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Dala River
Dala may refer to: Places * Dala Airport, Dalarna province, Sweden * Dala, Angola * Dala, Bhutan * Dala, Kano, Nigeria ** Dalla Hill, a hill in Kano, Nigeria *Đala, Serbia *Dalas, Khuzestan Province, Iran * Dala Township, Yangon, Myanmar People * Binnya Dala (other), several people * Jacinto Dala (born 1996), Angolan footballer * Junior Dala (born 1989), South African cricketer * Nanyak Dala (born 1984), Canadian rugby union player * Peter Dala, Canadian conductor Other uses * Dala (band), a Canadian music duo * Dala (game), a board game from Sudan * Dala horse, traditional Swedish wooden horse statuettes * Dala-fur sheep, a Swedish breed of sheep *The Hawaiian dollar, which was in circulation between 1847 and 1898 * Dala Line, a single-track railway line in Sweden See also *Betpak-Dala, a region in Kazakhstan * Dala-Floda, Dalarna County, Sweden * Dala dala, minibus share taxis in Tanzania *Hagryd-Dala Hagryd-Dala is a urban areas of Sweden, locality situated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dala Airport
Dala Airport or Borlänge Airport is situated southeast of Borlänge, a city in the Dalarna province of Sweden. It is also 20 minutes from the city of Falun. History The airfield was built during the Second World War and was modernized in 1961. In mid 1960 the first civilian airlines arrived at Dala Airport. A new terminal building was completed in 1972 and Dala Airport AB took over the airport. The airfield was owned by the Swedish military until 2007. The all-time-high number of passengers was 210,000 in 1989. Until around 1992, airlines had monopoly per route, but prices were regulated with a fixed maximum price per seat kilometer. Managers in the public and private sector were freely allowed to choose air for work travel. After 1992 free competition was introduced, and the price regulation was removed. More strict rules for work travel cost for public sector managers were introduced. Smaller routes like Borlänge–Stockholm still had only one operator so prices increased. Nec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dala
Peter Dala is a Canadian conductor of opera and ballet. He is a music director of the Alberta Ballet. He has conducted in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, England, Monte Carlo, Israel, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Early life and education Peter Dala was born in Toronto, Ontario. His parents immigrated to Canada after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He attended Saint Michael’s Choir School in Toronto. Peter Dala studied piano and conducting at England's Royal College of Music and worked at the Royal Ballet School as a pianist. Career in Europe As conductor and pianist of the Basel Ballet, Peter Dala conducted Coppélia, La fille mal gardée, The Nutcracker, and Giselle. In 1987, he joined Zurich Opera’s International Operastudio. Peter Dala joined the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest in 1988 and the Hungarian Dance Academy in 1994 as Music Director. In 1988, he joined the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, where he conducted both opera and ballet Mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dala-Floda
Dala-Floda or Floda is a locality situated in Gagnef Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ... with 680 inhabitants in 2010. Dala-Floda is a small village, with a few shops and a reasonably sized park. References Populated places in Dalarna County Populated places in Gagnef Municipality {{Dalarna-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betpak-Dala
Betpak-Dala or Betpaqdala ( kk, Бетпақдала, ''Betpaqdala''; from Turkic ''batpak'', “swampy,” or Persian ''bedbaht'', “unlucky” and Turkic ''dala'', “plain”; Russian: Бетпак-Дала or Сeверная Голодная степь, lit. ''Hungry Steppe'') is a desert region in Kazakhstan. - Great Russian Encyclopedia in 35 volumes / ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov Geography The Betpak-Dala is located between the lower reaches of the , the , and |
Dala Line
The Dala Line ( sv, Dalabanan) is a single-track railway line in Sweden, linking the city of Uppsala to the towns of Sala, Avesta-Krylbo, Hedemora, Säter, Borlänge and Mora. In Uppsala, the line joins the East Coast Line, which goes south to Stockholm. In Borlänge, the Bergslagen Line connects to Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabitan ...– Gävle. Railway lines in Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaiian Dollar
