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USS Serene
Serene may refer to: *Sérène, another name for the French wine grape Servanin *Serene (phone), a telephone jointly developed by Samsung and Bang & Olufsen * ''Serene'' (yacht), one of the world's largest private superyachts *Serene, Colorado, a company town in Colorado *Jaunjelgava or Serene, a city in Latvia *Serene, a heroine in '' Riviera: The Promised Land'' People with the name *Serene (pianist), American classical pianist and computer scientist *Serene Koong (born 1988), Singapore singer-songwriter *Serene Ross (born 1977), American javelin thrower *Serene Husseini Shahid (1920–2008), Palestinian writer See also * *Seren (other) *Serena (other) Serena most commonly refers to: * Serena Williams (born 1981), professional tennis player Serena may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Serena (genre), 13th-century Occitan poetic genre * ''Serena'' (1962 film), a British crime t ... * Serenity (other) {{Disambiguation, given na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérène
Servanin is a red French wine grape variety grown predominantly in the Isère department in eastern France. While the variety has a long history in the region, plantings have been steadily declining since the early 20th century with the vine now close to extinction.J. Robinson ''Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes'' pg 175 Oxford University Press 1996 In the 20th century, ampelographers Louis Levadoux and (decades later) Linda Bisson categorized Servanin as a member of the Pelorsien eco-geogroup along with Bia blanc, Béclan, Dureza, Exbrayat, Durif, Jacquère, Mondeuse blanche, Peloursin, Joubertin and Verdesse.J. Robinson, J. Harding and J. Vouillamoz ''Wine Grapes - A complete guide to 1,368 vine varieties, including their origins and flavours'' pg XXVII Allen Lane 2012 Synonyms Over the years Servanin has been known under a variety of synonyms including: Martelet, Persagne Douce, Petite Mondeuse, Salagnin, Sérène, Servagin, Servagneien, Servagnie, Servagnien, Servagnien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serene (phone)
Serene is a mobile phone produced as a joint venture between Samsung Electronics and Bang & Olufsen. It was released in the last quarter of 2005 in Europe. It was available in select stores throughout the world and cost $1275 (~€1000). A successor to the Serene called the Serenata was announced and released in October 2007. It features a slide out speaker and has a heavy focus on the music functions of the handset. Serenata retailed for $2000. The joint venture Bang & Olufsen and Samsung formed the joint venture with the aim of competing in the high end mobile phone market, primarily competing with several handsets from Nokia. The partnership has drawn on the design strengths of Bang & Olufsen and Samsung's mobile phone technology enabling Bang & Olufsen to re-enter the mobile phone market after an absence of several years and Samsung to expand into premium mobile phones. It is not the first time that Bang & Olufsen has worked with other companies to produce mobile phones. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serene (yacht)
''Serene'' is one of the world's largest private superyachts. Built by Italian shipyard Fincantieri with interior design by Reymond Langton Design, ''Serene'' was delivered to her owner in August 2011. At delivery, she was one of the 10 largest yachts in the world with an overall length of and a beam of . Ownership The ship was built for Russian vodka tycoon Yuri Shefler for $330m. In the summer of 2014, Bill Gates leased the yacht for US$5 million per week. In 2014, while vacationing in the south of France, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia bought the vessel from Yuri Shefler for approximately €500 million. Incident at sea In August 2017, ''Serene'' ran aground on a shallow rock reef in the Red Sea, off the coast of Sharm El Sheikh. She sustained significant damage to her hull at the bow. The cause was reported to be a combination of navigational error and propulsion failure. Trivia Reportedly, the Da Vinci painting ''Salvator Mundi , Latin for Saviour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serene, Colorado
Serene, Colorado was a company town owned by the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company. Serene had company housing, a post office, a tipple, and was the site of the Columbine Mine. The town was located by what is today the Erie landfill at History In 1927 Colorado coal miners conducted a statewide strike that had been called by the Industrial Workers of the World. The Columbine Mine at Serene was the only major coal mine in the state that continued to dig coal. In her book ''Once A Coal Miner'', author Phyllis Smith described the company town of Serene: :...a collection of dirty company houses surrounded by a barricade of barbed wire, illuminated at night by a giant searchlight that was installed on the Columbine tipple. :In addition to living quarters for the employees of the Columbine, Serene boasted a church, a gambling hall, general store, mess hall, a house of prostitution, and the United States post office... :Because of its location, Serene was "cut off from the world and from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaunjelgava
Jaunjelgava ( german: link=no, Friedrichstadt) (literally:"New Jelgava") is a town on the left bank of the Daugava River in Aizkraukle Municipality, in the Selonia region of Latvia, about 80 km southeast of Riga. The population in 2020 was 1,762. History There is no evidence that territory of a modern Jaunjelgava had been inhabited before 15th century. However, a selonian Sērene hillfort existed from the modern town. A country estate Vecsērene manor was established around 1450 not far from modern town. During the 15th century the territory of the town was used as a place where merchants from Riga would transport their goods from boats to carriages because, due to the Daugava rapids, it was difficult to navigate further downstream. As a result, a small port emerged. In 1567 Duke of Courland and Semigallia Gotthard Kettler called the small port Neustadt (German for 'new town'). In 1590 the next Duke Friedrich Kettler founded the town market and granted village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Promised Land
