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Safire (other)
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Safire may refer to: * Sa-Fire (born 1966), American vocalist * Safire (illusionists), a British illusion act * Safire Theatre complex, in Chennai, India * William Safire (1929–2009), American journalist and speechwriter * South African Identity Federation; see TENET (network) See also * *Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women, a three-woman blues band * Safir (other) * Saphir (other) * Saphire (other) * Sapphire (other) * Zefir (other) * Zephir (other) * Zephyr (other) In European tradition, a zephyr is a light wind or a west wind, named after Zephyrus, the Greek god or personification of the west wind. Zephyr may also refer to: Arts and media Fiction Fiction media * ''Zephyr'' (film), a 2010 Turkis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa-Fire
Wilma Cosmé (born 16 January 1966, in San Juan, Puerto Rico), better known by her stage name Sa-Fire, is a Puerto Rican singer. Sa-Fire is one of the few freestyle singers to cross over into the pop world. She has been featured in various magazines, such as ''Us Magazine'', ''Billboard'', ''Vogue'', ''Elle'', and most recently in the December 2011 issue of ''Signature Hits Magazine''. She was the first Latina to grace the cover of ''Spin Magazine''. Sa-Fire has also appeared on television programs such as ''American Bandstand'', ''The Pat Sajak Show'', ''The Joan Rivers Show'', ''Latin Connection'', ''MTV International'', ''The Party Machine with Nia Peeples'', ''PM Magazine'', ''Entertainment Tonight'', ''Access Hollywood'', ''TMZ'', '' The View'', MTV, and Telemundo. Sa-Fire has performed throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, the Caribbean, and South America. She has won numerous awards for her work, including six New York Music Awards, three Desi Awards, an ASCAP Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safire (illusionists)
Safire are an illusion act based in North Wales, in the UK. The act consists of Stuart Loughland and Libby Edwards. Highlights of their career include receiving an invitation from world famous illusionists Siegfried and Roy to appear in their World Magic Show at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, and also performing at the 20th Century Fox Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. They have also performed in a Royal Variety Performance at The Prince of Wales Theatre in London's West End, entertained Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, appeared at many theatres around the world and have also performed on many cruise ships. Safire have appeared with BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ...'s Chuckle Brothers on 14 UK theatre tour, playing parts, performing a giant UV puppet act, "The Magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safire Theatre Complex
The Safire Theatre complex was India's first largest multi-theatre complex located in the southern city of Chennai that functioned from 1964 to 1994. The theatre complex was located on Mount Road (now Anna Salai) and consisted of three screening halls, namely, ''Safire'', ''Blue Diamond'', and ''Emerald''. While the largest named ''Safire'' screened Hollywood movies, the other two, ''Emerald'' and ''Diamond'' screened Indian films. Safire was considered to be the first 70 mm theatre in India. History Started by the Veecumsee family, Safire opened its door to the public in 1964. The first movie to play in Safire was ''Cleopatra''. Safire was perhaps the first 70 mm theatre in India. It was spacious, if a bit spartan in furniture, and for the first few years screened only English language films. ''My Fair Lady'', ''Sound of Music'', ''Lawrence of Arabia'', ''Funny Girl'', and ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' were some of the early movies. The Safire complex w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Safire
William Lewis Safire (; Safir; December 17, 1929 – September 27, 2009Safire, William (1986). ''Take My Word for It: More on Language.'' Times Books. . p. 185.) was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a long-time syndicated political columnist for ''The New York Times'' and wrote the "On Language" column in ''The New York Times Magazine'' about popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics. Early life Safire was born William Lewis Safir in New York City, the son of Ida ( Panish) and Oliver Craus Safir. His family was Jewish and of Romanian origin on his father's side. Safire later added the "e" to his surname for pronunciation reasons, although some of his relatives continued to use the original spelling. Safire graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, a specialized public high school in New York City. He attended S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University but droppe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TENET (network)
The Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET) is the de facto national research and education network in South Africa. Structure TENET is a membership-based, non profit company incorporated in South Africa. Its members are the public universities and statutory research councils it serves. Its board of directors is appointed by the members at an annual general meeting. Network TENET acts as a comprehensive Internet service provider as well as a research and education network: it operates the South African National Research Network (SANReN), a large-scale government infrastructure project that provides network connectivity between higher educational and research organisations. In addition, it maintains private peering links with a number of large ISPs in South Africa and peers at both the JINX (in Johannesburg) and CINX (in Cape Town) Internet exchange points. International connectivity at 10Gbit/s is provided from points of presence in London and Amsterda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women
