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Darien Gap OSM
Darien may refer to: Places Central America * Darién Gap, break in the Pan-American Highway between Colombia and Panama * Darién National Park * Darién Province * Gulf of Darién * "... a peak in Darien", phrase in Keats's poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" United States *Darien, Connecticut **Darien (Metro-North station) *Darien, Georgia *Darien, Illinois * Darien, Missouri *Darien, New York *Darien, Wisconsin * Darien (town), Wisconsin People First name *Darien Angadi (1949–1984), British actor *Darien Boswell (1938–2018), New Zealand rower *Darien Brockington (born 1979), American singer * Darien Butler (born 2000), American football player *Darien Fenton (born 1954), New Zealand politician *Darien Ferrer (born 1983), Cuban volleyball player *Darien Graham-Smith (born 1975), British journalist *Darien Sills-Evans (born 1974), American actor Surname *Georges Darien (1862–1921), French writer Ships * , a turbo-electric refrigerated cargo ship * , World Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darién Gap
The Darién Gap (, , es, Tapón del Darién , ) is a geographic region between the North and South American continents within Central America, consisting of a large watershed, forest, and mountains in Panama's Darién Province and the northern portion of Colombia's Chocó Department. The "gap" in question is that of the Pan-American Highway, of which between Yaviza, Panama, and Turbo, Colombia, has not been built. Roadbuilding through this area is expensive and detrimental to the environment. Political consensus in favor of road construction collapsed after an initial attempt failed in the early 1970s, resuming in 1992 only to be halted by serious environmental concerns. As of 2022, there is no active plan to build the missing road. The geography of the Darién Gap on the Colombian side is dominated primarily by the river delta of the Atrato River, which creates a flat marshland at least wide. The Serranía del Baudó range extends along Colombia's Pacific coast and into P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darién Province
Darién (, , ) is a province in Panama whose capital city is La Palma. With an area of , it is located at the eastern end of the country and bordered to the north by the province of Panamá and the region of Kuna Yala. To the south, it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean and Colombia. To the east, it borders Colombia; to the west, it borders the Pacific Ocean and the province of Panama. The area surrounding the border with Colombia is known as the Darién Gap, a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest. With no roads, it is the missing link of the Pan-American Highway. Place names The name originates from the language spoken by the Cueva, an Indigenous tribe destroyed by the white European conquistadors during the 16th century. The Tanela River, which flows toward Atrato, was Hispanicized to Darién; the region and its communities took the same name. Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first city founded in Tierra Firme, also took its name from the river. Subsequentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darien Fenton
Darien Elizabeth Fenton (born 25 February 1954) is a New Zealand politician and was a Member of Parliament from until her retirement in 2014. Personal life and early career Fenton's grandfather, Fred Frost, was a Labour MP for New Plymouth from 1938 to 1943. Fenton is of Māori descent. Fenton grew up in a Palmerston North state house. On her entry to parliament in 2005, a newspaper claimed that she might have the "most varied CV of any newcomer to Parliament", including extensive travels, and work as an extra in India in Bollywood movies and as an administrative research assistant to the Tower of London's master of armouries. In 2014 she admitted that her varied experiences in the 1970s had also left her with a heroin addiction, and that the New Zealand health-funded methadone programme '"...saved my life"'. Before entering parliament she was active in the trade union movement, and held the offices of National Secretary of the Service & Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charisma Records
Charisma Records (also known as The Famous Charisma Label) was a British record label founded in 1969 by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith. He had previously acted as manager for rock bands such as The Nice, the Bonzo Dog Band and Van der Graaf Generator. Gail Colson was label manager and joint managing director. The label's most successful acts were Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Julian Lennon, and Monty Python. The first release was an LP by Rare Bird, in (probably) November 1969, and this group gave Charisma its first hit single, Sympathy, in early 1970. (Sympathy was a reworking of Giazotto's 'reconstruction' of Albinoni's Adagio.) Charisma's first UK label was a distinctive magenta scroll design (though it is generally referred to in record collecting circles as "pink scroll") – magenta was the colour that Stratton Smith chose to represent the label, and this was reflected in his later horseracing colours, red for Manchester United, green for Brazil, and magenta for Charis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darien Scheme
The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing ''New Caledonia'', a colony on the Isthmus of Panama, in the late 1690s. The plan was for the colony, located on the Gulf of Darién, to establish and manage an overland route to connect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The backers knew that the first sighting of the Pacific Ocean by Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Balboa was after crossing the isthmus through Darién Province, Darién. The attempt at settling the area did not go well; more than 80% of participants died within a year, and the settlement was abandoned twice.Little, "The Caribbean colony ..." There are many explanations for the disaster. Rival claims have been made suggesting that the undertaking was beset by poor planning and provisioning; by divided leadership; by a lack of demand for traded goods, owing to an English trade blockade; by devastating epidemics of tropi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darien Pocket Gopher
