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KOO
Koo may refer to: *Kōō (1389–1390), a Japanese era *KOO, a South African food brand * Koo (social network), an Indian microblogging and social networking service *''Koo Koo'', a 1981 Debbie Harry album People *Koo Chen-fu (1917–2005), Taiwanese businessman and diplomat *Koo Chung, Korean-American singer-songwriter *Koo Dae-Sung (born 1969), South Korean baseball player *Koo Hsien-jung (1866–1937), Taiwanese businessman and politician * Koo Ki-Lan (born 1977), South Korean volleyball player *Koo Kien Keat (born 1985), Malaysian badminton player *Koo-Koo the Bird Girl, who suffered from Virchow-Seckel syndrome *Koo Stark (born 1956), American film actress and photographer *Koo Hye-sun, a South Korean actress and singer *Chung Mong Koo, South Korean business magnate *Dae-Sung Koo, Korean baseball pitcher *Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer *Jeffrey Koo Sr. (born 1933), Taiwanese banker *Joseph Koo, MBE, SBS, (born 1933,), Hong Kong composer *Josephine Koo (Chinese: 顧美華), Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koo Dae-Sung
Koo Dae-sung (; born August 2, 1969) is a Korean former professional baseball pitcher. A left-handed pitcher, Koo formerly played for the Hanwha Eagles in the KBO League, as well as the New York Mets of Major League Baseball and the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball. He announced his retirement from Korean baseball on August 15, 2010. He last played for Geelong-Korea in the Australian Baseball League. Early life Koo is a left-handed pitcher despite being born right-handed. As a child, he broke his right arm, an injury so bad that it forced him to become left-handed. Koo attended Hanyang University. Professional career Hanwha Eagles Koo began his professional career in 1993 with the Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization. In 1996, he won both a Gold Glove Award and the MVP of the KBO with a 1.88 earned run average, 18 wins, 24 saves and 183 strikeouts in 139 innings pitched. Koo played for the South Korean national Olympic team in the 2000 games. He le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koo-Koo The Bird Girl
Minnie Woolsey (1880 – after 1960), billed as Koo-Koo the Bird Girl, was an American side show entertainer, best known for her only film appearance in Tod Browning's film '' Freaks'' in 1932. Biography Woolsey was born in 1880 in Rabun County, Georgia. Little is known about her early life, only that she was "rescued" from a mental asylum in Georgia by a travelling showman and was commonly billed as Minnie Ha Ha (a play on Minnehaha) in her sideshow entertainment career. She had a rare congenital growth skeletal disorder called Virchow-Seckel syndrome, which caused her to have a very short stature, a small head, a narrow bird-like face with a beak-like nose, large eyes, a receding jaw, large ears and mild intellectual disability. In addition, Woolsey was bald, toothless, and either completely blind or very short-sighted. She would appear in an American-Indian style bodysuit made of feathers with a single feather on top of her head as her costume and would dance and speak gibb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dae-Sung Koo
Koo Dae-sung (; born August 2, 1969) is a Korean former professional baseball pitcher. A left-handed pitcher, Koo formerly played for the Hanwha Eagles in the KBO League, as well as the New York Mets of Major League Baseball and the Orix BlueWave of Nippon Professional Baseball. He announced his retirement from Korean baseball on August 15, 2010. He last played for Geelong-Korea in the Australian Baseball League. Early life Koo is a left-handed pitcher despite being born right-handed. As a child, he broke his right arm, an injury so bad that it forced him to become left-handed. Koo attended Hanyang University. Professional career Hanwha Eagles Koo began his professional career in 1993 with the Hanwha Eagles of the Korea Baseball Organization. In 1996, he won both a Gold Glove Award and the MVP of the KBO with a 1.88 earned run average, 18 wins, 24 saves and 183 strikeouts in 139 innings pitched. Koo played for the South Korean national Olympic team in the 2000 games. He le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Koo
Joseph Koo Kar-Fai, MBE, GBS (born 3 February 1933), is a Hong Kong composer, who is considered one of the most respected composers in Hong Kong. He used the pen name Moran (莫然) for Mandarin songs early in his career. Early life Koo has two siblings: an older sister, the famous Chinese singer/painter Koo Mei (顧媚) and a younger brother, Koo Kar-Tseung (顧嘉鏘)."." ''WenWeiPo.com'' 31 October 2006. 23 May 2012. Archived from thoriginal Koo began learning music at age 17 by taking piano lessons from a Filipino music teacher, who was already giving singing lessons to Koo's sister. Career Koo was to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston in the early 60s. Upon graduation he returned to Hong Kong and worked for both the Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest movie studios, scoring, among others, the Bruce Lee films ''Fist of Fury'' and ''Way of the Dragon'' in 1972. Koo joined TVB as their director of music in 1973, where from the late 1970s until immigrating to C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington Koo
Koo Vi Kyuin (; January 29, 1888 – November 14, 1985), better known as V. K. Wellington Koo, was a statesman of the Republic of China. He was one of Republic of China's representatives at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Wellington Koo served as an ambassador to France, Great Britain and the United States; was a participant in the founding of the League of Nations and the United Nations; and sat as a judge on the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1957 to 1967. Between October 1926 and June 1927, while serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Koo briefly held the concurrent positions of acting Premier and interim President of the Republic of China. Koo was the first Chinese head of state known to use a Western name publicly. Early life and career (1888–1912) Born in Kating (Jiading), now a suburb of Shanghai, in 1888. Koo grew up in an upper-class cosmopolitan family and was fluent in both English and French, which greatly aided his diplomatic career. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Koo
