|
Uke
Uke may refer to: People * Uke Clanton (1898–1960), Major League Baseball first baseman who played for one season. Nicknamed "Cat", he played for the Cleveland Indians for one game on September 21, 1922 * Uke Rugova * Sıtkı Üke (1876–1941), officer of the Ottoman Army and the general of the Turkish Army Places * Uke, Nigeria, village in Idemili Local Government area of Anambra State, Nigeria Ukrainians * UKE, Untold History of Hockey Legends, originally: uk, Історія перемог вільних Українців - History of Victories of Free Ukrainians, film about Ukrainians - Stanley Cup winning players: Wayne Gretzky, Johnny Bucyk, Orest Kindrachuk, Ruslan Fedotenko, Ken Daneyko, Eric Nesterenko et al. * Uke, a.k.a. Ukrainian, a person identified with nationality of Ukraine Other uses * Abbreviation for ''Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf'', see University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf * Uke (martial arts), role in training ** Uke, a subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uke (martial Arts)
() is in Japanese martial arts the person who "receives" a technique. The exact role of ''uke'' varies between the different arts and often within the art itself depending on the situation. For instance, in aikido, judo kata, and bujinkan ninjutsu, ''uke'' initiates an attack against their partner, who then defends, whereas in competition judo, there is no designated ''uke''. An ''uke'' typically partners with a partner or nominal opponent. The latter person may be referred to by any of several terms, again depending on the art or situation. They include , and . Ukemi The action of ''uke'' is called "taking ." Literally translated as "receiving body", it is the art of knowing how to respond correctly to an attack and often incorporates skills to allow one to do so safely. These skills can include moves similar to tumbling and are often used as a valid exercise in itself. In aikido and judo training for instance, many classes begin with ''ukemi'' training as conditioning. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seme And Uke
''Yaoi'' (; ja, やおい ), also known by the ''wasei-eigo'' construction and its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created by women for women and is distinct from homoerotic media marketed to gay men, but it does also attract a male audience and can be produced by male creators. It spans a wide range of media, including manga, anime, drama CDs, novels, video games, television series, films, and fan works. "Boys' love" and "BL" are the generic terms for this kind of media in Japan and much of Asia; though the terms are used by some fans and commentators in the West, ''yaoi'' remains more generally prevalent in English. The genre originated in the 1970s as a subgenre of ''shōjo'' manga, or comics for girls. Several terms were used for the new genre, including , , and . The term ''yaoi'' emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of culture as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mighty Uke
''Mighty Uke: The Amazing Comeback of a Musical Underdog'' (released 2010) is a documentary film about the ukulele. It combines graphics, photographs, interviews and performance footage to tell the story of the ukulele and its recent resurgence in popularity. Production * Tony Coleman - Producer, Director, Editor * Margaret Meagher - Writer, Producer, Graphic Designer * Ron Mann - Executive Producer Summary ''Mighty Uke'' follows the history of the ukulele's popularity from its earliest days in the court of Hawaiian King David Kalākaua through the ‘lost’ years, then its first revival on early radio and the stages of vaudeville; then through several decades in the shadows again as jazz flourished until the days of early television and revival again with stars such as Arthur Godfrey. It again fell out of popularity as rock dominated popular music, but in the 21st Century is experiencing its third revival. In addition to the musical capacities of the small instrument, the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukulele
The ukulele ( ; from haw, ukulele , approximately ), also called Uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. It generally employs four nylon strings. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and construction. Ukuleles commonly come in four sizes: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. History Developed in the 1880s, the ukulele is based on several small, guitar-like instruments of Portuguese origin, the ''machete'', '' cavaquinho'', ''timple'', and ''rajão'', introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese immigrants from Madeira, the Azores and Cape Verde. Three immigrants in particular, Madeiran cabinet makers Manuel Nunes, José do Espírito Santo, and Augusto Dias, are generally credited as the first ukulele makers. Two weeks after they disembarked from the SS ''Ravenscrag'' in late August 1879, the ''Hawaiian Gazette'' reported that "Madeira Islanders recently arrived here, have been delighting the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (german: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)) is the teaching hospital of the University of Hamburg and the largest hospital in Hamburg, Germany. The UKE has 1,738 beds and 121 day-care places and is listed to provide the capacity to dispatch emergency medical services. History The first parts of the hospital were built between 1884 and 1889. From 1913 until 1926, Fritz Schumacher built a general purpose building, today called ''Fritz-Schumacher-Haus'', among others for the pathological anatomy with a dissecting room. In 2008 the hospital participated in the Tag des offenen Denkmals, a Germany-wide annual event sponsored by the Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, that opens cultural heritage sites to the public—showing the ''Fritz-Schumacher-Haus'' and the operating theatre in a bunker from World War II. In 2011, the hospital achieved Stage 7 of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Analytics Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Cup Winning Players
