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Laing Island
Laing may refer to: People * Laing (surname), a Scottish surname Companies * Arriva UK Trains, a British transport company formerly known as Laing Rail * John Laing Group, a British construction company *Laing O'Rourke, a British construction company, formerly part of the John Laing Group *MTR Laing, former name of London Overground Rail Operations Places *Laing, West Virginia * Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England *Laing Dam, South Africa * Laing Middle School, South Carolina * Laing's Nek, a South African mountain pass ** Battle of Laing's Nek, a Boer War battle at the pass * Mount Laing, British Columbia Other uses * Laing (band), a German girl group *Laing (food), a Philippine dish made from taro leaves and coconut milk *''Philip Laing'', 19th century ship *Laing, a brand of water pump made by Goulds Water Technology aka Laing Thermotech, a subsidiary of Xylem Inc., a spin-off of ITT Inc. See also * Lang (other) * Laings *Lange (other) *Laings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laing (surname)
Laing () is a Scottish surname, commonly found in countries settled by Scots, such as Canada and New Zealand. It is often wrongly described as a descriptive surname, cognate with the English surname [Long (Scots lang) but this is a mispronounciation of the name, which is pronounced layng. The name eminates from Normandy. Notable people with the surname include: *Alex Laing (footballer), New Zealand footballer *Alexander Laing (architect), Scottish architect *Alexander Gordon Laing (1794–1826), Scottish explorer *Andrew Laing (born 1966), New Zealand actor *Annie Rose Laing (1869–1946), Scottish artist *Arthur Laing (1904–1975), Canadian politician *Bert Laing, New Zealand rugby league footballer *Billy Laing (born 1951), Scottish footballer *Bobby Laing (1925–1985), Scottish footballer *Bonnie Laing (1937–2016), Canadian politician *Brent Laing (born 1978), Canadian curler *Catriona Laing, British ambassador *Corky Laing (Laurence Gordon Laing, born 1948), Canadian music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Laing
Mount Laing is a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, located east of Gold River and northeast of Mount Filberg. in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia See also *List of mountains of Canada
Most mountain peaks of Canada lie in the west, specifically in British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon. Mountains can be found all over British Columbia while those in Alberta are mainly situated on the eastern side of the Canadian Rockies. The ...
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Laings, Ohio
Laings is an unincorporated community in central Green Township, Monroe County, Ohio, United States. It has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ... with the ZIP code 43752. It lies along State Route 255. References Unincorporated communities in Ohio Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Ohio {{MonroeCountyOH-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lang (other)
Lang may refer to: *Lang (surname), a surname of independent Germanic or Chinese origin Places * Lang Island (Antarctica), East Antarctica * Lang Nunatak, Antarctica * Lang Sound, Antarctica * Lang Park, a stadium in Brisbane, Australia * Lang, New South Wales, a locality in Australia * Division of Lang, a former Australian electoral division. * Electoral district of Sydney-Lang, a former New South Wales electoral division. * Lang, Austria, a town in Leibniz, Styria, Austria * Lang, Saskatchewan, a Canadian village * Lang Island, Sunda Strait, Indonesia * Lang, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran * Lang Varkshi, Khuzestan Province, Iran * Lang Glacier, Bernese Alps, Valais, Switzerland * Lang Suan District, southern Thailand * Lang County, or Nang County, Tibet * Lang, Georgia, United States * Lang Chánh District, Vietnam * Lang Trang, a cave formation located in Vietnam Computing *S-Lang, a programming language created in 1992 *LANG, environment variable in POSIX standard t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITT Inc
ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American worldwide manufacturing company based in Stamford, Connecticut. The company produces specialty components for the aerospace, transportation, energy and industrial markets. ITT's three businesses include Industrial Process, Motion Technologies, and Connect and Control Technologies. ITT has approximately 10,000 employees in more than 35 countries and serves customers in well over 100 countries. The company's long-standing brands include Goulds Pumps, Cannon connectors, KONI shock absorbers and Enidine energy absorption components. The company was founded in 1920 as International Telephone & Telegraph. During the 1960s and 1970s, under the leadership of CEO Harold Geneen, the company rose to prominence as the archetypal conglomerate, deriving its growth from hundreds of acquisitions in diversified industries. ITT divested its telecommunications assets in 1986. In 1995, the company sold off its hospitality portfolio, including S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xylem Inc
Xylem Inc. is a large American water technology provider, in public utility, residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial settings. The company does business in more than 150 countries. Launched in 2011 as the spinoff of the water-related businesses of ITT Corporation, Xylem is headquartered in Rye Brook, New York, with 2018 revenues of $5.2 billion and 17,000 employees worldwide. Its products and services are focused in two areas: water infrastructure, which consists of businesses serving clean water delivery, wastewater transport and treatment, dewatering and analytical instrumentation; and applied water, which is residential and commercial building services companies, as well as industrial and agricultural applications. History On January 12, 2011, Xylem's parent, ITT Corporation announced its plan to separate the company into three, stand-alone publicly traded, independent companies". The future water company was named Xylem, pronounced zi-lem. (The name "Xylem", de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Laing