The dollar or dala was the spelling used at the time, though during the preparations for minting Edward Preston asked Claus Spreckels whether to spell it or . . The spelling in the modern Hawaiian alphabet would be . See was the currency of Hawaii between 1847 and 1898. It was equal to the United States dollar and was divided into 100 ''cents'' or ''keneta''. Only sporadic issues were made, which circulated alongside United States currency. Coins The first official coinage issued by the Kingdom of Hawai'i was in 1847. This coin was a copper cent bearing the portrait of King Kamehameha III on its obverse. The King Kamehameha III copper cent proved to be unpopular due to the King's portrait being of poor quality. Although it is claimed the denomination was misspelled (''hapa haneri'' instead of ''hapa haneli''), the spelling "Hapa Haneri" was correct until the end the 19th century. The spelling "Haneri" (Hawaiian for "Hundred") appears on all and Hawaiian bank notes in ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dala Horse
A Dalecarlian horse or Dala horse (; Swedish: ''Dalahäst'') is a traditional carved, painted wooden statue of a horse originating in the Swedish province of Dalarna (Dalecarlia). In the old days the Dalecarlian horse was mostly used as a toy for children; in modern times it has become a symbol of Dalarna, as well as of Sweden in general. Several types of Dalecarlian horses are made, with distinguishing features common to the locality of the site where they are produced. One particular style has, however, become much more common and widespread than others. It is stoutly carved and painted bright red with details and a horse harness, harness in white, green, yellow and blue. History The carving of Dala horses as a livelihood is thought to have started in the village of in central Sweden, though the nearby "horse" villages of , Vattnäs, and Nusnäs were also centres of horse-making. The villages were involved in the art of furniture and clock-making, and it is likely the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dala (game)
{{Short description, Sudanese strategy board game Dala is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Sudan, and played especially by the Baggara tribes. The game is also called Herding the Cows (or Herding the Bulls). It is an alignment game with captures similar to that of the game Dara. Players first drop their pieces onto the board, and then move them (herding the cows) orthogonally in an attempt to form 3 in-a-rows which allows a player to capture any of their opponent's piece on the board. Goal The player who reduces their opponent's number of pieces to two is the winner. The opponent can no longer form a 3-in-a-row with two pieces or fewer. Equipment A 6x6 square board is used. Each player has a set of 12 pieces of which one set is black, and the other is white. Traditionally, the board was played on a raised soft mud, and the lines of the board were drawn onto it and marked by holes called "Nugar". Each player had 12 sharpened sticks that would be placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dala (band)
Dala is a Canadian acoustic- folk two-piece musical group, made up by Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther, both of Scarborough, Ontario. Early history (2002-2005) Sheila Carabine and Amanda Walther first met at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School, at a high school band practice. Quickly afterwards, Carabine and Walther's friendship blossomed and they formed ''Dala'' in the summer of 2002. Their "innate understanding of music" and "vocal range" helped propel them towards signing a five-year artist development deal with Big Bold Sun Music on December 12, 2003, and on April 3, 2005, Dala released their first album, '' This Moment Is a Flash''. Universal Music then indie labels (2005-present) On August 8, 2005, Dala signed its first major record deal with Universal Music. Soon thereafter, on November 1, the band released its first major album, '' Angels & Thieves'', containing five original songs and five covers. Immediately afterwards, Dala went out on tour to support the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanyak Dala
Nanyak Dala (born 18 June 1984) is a Canadian rugby union player. His position is flanker, and he has played 14 tests for the Canadian national team. Dala currently plays for Castaway Wanderers RFC in the British Columbia Premiership and with Prairie Wolf Pack in the Canadian Rugby Championship. Personal life Dala was born in Jos, Nigeria, but moved to South Africa with his family and took up rugby at age 12. Eventually Dala would go on to represent KwaZulu-Natal provincial teams at various age-grade levels. Dala and his family would eventually move on to the city of North Battleford in Canada where his father, Gideon, sought job opportunities in the medical field. Dala later moved on to Saskatoon to pursue university education at the University of Saskatchewan A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dala, Angola
Dala is a town and municipality in Lunda Sul Province in Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina .... The municipality had a population of 29,991 in 2014. References Populated places in Lunda Sul Province Municipalities of Angola {{Angola-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
