen Christina. This was particular the case of Beata, who apparently was the most gifted among her sisters. From the age of seven onward, she was trained in rhetoric by conv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Pozniak
Beata or Beate is a female given name that occurs in several cultures and languages, including Italian, German, Polish, and Swedish, and which is derived from the Latin ''beatus'', meaning "blessed".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Beate" Retrieved on 22 January 2016. Variants include Bea, Beade and Beáta. The name may refer to: * * Beata Asimakopoulou (1932–2009), Greek actress * Beate Bille, (born 1976), Danish actress * Beata Brookes (1931–2015), British politician *Beata Bublewicz (born 1975), Polish politician * Beate Bühler (born 1964), German volleyball player * Beata Gosiewska (born 1971), Polish politician *Beata Harju (born 1990), Finnish actress and filmmaker *Beate Heister (born 1951), German billionaire * Beata Kaczmarska (born 1970), Polish race walker *Beata Kitsikis (1907–1986), Greek politician *Beate Klarsfeld (born 1939), German Nazi hunter *Beata Kozidrak (born 1960), Polish singer *Beata Losman (born 1938), Swedish archivist * Beata Mikołajczyk (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Papp
Beata Leppilampi (née Papp (born 22 April 1995) is a Finnish former competitive figure skater. She placed 15th at the 2010 World Junior Championships and won two medals at the Finnish Championships. Personal life Beata Papp was born on 22 April 1995 in Kuopio, Finland and moved to Canada in the summer of 2007. She is the daughter of a figure skating coach, Ulla, and has three siblings who have competed in the sport—Bela, Bettina, and Benjam. Her American-born father is of Hungarian descent and had moved to Finland when he was five years old. Career Papp won the Finnish national junior title in the 2009–10 season and was assigned to the 2010 World Junior Championships in The Hague, Netherlands. Ranked 20th in the short program, she qualified for the free skate where she placed 14th, pulling her up to 15th overall. The following season, she made her senior international debut, at the NRW Trophy in December 2010. She also competed on the senior level at the Finnish Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Obertyńska
Beata Obertyńska, (pen name "Marta Rudzka"), born July 18, 1898, near Skole (in present-day Western Ukraine), died May 21, 1980 in London was a Polish writer and poet. Life Beata was one of the daughters of the ' Young Poland' poet Maryla Wolska and granddaughter of the sculptor :pl:Wanda Młodnicka (one-time fiancée of painter, Artur Grottger). Her father was an engineer and industrialist in the oil business, :pl:Wacław Wolski (inżynier). She was the wife of landowner, Józef Obertyński. She spent her childhood and adolescence with her siblings in the family villa in Lwów where they were home-tutored. She later passed her high school exams. In her youth she was associated with the Skamander movement. Her first poems were published in 1924 in "Słowo Polskie". She studied in the National Institute of Theatre Arts. Between 1933 and 1937 she appeared on stage in several Lwów theatres. During the Soviet occupation of Lwów, in July 1940, she was arrested by the NKVD. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Mikołajczyk
Beata Mikołajczyk (Polish pronunciation: ; born 15 October 1985) is a Polish sprint canoer. She competed at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics, in two events for each games; she won one silver and two bronze medals and placed fourth two times. Career Mikołajczyk took up canoeing in 1996 in her native Bydgoszcz. She won the silver medal in K-2 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with Aneta Pastuszka-Konieczna. She won the bronze medal in K-2 500 m event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with Karolina Naja. She also won a gold in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Dartmouth. In June 2015, she competed in the inaugural European Games for Poland in canoe sprint, more specifically, Women's K-4 500m with Ewelina Wojnarowska, Edyta Dzieniszewska, and Karolina Naja. She earned a bronze medal. Awards For her sport achievements, she received: * Golden Cross of Merit in 2008. * Knight's Cross Order of Polonia Restituta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Losman
Wendela Beata Losman (née Hammarskjöld, b. 27 November 1938) is a Swedish historian and archivist. Biography Beata Hammarskjöld, later Losman through marriage, was born 27 November 1938 in Malmö. She is the daughter of the physician Sven Hammarskjöld and the librarian Birgit Lundberg. She received a master's degree in Gothenburg in 1961, a licentiate in history in Gothenburg in 1965, and a doctoral degree at the University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ... in 1970. Losman was employed at the Regional Archives in Gothenburg in 1962. She became senior archivist in 1972 and held a research position at the Humanities-Social Sciences Research Council in 1981–1985. She was acting Regional Archives during Gösta Lexts's illness 1975–1977, and bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beata Kozidrak
Beata Elżbieta Kozidrak (born 4 May 1960) is a Polish singer and songwriter. She is the lead singer and lyricist for the Polish iconic pop-rock band – BAJM. She is one of the most popular singers in Poland. She has a four-octave vocal range. and reaches the whistle register. Career Her career began in 1978, when she was placed second at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, performing the song ''Piechotą do lata'', as a member of Bajm band. Personal life She is the youngest of three siblings. She has a sister, Mariola, and had a brother, Jarosław Kozidrak. In childhood, she lived at 36A Grodzka Street in Lublin. She is an ex-wife of Andrzej Pietras (married from 1979 until 8 July 2016), co-founder and manager of the Bajm band, with whom she has two daughters: Katarzyna (born 7 December 1981) and Agata (born 22 September 1993). Discography Solo albums Compilation albums Awards * 1986 – Grand Prix at the Baltic States Song Festival in Karlsham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
