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Mima Stanković
Mima may refer to: Places ;In Japan * Mima, Tokushima, city in western Tokushima prefecture * Mima District, Tokushima in Tokushima Prefecture * Mima, Ehime, town in the Kitauwa District, Ehime ;In the United States * Mima, Kentucky, unincorporated community * Mima, Washington, unincorporated community ;Elsewhere * Mima (Tanzanian ward), ward in Tanzania Name * Mima Ito, (伊藤 美誠) (born 2000), Japanese table tennis player * Mima Jaušovec (born 1956), Slovenian tennis player * , Japanese wrestler * Mima Soust, pseudonym of Uruguayan teacher and poet Alcira Soust Scaffo (1924–1997) * Mima Stilwell, English singer * , Japanese fashion model * , Japanese professional baseball pitcher * , Japanese model * , Japanese plasma physicist Other uses * Mima, a deified, semi-mystical machine in Harry Martinson's poem '' Aniara'' * ''Mima'' (film), a 1991 French film featuring Nino Manfredi * mima, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art * Mima mounds, a geological or ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mima, Tokushima
is a Cities of Japan, city located in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 27,713 in 12,547 households and a population density of 75 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Name The name Mima (美馬) is derived from two characters meaning "Beautiful Horse". Mima was once home to many horse breeders. Although breeders and keepers are not so common in present-day Mima, the history lives on today in art, local products, and such. Ikezuki There is also the story of a famous horse named Ikezuki (horse), Ikezuki. He is a famous horse born from a captive Mima Town mother and a wild father from Mount Tsurugi. He later belonged to Shōgun Minamoto no Yoritomo and often makes appearances throughout history, such as in Tale of Heike, Genpei War, and The Battle of Uji (1184) (crossing the Uji River). Ikezuki's mother was buried at what is now Ikezuki Park. It is unsure whether Ikezuki is a factual or fictional character. Geography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryoko Mima
is a Japanese model and entertainer. She graduated from Seisen Jogakuin Junior High School and Ferris University Faculty of Letters and Department of English. Biography Mima has a success as a model for "Maquia Beauty's" of ''Maquia''. In 2010, she became the weather forecaster of the Tokyo Broadcasting System programs, ''Hayazuba tsu! Nama Tamago'' and ''Asazuba tsu!''. On September 1, 2010, during the planning of, Mima interviewed South Korean actress Kim Tae-hee from the South Korean drama, '' Iris'', which aired on TBS at the time. Because she was a Korean Wave fan, Korean was her second foreign language at Ferris University Faculty of Letters. Mima knows horse racing, she has a weather casting and modeling boundaries and horse racing as a communication. It was during a broadcast of ''Hayazuba tsu! Nama Tamago'' when she shows a horse racing topic in a sports newspaper, and later expected her own race. In 2011, Orfevre won the 78th Tokyo Yūshun,''Hayazuba tsu! Nama Tama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Feminine Given Names
Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japanese studies , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, history, culture, litera ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimas (other) , th ...
Mimas is a moon of Saturn marked by a giant crater on its surface. Mimas may also refer to: *Mimas (Giant), son of Gaia in Greek mythology, one of the Gigantes * Mimas (''Aeneid''), a son of Amycus and Theono, born the same night as Paris, who escorted Aeneas to Italy *Karaburun, a town and district in Turkey, formerly called Mimas in reference to the Giant * ''Mimas'' (moth), a genus of hawk moths *Mimas (data centre), a UK national academic data centre at the University of Manchester * Mimas, a centaur mentioned in the archaic Greek epic poem, the ''Shield of Heracles'', at line 182 * Mimas, grandfather of Aeolus, the keeper of the winds in Homer's ''Odyssey'' Pronounced with a final /z/ sound, it may be: *Mima mounds Mima mounds are low, flattened, circular to oval, domelike, natural mounds that are composed of loose, unstratified, often gravelly sediment that is an overthickened A horizon. These mounds range in diameter from to more than ; in height to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MIMA (other)
Mima may refer to: Places ;In Japan * Mima, Tokushima, city in western Tokushima prefecture * Mima District, Tokushima in Tokushima Prefecture * Mima, Ehime, town in the Kitauwa District, Ehime ;In the United States * Mima, Kentucky, unincorporated community * Mima, Washington, unincorporated community ;Elsewhere * Mima (Tanzanian ward), ward in Tanzania Name * Mima Ito, (伊藤 美誠) (born 2000), Japanese table tennis player * Mima Jaušovec (born 1956), Slovenian tennis player * , Japanese wrestler * Mima Soust, pseudonym of Uruguayan teacher and poet Alcira Soust Scaffo (1924–1997) * Mima Stilwell, English singer * , Japanese fashion model * , Japanese professional baseball pitcher * , Japanese model * , Japanese plasma physicist Other uses * Mima, a deified, semi-mystical machine in Harry Martinson's poem '' Aniara'' * ''Mima'' (film), a 1991 French film featuring Nino Manfredi * mima, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art * Mima mounds, a geological or ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Blue
is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon. It is loosely based on the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, with a screenplay by Sadayuki Murai. Featuring the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji and Emiko Furukawa, the plot follows a member of a Japanese idol group who retires from music to pursue an acting career. As she becomes a victim of stalking by her obsessive fan, gruesome murders take place, and she begins losing her grip on reality. The film deals with the blurring of the line between fantasy and reality, a commonly found theme in Kon's other works, such as '' Millennium Actress'' (2001), '' Paranoia Agent'' (2004), and ''Paprika'' (2006). Plot Mima Kirigoe decides to leave the J-pop idol group CHAM! to become a full-time actress. Many of her fans are dismayed by her change from a clean-cut image, particularly an obsessive fan, Me-Mania, who begins stalking her. Following directions f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mima Mounds