Promised Land, as described in the Bible, is the land of Canaan promised by God to Abraham and his descendants. The Land of Promise ( Tír Tairngire) is a name for the Irish Otherworld. Promised Land or Land of Promise may also refer to: Lands and Territorial Jurisdictions * Land of Israel * Land of Palestine * Holy Land Books * ''A Promised Land'', a 2020 memoir by former United States President Barack Obama * '' Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States'', a 2012 book by Michael Lind * ''Promised Land'' (novel), a 1976 Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker * '' Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America'', a 2008 book by Jay Parini * ''The Promised Land'' (autobiography), the 1912 autobiography of Mary Antin * ''The Promised Land'' (novel), an 1899 novel by Władysław Reymont Film * ''The Promised Land'' (1925 film), a French silent film * ''The Promised Land'' (1973 film), a Chilean film * ''The Promised Land'' (1975 film), a Polish film base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serene (pianist)
Serene is an American classical concert pianist and technologist who created the Snowflake transport mechanism which was used heavily by Tor. Early life and education Serene is ethnically Chinese and spent her childhood in a variety of regions within North America. As a pianist, she is largely self-taught; she also taught herself to write code at age 9. She attended Carnegie Mellon University, graduating with a degree in computer science in 2012. Career in software She worked as a programmer for technology incubator Google Ideas, now Jigsaw LLC. While working at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she was a recipient of the Open Technology Fund’s Information Controls Fellowship, focusing on Snowflake, a pluggable transport enabling censorship circumvention for The Tor Project. She is the founder of Snowstorm, an attempt to commercialize the Snowflake transport technology. Snowflake came to prominence when the Tor network began using it to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serene Koong
Serene Koong is a Singaporean singer, songwriter and producer. She is a three time Global Chinese Golden Chart Award, three time Singapore Hit Awards， Singapore Star Awards winner， and Asian Academy Creative Awards National Winner. Recognised for her emotive voice and writing hit songs, her featured works include 《幸福不难》, theme song for the MediaCorp Channel 8 drama series '' The Dream Makers'', 《明知我爱你》，as well as 《当世界只剩下我一个人》which she performed at the Global Chinese Awards in Beijing. Music career 2010 - 2012: Career Beginnings In May 2010, she released her debut Mandarin album, , composed of 10 original compositions, which produced a few top ten hits on radio music charts in Singapore and Malaysia, among which was her widely popular single 《明知我愛你》，which peaked at No.3 on YES 933 醉心龙虎榜. 。 That year, she was among the most nominated artistes at the Singapore Hit Awards, receiving 2 award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serene Ross
Serene Ross (born October 15, 1977) is an American former track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. Her personal record of is a former American record for the discipline. Ross was both United States champion and NCAA champion in the javelin in 2002. She represented her country twice internationally: at the Summer Universiade in 2001 and the IAAF World Cup in 2002. Career Born in Edinburg, Pennsylvania, she attended Wilmington Area High School before going on to study sociology at Purdue University between 1997 and 2002. While at college she competed in NCAA competition for the Purdue Boilermakers team, with her first major placing being seventh in the javelin throw at the 1999 NCAA Outdoor Championships.Serene Ross USATF. Retrieved on 2015-09-06. Ross threw at national level at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serene Husseini Shahid
Serene Husseini Shahid ( ar, سيرين حُسيني شهيد, French: Sirine Husseini Shahid; 1920–2008) was born in Jerusalem as a member of the influential Husayni family. Her father was Jamal al-Husayni (himself a second cousin of the then Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini), her maternal grandfather was List of mayors of Jerusalem, Mayor of Jerusalem Faidi al-Alami, and her maternal uncle was Musa Alami, Musa al-Alami. She was educated at the Ramallah Friends Schools, Ramallah Friends School in Ramallah, later at the American University of Beirut. After 1967 she became involved in starting "cottage industries" among the Palestinian refugees. She worked on embroidery projects for Palestinian women, conducting embroidery workshops on weekdays. She, together with Huguette Caland, helped found the Association for the Development of Palestinian Camps, a.k.a. "Inaash" (founded 1969) in Lebanon, an association devoted to preserving Traditional Palestinian Embroidery and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seren (other)
Seren may refer to: * Seren (name) * Seren Books, a Welsh publishing house * Seren Network The Seren Network is a set of eleven regional hubs in Wales to help sixth-formers in Welsh state schools to get into Russell Group universities. It was formed by the Labour Welsh government in 2015 in response to a fall in Welsh students applyi ..., a Welsh educational organisation to assist high-achieving sixth form students * Seren, a lord of the Biblical Philistines * Seren, an Israel Defense Forces rank * ''Seren'', a student newspaper published by Bangor University Students' Union See also * Seren taun, an annual traditional Sundanese rice harvest festival and ceremony {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serena (other)
Serena most commonly refers to: * Serena Williams (born 1981), professional tennis player Serena may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Serena (genre), 13th-century Occitan poetic genre * ''Serena'' (1962 film), a British crime thriller * ''Serena'' (2014 film), an American drama film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper * ''Serena: The Other Side of Greatness'', a TV documentary about the tennis player Serena Williams * ''Serena'' (novel), by Ron Rash * Serena Maneesh, a rock band * ''Serena'' (video game), a horror adventure game Brands and enterprises *Nissan Serena, a people carrier/minivan *Serena Hotels *Serena Software People Surname * Aldo Serena, Italian football player * Bill Serena, American baseball player * Fernando Serena, Spanish football player * Gustavo Serena, Italian actor and film director * Michele Serena, Italian football player * Ottavio Serena (1837–1914), Italian politician, judge, prefect, and historian Given name *Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
