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Orestes (given Name)
Orestes or Orestis ( gr, Ορέστης) is a Greek name meaning . Orestes in Greek mythology is the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, brother of Electra and Iphigenia. He is noted for avenging the murder of his father by killing his mother and her lover Aegisthus, whereafter he was pursued by the Furies and driven mad. Equivalents in different languages include: * Aresti – found mostly in the Basque country and the island of Sardinia * Oreste – Italian * Orest ( Cyrillic: Орест) – Ukrainian (sometimes Oryst in transliteration), Polish and Russian Given name *Orest Banach (born 1948), American soccer player *Orest Khvolson (1852–1934), Russian physicist * Orest Kindrachuk (born 1950), Canadian ice hockey player *Orest Kiprensky (1782–1836), Russian artist and portraitist *Orest Lenczyk (born 1942), Polish soccer manager *Orest Levytsky (1848–1922), Ukrainian historian *Orest Meleschuk (born 1940), Canadian curler * Orest Miller (1833–1889), Russian folklorist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Kiprensky
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (russian: Орест Адамович Кипренский -) was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the poet to remark that "the mirror flatters me". Biography Orest was born in the village of Nezhnovo in the Saint Petersburg Governorate on . He was an illegitimate son of a landowner Alexey Dyakonov, hence his name, derived from ''Kypris'', one of the Greek names for the goddess of love. He was raised in the family of Adam Shvalbe, a serf. Although Kiprensky was born a serf, he was released from the serfdom upon his birth and later his father helped him to enter a boarding school at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg in 1788 (when Orest was only six years old). He studied at the boarding school and the academy itself until 1803. He lived at the academy for three more years as a pensioner to fulfill requirements necessary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreste Squinobal
Oreste Squinobal (17 December 1942 – 9 September 2004), from Gressoney-Saint-Jean, was an Italian mountain climber, mountain guide of Monte Rosa and ski mountaineer. Together with his brother Arturo he made his first winter ascent of the South Face of Matterhorn (23 December 1971), the first winter ascent of the Peuterey Integral (26 December 1972, together with Yannick Seigneur, Michel Feuillarade, Marc Galy, and Louis Audoubert), and the first winter ascent of the West Face of Matterhorn (11 January 1978, together with Rolando Albertini, Marco Barmasse, Innocenzo Menabreaz, Leo Pession, Augusto Tamone). Together with his brothers Arturo and Lorenzo, he placed first in the mountain guides team category in the 1975 Trofeo Mezzalama edition, which was carried out as the first World Championship of Skimountaineering. On May 2, 1982, he was the first Italian to climb to the summit of the Kangchenjunga Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, Kanchanjanghā (), and Kh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreste Biancoli
Oreste Biancoli (20 February 1897 – 25 November 1971) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1930 and 1986. He also directed nine films between 1938 and 1952. He was born in Bologna, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Private Secretary'' (1931) * '' One Night with You'' (1932) * '' The Last Adventure'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * '' The Girl with the Bruise'' (1933) * '' Model Wanted'' (1933) * '' Paprika'' (1933) * ''Just Married'' (1934) * ''Cardinal Lambertini'' (1934) * '' Cavalry'' (1936) * '' Tonight at Eleven'' (1938) * ''At Your Orders, Madame'' (1939) * '' A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) * '' The Castle Ball'' (1939) * ''Giarabub'' (1942) * ''The Bandit'' (1946) * ''Fatal Symphony'' (1947) * ''The Great Dawn'' (1947) * ''Heart'' (1948) * ''Christmas at Camp 119'' (1948) * '' The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949) * '' Tomorrow Is Another Day'' (1951) * '' Black Feathers'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Zerebko
Orest Zerebko (September 15, 1887 – February 21, 1943) was a Galician-born journalist and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Redberry from 1938 to 1943 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal. He was born in Horodenka, Austria-Hungary, the son of Elias Zerebko, of Ukrainian descent, and came to Canada in 1900. In 1913, Zerebko received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Manitoba, becoming the first person of Ukrainian descent to graduate from a Canadian university. He was a contributor and later editor-in-chief for the weekly Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ... newspaper ''Ukrainskyi Holos''. He died in office at home in Blaine Lake at the age of 55. References 1887 births 1943 deaths People fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Tereshchuk
