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Raka can refer to: * A Turkish rendering of the Arabic geographical name Raqqa * Raka'ah, one unit of Islamic prayer, or ''Salaa'' * Raka Maomao * Rajdhani College * Raka, Burkina Faso * Raka, Tibet * Raka, Krško, a village in the Municipality of Krško, southeastern Slovenia * Raka, Järva County, village in Ambla Parish, Järva County, Estonia * Raka, Rapla County, village in Rapla Parish, Rapla County, Estonia * "Raka", a poem in Afrikaans by Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw * ''Raka'', a 2019 EP by Australian artists Golden Features and The Presets See also * Rakah (other) * Kate Challis RAKA Award The Kate Challis RAKA Award is an arts award worth , awarded annually by the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia to Indigenous Australian creative artists. It is awarded in a five-year cycle, each year in a different area of the arts: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raqqa
Raqqa ( ar, ٱلرَّقَّة, ar-Raqqah, also and ) (Kurdish languages, Kurdish: Reqa/ ڕەقە) is a city in Syria on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River, about east of Aleppo. It is located east of the Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest dam. The Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine city and bishopric Callinicum (formerly a Latin and now a Maronite Catholic titular see) was the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate between 796 and 809, under the reign of Harun al-Rashid. It was also the capital of the Territory of the Islamic State, Islamic State from 2014 to 2017. With a population of 531,952 based on the 2021 official census, Raqqa is the sixth largest city in Syria. During the Syrian Civil War, the city was captured in 2013 by the Syrian opposition and then by the Islamic State. ISIS made the city its capital in 2014. As a result, the city was hit by airstrikes from the Syrian government, Russia, the United States, and Military intervention against ISIL, several other countries. Mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raka'ah
A Rak'ah ( ar, ركعة ', ; plural: ') is a single iteration of prescribed movements and supplications performed by Muslims as part of the prescribed obligatory prayer known as salah. Each of the five daily prayers observed by Muslims consists of a number of raka'at. Procedure After washing for prayer by performing the ritual ablution, a believer must renew their innermost intention, thus purifying their prayer for the sake of Allah. An intention Niyyah is not to be said verbally but rather it is made in the heart; but can also be said verbally alongside the intention in the heart. Example: you intended in your heart to pray 4 Units (Rakahs) for you start your prayer. The raka'ah begins when the worshipper initiates the salah with the words "Allah is The Greatest", (Allah-hu-Akbar) this is known in Arabic as the Takbir (). Takbir must be said at the start of the Salah or the prayer is invalidated. The individual will observe the standing position while reciting the "Dua al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raka Maomao
Raka-maomao or Rakamaomao, in Māori mythology, is a god of wind. He is the god of ordinary winds, in contrast to Tāwhirimātea, who is the god of tempests. To the Waitaha tribe of the South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ..., Rakamaomao was the group of winds that blew from the south and north. Raka-maomao is equivalent to Ra‘a (Society Islands), Raka (Cook Islands), La'a Maomao ( Hawaii) and Fa'atiu ( Samoa). References Māori gods Wind deities {{Maori-myth-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajdhani College
Rajdhani College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. It was established in 1964 by the Delhi Administration under the name of Government College. The college acquired its new name when the Delhi Administration vested its governance in an autonomous governing body. Rajdhani College is an South Campus College. The college is situated on Mahatma Gandhi Marg (Ring Road), near Rajouri Garden and Raja Garden in west Delhi. Its new building was constructed around 1976–77. The college complex has all facilities such as seminar room, auditorium, library, laboratories, playgrounds for cricket, football, hockey, and volleyball etc. It is a co-educational institution. Departments * Chemistry *Industrial Chemistry * Commerce * Computer Science * Economics * English * Hindi * History * Life Science * Linguistics * Mathematics * Physical Education * Physics and Electronics * Political Science * Sanskrit Courses Offered Under Graduation Level * B.Com. (Hons.) * B.A. (H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raka, Burkina Faso
