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Skal may refer to: Exclamation * Skål, also skál or skoal, an exclamation in a toasting ceremony; see toast People * David J. Skal (born 1952), American historian & writer * Skal Labissière (born 1996), Haitian basketball player See also * Skaal (other) * Skoal (other) * Skol (other) Skol is a global beer brand. Skol or SKOL may also refer to: * ''Skol'' (album), a 1979 live album by Oscar Peterson *" Skol, Vikings", the fight song of the Minnesota Vikings * Skol Airlines, a Russian charter airline * Skol Company, a 20th-centu ... * Skoll (other) {{disambiguation, surname ...
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Toast (honor)
A toast is a ritual during which a drink is taken as an expression of honor or goodwill. The term may be applied to the person or thing so honored, the drink taken, or the verbal expression accompanying the drink. Thus, a person could be "the toast of the evening", for whom someone "proposes a toast" to congratulate and for whom a third person "toasts" in agreement. The ritual forms the basis of the literary and performance genre, of which Mark Twain's "To the Babies" is a well-known example. The toast as described in this article is rooted in Western culture, but certain cultures outside that sphere have their own traditions in which consuming a drink is connected with ideas of celebration and honor. While the physical and verbal ritual of the toast may be elaborate and formal, merely raising one's glass towards someone or something and then drinking is essentially a toast as well, the message being one of goodwill towards the person or thing indicated. History According to var ...
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David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rockets. He has composed the scores for a number of plays and films, and also wrote and directed his own plays, ''Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick)'', in 2008, which was restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011, and ''The Chanteuse and The Devil's Muse'' in 2011. His artwork has been shown in galleries internationally, and he has been a resident DJ at venues such as the Knitting Factory. David J has released a number of singles and solo albums, and in 1990 he released one of the first No. 1 hits on the then nascent Modern Rock Tracks charts, with "I'll Be Your Chauffeur". His most recent single, "The Day That David Bowie Died" entered the UK vinyl singles chart at number 4 in 2016. The track appears on his double album, ''Vaga ...
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Skal Labissière
Skal Labissière (; born March 18, 1996) is a Haitian professional basketball player for the Capitanes de Ciudad de México of the NBA G League. He graduated from Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee, before playing one season of college basketball for Kentucky. Labissière has also played for the Sacramento Kings and Portland Trail Blazers. Early years Labissière was born in Port-au-Prince in Haiti. His basketball career began at the Collège Canado-Haïtien, a junior-senior high school in Port-au-Prince, which participated in school championships organized by the (CIBA) and the (ASI). During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, his family's home collapsed with Labissière, his mother and his brother inside. All three survived but remained trapped under debris for three hours. His legs were pinned, causing them to go numb, and Labissière was unable to walk for a few weeks after. A few months following the earthquake, Labissière moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to live with Ger ...
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Skaal (other)
Skaal may refer to: * Skål, a toast in some Scandinavian languages * Skaal, a faction in ''The Elder Scrolls'' video game series * Lars Skåål (born 1949), Swedish water polo player See also * Norges Skaal ''Norges Skaal'' ( en, Norway’s Toast) was written in 1771 by Johan Nordahl Brun in Copenhagen during the period when Norway was in a personal union with Denmark, as a drinking song for the Norwegian literary society in Copenhagen. “Norges ...
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Skoal (other)
Skoal may refer to: * '' skoal!'' or ''skål!'', a Scandinavian phrase used as a toast. * Skoal (tobacco), a smokeless tobacco brand made by U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company See also *Fire and Skoal Fire and Skoal (also known as F&S or FnS) is the fourth-oldest senior society at Dartmouth College and the College's oldest co-ed senior society. F&S was founded in 1975, shortly after coeducation, and in 1984 moved to its current location at 29 ..., senior society at Dartmouth College * Skol (other) * Skal (other) * Skoll (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Skol (other)
Skol is a global beer brand. Skol or SKOL may also refer to: * ''Skol'' (album), a 1979 live album by Oscar Peterson *" Skol, Vikings", the fight song of the Minnesota Vikings * Skol Airlines, a Russian charter airline * Skol Company, a 20th-century American manufacturer of sun protection products *South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad's reporting mark *Skol, a vodka Vodka ( pl, wódka , russian: водка , sv, vodka ) is a clear distilled alcoholic beverage. Different varieties originated in Poland, Russia, and Sweden. Vodka is composed mainly of water and ethanol but sometimes with traces of impuritie ... brand See also * Skoal (other) * Skal (other) * Skoll (other) {{disambiguation ...
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