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Orianna Santunione
Oriana or Oriane is a female name. It may also refer to: * , a tug sunk in 1948 * SS ''Oriana'' (1959), a 1959-built ocean liner * MV ''Oriana'' (1994), a 1995-built cruise ship * Orania, Northern Cape, an Afrikaner community in South Africa. * Oreana, Illinois, a village in the United States * Oriana Cinema, an art-deco building in Fremantle, Western Australia, demolished in 1972 * ''Oriana'' (film), a 1985 film by Fina Torres * Oriana (grape), another name for the Italian wine grape Uva Rara * Oriana (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse, foaled 1807 * "Oriana (September 24, 1988)", a song by Al Di Meola from ''Kiss My Axe'' * ''Oriana'', a 19th-century play by James Albery * Oriana, Windows software for circular statistics/orientation analysis * ''Oriane Ou la Cinquième Couleur'', a 2002 novel by Paul-Loup Sulitzer * Oriane, a fictional character in the novel ''Labyrinth'' by Kate Mosse. * Orianna, the Lady of Clockwork, a playable champion character in the multipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriana
{{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 Oriana is a given name, primarily of a female, that is widespread in Europe. Variants include ''Orianna'', ''Oriane'' or ''Orianne''. Sometimes ''Orian, Oreste'' or '' Dorian'' may be a male given name or a family name, as ''Orians, Oriani'', or ''Doria.'' Possible roots of the name There is the Latin meaning of ''rising'' (as in sunrise; see a similar word root in Orient). Things get even more complicated as in the languages of the Iberian peninsula, namely Spanish and Portuguese, there is the medieval ''Oroana'' or ''Ouroana'', from ''Oro'' or ''Ouro'' meaning Gold, whose origin is the Latin ''Aurum'', and whose root, ''Aur'', may be related to ''Ori''. The Irish version of this name means ' the golden one' and stems from 'Ór' which is the Irish for gold. Notable people Notable people with the name include: *Nickname for English queen Elizabeth I; the Oriana madrigals were written for her. * Oriana Wilson (1876-1945), MBE, British humanita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriana (horse)
Oriana (1807 – after 1826) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare who won the classic Oaks Stakes at Epsom Downs Racecourse in 1810. The Northern-trained filly won the Oaks on her first appearance and finished third against colts in the St Leger Stakes at Doncaster in her only other race that year. She won one of her three races in 1811 and was later exported to become a broodmare in Ireland. Background Oriana was a bay mare bred by her owner Sir William Gerard of Garswood in Lancashire. She was the ninth foal of Mary Ann, a mare bred by Mr Clifton. Mary Ann had previously produced Ashton, a successful stayer in the North of England whose wins included the Richmond Gold Cup. Oriana was sired by the St Leger winner Beningbrough, who at the time was based at Middleham in Yorkshire. Beningbrough also sired the Oaks winner Briseis, the outstanding stayer and stallion Orville and the Doncaster Cup winner Scud, who in turn sired The Derby winners Sailor and Sam. Gerar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends
''League of Legends'' (''LoL''), commonly referred to as ''League'', is a 2009 multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, ''Warcraft III'', Riot's founders sought to develop a stand-alone game in the same genre. Since its release in October 2009, ''League'' has been free-to-play and is monetized through Freemium, purchasable character customization. The game is available for Microsoft Windows and macOS. In the game, two teams of five players battle in player-versus-player combat, each team occupying and defending their half of the map. Each of the ten players controls a character, known as a "champion", with unique abilities and differing styles of play. During a match, champions become more powerful by collecting experience points, earning gold, and purchasing Item (game terminology), items to defeat the opposing team. In ''League' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Mosse
Katharine Mosse (born 20 October 1961) is a British novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel ''Labyrinth'', which has been translated into more than 37 languages. Early life and career Mosse was born in Chichester, and raised in Fishbourne, West Sussex, the eldest of three sisters born to a solicitor, Richard (1920–2011) and Barbara (1931–2014). Mosse's aunt was involved in the campaign for the ordination of women and her grandfather was a vicar. She was educated at Chichester High School For Girls and New College, Oxford and graduated in 1984 with a BA (Hons) in English. After leaving university, she spent seven years working in publishing in London for Hodder & Stoughton, then Century, and finally as an editorial director at Hutchinson, part of the Random House Group. She was a member of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Women in Publishing. She left publishing in 1992, for a writing career beginn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labyrinth (novel)
''Labyrinth'' is an archaeological mystery English-language novel written by Kate Mosse set both in the Middle Ages and present-day France. It was published in 2005. It divides into two main storylines that follow two protagonists, Alaïs (from the year 1209) and Alice (in the year 2005). The two stories occur in a shared geography and intertwine. The novel relies heavily on historical events such as the massacre at Béziers and the Crusade against the Cathars in Occitania, now the South of France, from around 1200. The text itself features many Occitan and French quotes. Ultimately the story becomes a quest for the Holy Grail. In the 2006 British Book Awards, ''Labyrinth'' was awarded ''Best Read of the Year''. According to ''The Sunday Times'', it was the second best selling book in the United Kingdom in 2006, after ''The Da Vinci Code'', selling about 865,400 copies in paperback. ''The Guardian'' ranked it the number one bestseller for 2006. An extract from the novel was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul-Loup Sulitzer
Paul Loup Karl Sulitzer (born 22 July 1946, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French financier and author. Before he turned seventeen, he was already a self-made millionaire. Sulitzer used his financial experience and knowledge in his books, which often related to the business world. Many of his books were ghost-written by Loup Durand. Biography Sulitzer's father was a Jewish immigrant from Romania who died when Sulitzer was 10. Six years later Sulitzer joined a trading company that operated in the Middle East. According to his editor, he became the youngest CEO in France at age 21 and made his fortune selling gadgets (notably keychains that were very popular between the years 1960 and 1970 ) in the UK that he imported from the Far East. In 1968 he incorporated a holding company and established a financial consultant firm. In 1980 Sulitzer proposed to Danoël the production of a "western finance" that would be a novel of finance-fiction adventures. Loup Durand, a journalist and writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circular Statistics