''Philip Laing'' is a 19th-century sailing ship best known as the second immigrant ship to arrive in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 15 April 1848. Chartered by the New Zealand Company for this voyage the ship was carrying Scottish settlers, under the charge of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Burns. Construction The ''Philip Laing'' was a wooden barque rigged sailing ship of . The ship was approximately long with a beam of with square rigs on the foremast and mainmast and fore and aft rigging on the mizzen mast.Church, page 86. The ship was built with the yard number 167 by the James Laing yard at Deptford in Sutherland for Laing & Ridley of Liverpool. She was launched on 23 July 1846. Service history Voyage to Otago On 22 September 1847 an advertisement was posted by William Cargill of the New Zealand Company calling for tenders for two vessels of not less than 450, nor more than 650 tons, to transport immigrants to Otago in New Zealand one of which was to sail from London, and one from Glas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laing (food)
''Laing'' ( ), is a Filipino dish of shredded or whole taro leaves with meat or seafood cooked in thick coconut milk spiced with labuyo chili, lemongrass, garlic, shallots, ginger, and shrimp paste. It originates from the Bicol Region, where it is known simply as ''pinangat''. ''Laing'' is also a type of '' ginataan'' (Filipino dishes cooked in coconut milk), and thus may also be referred to as ''ginataang laing''. ''Laing'' is commonly eaten as a vegetable side to complement meat or fish side dishes known as ''ulam'' in Filipino, which is normally paired with boiled white rice. Names ''Laing'' is the name of the dish in most parts of the Philippines However, in the Bicol region, where it originates from, it is simply called ''pinangat.'' This name can be confused with ''pinangat na isda'', which is a different dish made with fish cooked in a slightly sour broth similar to ''sinigang''. The confusion stems from the original meaning of the verb ''pangat'' in the languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laing (band)
Laing is a German band currently consisting of Nicola Rost, Larissa Pesch, Johanna Marshall, and Marisa Akeny. Career Laing was founded in 2007 by lead vocalist, songwriter, and producer Nicola Rost, vocalists Johanna Marshall and Larissa Pesch, and dancer Marisa Akeny. The group's name comes from the surname of Rost's adoptive mother. Their breakthrough came in 2012 when they represented Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ... in the 2012 Bundesvision Song Contest with the song "Morgens immer müde". They placed second and the song went on to reach the Top 10 and Top 50 in the German and Austrian charts, respectively. They competed in Unser song für Österreich with the songs "Zeig deine Muskeln" and "Wechselt die Beleuchtung". The group qualified to the Top 4, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Laing's Nek
The Battle of Laing's Nek was a major battle fought at Laing's Nek during the First Boer War on 28 January 1881. Background Following the Boer declaration of independence for the Transvaal in 1880 the British suffered a series of disastrous defeats in attempting to regain the territory. On 20 December 1880, Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Robert Anstruther and elements of his regiment, the 94th, marched from Lydenburg to Pretoria, the regiment’s band leading the column playing the popular song "Kiss Me, Mother Darling". At Bronkhorstspruit the force was stopped by Boers who courteously required the "Red Soldiers" to turn back. Anstruther equally courteously refused at which point the column was devastated by rifle fire from the surrounding Boer ambush. Of the 259 in the column, 155 officers and men became casualties as did some of the women accompanying the regiment. Instead of waiting for the reinforcements, the British High Commissioner for South East Africa, Major General Sir Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arriva UK Trains
Arriva UK Trains Limited is the company that oversees Arriva's train operating companies in the United Kingdom. It gained its first franchises in February 2000. These were later lost, though several others were gained. In January 2010, with the take-over of Arriva by Deutsche Bahn, Arriva UK Trains also took over the running of those formerly overseen by DB Regio UK Limited. Divisions Arriva currently runs the following railway companies with operational dates listed: ;Franchises * Chiltern Railways – 1996–2027 * CrossCountry – 2007–2023 ;Concessions * Arriva Rail London – 2016–2024 ;Other *Alliance Rail Holdings – open access operator (GNWR) * Arriva TrainCare – rolling stock maintenance company * Grand Central – open access operator History Arriva's operations Former Arriva Trains Merseyside ran urban rail services on Merseyside from February 2000 until March 2003 and Arriva Trains Northern ran local rail services in Northern England from Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laing's Nek
Laing's Nek, or Lang's Nek is a pass through the Drakensberg mountain range, South Africa, immediately north of Majuba, at at an elevation of 5400 to . It is the lowest part of a ridge which slopes from Majuba to the Buffalo River, and before the opening of the railway in 1891 the road over the nek was the main artery of communication between Durban and Pretoria. The railway crosses the pass via a . long tunnel. History There are two possible explanations for its name. It could be named after Henry Laing, owner of a farm at is foot or William Timothy Lang who bought a farm in 1874 at its base. When the Boers rose in revolt in December 1880 they occupied Laing's Nek to oppose the entry of British reinforcements into the Transvaal. On 28 January 1881 a small British force endeavoured to drive the Boers from the pass, but was forced to retire after the Battle of Laing's Nek The Battle of Laing's Nek was a major battle fought at Laing's Nek during the First Boer War on 28 Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
