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Helgi Ágústsson
Helgi Ágústsson (born 16 October 1941) is an Icelandic former diplomat. He was the Ambassador of Iceland to the United Kingdom from 1989 to 1995, the Ambassador of Iceland to Denmark from 1999 to 2002, and the Ambassador of Iceland to the United States from 2002 to 2006. During the Cod Wars in the 1970s, he worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Iceland), Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs in London. Basketball Helgi played basketball for KR men's basketball, KR in the top-tier Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball), Icelandic basketball league and was the chairman of the club from 1966 to 1970 and 1977 to 1979. In 1982 he was elected as the chairman of the Icelandic Basketball Association where he served until 1983. Personal life Helgi is married to Hervör Jónasdóttir and together they have four children. Their granddaughter is Katrín Davíðsdóttir, the women's champion of the 2015 CrossFit Games, 2015 and 2016 CrossFit Games. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Agustsson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the Capital city, capital and largest city in Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland on the southern shore of Faxaflói, the Faxaflói Bay. With a latitude of 64°08′ N, the city is List of northernmost items, the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. Reykjavík has a population of around 139,000 as of 2025. The surrounding Capital Region (Iceland), Capital Region has a population of around 249,000, constituting around 64% of the country's population. Reykjavík is believed to be the location of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, which, according to , was established by Ingólfr Arnarson, Ingólfur Arnarson in 874 Anno Domini, AD. Until the 18th century, there was no urban development in the city location. The city was officially founded in 1786 as a trading town and grew steadily over the following decades, as it transformed into a regional and later Country, national centre of commerce, population, and governmental activities. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Úrvalsdeild Karla (basketball)
Úrvalsdeild karla (English: Men's Premier League), also known as Bónus deild karla for sponsorship reasons, is the highest men's professional basketball competition among clubs in Iceland, where play determines the national champion. It is organized by the Icelandic Basketball Federation (). The season consists of a home-and-away schedule of 22 games, followed by an eight-team playoff round. Quarterfinals, semifinals and finals series are best-of-five. The bottom clubs are promotion and relegation, relegated, and replaced by the top team from the regular-season phase and the four-team playoff round winner of the second-level First Division Men (Icelandic basketball), First Division (). History Creation and first years 1951-1959 The league was founded in 1951 as ''1. deild karla'' () and its first season was played in April 1952 with five teams, Njarðvík men's basketball, Íþróttafélag Keflavíkurflugvallar (ÍKF), ÍR men's basketball, Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur (ÍR), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Iceland To Denmark
Iceland's first ambassador to Denmark was Sveinn Björnsson in 1920. Iceland's current ambassador to Denmark is Árni Þór Sigurðsson. List of ambassadors See also *Denmark–Iceland relations *Foreign relations of Iceland *Ambassadors of Iceland References {{Ambassadors of Iceland Ambassadors of Iceland to Denmark, *Main Lists of ambassadors of Iceland, Denmark Lists of ambassadors to Denmark, Iceland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Iceland To The United Kingdom
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy (which may include an official residence and an office, chancery, located together or separately, generally in the host nation's capital), whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KR Men's Basketball Players
KR is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and WMO country code for South Korea. KR or Kr may also refer to: Sports * KR (basketball club), associated with Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur * Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, an Icelandic football club * Kickoff returner, in American and Canadian football Transportation * Comores Aviation International (IATA airline designator KR) * Kenya Railways * Konkan Railway, India * Korea National Railway, formerly Korea Rail Network Authority * Krasnodar International Airport (IATA airport code KR), serving the southern Russian city of Krasnodar * Province of Crotone, Italy, vehicle registration Other * Kr., German for Kreis, a district akin to a county * .kr, country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of South Korea * KR (ANSI), an ANSI X3.64 escape sequence * K. R. Market, Bangalore, India * Kamen Rider, a tokusatsu multimedia franchise created by Shotaro Ishinomori. * Kanuri language (ISO 639 alpha-2) * Kayser-Roth, clothing manufacturer in North C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Úrvalsdeild Karla (basketball) Players
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Úrvalsdeild karla is a name given to top-tier men's competitions in Iceland and may refer to: * Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball), the top tier men's basketball league in Iceland * Úrvalsdeild karla (football), the top tier men's football league in Iceland * Úrvalsdeild karla (handball), the top tier men's handball league in Iceland See also * Úrvalsdeild kvenna (other) Úrvalsdeild kvenna is a name given to top-tier women's competitions in Iceland and may refer to: * Úrvalsdeild kvenna (basketball), the top tier women's basketball league in Iceland * Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football), the top tier women's football l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic Men's Basketball Players
Icelandic refers to anything of, from, or related to Iceland and may refer to: *Icelandic people *Icelandic language *Icelandic orthography *Icelandic cuisine See also * Icelander (other) * Icelandic Airlines, a predecessor of Icelandair * Icelandic horse The Icelandic horse ( ), or Icelandic, is a Horse breed, breed of horse developed in Iceland. Although the horses are smaller (at times pony-sized) than other breeds, most Breed registry, registries for the Icelandic refer to it as a horse. Th ..., a breed of domestic horse * Icelandic sheep, a breed of domestic sheep * Icelandic Sheepdog, a breed of domestic dog * Icelandic cattle, a breed of cattle * Icelandic chicken, a breed of chicken {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of Iceland To The United States
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also used informally for people who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities, and fields of endeavor, such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital or country. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy (which may include an official residence and an office, chancery, located together or separately, generally in the host nation's capital), whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Births
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre in Germany, in the first phase of mass killings under the Aktion T4 program here. * January 1 – Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months). * January 3 – A decree (''Normalschrifterlass'') promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fréttablaðið
''Fréttablaðið'' () was a free Icelandic newspaper. It was distributed five days per week. At its peak, it was the most read newspaper in Iceland. History and profile ''Fréttablaðið'' was established in 2001. It was originally owned primarily by the media group '' 365''. The paper was published six days per week, Monday — Saturday until September 2003, when its frequency was switched to daily. As of 2019, it was published six days per week again, and as of 2020, it was published five days per week. It is entirely funded by advertising. ''Fréttablaðið'' has been described as siding politically with the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin) and for favouring Icelandic membership of the European Union. However, some of its editors have sided with the conservative Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn), and its former editor-in-chief and regular columnist is Independence Party's former leader and Prime Minister Þorsteinn Pálsson. In the period of 2001–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 CrossFit Games
The 2016 CrossFit Games were the tenth CrossFit Games held on July 19–24, 2016 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California and on a ranch in Aromas, California, United States. The men's competition was won by Mathew Fraser, the women's by Katrín Tanja Davíðsdóttir, and the Affiliate Cup was awarded to CrossFit Mayhem Freedom. Over 324,000 from 175 countries participated in the Open this season. At the Games, the women's competition was tightly fought, with the lead changing many times over the course of the Games, but Davíðsdóttir managed to hold off a strong challenge from Tia-Clair Toomey to win a second time. In the men's competition, Mat Fraser won with a 197-point lead over second-place Ben Smith, at the time the biggest margin of victory in the history of the Games, marking the beginning of Fraser's dominance at the Games for the next four years until his retirement after the 2020 Games. Qualification Open The Open was held over five weeks from February 25 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
