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Rona
Rona, RONA or Róna may refer to: Places * Rona (Kristiansand), a neighbourhood in Kristiansand, Norway *Rona (river), a river in Maramureș County, Romania *Rona, Bellevue Hill, a historic house in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill * Rona, Switzerland, a village *Rona, a village in Jibou town, Sălaj County, Romania *Rona, a peninsula/island of the Isle of May in Scotland *Rona de Jos and Rona de Sus, communes in Maramureș County, Romania *North Rona, a Scottish island in the North Atlantic *South Rona, a Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides *Tinizong-Rona, a Swiss municipality People Given name *Rona, a diminutive of the Russian male given name Aaron *Rona Ambrose (born 1969), former interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons *Rona Anderson (1926–2013), Scottish stage, film, and television actress * Rona Barrett (born 1936), American gossip columnist and businesswoman * Rona Coleman (active from 1970s), Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Ambrose
Ronalee Ambrose Veitch ( , née Chapchuk; born March 15, 1969) is a Canadian former politician who was interim leader of the Conservative Party and the leader of the Opposition between 2015 and 2017. She was the Conservative Party member of the House of Commons for Sturgeon River—Parkland between 2015 and 2017, and had previously represented Edmonton—Spruce Grove from 2004 to 2015. In her first term as an Opposition MP, she was the Conservative Party's Intergovernmental Affairs critic. Ambrose also served as vice-chair of the Treasury Board and has held multiple cabinet positions as Canada's Minister of Health, Minister of the Environment, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister of Western Economic Diversification, Minister of Labour, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, and Minister of Status of Women. She was President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. She is also a former communication consultant and public policy consultant for the Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Rona
Rona ( gd, Rònaigh), sometimes called South Rona to distinguish it from North Rona (a small uninhabited island to the northwest of Cape Wrath), is an inhabited island in the Inner Hebrides. It lies between the Sound of Raasay and the Inner Sound just north of the neighbouring island of Raasay and east of the Trotternish peninsula of Skye. It has a total area of and a population of 3. Geography and geology Rona is an extension northward of the ridge of Raasay. Its geology is Lewisian gneiss and the glaciated landscape is underlain by some of the oldest rocks in western Europe. Writing in the early 18th century, Martin Martin recorded that "this little isle is the most unequal rocky piece of ground to be seen anywhere: there is but very few acres fit for digging, the whole is covered with long heath, erica-baccifera, mertillus, and some mixture of grass; it is reckoned very fruitful in pasturage: most of the rocks consist of the hectic stone, and a considerable part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Barrett
Rona Barrett (born Rona Burstein, October 8, 1936) is an American gossip columnist and businesswoman. She runs the Rona Barrett Foundation, a non-profit organization in Santa Ynez, California, dedicated to the aid and support of senior citizens in need. Early life and career Barrett was born on October 8, 1936 in New York City. As a teenager, she overcame a degenerative hip condition that made walking extremely difficult, and organized fan clubs for popular singers she admired, such as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence. She became a gossip columnist for the Bell-McClure Syndicate in 1957, and soon went to work for Bob Marcucci, the manager for teen idols Frankie Avalon and Fabian. In 1966, she began broadcasting Hollywood gossip on the Los Angeles television station KABC-TV. She could be seen on TV regularly, appearing on ABC's five owned and operated stations around the country. WABC-TV in New York put her pre-recorded gossip segment into its nightly local news, but anchor Rog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award was an award given annually to beginning women writers. Established in 1995 by American author Rona Jaffe, the Foundation offers grants to writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The award was discontinued in March 2021; the foundation cited the high cost of administering the award as the main factor. Recipients of the award were selected through nominations only. Past recipients include Aryn Kyle, Emily Rapp, and ZZ Packer Zuwena "ZZ" Packer (b. January 12, 1973) is an American writer. She is primarily known for her works of short fiction. Early life and education Born in Chicago, Illinois, Packer grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and Louisville, Kentucky. "ZZ" was a .... Winners References {{Cite news, date=17 September 2019, title=We Are Writing Against Our Own Erasure, work=Electric Literature, url=https://electricliterature.com/we-are-writing-against-our-own-erasure/, access-date=23 November 2020 American poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Kenan
Rona (Aharona) Rachel Kenan ( he, רונה קינן, born 26 July 1979) is an Israeli singer-songwriter. Biography Kenan was born on 26 July 1979. Her father is the late Amos Kenan and her mother is the scholar Nurith Gertz. She was attracted to music at a young age and learned to play the guitar. She graduated from the theater program at Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, but preferred a musical career. At the age of eighteen she was considered a "discovery". She has cited the Beatles (particularly the song Blackbird), Leah Goldberg, The Pixies, Pina Bausch and Thelma Yellin as early influences. In 1997 she participated in a song festival called Next, organized by musician Eran Tzur, in which she recomposed and performed songs by poet Yona Wallach. She also performed in an evening commemorating Inbal Perlmutter, a young poets' event, and an evening of Leah Goldberg's poetry. She played with several Israeli musicians, including Tal Gordon, Dana Berger and Asi Levi. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Mackay
Rona Mackay is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Strathkelvin and Bearsden since the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May 2016. Background Prior to being elected, she worked as a journalist in national newspapers for more than 20 years. From 2010 to 2016 she sat on the Children's Panel for the East End of Glasgow. In 2001 she was a co-ordinator of Chernobyl Children's Lifeline, a charity which brought children from Belarus who were affected by the nuclear disaster to Scotland to improve their health. Political career Mackay worked as a Parliamentary Assistant to Gil Paterson Gilbert Martin Paterson (born in Springburn, Glasgow, 1942) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician, who served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Clydebank and Milngavie, from 2011 to 2021. Previously he had been an MSP ..., the former SNP MSP for Milngavie and Clydebank, before being elected in May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Elliot
