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Saldanha may refer to: Places South Africa * Saldanha Bay, a bay in Western Cape * Saldanha, Western Cape, a town on the bay * Saldanha Bay Local Municipality, the unit of government that administers the Saldanha Bay region Other countries * Saldanha (Lisbon Metro), a railway station in Lisbon, Portugal * Saldanha, a civil parish in Mogadouro, Portugal * Saldaña de Burgos, Castile and León, Spain People * Saldanha (footballer, born 1989), Brazilian football right-back * Saldanha (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian football forward * Saldanha da Gama (1846–1895), Brazilian admiral * António de Saldanha (fl. 16th century), Castilian-Portuguese explorer for whom the South African bay is named * Carlos Saldanha (born 1965), Brazilian film director * Jacintha Saldanha (1966–2012), Indian nurse in London who committed suicide after a prank call * João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha (1790–1876), Portuguese marshal and statesman * João Saldanha (1917– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saldanha Bay
Saldanha Bay ( af, Saldanhabaai) is a natural harbour on the south-western coast of South Africa. The town that developed on the northern shore of the bay, also called Saldanha, was incorporated with five other towns into the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality in 2000. The current population of the municipality is estimated at 72,000. The place is mentioned in the first edition of John Locke's ''Two Treatises of Government'' as an example of the state of nature.''Second Treatise'', sec. 14. Locke replaced the reference to "Soldania" with a story told by Garcilaso de la Vega about a desert island in subsequent editions (Peter Laslett, ed., ''Two Treatises of Government'', by John Locke, student edition ew York: Cambridge University Press, 1988 277n). Saldanha Bay's location makes it a paradise for the watersport enthusiast, and its local economy being strongly dependent on fishing, mussels, seafood processing, the steel industry and the harbour. Furthermore, its sheltered harbour pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Pintos Saldanha
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Saldanha
Duke of Saldanha (in Portuguese ''Duque de Saldanha'') is a Portuguese title granted by royal decree of Queen Maria II of Portugal, dated from November 4, 1846, to João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun (1790-1876), also known as Marshal Saldanha, leader of the liberal armies, during the Liberal Wars in Portugal. Queen Maria II of Portugal had successively upgraded the Marshal Saldanha title from Count (1833), to Marquis (1834) and, finally, to Duke of Saldanha (1846). List of the Dukes of Saldanha # D. João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun (1790-1876) #D. João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun (1825-1880) #D. João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun (1889-1954) #D. José Augusto de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun (1894-1970) #D. José Augusto de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun (1921-2011) #D. João Carlos Duarte de Saldanha e Daun (1947-) Other titles The Duke of Saldanha also holds the following titles: *Count of Saldanha, by decree of Queen Maria II of Portugal, dated from January 14, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beals V
Beals may refer to: * Beals, Maine, a town in the United States * Beals syndrome, a rare congenital connective tissue disorder * Beals (crater), a lunar crater ;People * Alyn Beals (born 1921), American football player * Beals Becker (1886–1943), American baseball player * Beals Wright (1879–1961), American tennis player * Carlyle Smith Beals (1899–1979), Canadian astronomer * Dick Beals (1927–2012), American voice actor * Gary Beals (born 1982), Canadian singer * Jennifer Beals (born 1963), American film actress * Melba Pattillo Beals (born 1941), American journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine * Othilia Carroll Beals (1875–1970), American lawyer and judge * Richard Beals (mathematician) (born 1938), American mathematician * Vaughn Beals, American businessman who was CEO and then chairman of Harley-Davidson * Walter B. Beals, presiding judge from Washington, in the Doctors' Trial See also * Beal (other) Beal may refer to: Places United Kingdom *B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saldanha Steel
Saldanha Steel was a South African steel company originally formed as a partnership between Iscor Limited and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). Saldanha Steel is now part oArcelorMittal South Africa which in turn is part of global steel company ArcelorMittal. Operations The R6,8bn Saldanha Steel facilities, situated on the Cape west coast roughly 10 km away from Langebaan Lagoon's ecologically sensitive wetlands, has been designed to produce 1.25 million tons of hot-rolled carbon steel coil per year. The mill was commissioned in 1998. Following the unbundling of Iscor's mining and steel assets, the Industrial Development Corp. has now become a major shareholder of Iscor Ltd. It is one of the few steel making plants which do not use blast furnaces and coke. The factory comprises the process parts (right to left on image above when scrolled) *Ore storage and processing in the large silos *Midrex process in the smaller tower. Iron oxide in lump and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1456 Saldanha
Year 1456 ( MCDLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * May 18 – Second Battle of Oronichea (1456): Ottoman Forces of 15,000 are sent to capture Albania, but are met and swiftly defeated by Skanderbeg's smaller forces. * June 9 – Halley's Comet makes an appearance, as noted by the humanist scholar Platina. * July 7 – A retrial of Joan of Arc acquits her of heresy, 25 years after her execution. * July 22 – Battle of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade): The Hungarians under John Hunyadi rout the Turkish army of Sultan Mehmed II. The noon bell ordered by Pope Callixtus III commemorates the victory throughout the Christian world (and hence is still rung). * August 20 – Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia, is killed in hand-to-hand combat by Vlad the Impaler, who succeeds him. * October 17 – The University of Greifswald is established, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saldanha Catshark