Mima mounds are low, flattened, circular to oval, domelike, natural mounds that are composed of loose, unstratified, often gravelly sediment that is an overthickened A horizon. These mounds range in diameter from to more than ; in height to greater than ; and in density from several to greater than 50 mounds per hectare, at times forming conspicuous natural patterns. Mima mounds can be seen at the Mima Mounds Natural Area Preserve in Washington state. "Mima" is a name derived from a Chinook Jargon term meaning "a little further along" or "downstream". Theories for the origin of Mima mounds include burrowing by pocket gophers; accumulation of wind-blown ( aeolian) sediments around vegetation to form coppice dunes or nebkhas; seismic ground shaking by major earthquakes, though none have been observed to form Mima mounds; and shrinking and swelling of clays in hog-wallow or gilgai landforms. Though the definitive Mima mounds are common in North America, it has not been show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlesbrough Institute Of Modern Art
MIMA, or Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, is a contemporary art gallery based in the centre of Middlesbrough, England. The gallery was formally launched on Sunday, 27 January 2007; since 2014, it has been part of Teesside University. History and estates The gallery's opening marked the completion of an accumulative journey for the art collection of post-industrial Middlesbrough. The early artistic heritage of a town as young as Middlesbrough rested largely on the success of the Linthorpe Art Pottery (1879–1889), co-launched by Christopher Dresser, out of the Sun Brickworks that also built the suburb of Linthorpe. A School of Art opened alongside the Mechanics' Institute in the old town's Durham Street, in 1870, and by the 1950s that, too, had relocated to Linthorpe. The region's cultural profile was further boosted by the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, until that competition's extinction in the 1990s. A site for the town's first art gallery was granted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Manfredi
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter. He was one of the most prominent Italian actors in the commedia all'italiana genre. During his career he won several awards, including six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro d'Argento awards and the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for '' Between Miracles''. Typically playing losers, marginalised, working-class characters yet "in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism", he was referred to as "one of the few truly complete actors in Italian cinema". Life and career Early life Manfredi was born in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a humble family of farmers. His father recruited in Public Safety, where he reached the rank of Maresciallo, and in the early 1930s, he was transferred to Rome, where Nino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mima (film)
Mima may refer to: Places ;In Japan * Mima, Tokushima, city in western Tokushima prefecture * Mima District, Tokushima in Tokushima Prefecture * Mima, Ehime, town in the Kitauwa District, Ehime ;In the United States * Mima, Kentucky, unincorporated community * Mima, Washington, unincorporated community ;Elsewhere * Mima (Tanzanian ward), ward in Tanzania Name * Mima Ito, (伊藤 美誠) (born 2000), Japanese table tennis player * Mima Jaušovec (born 1956), Slovenian tennis player * , Japanese wrestler * Mima Soust, pseudonym of Uruguayan teacher and poet Alcira Soust Scaffo (1924–1997) * Mima Stilwell, English singer * , Japanese fashion model * , Japanese professional baseball pitcher * , Japanese model * , Japanese plasma physicist Other uses * Mima, a deified, semi-mystical machine in Harry Martinson's poem '' Aniara'' * ''Mima'' (film), a 1991 French film featuring Nino Manfredi * mima, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art * Mima mounds, a geological or eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aniara (poem)
''Aniara'' () is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. It was published in its final form on 13October 1956. ''Aniara'' has been translated to around twenty languages. It was adapted into an opera in 1959 and a Swedish feature film in 2018. Aniara, published in October 1956, was met with public interest and enthusiasm from literary critics and readers. The work was praised for its lyrical storytelling, profound thought, and its portrayal of human greatness turning into humiliation and powerlessness. Aniara has influenced other works of science fiction, such as '' Tau Zero'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunioki Mima
was a Japanese plasma physicist. He is known for his contributions to the theory of turbulent transport in plasmas, and in particular the derivation of the Hasegawa–Mima equation in 1977, which won him the 2011 Hannes Alfvén Prize. Life and career Mima studied physics at Kyoto University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a PhD in 1973. He was a post-doctoral student at Hiroshima University until 1975 and then started work at Osaka University, where he became an assistant professor in 1978 and a professor in 1984. From 1995 to 1999, he was director of the Institute of Laser Engineering. There, his work involved laser fusion (experiments with the Gekko XII laser and FIREX program), free electron lasers, relativistic plasmas and laser-plasma interaction. Mima died on 5 January 2025, at the age of 79. Honors and awards Mima was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Member of the Physical Society of Japan and the Japan Society of Plasma Sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