Directional statistics (also circular statistics or spherical statistics) is the subdiscipline of statistics that deals with directions (unit vectors in Euclidean space, R''n''), axes (lines through the origin in R''n'') or rotations in R''n''. More generally, directional statistics deals with observations on compact Riemannian manifolds including the Stiefel manifold. The fact that 0 degrees and 360 degrees are identical angles, so that for example 180 degrees is not a sensible mean of 2 degrees and 358 degrees, provides one illustration that special statistical methods are required for the analysis of some types of data (in this case, angular data). Other examples of data that may be regarded as directional include statistics involving temporal periods (e.g. time of day, week, month, year, etc.), compass directions, dihedral angles in molecules, orientations, rotations and so on. Circular distributions Any probability density function (pdf) \ p(x) on the line can be "wrapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Albery
James Albery (4 May 1838 – 15 August 1889) was an English dramatist. Life and career Albery was born in London. On leaving school he entered an architect's office and started to write plays. His farce ''A Pretty Piece of Chiselling'' was given its first production by the Ingoldsby Club in 1864. After some failures, his adaptation, ''Dr Davy'', was produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London (1866). His most successful piece, ''Two Roses'', a comedy, was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1870, in which Sir Henry Irving made one of his earliest London successes as Digby Grant. The production ran for 300 performances. Albery was the author of a large number of other plays and adaptations, including ''Coquettes'' (1870); ''Pickwick'', a four-act drama (based on Dickens's ''The Pickwick Papers'' (1871); '' The Pink Dominos'' (1877), a farce that ran for an extremely successful 555 performances and was one of a series of adaptations from the French which he made for the Criterio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss My Axe
''Kiss My Axe'' is an album by jazz guitarist Al Di Meola that was released in 1991. It is a jazz fusion album, with significant world music influences. Like its predecessor, '' Tirami Su'' (1987), it is credited to "The Al Di Meola Project", although the two albums have an almost entirely different set of backing musicians. The album's title is a play on words on the phrase "kiss my ass", with "axe" as a common nickname for an electric guitar. Di Meola chose the title in part because of his frustration with the music industry of the time, which he felt rewarded " elevator muzak" over more adventurous music. Track listing All songs by Al Di Meola unless otherwise noted. # "South Bound Traveler" (Barry Miles) – 5:22 # "The Embrace" – 5:49 # "Kiss My Axe" – 5:04 # "Morocco" – 7:41 # "Gigi's Playtime Rhyme (Interlude #1)" – 2:36 # "One Night Last June" – 8:19 # "Phantom" ( Chick Corea, arranged by Al Di Meola) 7:53 # "Erotic Interlude (Interlude #2)" – 2:32 # "Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriana (grape)
Uva Rara is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown in the Piedmont and Lombardy wine regions of northern Italy. The grape is a permitted blending variety along with Nebbiolo in the '' Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita'' (DOCG) wines of Ghemme. In the ''Denominazione di Origine Controllata'' (DOC) wine region of Oltrepò Pavese the grape is often blended with Barbera and Croatina. While Uva Rara's name means "rare grape" in Italian, the variety is actually widely planted with 608 hectares (1,502 acres) of the vine recorded in Italy in 2000.J. Robinson, J. Harding and J. Vouillamoz ''Wine Grapes - A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours'' pg 1105 Allen Lane 2012 History and relationship to other grapes Uva Rara has a long history of being grown in the Piedmont and Lombardy region, particularly in the provinces of Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Novara, Torino, Vercelli and Pavia. Here the grape has been historically used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Oriana (1959)
SS ''Oriana'' was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company's ocean liners. She was built at Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England and launched on 3 November 1959 by Princess Alexandra. Originally resplendent with her owners' traditional corn-coloured hull, ''Oriana'' appeared as an Orient Line ship until 1966, when that company was fully absorbed into the P&O group. Faced with unprofitable around-the-world passenger routes, the P&O white hulled ''Oriana'' was operated as a full-time cruise ship from 1973. Between 1981 and her retirement from service five years later, ''Oriana'' was based at Sydney, Australia, operating to Pacific Ocean and South-East Asian ports. Deemed surplus to P&O's requirements in early 1986, the vessel was sold to become a floating hotel and tourist attraction, first in Japan and later in China. As a result of damage sustained from a severe storm whilst in the port of Dalian in 2004, SS ''Oriana'' was finally sold to local breaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriana (film)
''Oriana'' is a 1985 Venezuelan film directed by Fina Torres and written by Antoine Lacomblez and Torres herself. Set in a hacienda or ranch, this drama tells the story of Maria, a woman that returns to the house where she spent a short time as a girl to discover some secrets about her aunt, the title character, who died and left the property to her. The film won the Caméra d'Or Prize at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival as the best first feature. It was Fina Torres first feature film and won many awards at the time. It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 58th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Plot Maria, a Venezuelan woman returns to Venezuela from France when she learns that her aunt Oriana has died and willed her a crumbling and remote Venezuelan hacienda where Maria spent a short time as a girl just entering puberty. Maria goes to the hacienda, a fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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