Orest Tereshchuk (born 18 August 1981) is a former professional tennis player from Ukraine. Career Tereshchuk began playing Davis Cup tennis for the Ukrainian national team in 1999. His last appearance in 2007 was his 18th tie for Ukraine, leveling Andrei Medvedev's record. He finished with a 22/10 career record, second only to Medvedev. On the ATP Tour he made doubles appearances in the 2006 Kremlin Cup (partnering Alexey Kedryuk) and the 2007 St. Petersburg Open (partnering Sergiy Stakhovsky) but was unable to progress past the opening round in either. He was however highly successful on the ATP Challenger circuit, winning 11 doubles titles. As a singles player, he had the best win of his career in a Challenger tournament at Dnipropetrovsk in 2003, when he defeated Karol Beck, then ranked 66th in the world. The Ukrainian teamed up with Lars Burgsmüller at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships and after making it through qualifying they faced the Belgian pairing of Olivier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Sushko
Orest Sushko is a Canadian re-recording mixer working in the fields of film, television, and music. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and an M.A. degree in media production from Ryerson University in Toronto. Orest won the Emmy award for Best Sound Mixing for the TV miniseries Nuremberg and was nominated for an Emmy for the TV miniseries Joan of Arc. He is the recipient of 9 MPSE nominations, @MPSE awards, 2 International Monitor Awards Finalist Citations, 12 Gemini nominations, 3 Genie nominations, 4 CSA (Canadian Screen Awards) nominations and a Golden Sheaf Award. Orest has mixed seven films for David Cronenberg, including ''Crash (1996 film), Crash'', ''Spider (2002 film), Spider'', ''A History of Violence'', ''Eastern Promises'', ''A Dangerous Method'', ''Cosmopolis (film), Cosmopolis'', and ''Maps to the Stars''. He has also mixed films and TV pilots for Barry Sonnenfeld and Guillermo del Toro. He won the 2007 Genie Award for Best Ach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Subtelny
Orest Subtelny ( uk, О́рест Субте́льний, 17 May 1941 – 24 July 2016) was a Ukrainian-Canadian historian. Born in Kraków, Poland, he received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1973. From 1982 to 2015, he was a Professor in the Departments of History and Political Science at York University in Toronto. Early life Orest Subtelny was born in Krakow, General Government, on May 17, 1941.Passings: Orest Subtelny made significant contributions to history research . July 27, 2016 His father, Myroslav, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Somov
Orest Mikhailovich Somov (Russian and uk, Орест Михайлович Сомов, romanized Ukrainian standard: ''Orest Mykhailovych Somov/Somiv'') ( – ) was a Russian romantic writer of Ukrainian origin. He studied at Kharkiv University, where he became an admirer of Romantic literature and Gothic fiction. In 1817 he moved to Saint Petersburg where he continued his literary career. In addition to being a writer and translator, he established himself as a critic, editor and publisher, thus becoming one of the first professional men of letters in the Russian Empire. Somov was drawn to the folklore of his native Ukraine and much of his writing refers to Ukrainian history and folklore. Somov was a popular writer during his lifetime. His works on Ukrainian themes made a big impact on the literary canon of the 1820s. His literary works were widely read and his critical opinion was highly regarded. However, after Somov's death, his name and works were consigned to oblivion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Romashyna
Orest Romashyna (born October 27, 1946 in Rheine, Allied-occupied Germany) is a Canadian former ice hockey left winger of Ukrainian descent. Romashyna was drafted 3rd overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1963 NHL Amateur Draft, but he neither played in the National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional ... nor ever turned professional. External linksProfile at hockeydraftcentral.com* 1946 births Living people People from Rheine Sportspeople from Münster (region) Boston Bruins draft picks Canadian ice hockey left wingers National Hockey League first-round draft picks {{Canada-icehockey-winger-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Onofrei
Orest Onofrei (born 17 March 1957 in Marginea, Suceava County, Romania) is a Romanian veterinarian and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), he represented Suceava County in the Chamber of Deputies from December 2004 to February 2005, and has been a Senator for the same county since December 2008. Political career In January 2005, he was named prefect of Suceava County. In April 2008, he was dismissed from his job of prefect and named subprefect of the same county. Meanwhile, in November 2004 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), serving until his resignation early the following year. In August 2008, he resigned and decided to run in the 2008 election on a PDL ticket, winning a Senate seat in a Suceava County district. He was nominated in 2009 to be part of the second Emil Boc Cabinet, but soon after, he gave up to this office after the press began talking about the car accident in which he was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orest Miller
Orest Fyodorovich Miller (russian: Оре́ст Фёдорович Ми́ллер; 4 August 1833 – 1 June 1889) was a Russian folklorist, professor in Russian literature, of Baltic Germans, Baltic German origin from Estonia. He is the author of the book''Илья Муромец и богатырство киевское'' ("Ilya Muromets and the Kievan Rus, Kievan bogatyrs" ) in Tietosanakirja References 1833 births 1889 deaths People from Haapsalu People from Kreis Wiek Baltic-German people Russian folklorists {{russia-bio-stub He was the author of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky ' s first ever biography (1883) ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