Saffire – The Uppity Blues Women was a three-woman blues musical ensemble in the Washington, D.C. area. It was founded in 1984 by Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola and Earlene Lewis. Lewis separated from the band in 1992 and was replaced by Andra Faye. The group then featured Rabson on piano, vocals and guitar, Adegbalola on vocals and guitar, and Faye on vocals, bass, mandolin, violin and guitar. Saffire's music was a combination of serious blues songs and comedic novelty songs. They covered original songs (such as "Do Your Duty" by Wesley 'Sox' Wilson, "You Got to Know How" by Sippie Wallace & Jack Viertel, and "Don't You Tell Me"), as well as the music of blueswomen who had inspired them, such as Big Mama Thornton, Ida Cox and Koko Taylor. Their music, both comedic and serious, tends to deal with feminist themes, which has made them popular outside of traditional blues circles. Saffire was the first acoustic band to be signed by Alligator Records. Their song "Middle Aged Blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safir (other)
Safir may refer to: *SAFIR, the Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory *Safir (Arthurian legend), a Saracen Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend * Safir (Belgian beer), a Belgian beer now owned by InBev * Safir (cycling team), a Belgian professional cycling team known as Safir 1978 and 1985 * Safir (models), a French toy company specializing in 1:43 scale cars and trucks. *Safir (rocket) an Iranian rocket * Safir (singer) Danish singer and songwriter *Safir (vehicle), an Iranian made military jeep *Safir Engineering, a racecar engineering firm *Saab 91 Safir, a single-engine trainer aircraft See also *Saafir * Sapphire (other) *Shapiro Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Sapiro, Spiro (name)/Spyro (in Greek), Szapiro/ Szpiro (in Polish) and Chapiro (in French), is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Etymology The surname is derive ... * Zafir (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saphir (other)
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Saphir, meaning ''sapphire'' in several languages, may refer to: * Saphir (band), a German pop group * Saphir (rocket), a French sounding rocket * Saphir (train), a German train * Jacob Saphir (1822–1886), Russian-Jewish ethnographer, writer, and traveller * Moritz Gottlieb Saphir (1795–1858), Austrian-Jewish writer * Blue Saphir, a character in the Japanese anime ''Sailor Moon'' * French submarine ''Saphir'', any of four vessels of the French Navy * ''Saphir'' (ship), a French slave ship * SAPHIR (Sounder for Probing Vertical Profiles of Humidity), an instrument on the Megha-Tropiques spacecraft See also * Sapphire (other) Sapphire is a blue gemstone in the corundum family. Sapphire (s), SAPPHIRE, or The Sapphires may also refer to: Animals * Sapphire (horse), 2004 Olympic silver-medal-winning horse * Sapphire butterfly, the gossamer-winged butterfly of the genus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saphire (other)
{{primary sources, date=March 2015 SAPHIRE is a probabilistic risk and reliability assessment software tool. SAPHIRE stands for ''Systems Analysis Programs for Hands-on Integrated Reliability Evaluations''. The system was developed for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) by the Idaho National Laboratory. Development began in the mid-1980s when the NRC began exploring two notions: 1) that Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) information could be displayed and manipulated using the emerging microcomputer technology of the day and 2) the rapid advancement of PRA technology required a relatively inexpensive and readily available platform for teaching PRA concepts to students. The history of SAPHIRE 1987 Version 1 of the code called IRRAS (now known as SAPHIRE) introduced an innovative way to draw, edit, and analyze graphical fault trees. 1989 Version 2 is released incorporating the ability to draw, edit, and analyze graphical event trees. 1990 Analysis improvements to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapphire (other)
Sapphire is a blue gemstone in the corundum family. Sapphire (s), SAPPHIRE, or The Sapphires may also refer to: Animals * Sapphire (horse), 2004 Olympic silver-medal-winning horse * Sapphire butterfly, the gossamer-winged butterfly of the genus ''Heliophorus'' *Sapphire hummingbird, a name used for several species of hummingbird, including: ** Blue-chinned sapphire **Golden-tailed sapphire ** Rufous-throated sapphire (''Amazilia sapphirina''), previously belonged to ''Hylocharis'' **Sapphire, several hummingbird species in the genus ''Hylocharis'' *** Blue-headed sapphire (''Hylocharis grayi'') *** Blue-throated sapphire (''Hylocharis eliciae'') *** Flame-rumped sapphire (''Hylocharis pyropygia''), validity questionable *** Gilded sapphire (''Hylocharis chrysura'') *** Humboldt's sapphire (''Hylocharis humboldtii'') *** White-chinned sapphire (''Hylocharis cyanus'') Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Sapphire (character), a character in the DC Comics univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zefir (other)
Zefir may refer to: * Zefir (food), a Soviet Union type of confectionery similar to marshmallows * SZD-19 Zefir, a 1957 Polish single-seat glider aircraft * the original title for ''Zephyr'', a 2010 Turkish drama film * a peppermint cultivar See also * Zephir (other) Zephir may refer to: * a fictional character associated with Babar the Elephant * Thierry Zéphir (born 19??), French author and curator ;Vehicles and transportation * Fouga Zéphir, Fouga ''Zéphir'', a French carrier jet trainer * Piel Zephir, ... * Zephyr (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zephir (other)
Zephir may refer to: * a fictional character associated with Babar the Elephant * Thierry Zéphir (born 19??), French author and curator ;Vehicles and transportation * Fouga Zéphir, Fouga ''Zéphir'', a French carrier jet trainer * Piel Zephir, Piel ''Zephir'', a French racing airplane * ''D-ARUN'' Zephir, a Lufthansa airliner, see Dornier Do 18 * French frigate Zéphir (1706), French frigate ''Zéphir'' (1706), see List of French sail frigates * German torpedo boat ''Zephir'', see List of naval ships of Germany * rail-road shunting vehicles manufacturer, see Rail car mover ;Other * Zephir (programming language), a programming language based on PHP and C * A Anemometer#Laser_Doppler_anemometers, Laser Doppler anemometer called ZephIR developed by QinetiQ and licensed to a Renewable Energy consultancy called ''Natural Power'' See also * Zephyr (other) * Zefir (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
