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Tura (name)
Tura may refer to the following people ;Given name *Tura Satana (1938–2011), American actress and former exotic dancer ;Surname * Agnolo di Tura, a 14th-century Italian chronicler *Cosimo Tura (c. 1430–1495), Italian painter *Eshetu Tura (born 1950), Ethiopian long-distance runner *Jordi Solé Tura (1930–2009), Spanish politician * Montserrat Tura (born 1954), Spanish politician *Tai Tura (born 1949), Cook Islands politician *Will Tura Arthur Achiel Albert, Knight Blanckaert (born 2 August 1940 in Veurne), known by his stage name Will Tura, is a Belgian artist famous in Flanders and the Netherlands. Tura is a singer, musician (he plays the piano, guitar, drums, accordion and h ... (born 1940), Belgian singer {{given name, type=both Catalan-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tura Satana
Tura Satana (July 10, 1938Some sources give her birth year as 1935, i.e. Dave Itzkoff"Tura Satana, Cult Actress, Is Dead" ''New York Times'', February 5, 2011; accessed January 8, 2014. – February 4, 2011) was a Japanese American actress, vedette, and exotic dancer. From 13 film and television credits, some of her work includes the exploitation film ''Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'' (1965), and the science fiction horror film ''The Astro-Zombies'' (1968). Early life Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a Japanese silent movie actor of Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of Native American (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish background. After the end of World War II and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California, Tura and her family moved to Chicago. Walking home from school just before her 10th birthday, she was reportedly gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnolo Di Tura
Agnolo di Tura (14th century) was a chronicler from Siena, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical .... He was also a shoemaker and tax collector. He married a woman named Nicoluccia, who was of a higher class than he was. Agnolo di Tura was determined to rise in the world (his wife kept reminding him of how much she gave up to be with a man of lower status). Together Agnolo and Nicoluccia had five children. During the time of the Black Death which arrived in Siena in May 1348, Nicoluccia and all five children died. Agnolo di Tura survived the Black Death and remarried. He wrote: Resources BookBookCourse Writers from Siena Italian chroniclers 14th-century Italian historians {{Italy-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosimo Tura
Cosimo is the Italian form of the Greek name ''Kosmas'' (latinised as ''Cosmas''). Cosimo may refer to: Characters * Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, hero of Italo Calvino's 1957 novel ''The Baron in the Trees'' Given name Medici family * Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464), ruler of Florence, Italy * Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (other), any of several people of the same name * Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519–1574) * Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590–1621) * Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1642–1723) Other people * Cosimo Antonelli (1925–2014), Italian water polo player * Cosimo Bartoli (1503–1572), Italian diplomat and humanist * Cosimo Boscaglia (c.1550–1621), Italian professor of philosophy * Cosimo Caliandro (1982–2011), Italian middle distance runner * Cosimo Cavallaro (born 1961), Italian-Canadian artist * Cosimo Commisso (soccer), Canadian soccer player * Cosimo Daddi (died 1630), Italian painter * Cosimo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eshetu Tura
Eshetu Tura ( am, አሸቱ ቱራ; (born January 19, 1950) is an Ethiopian retired long-distance runner from Ethiopia. He won the bronze medal in 3,000 metres steeplechase at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Career Tura won a silver medal behind Kip Rono at the first African Championships in 1979. In the 1982 edition, he won the steeplechase competition as well as a silver in 5000 metres. Tura is currently working as a steeplechase coach for the Ethiopian national athletics team, where he also served as a coach for the late Somalian middle-distance athlete Samia Yusuf Omar Samia Yusuf Omar or Samiyo Omar ( so, Saamiya Yuusuf Cumar; ar, سامية يوسف عمر; 25 March 1991 – April 2012) was a sprinter from Somalia. She was one of two Somali athletes who competed for their nation at the 2008 Summer Olympics .... Achievements References External links * 1950 births Living people Ethiopian male long-distance runners Ethiopian male steeplechase runners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordi Solé Tura
Jordi Solé Tura (23 May 1930 in Mollet del Vallés – 4 December 2009 in Barcelona) was a Spanish politician, jurist and one of the co-authors and "Fathers" of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 following Spain's move to democracy. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 19 January 2013. From his youth Tura belonged to different leftish organizations, such as Popular Liberation Front and Bandera Roja. In the early years of the democracy he worked in the . Inside the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montserrat Tura
Montserrat Tura (born 6 November 1954) is a Spanish politician and Member of the Parliament of Catalonia. From 29 November 2006 to 29 December 2010, she had served as Minister of Justice of Catalonia. She is considered one of the most prominent members of the Catalanist wing of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia. She is married with two daughters. Life She was born in Mollet del Vallès (Province of Barcelona) into a country family strongly defined by its political activity in support of liberty, democracy and Catalanism. Her uncle was member of the Republican Left of Catalonia and mayor of the town during the Second Republic; her great grandfather was also mayor in the 1910s, and prominent member of the Catalan Regionalist League. The cousin of her father, Jordi Solé Tura, was a prominent Catalan Communist politician. She was linked to anti-Francoist organisations from a very early age. Clandestinely active since she was sixteen and in the first years of the transition aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tai Tura
Tutai Tura (born 3 October 1949) is a Cook Islands politician and former member of the Cook Islands Parliament. Since March 2021 he has been Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament. He is a member of the Cook Islands Party. Tura was born on Rarotonga, and educated at Avarua School and Tereora College. He trained as an electrician and worked for the government on Mauke. He was first elected to Parliament at the 2010 election. Shortly after his election he called for wage increases to counteract the higher cost of living in Mauke. In 2015 he was appointed Associate Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration. In April 2019 Tura was appointed Deputy Speaker. In June 2020 he attempted to ban a ''Cook Islands News'' journalist from Parliament over a story about MPs' allowances. On 22 March 2021 Tura was elected Speaker, succeeding Niki Rattle Niki Rattle (born 1951) was Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament from 22 May 2012 to 15 February 2021. Rattle was born in Manihi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Tura
Arthur Achiel Albert, Knight Blanckaert (born 2 August 1940 in Veurne), known by his stage name Will Tura, is a Belgian artist famous in Flanders and the Netherlands. Tura is a singer, musician (he plays the piano, guitar, drums, accordion and harmonica), composer and songwriter. He is married to Jenny Swinnen, with whom he has a son David (born 16 October 1974) and a daughter Sandy Tura (born 21 November 1975). Career Tura started singing when he was only nine years old, covering Gilbert Bécaud and Nat King Cole. Tura's first producer was Jacques Kluger, and later his son Jean Kluger. Will Tura's first hit was ''Eenzaam zonder jou'' ( Eng, Lonely without you) in 1963, for which he wrote the melody, and Ke Riema the text. In a newspaper survey, the song got elected the biggest hit in Flanders ever, and it has a place in the ''Eregallerij'' (an honorary gallery of the Flemish song, an initiative of Belgian copyright collective SABAM and radio station Radio 2) since the first edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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