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Zia Ul Haq Era
Zia or ZIA (also spelled Ziya, Ḍiya , Dia or Diya) may refer to: People * Zia (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** A romanization of the Wu (Shanghainese) pronunciation of the Chinese surname Xie (謝) * Queen Zia, the queen of costoboci. * Zia people (New Mexico) * Zia people (Papua New Guinea) ** The Zia language of Papua New Guinea Other uses * ''Zia'' (brachiopod), a genus of brachiopods * ''Zia'' (novel), by Scott O'Dell * Applebay Zia, motor glider * Zhukovsky International Airport, Russia * Zamboanga International Airport, Philippines * Zia, a small village on the Greek island of Kos * Zia Record Exchange, a regional chain of record shops located across the American Southwest * Zia International Airport, Bangladesh, now Shahjalal International Airport * ZIA, a musical group founded by Elaine Walker See also * Sia (other) * Tzia or Zia (Greek: ''Τζια''), an alternative name for Kea (island), Cyclades, Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zia (name)
Zia (also spelled Ziya, Ḍiya , Dia or Diya, ar, ضياء) is a name of Arabic origin somewhat translating to "Shine". Notable people with the name include: Given name *Ziaur Rahman, Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the sixth President of Bangladesh *Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929–1990), popularly known as Z. M. Dagar, Indian musician *Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi Shiite leader *Zia Inayat-Khan, (aka Pir Zia), spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International *Zia Mahmood, (born 1946), Pakistani contract bridge player *Zia McCabe, (born 1975), American musician and founding member of The Dandy Warhols *Zia Mian, Pakistani physicist and nuclear expert *Zia Mody, Indian legal consultant and businesswoman *Zia Mohyeddin (born 1933), Pakistani actor *Zia Uddin (born 1941), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician *Zia Ul Shah, citizen of Pakistan held by the United States in Guantanamo *Ziya Tong, Canadian television host *Ziya Bazhaev, Chechen businessman * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Applebay Zia
The Applebay Zia is an American, single-seat, high-wing, twin-boom, pusher configuration motor glider that was designed by George Applebay for the 1982 Sailplane Homebuilders Association Homebuilt Sailplane Design Contest. The aircraft was intended to be offered as a factory completed aircraft or as a kit.Said, Bob: ''1983 Sailplane Directory, Soaring Magazine'', page 133. Soaring Society of America, November 1983. USPS 499-920 It first flew in 1982. Design and development Even though the Zia was designed for the 1982 Sailplane Homebuilders Association Homebuilt Sailplane Design Contest, it was withdrawn from the competition as it required changes during the contest period, which the rules prohibited. In fact the design that was to become the Zia went through six different configurations, starting as a canard. The aircraft is named for the Zia people. The Zia is constructed from fiberglass with a carbon fiber wing spar. The aircraft has fixed tricycle gear featuring wheel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziya
Ziya () is a Turkish given name for males and females, it is of Arabic origin, in Turkish ''Ziya'' means ''light''. Given name * Ziya Doğan, Turkish football manager * Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist * Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish impressionist painter * Ziya Hurşit, person executed for attempting an assassination against Mustafa Kemal Atatürk * Ziya Onis, Turkish economist * Ziya Saylan, Turkish medical doctor * Ziya Şengül, Turkish footballer * Ziya Songülen, Turkish footballer * Ziya Tong, television personality and producer * Ziya Yildiz, Bosnian footballer * Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author Other uses *Zia (other) *Ziya (town) (子牙镇), Jinghai County Jinghai District () is a district of the municipality of Tianjin, People's Republic of China, located in the southwest portion of the municipality, bordering Hebei province to the south and west, Xiqing District to the north and northeast, and Bi ..., Tianjin, China {{given name Turkish unisex given n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kea (island)
Kea ( el, Κέα), also known as Tzia ( el, Τζια) and in antiquity Keos ( el, Κέως, la, Ceos), is a Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Kea is part of the Kea-Kythnos regional unit. Geography It is the island of the Cyclades complex that is closest to Attica (about 1 hour by ferry from Lavrio) and is also from Cape Sounio as well as SE of Athens. Its climate is arid, and its terrain is hilly. Kea is long from north to south and wide from west to east. The area is with the highest point being above sea level. The municipality, which includes the island Makronisos, has an area of . Its capital, Ioulis, is inland at a high altitude (like most ancient Cycladic settlements, for fear of pirates) and is considered quite picturesque. Other major villages of Kea are the port of Korissia and the fishing village of Vourkari. After suffering depopulation for many decades, Kea has been recently rediscovered by Athenians as a convenient destination for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sia (other)
Sia (born 1975) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Sia or SIA may also refer to: Organizations * Secret Intelligence Australia, a British World War II intelligence unit * Security Industry Association, for makers and handlers of electronic and physical security products * Security Industry Authority, a British licensing authority for the private-security industry * Securities Industry Association, in finance * Semiconductor Industry Association * Smithsonian Institution Archives * Societe Internationale d’Acupuncture, a defunct French research organization * Society for Industrial Archeology, a North American nonprofit organization * Solidaridad Internacional Antifascista, a Spanish anarchist humanitarian organisation that existed during the Spanish Civil War * Staten Island Academy, a US school * Survivors of Incest Anonymous * ', the French Aeronautical Information Service Businesses * Service in Informatics and Analysis, provided batch and remote terminal access to mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Walker (composer)
