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Karin S. Woldseth
Karin Ståhl Woldseth (born 9 August 1954 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician representing the Progress Party. She was a representative of Hordaland in the Storting until 2013 and was first elected in 2001. Controversy Woldseth was a member of the Norwegian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2009 to 2013, and also served as chairperson of the Norwegian delegation. She held the position of honorary member of PACE since January 2014. In July 2018 Woldseth was stripped of her honorary membership of PACE, and expelled for life from the Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold European Convention on Human Rights, human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. ... due to unethical lobbying, along with 13 other former members. Storting committees *2005–2009 member of the Family and Culture committe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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K, or k, is the eleventh Letter (alphabet), letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''kay'' (pronounced ), plural ''kays''. The letter K usually represents the voiceless velar plosive. History The letter K comes from the Greek letter Κ (kappa), which was taken from the Semitic alphabets, Semitic kaph, the symbol for an open hand. This, in turn, was likely adapted by Semitic tribes who had lived in Egypt from the hieroglyph for hand (hieroglyph), "hand" representing /ḏ/ in the Egyptian word for hand, ⟨wikt:ḏrt, ḏ-r-t⟩ (likely pronounced in Egyptian language, Old Egyptian). The Semites evidently assigned it the sound value instead, because their word for hand started with that sound. K was brought into the Latin alphabet with the name ''ka'' /kaː/ to differentiate it from C, named ''ce'' (pron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