Raka, Burkina Faso is a village in the Rouko Department Rouko is a department or commune of Bam Province in north-western Burkina Faso. Its capital lies at the town of Rouko. According to the 1996 census the department has a total population of 13,175. References Populat ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raka, Tibet
Raka is a village in Dênggar Township in Saga County in the Shigatse Prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It lies along the G219 road near the junction with the northern heading S206 road on the road to Qierexiang, roughly east of Saga at an altitude of . Historically it lay in the province of Tsang. Raka is very well connected, connected by provincial highway 206 to Coqen in the north, Saga in the southwest and Lhatse, Shigatse and Lhasa to the east. Several kilometres to the east is the village of Kyêrdo. An "enormous tributary" called the Raka Tsanpo flows nearby and the saline lake of Raka Lake is also located in the vicinity. See also *List of towns and villages in Tibet This is an alphabetical list of all populated places, including cities, towns and villages, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of western China. A *Alamdo *Alhar *Arza *Asog B *Baga, Tibet, Baga *Bagar *Baidi, Nagarzê County, Baidi *Baima * ... References Populated places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raka, Krško
Raka (; german: Arch''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 78.) is a village in the Municipality of Krško in eastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Carniola. It is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Lower Sava Statistical Region. The village is known for a quality variety of onion. Name Raka was attested in written sources in 1161 as ''Arch'' (and as ''Archa'' in 1249, and ''Arch'' in 1279). The Slovene name is derived from the common noun ''raka'' 'wooden cladding preventing water erosion of a bank' or 'cladded chute carrying water to a mill'. Both the Slovene and German names are ultimately derived from Latin ''arca'' 'box'. Church The parish church in the centre of the settlement is dedicated to Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto. It is a Late Baroque church built between 1799 and 1804 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raka, Järva County
Raka is a village in Järva Parish, Järva County in northern-central Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a .... (retrieved 28 July 2021) References Villages in Järva County {{Järva-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Petrus Van Wyk Louw
Nicolaas Petrus van Wyk Louw (11 June 1906 in Sutherland, Cape Colony – 18 June 1970 in Johannesburg), almost universally known as N.P. van Wyk Louw, was an Afrikaans-language poet, playwright and scholar. He was the older brother of Afrikaans-language poet W.E.G. Louw. One of the Dertigers, or "Writers of the Thirties," N.P. van Wyk Louw produced among his most famous works his debut 1935 volume of poems, ''Alleenspraak'' ("Monologue"), the 1937 poetry collection ''Die halwe kring'' ("The Semicircle"), the verse epic ''Raka'', and the 1956 tragedy ''Germanicus''.Lindenberg, E., et al. "Inleiding tot die Afrikaanse Letterkunde". Pretoria and Cape Town: Fifth edition, 1980. N.P. van Wyk Louw is quoted on the Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl, Western Cape Province; in his quote, he views Afrikaans as a bridge that connects Europe with Africa. The South African composer Cromwell Everson composed a song cycle, "Vier Liefdesliedjies" ("Four little love songs") that used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Features
Thomas George Stell (born 1991), known professionally as Golden Features, is an Australian deep house / dance DJ and producer currently signed to Warner Bros. Records. Three singles, "Tell Me" featuring Nicole Millar, "No One" featuring Thelma Plum, and "Wolfie" featuring Julia Stone; received listener's votes for the Triple J Hottest 100. They were listed, successively, at No. 101 in 2014, No. 92 in 2015, and No. 70 in 2016. Golden Features performed at the Hard festival in 2016. His debut album, ''Sect'' (26 July 2018), reached No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Biography Tom Stell has performed as Golden Features since 2014. When Peking Duk members, Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles, relocated from Canberra to Sydney they shared a house with Stell for a year. He recalled, "Those two are like my brothers and without both of their support and guidance the Golden Features project never would have seen the light of day." Golden Features adopted a gold mask for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
