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Lani Hall Albums
Lani is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Lani Belcher (born 1989), British canoeist * Lani Billard (born 1979), Canadian actress and singer * Lani Brockman (born 1956), American theater actress and director * Lani Cabrera (born 1993), Barbadian swimmer * Lani Cayetano (born 1982), Filipino politician and mayor * Lani Daniels (born 1988), New Zealand Professional female boxer * Lani Doherty (born 1993), American surfer * Lani Groves (born 1989), South African musician * Lani Guinier (born 1950), American civil rights activist * Lani Hall (born 1945), American singer, lyricist and author * Lani Hanchett (1919–1975), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii * Lani Jackson, New Zealand stuntwoman * Lani Ka'ahumanu (born 1943), bisexual and feminist writer and activist * Lani Kai (1936–1999), Hawaiian singer and actor * Lani Maestro (born 1957), Filipino-Canadian artist * Lani McIntyre (1904–1951), guitar and steel guitar player * Lani Mercad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lani Belcher
Lani Belcher (born 10 June 1989) is a British Canoe sprint, canoeist who previously represented Australia. She competed in the Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's K-2 500 metres, women's K-2 500 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Belcher won the Gold Medal in the 2017 Canoe Marathon World Championships in South Africa. Biography Belcher was born in Cobram, Victoria, Australia in 1989, and lived in Brisbane. Belcher was a triathlon, triathlete and a track cycling, track cyclist before she took up kayaking. She began training at the Australian Institute of Sport's facilities in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast. In 2007, Belcher moved to England and trained at a canoe club in Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge. At the end of the following year, Belcher was released by the Australian team, allowing her to represent Great Britain. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Belcher finished in fifteenth place in the Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lani Minella
Lani Jean Minella (born July 28, 1950) is an American voice actress, voice director, and producer mostly working in the games industry. She is also the founder and owner of the voice-acting agency, AudioGodz. Career After college, Minella started on Morning Drive radio for an alternative station in the late 1980s. After hearing her celebrity impersonations, GTE Interactive Media contacted her and asked her to imitate voices from the movie '' FernGully: The Last Rainforest'', which was being pitched for a LaserDisc presentation to Magnavox and Philips. She was then referred by the company to their CD-Roms division, where she worked on more voices and assisted script writing on games for children. Minella asked the company if there were others doing similar work, and they suggested that she should go to trade shows, which led her to attend showcases like Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Game Developers Conference in San Jose, and Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Län
Län (Swedish, ), lääni (Finnish, ) and len (Norwegian, ) refer to the administrative divisions used in Sweden and previously in Finland and Norway. The provinces of Finland were abolished on January 1, 2010. In Norway, the term was in use between 1308 and 1662. They are also sometimes used in other countries, especially as a translation of the Russian word ''volost''. During the period when Finland was a part of the Russian Empire (1809-1917), when Russian was made an official language alongside Swedish, it was synonymous with the word '' guberniya''. The term The word literally means "fief" and is cognate with English . The usual English language terms used are separate for the two countries, where Sweden has chosen to translate the term as "county" while Finland prefers "province". With a shared administrative tradition spanning centuries, ending only in 1809, this is a separation by convention, rather than by distinction. The term matches reasonably well the British term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Dani Language
Western Dani, or Laani, is the most populous Papuan language in Indonesian New Guinea. It is spoken by the Lani people in the province of Papua A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outs .... The Swart Valley tribes are called ''Oeringoep'' and ''Timorini'' in literature from the 1920s, but those names are no longer used. Phonology The phonology of the Western Dani language: At the beginning of words, stops sound aspirated. An intervocalic /ɣ/ is pronounced as , and a /ɹ/ before a high vowel becomes a fricative . Vowels /i, u, ɒ/ have allophones, , References Dani languages Languages of western New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lani People
The Lani are an indigenous people in Puncak, Central Papua and Lanny Jaya, Highland Papua, usually labelled 'Western Dani' by foreign missionaries, or grouped—inaccurately—with the Dani people who inhabit the Baliem Valley to the east. Population The total population of Lani tribes in the 1980s, as reported by Douglas Hayward in his book ''The Dani of Irian Jaya, Before and After Conversion'' was around 200,000 people. See also *Indigenous people of New Guinea The indigenous peoples of West Papua in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians. There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea and neighboring islands: a first wave from the Malay Arch ... * Forgotten Bird of Paradise References Ethnic groups in Indonesia Indigenous ethnic groups in Western New Guinea {{Indonesia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lani (heaven)
''Lani'' in the Hawaiian language means " heaven", and in some cases, "sky." The word is derived from Proto-Polynesian *''raŋi''. ''Lani'' is a relatively common name in the Hawaiian language. Last Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani, had a name including the term ''lani''. External links Wiktionary Wiktionary ( , , rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a numbe ... entry for "Lani"Lani Hawaiian words and phrases Native Hawaiian {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Lani