This is a complete alphabetic list of all players who won the Stanley Cup ice hockey trophy with years and total wins. The Stanley Cup was first awarded in 1893, and since 1926 it has been the championship trophy of the National Hockey League (NHL). The list includes all known players from each winning team from 1893 to 1923. Since 1924, all players whose names were actually engraved on the Stanley Cup are listed. The list also includes any player who qualified but whose name was not engraved on the Stanley Cup, and any player who did not qualify but who dressed in the playoffs The rules for determining whether a player qualified to be listed as a Stanley Cup winner have changed over time: * 1893 to 1926 – played one game for the winning team during the regular season or the Stanley Cup playoffs, or included on the team picture; * 1926 to 1970 – played half of the regular season games (and was not traded to another team), or played one playoff game; Some players who qualified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uke Mochi
, commonly known as , the daughter of the Shinto deities Izanagi and Izanami, is a goddess of food in the Shinto religion of Japan. In some differing interpretations, Ukemochi is referred to as both male and female. When shown in other forms, Ukemochi takes the shape of a fox. Ōgetsu-hime is the wife of Hayamato (羽山戸神, Hayamato-no-kami), who is the son of Toshigami through his wife Amechikarumizu-hime (天知迦流美豆比売) in the '' Kojiki''. In some legends, Ukemochi is also the wife of Inari and in others, she is Inari. When Ukemochi (Ōgetsu-hime) was visited by Tsukuyomi, she prepared a feast by facing the ocean and spitting out a fish, then she faced the forest and bountiful game spewed out of her mouth, finally turning to a rice paddy, she coughed up a bowl of rice. In the '' Kojiki'', it is stated that she pulled various foods from within her nose, rectum, and mouth to prepare a feast. Tsukuyomi was so disgusted he killed her. Her dead body also produced foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uke, Nigeria
Uke in Idemili North (Anambra) is a town in Eastern Nigeria The Eastern Region was an administrative region in Nigeria, dating back originally from the division of the colony Southern Nigeria in 1954. Its first capital was Calabar. The capital was later moved to Enugu and the second capital was Umuahia. T ... about 208 mi (or 334 km) south of Abuja, the country's capital city. It is made up of six villages (brothers): Ubulenu-Ezema, Uruabor, Oba, Umunnakwe-Omimi, Umuazu and Nkwelle. It has a very popular market known as Eke Uke, which is situated in the middle of the villages. Notable People: Obi Ezeude founder and CEO of Beloxxi Nigeria, Chief Sir Tochukwu Kpajie (Okunaenyeife) CEO STK Industries, Chief Ikechukwu Okosa, (Ijele) Uke, Barr S.N.S Eze (Ezekwesili), Surv. Emeka Enendu, Chief Ikedi Obi (Obataifeadi), Dr Edwin Emegoakor (Odu Uke) The traditional head is elected on the demise of the previous traditional leader, and it is rotated round the six villages. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Douglas Gretzky ( ; born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "the Great One", he has been called the greatest hockey player ever by many sportswriters, players, '' The Hockey News'', and by the NHL itself, based on extensive surveys of hockey writers, ex-players, general managers and coaches. Gretzky is the leading goal scorer, assist producer and point scorer in NHL history, and has more assists in his career than any other player scored total points. He is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season, a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, Gretzky tallied over 100 points in 16 professional seasons, 14 of them consecutive. At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 61 NHL records: 40 regular season records, 15 playoff records, and 6 All-Star records.For his titles, see * Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tibetan Languages
The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descended from Old Tibetan (7th to 9th centuries).Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In ''Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area''. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. According to Tournadre (2014), there are 50 languages, which split into over 200 dialects or could be group into 8 Dialect continuum, dialect continua. These languages are spoken in the Tibetan Plateau and in the Himalayas in Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Ladakh, Aksai Chin, Ladakh, Nepal, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Bhutan. Classical Tibetan is the major literary language, particularly for its use in Buddhism, Buddhist literature. Tibetan languages are spoken by some 6 million people, not all of whom are Tibetan people, Tibetans. With the worldwide spread of Tibetan Buddhism, the Tibetan language has spread into the western world and can be found in many Buddhist tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Üké
Lhasa Tibetan (), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" classification of Tibetic languages, the Lhasa dialect belongs to the Central Tibetan branch (the other two being Khams Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan). In terms of mutual intelligibility, speakers of Khams Tibetan are able to communicate at a basic level with Lhasa Tibetan, while Amdo speakers cannot. Both Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan evolved to become tonal and do not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them very far from Classical Tibetan, especially when compared to the more conservative Amdo Tibetan. Registers Like many languages, Lhasa Tibetan has a variety of language registers: * ( Wylie: , literally "demotic language"): the vernacular speech. * ( Wylie: , "honorifics or deference, courtesy"): the forma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uke Clanton
Eucal "Uke" Clanton (February 19, 1898 – February 24, 1960) was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for one season. Nicknamed "Cat", he played for the Cleveland Indians for one game on September 21, 1922. Clanton was one of a group of players that Indians player-manager Tris Speaker sent in partway through the game on September 21, 1922 done as an opportunity for fans to see various minor league prospects. Clanton died in an automobile accident in Antlers, Oklahoma Antlers is a city in and the county seat of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,453 at the 2010 census, a 3.9 percent decline from 2,552 in 2000. The town was named for a kind of tree that becomes festooned with antl .... References External links 1898 births 1960 deaths Cleveland Indians players Major League Baseball first basemen Baseball players from Missouri Minor league baseball managers Road incident deaths in Oklahoma Ada Herefords players Coffeyville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