The Saldanha catshark (''Apristurus saldanha'') is a species of catshark, belonging to the family Scyliorhinidae. This catshark is found from Cape Columbine to south of False Bay in South Africa, between 31 and 40°S. Its length is up to 88 cm. It is a plain, dark grey-brown, stout catshark Catsharks are ground sharks of the family Scyliorhinidae. They are the largest family of sharks with around 160 species placed in 17 genera. Although they are generally known as catsharks, some species can also be called dogfish due to previous n ..., with moderately large eyes, a broad snout, and large pectoral fins. References *Compagno, L.J.V., 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 2 - Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(4/2):251-655. Rome: FAO. Saldanha catshark Marine fish of South Africa Endemic fauna of South Africa Taxa named by Keppel Harcourt Barnard Saldanha catshark [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saldanha (plant Genus)
''Hillia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has 24 species.''Hillia'' At: World Checklist of Rubiaceae At: Kew Gardens Website. (see ''External links'' below). All are indigenous to tropical America.David J. Mabberley. 2008. ''Mabberley's Plant-Book'' third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. Most of the species are slightly succulent epiphytes or small trees. A few are subshrubs or lianas. ''Hillia rivalis'' is a rheophyte. The tissues of all the species contain raphides. The capsules have a beak-like appendage.Charlotte M. Taylor. 1994. "Revision of ''Hillia'' (Rubiaceae)". '' Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden'' 81(4):571-609. ''Hillia triflora'' is cultivated as an ornamental plant.Anthony J. Huxley, Mark Griffiths, and Margot Levy (editors). 1992. ''The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening.'' The Macmillan Press Limited, London; The Stockton Press, New York. (set) ''Hillia'' was named by Nicolaus Jacq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Saldanha
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Saldanha'', after the 1796 capitulation of Saldanha Bay: * HMS ''Saldanha'' was the 40-gun fifth rate ''Castor'', which the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ... had captured from the Dutch in 1796 at Saldanha Bay, placed on harbour service from 1797, and sold in 1806. * was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1809 and wrecked in 1811. {{DEFAULTSORT:Saldanha, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitulation Of Saldanha Bay
The Capitulation of Saldanha Bay was the surrender in 1796 to the British Royal Navy of a Dutch expeditionary force sent to recapture the Dutch Cape Colony. In 1794, early in the French Revolutionary Wars, the army of the French Republic overran the Dutch Republic which then became a French client state, the Batavian Republic. Great Britain was concerned by the threat the Dutch Cape Colony in Southern Africa posed to its trade routes to British India. It therefore sent an expeditionary force that landed at Simon's Town in June 1795 and forced the surrender of the colony in a short campaign. The British commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Elphinstone, then reinforced the garrison and stationed a naval squadron at the Cape to protect the captured colony. The Batavian government, not yet aware of the capture of the Cape Colony, but worried by rumors of the loss of this and other colonies of the Dutch East India Company (which was about to be nationalized by the Batavian Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Saldanha Bay (1781)
The Battle of Saldanha Bay was a naval action that occurred off the Dutch Cape Colony on 21 July 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. A squadron of Royal Navy warships under the command of commodore George Johnstone (Royal Navy officer), George Johnstone captured five Dutch East India Company ships; her own crew destroyed a sixth. Casualties on the Dutch side were minimal if any, and there were no British casualties. Background Johnstone had been directed to capture the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. However, France had learned of his mission, and the French admiral Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, Bailli de Suffren frustrated the mission. Suffren was en route to the Indian Ocean, but the French marine ministry had warned him so he sought to reach the Cape before Johnstone. After an indecisive chance encounter (Battle of Porto Praya), between the two fleets in the Portuguese Cape Verde, Cape Verde Islands on 16 April 1781, Suffren sailed for the Cape while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Saldanha
Lawrence John Saldanha (born 12 June 1936) is an Indian-born retired Pakistani archbishop. Born in Mangalore, India, he received his religious training at the Christ the King seminary in Karachi and was ordained a priest in Lahore, Pakistan on 16 January 1960. Biography He also earned a doctorate in systematic theology from Rome-based Pontifical Urbaniana University. He participated in the Second Vatican Council. He served in different parishes in Lahore. He served from 1971 to 1974 as editor of the Catholic Naqib, the Archdiocese's Urdu bimonthly. He was also rector of Christ the King Seminary in Karachi from 1974 to 1979 and taught dogmatic theology there until 1983. From 1986 to 1998, he was head of the social communications commission and WAVE Studio, the Church's national audiovisual center in Lahore. He also headed the UCA News bureau in Pakistan. He was serving as associate pastor of Precious Blood Church in Toronto, Canada, when he was recalled to serve the Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