Elaine Walker is a composer, electronic musician and author born in 1969. She wrote a physics/philosophy book, “Matter Over Mind: Cosmos, Chaos, and Curiosity” (2016). She specializes in microtonal music, including founding ZIA, an all electronic band, and performing with D.D.T. She has performed with Number Sine.Homepage , ''ZIASpace.com''. She describes: "I compose microtonal music strictly by ear and leave it to others to analyze, so you won't find ratios or mathematics here." Life Raised in southern New Mexico "by two loving mathematicians, Elaine grew to love the desert in all of its glory and wide openness". Her father was . Walker has a Music[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahjalal International Airport
Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport ( bn, হযরত শাহ্জালাল আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দর, Romanized: ''Hôzrôt Shahjalal Antôrjatik Bimanbôndôr'') ( formerly VGZR) is the largest international airport in Bangladesh. It is located in Kurmitola, from the city centre, in the northern part of the capital city Dhaka. The airport is also used as a part of Bangladesh Air Force Base. The airport has an area of . The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) operates and maintains the airport. It started operations in 1980, taking over from Tejgaon Airport as the principal international airport of the country. The airport was formerly known as Dacca International Airport and later as Zia International Airport, before being named in honour of Shah Jalal, who is one of the most respected Sufi saints of Bangladesh. The IATA code of the airport "DAC" is derived from "Dacca", which is the previously used spelling f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Shop
A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells Sound recording and reproduction, recorded music. In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, record shops only sold gramophone records, but over the 20th century, record shops sold the new formats that were developed, such as eight track tapes, Cassette tape, compact cassettes and Compact disc, compact discs (CDs). Today in the 21st century, record stores sell CDs, gramophone record, vinyl records and in some cases, DVDs of Film, movies, Television show, TV shows, animated cartoons, cartoons and concerts. Some record stores also sell music-related items such as posters of bands or singers, -related clothing items and even Merchandising, merchandise such as bags and coffee mugs. Even when CDs became popular during the 1990s, people in English-speaking countries still used the term "record shop" to describe a shop selling sound recordings such as CDs. With the vinyl revival of the 21st century, often generating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamboanga International Airport
Zamboanga International Airport (Chavacano: ''Aeropuerto Internacional de Zamboanga''; fil, Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Zamboanga; ) is the main airport serving Zamboanga City in the Philippines. Located on a site in Barangay Canelar, Zamboanga City, the airport is Mindanao's third-busiest airport after Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City and Laguindingan Airport in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental. Despite being billed as an international airport, the airport is officially classified as a Class 1 principal domestic airport by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines. History The airport started off as Moret Field, an American airfield that was constructed from a rather poor Japanese airfield just north of Zamboanga. Construction was started by Philippine Commonwealth troops just after American forces landed at the present location on March 15, 1945. It was improved by a U.S. Army airfield construction unit using considerable Filipino labor. When compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhukovsky International Airport
Zhukovsky , formerly (and still occasionally) known as Ramenskoye (russian: link=no, аэропорт Жуковский, аэродром Раменское) is an international airport, located in Moscow Oblast, Russia, southeast of central Moscow, in the city of Zhukovsky, a few kilometers south-east of the closed Bykovo Airport. History The airfield assigned to the newly established in 1941 Flight Research Institute has served as a major USSR aircraft testing establishment, with most of the major Russian OKBs having facilities there. This airfield was used as a test site for the Soviet Buran Spacecraft. It was also used by the Ministry of Emergency Situations and cargo carriers. Until June 2006, jet fighters flights for the public and international customers were available at the Gromov Flight Research Institute airfield (a number of two-seater jets like: Aero L-39 Albatros, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 Foxbat, for Edge of Space flights, Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum, etc.). On Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zia (novel)
''Zia'' is the sequel to the award-winning ''Island of the Blue Dolphins'' by Scott O'Dell. It was published in 1976, sixteen years after the publication of the first novel. Plot Zia is the 14-year-old niece of Karana, the Nicoleño woman left behind on the Island of the Blue Dolphins in the previous book. Zia believes her aunt Karana to be alive, and with the help of her younger brother Mando, she sets out twice in an eighteen-foot boat on what are, ultimately, unsuccessful attempts at rescuing Karana. There is evidence on the island that she is still there, including small footprints in the sand, signs of cooking fires, and the remains of huts. So then she goes to Santa Barbara to get an even better chance of finding her aunt. Captain Nidever sails to the Island of the Blue Dolphins to hunt otters, bringing Father Vicente with him to find Karana. Meanwhile, Stone Hands, planning an escape for himself and the other Native Americans living at the mission, gives Zia the key to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wu Chinese
The Wu languages (; Romanization of Wu Chinese, Wu romanization and Romanization of Wu Chinese#IPA, IPA: ''wu6 gniu6'' [] (Shanghainese), ''ng2 gniu6'' [] (Suzhounese), Mandarin pinyin and IPA: ''Wúyǔ'' []) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Province, and the part of Jiangsu, Jiangsu Province south of the Yangtze River, which makes up the cultural region of Wu (region), Wu. The Suzhou dialect was the prestige dialect of Wu as of the 19th century, and formed the basis of Wu's koiné dialect, Shanghainese, at the History of Shanghai, turn of the 20th century. Speakers of various Wu languages sometimes inaccurately labelled their mother tongue as "Shanghainese" when introduced to foreigners. The languages of #subdivision, Northern Wu are mutually intelligible with each other, while those of #subdivision, Southern Wu are not. Historical linguistics, Historical linguists view Wu of great significance because it distinguished itse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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