The Darien pocket gopher (''Heterogeomys dariensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is occurs in Panama and Colombia. Some authors classify it in the genus ''Orthogeomys'', but recent research has allowed this and its related species to be classified in the genus ''Heterogeomys''. It includes the Thaeler's pocket gopher (''H. d. thaeleri'') endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ... to Colombia as a subspecies. Previously, this subspecies was considered a separate species. References Darien pocket gopher Rodents of Central America Mammals described in 1912 Least concern biota of North America Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Geomyidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turbana (company)
Established in 1970, grower-owned Turbana Corporation, is a leading importer of tropical produce in North America, including bananas, plantains, pineapples, and ethnic tropicals. Turbana was the first organization to bring Fair Trade Certified bananas to North America. An advocate in sustainability and social consciousness, Turbana has developed the farming communities in the banana and plantain-growing regions in Colombia over the past 44 years through its social foundation, Fundauniban. Turbana gives a portion of every purchase to Fundauniban, contributing to the $250 million the foundation has invested in social and economic projects for education, housing, infrastructure, and environmental protection since 1987. Turbana is owned by Uniban, the world's largest co-op of banana growers and the world's largest producer of plantains and Fair Trade Certified bananas, and Fyffes Fyffes plc () is an Irish fruit and fresh produce company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darien Shields
Darien may refer to: Places Central America * Darién Gap, break in the Pan-American Highway between Colombia and Panama * Darién National Park * Darién Province * Gulf of Darién * "... a peak in Darien", phrase in Keats's poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" United States *Darien, Connecticut **Darien (Metro-North station) *Darien, Georgia *Darien, Illinois * Darien, Missouri *Darien, New York *Darien, Wisconsin * Darien (town), Wisconsin People First name *Darien Angadi (1949–1984), British actor *Darien Boswell (1938–2018), New Zealand rower * Darien Brockington (born 1979), American singer * Darien Butler (born 2000), American football player *Darien Fenton (born 1954), New Zealand politician *Darien Ferrer (born 1983), Cuban volleyball player *Darien Graham-Smith (born 1975), British journalist *Darien Sills-Evans (born 1974), American actor Surname *Georges Darien (1862–1921), French writer Ships * , a turbo-electric refrigerated cargo ship * , World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fionavar Tapestry
''The Fionavar Tapestry'' is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay, published between 1984 and 1986. The novels are partly set in our own contemporary world, but mostly in the fictional world of Fionavar. It is the story of five University of Toronto senior law and medical students, who are drawn into the 'first world of the Tapestry' by the mage Loren Silvercloak. Once there, each discovers his or her own role and destiny in the framework of an epic conflict. Books in the series The three books are: *''The Summer Tree'' *''The Wandering Fire'' *''The Darkest Road'' ''Ysabel'', while not part of ''The Fionavar Tapestry'' proper, features two of the same characters and often refers to the events of the trilogy. Characters The Five Drawn by magic from our world and thus strangers to Fionavar, each of five University of Toronto students finds a new role and a new destiny during their adventures in Fionavar. * Kevin Laine (Liadon) – Witty, bright, outgo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Trax
''Time Trax'' is a science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent two centuries into the past to a parallel Universe, must apprehend and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future. This was the last new production from Lorimar Television. Production ''Time Trax'' was created by veteran Hollywood producers Harve Bennett, Jeffrey M. Hayes and Grant Rosenberg. Rosenberg came up with the original idea, which Bennett and Hayes helped craft into the final premise. It was one of the first three original programming of the Prime Time Entertainment Network, alongside '' Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'' and ''Babylon 5'', and it ran between January 20, 1993, and December 3, 1994. Despite being well received by viewers, the network cancelled the series because they wanted to go in a different direction to increase their viewer base. Despite its Washington, D.C., setting, the series was shot in Queensland, Australia, near the Warn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darien Fawkes
''The Invisible Man'' (also shortened to "''The I-Man''" in Season 2) is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty. It aired for two seasons from June 9, 2000 to February 1, 2002 before being cancelled due to cost issues and internal arguments between the Sci Fi Channel and its then-parent company, USA Networks. The show's first season ran concurrently in first-run syndication as well as on Sci-Fi. The series uses its science fiction and action elements to explore a variety of themes such as freedom of choice, determinism, and state bureaucracy. Plot ''The Invisible Man'' is both an action show and a comedy with buddy cop elements. The plot revolves around Darien Fawkes (Ventresca), a thief facing life imprisonment who is recruited by a spy agency that is constantly short on funds, and given the power of invisibility via implantation of a special "Quicksilver gland" in his head. The glan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasión (telenovela)
Passion, the Passion or the Passions may refer to: Emotion * Passion (emotion), a very strong feeling about a person or thing * Passions (philosophy), emotional states as used in philosophical discussions * Stoic passions, various forms of emotional suffering in Stoicism Suffering of Jesus * Passion of Jesus, the suffering of Jesus leading up to and during the crucifixion ** Passion (music), musical setting of the texts describing these events ** Passion Play, dramatic representation of these events ** Passion Sunday, the second Sunday before Easter * Passion Conferences, Christian organization People * Pasion, ancient Greek slave and banker * Passion Richardson (born 1975), American former sprint athlete Books * "The Passion" (Milton), 17th-century poem by John Milton * ''The Passions'' an 18th-century poem by William Collins * ''Passion'', (in Italian, '' Fosca''), 1981 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti * ''Passion Play'' (play) or ''Passion'', 1981 play by Peter Nichols * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