Rona Elliot (born February 22, 1947) is an American music journalist and interviewer of television, radio, and print. She was the first news anchor on music channel VH1 and music correspondent for NBC's ''Today'' show for ten years. Early life and career Born in to a Jewish family Brooklyn, New York, Elliot grew up in Kew Gardens, Queens until age 10 when the family moved to Los Angeles. Career Radio Hired by program director Ron Jacobs, Elliot began her radio career at the influential Los Angeles AM radio station, KHJ, part of the Drake-Chenault Enterprises portfolio of radio stations. KHJ pioneered the “Boss Radio” format during the era of flamboyant disc jockeys including the Real Don Steele and Robert W. Morgan. Elliot later became immersed in the 1970s San Francisco underground radio scene working at stations KMPX-FM and KSAN-FM. She was an on-air anchor on San Francisco NBC owned and operated radio stations KNBR and KNAI from 1975 to 1976. In 1977 Elliot moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Lightfoot
Rona Lightfoot (; born 17 April 1936) is a Scottish bagpiper and singer. Life Lightfoot was born on 17 April 1936 on South Uist to a family rich in pipers, and her first music lessons came from her parents, before she was taught by her uncle Angus Campbell. Teaching was in Canntaireachd, a way of notating pibroch orally. She attended secondary school in Fort William, before going to Glasgow to train as a nurse. She met her husband Tony whilst in Glasgow, and they married in October 1960. Tony worked as a sailor and Rona often travelled with him, taking her pipes with her. Career Lightfoot had a successful career as solo piper, and credited as the first woman to win a major piping competition. In 1972, she won third place in the jig competition at the Northern Meeting, but was not allowed to compete in the march competition due to the way she was dressed. She became the first woman to compete in the Bratach Gorm after applying pressure to the Scottish Piping Society of London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Rona
Rona ( gd, Rònaigh) is a remote, uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic. Rona is often referred to as North Rona to distinguish it from South Rona (another small island, in the Inner Hebrides). It has an area of and a maximum elevation of . It is included within the historic county of Ross-shire. The island lies northwest of Cape Wrath, the same distance north-northeast of the Butt of Lewis and east of Sula Sgeir. More isolated than St Kilda, it is the most remote island in the British Isles ever to have been inhabited on a long-term basis. It is also the closest neighbour to the Faroe Islands. Because of the island's remote location and small area, it is omitted from many maps of the United Kingdom. Etymology The name "Rona" may come from , Old Norse for "rough island", a combination of and , Gaelic and Old Norse for "seal" and "island" respectively, or it may have been named after Saint Ronan. The English language qualifier ''North'' is sometimes used to d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Fairhead
Rona Alison Fairhead, Baroness Fairhead (''née'' Haig; born 28 August 1961) is a Conservative life peer and businesswoman. She served as Minister of State at the Department for International Trade from 2017 to 2019. Prior to that, she was the last Chairman of the BBC Trust before its abolition and the first woman to hold the post. On 3 September 2017, it was announced that Trade Policy Minister Lord Price would leave the government; on 28 September, Fairhead was appointed to succeed him. Fairhead resigned as Minister of State in May 2019. Early life and education Fairhead was born Rona Haig in Cumbria in 1961 and educated at Yarm Grammar School, near Stockton-on-Tees, North East England before attending St Catharine's College, Cambridge; she was president of the Cambridge University Law Society before graduating with a double first in law (Bachelor of Arts, BA). She later obtained a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Professional career Fairh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Coleman
Rona Coleman is a former actress, best known for appearing in soap opera '' Sons and Daughters'' for a 210-episode run from 1984 to 1985. As Heather O'Brien, she was the wife of Mike O'Brien, played by Ken James, and mother to two children, Katie and Jeff (played by Jane Seaborn and Craig Morrison). The family were eventually written-out of the series after a year, although Heather would return for a guest stint after the rest of the O'Brien's all departed. Coleman has also appeared in ''Homicide'', ''Matlock Police'', '' Richmond Hill'', '' E Street'' (as Veronica Bromley), ''A Country Practice'', '' Water Rats'', ''Home and Away'' and '' All Saints'' and the TV film '' Without Warning''. She has also featured in numerous theatre roles from 1965 until 1982, including Shakespeare roles like ''Hamlet'' and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. In 1970, she performed as Eliza Doolittle in a national tour of ''My Fair Lady''.Radic, Leonard (30 March 1970A Slightly tired lady The Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona, Bellevue Hill
''Rona'' is a historic house in the Sydney suburb of Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The house is listed on the (now defunct) Australian Register of the National Estate and is listed on the Municipality of Woollahra local government heritage list. The house is situated in the northern end of the suburb and sold for close to 60 million in 2018, making it one of Australia's most expensive homes at the time. The estate Rona was originally a estate and was sub-leased from Frederick Tooth, a member of the Tooth family of Cranbrook, by Sir Edward Knox, the founder of CSR Limited. It was bought in 1880 by Knox's son, William Knox, and William Oswald Gilchrist. Knox Jnr and his brother, Tom, built ''Rona'' and ''Leura'' respectively and in 1900 Gilchrist sold to Sir Colin Stephen who built ''Llanillo''. Stephen was Edward William Knox's son-in-law and his daughter, Helen Rutlege, wrote the story of Rona and the Knox family in a book entitled ''My Grandfather's House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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