Maria Lani (Maria Jeleniewicz; 24 June 1895 – 1954) was an aspiring film actress and artists' model. In the late 1920s she was portrayed in paintings and sculpture by over fifty artists, including Bonnard, Chagall, Cocteau, Derain, Matisse, Rouault, and Suzanne Valadon. Biography Maria Lani was born in Kolno, Poland and grew up in Częstochowa also in Poland. She went to Paris in the Spring of 1928 and proclaimed herself to be a silent film star who had worked in Berlin. Together with her husband, Maximilian Abramowicz, and her brother, Alexander, the trio claimed to be working on a film which required multiple portraits as part of the plot. She befriended Jean Cocteau who enthusiastically endorsed the project and with his encouragement, fifty-nine artists made portraits of her. A limited edition book about Lani and the portraits was published in 1929 by Éditions des Quatre Chemins, Paris with essays by Cocteau, Mac Ramo, and Waldemar George. It included fifty-one plates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hriday Lani
Hriday Lani is a noted Indian script and dialogues writer. He is the winner of Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue for the 1999 film ''Sarfarosh'' along with Pathik Vats. Career Lani has written script and dialogues for various Hindi films. He has written dialogues for commercially successful films like '' Agni Sakshi'' (1996), ''Yeshwant'' (1997), ''Yugpurush'' (1998), ''Sarfarosh'' (1999). He has also written for parallel cinemas like ''Gaman'' (1978), ''Mirch Masala'' (1987), ''Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro'' (1989) and ''Salaam Bombay!'' (1988). He shared the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue with Pathik Vats for his work in ''Sarfarosh'' (1999) at the 45th Filmfare Awards. He is a visiting faculty at the Institute of Moving Images, Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 milli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lani Wendt Young
Lani Wendt Young is a Samoan/Maori writer, editor, publisher and journalist. She is the author of 15 books including the bestselling Young Adult series TELESA. Background Wendt Young was born and raised in Apia, Samoa. Her father is Samoan from the villages of Lefaga, Vaiala, Sapapalii, and Malie. Her mother is NZ Maori of Ngati Kahungunu. Career In February 2019, Young was the recipient of a New Zealand Society of Authors Waitangi Day Honor. In accepting the award, Young said, "As a brown woman who writes - oftentimes from the margins and smashing gates as I do so - I have seen the transformative power wrought by stories written by us, about us, and for us, as our communities the world over revel in books they can see themselves in, that they can embrace as their own. This literary honour is testament of that power, and emphasises the ever present need for more of us – to write, publish, and have the support we need to take our stories to an international audience.” Young w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lani Tupu
Lani Tupu (born Auckland, New Zealand), billed variously as Larney Tupu, John Tupu and Lani John Tupu, is a New Zealand-born actor of Samoan and English descent. Also known as Lani Tupu Jr. Biography Tupu was born in 1955 to an English mother and a Samoan father. Tupu was named after his father Lani Tupu. Tupu started acting in church plays. Tupu was educated at Rongotai College and Wellington Teachers' Training College. He was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council Bursary in 1977 to enter New Zealand Drama School. Tupu's father was also called Lani and was also an actor. When Tupu graduated drama school in 1979 he was the first Samoan to do so. He then moved to Auckland and was in the Theatre Corporate company for three years, and then two years at the Mercury Theatre. He got a lead role in TV series ''Country GP'' where he played a Māori doctor. Tupu moved to Australia to pursue other acting opportunities. Tupu's TV appearances include ''Impossible'' (1988), ''Time Trax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lani Stephenson
Lani Sue Stephenson (July 31, 1948 – March 10, 2021) was an American parasitologist and nutritionist, "a pioneer in field-based studies on nutrition–parasite interactions". Early life Stephenson was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i,"Stephenson, Lani Sue." in ''American Men & Women of Science'': ''A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences'', 23rd ed., vol. 6, Gale, 2007, pp. 1138-1139. via Gale eBooks the daughter of Russell V. Stephenson Jr. and Joan Stephenson. Her father was the music director at the Punahou School. At Cornell University, she earned a bachelor's degree in 1971, a master's in 1973, and PhD in 1978, all in the human nutrition program. Her dissertation involved a study of ascariasis, a human parasitic infection that causes malnutrition. Career Stephenson remained at Cornell University a researcher in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and later as associate professor. She was also a visiting professor at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lani Smith
Lani Smith (1934 – 2015) was an American organist best known for his church music compositions. He served as an editor, composer, and arranger on the Lorenz Publishing The Lorenz Corporation, previously known as Lorenz Publishing Company, is a music publisher located in Dayton, Ohio, United States. It is best known for its publication of church music Church music is Christian music written for performanc ... editorial staff between 1967 and 1982. During this time, he received composing and arranging credits for over 1000 works. Smith died on June 24, 2015. Smith was such a prolific composer/arranger that he published under at least seven names: his own, plus the pseudonyms Tom Birchwood, Edward Broughton, Christopher Gale, David Paxton, Gerald Peterson, and Franklin Ritter. References External links Biographyfrom Lorenz Publishing website American classical organists Composers of Christian music 1934 births 2015 deaths {{NorthAm-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