Louis Koo Tin-lok ( zh, t=古天樂; born 21 October 1970) is a Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer. He began his professional career as an actor in local television series, winning TVB's Best Actor award in 1999 and 2001. After 2001, he fully focused on film career and became one of the stalwarts of the Hong Kong film industry. In 2018, Koo was awarded the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, Asian Film Award for Best Actor and the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2017 film, ''Paradox''. Koo founded "One Cool Group Limited" in 2013. As of 2018, One Cool Group has produced 20 films. He was the ambassador of Hong Kong International Film Festival from 2014 to 2018. One Cool Group is to set up an entertainment company with Media Asia in 2021, the new company is named Cool Style. Other investors include Hong Kong model and actress Angelababy Yang Ying, Angelababy's agent Kim Chou and Hong Kong film director Stephen Fung Tak Lun' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōō
, also romanized as Kō-ō, was a Japanese era name (年号, ''nengō'', lit. year name) of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Kakei and before Meitoku. This period spanned the years from February 1389 to March 1390. The emperor in Kyoto was The Southern Court rival in Yoshino during this time-frame was . Nanboku-chō overview During the Meiji period, an Imperial decree dated March 3, 1911 established that the legitimate reigning monarchs of this period were the direct descendants of Emperor Go-Daigo through Emperor Go-Murakami, whose had been established in exile in Yoshino, near Nara.Thomas, Julia Adeney. (2001) ''Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology'', p. 199 n57 citing Mehl, Margaret. (1997). ''History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan.'' p. 140-147. Until the end of the Edo period, the militarily superior pretender-Emperors supported by the Ashikaga shogunate had been mistakenly incorpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Younghoe Koo
Younghoe Koo (; pronounced ; born August 3, 1994) is a South Korean player of American football who is a placekicker for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He was named to the Pro Bowl in 2020. Koo played college football for the Georgia Southern Eagles. He signed with the Los Angeles Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2017, but was released a month into season after missing consecutive game-ending kicks. Following a year away from football, Koo played for the Atlanta Legends of the Alliance of American Football (AAF), where he converted all of his field goal attempts until the AAF suspended operations. His success led to his return to the NFL the same year with the Falcons. Koo is known for his ability to successfully execute onside kicks, and Koo has the second-highest Field Goal percentage. Early life Koo was born in Seoul, South Korea, on August 3, 1994. He played soccer growing up and won a regional kicking competition. He attended si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngeh Koo Ham
Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham (, Bàng-uâ-cê: ''Ngà̤ Kō̤-háng''; born 29 September 1961), also known as James Ngeh, is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beruas since March 2008. He served as Speaker of the Perak State Legislative Assembly from July 2018 to May 2020 and Member of the assembly (MLA) for Sitiawan from March 2004 to May 2018, Member of the Perak State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) administration under former Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin from March 2008 to the collapse of the PR administration in February 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of presently the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly PR opposition coalitions. He was also Deputy Secretary-General of DAP, member of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of DAP and State Chairman of DAP of Perak. Personal life A native of Ayer Tawar, Perak, Ngeh comes from an old Ayer Tawar Methodist f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Koo-Boothe
Nathan Djebril Koo-Boothe (born 18 July 1985) is a footballer who plays for Three Bridges as a defender. Career Born in Westminster, London, Koo-Boothe joined Aldershot Town in December 2007 under contract until the end of the 2007–08 season. He left Aldershot on 2 March 2008, after failing to make an appearance in the Conference National. He joined Jamaican outfit Portmore United in summer 2008. On 14 July 2009, it was confirmed that he would join Crewe Alexandra on trial. He went on to join Maltese Premier League club Mosta in 2009. Koo-Boothe had a trial spell with South African club Kaizer Chiefs in January 2011, before rejoining Kettering Town in March 2011. He joined Spanish club CD Castellón Club Deportivo Castellón, S.A.D. is a professional Spanish football team based in Castellón de la Plana, in the Valencian Community. Founded on 20 July 1922, it currently plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at ''No ... in December 2011. In Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koo Sze-yiu
Koo Sze-yiu ( zh, t=古思堯; born 1949), also known by his nickname "Long Beard" (), is a Hong Kong activist, known for being jailed for 12 times over his protests. A former Maoist, Koo became anti-communist after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Early life Koo worked as an apprentice in a Macanese shipyard when young. He claimed to be a Maoist in his early years, joining the leftists to storm the Macau Government office, then a Portuguese colony, and clashed with the police in 12-3 incident in 1966. He was a core member of Macao Federation of Trade Unions, but fled to Hong Kong after what he described as "betrayal" by colleagues. Koo turned against the Chinese Communist Party after 1989 Tiananmen Square Crackdown on student activists demanding democracy in China, and urged for ending the one-party dictatorship. Activism After 1989, Koo became committed to Hong Kong's social movements, showing up in different protests, including 1 July marches, and continued aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
