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Vlašić (Serbian Mountain)
Vlašić () is a Serbo-Croatian toponym and surname. It is sometimes rendered as Wlassics in Hungarian. It may refer to: Toponyms * Vlašić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), a mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Vlašić (Serbia), a mountain in Serbia People * Vlašić, Croatian surname * Alex Vlasic, American ice hockey player * Blanka Vlašić, Croatian athlete * Franjo Vlašić, Croatian ban * Frank Vlašić, founder of Vlasic Pickles * Joško Vlašić, Croatian athletics coach * Marc-Édouard Vlasic, Canadian ice hockey player * Mark Vlasic, American football player * Nikola Vlašić, Croatian footballer * Nikolai Vlasik, Soviet general * Perica Vlašić, Croatian rower * Tomislav Vlašić, Croatian ex-priest * Gyula Wlassics (1852–1937), Hungarian politician * Tibor Wlassics Tibor Ivan Wlassics (; 1936 – 28 October 1998) was a Hungarian scholar of Italian literature. He fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and eventually settled in the United States, bec ...
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Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible Standard language, standard varieties, namely Serbian language, Serbian, Croatian language, Croatian, Bosnian language, Bosnian, and Montenegrin language, Montenegrin. South Slavic languages historically formed a dialect continuum. The region's turbulent history, particularly due to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, led to a complex dialectal and religious mosaic. Due to population migrations, Shtokavian became the most widespread supradialect in the western Balkans, encroaching westward into the area previously dominated by Chakavian and Kajkavian. Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs differ in religion and were historically often part of different cultural spheres, although large portions of these populations lived side by side und ...
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Marc-Édouard Vlasic
Marc-Édouard Vlasic (; born March 30, 1987) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Vlasic holds the team record for most games played by a Sharks defenseman and the NHL record for blocked shots. Playing career Vlasic began playing organized hockey in Montreal at the age of five under his father's coaching. As a result of his skills, Vlasic was bumped up to the novice A level at the age of seven and eventually advanced to the midget-AAA Lac St. Louis Lions. He then played for the midget-AAA West Island Lions from 2002–03 being drafted to the Quebec City Remparts of the QMJHL. Vlasic was chosen by the Remparts in the fourth round of the 2003 QMJHL draft after his Lac St. Louis Lions coach, Guy Boucher, convinced Patrick Roy to draft him. Vlasic played two games with the Lions during the 2003–04 season before being recalled the Remparts on September 16, 2003, for the remainder of the season. Although Vlas ...
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Tibor Wlassics
Tibor Ivan Wlassics (; 1936 – 28 October 1998) was a Hungarian scholar of Italian literature. He fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and eventually settled in the United States, becoming a professor at the University of Virginia. He is most remembered for his research on the poet Dante Alighieri, though he also wrote about Italian figures such as Galileo Galilei and Cesare Pavese. Biography Wlassics was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936 to an aristocratic family. After World War II and the formation of the Hungarian People's Republic, his father was imprisoned for refusing to give up his title and mansion. Though Wlassics was well-educated, he was not allowed to attend university because of his upper-class status, instead working first in manual labour and then in translation. One of the works he translated into Hungarian during this time was Federico García Lorca's '' Romancero gitano''. After the Revolution of 1956, Wlassics fled to Austria and then settled ...
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Gyula Wlassics
Baron Gyula Wlassics de Zalánkemén (17 March 1852 – 30 March 1937) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1895 and 1903. Description In December 1895 Wlassics passed a law that allowed women, among whom Sarolta Steinberger, to attend Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest to study medicine.Women can also study at Hungarian universities
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Wlassics favoured the free religious practice. He initiated the establishing of the museums' and the libraries' uniform organization with a national level. King awa ...
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Tomislav Vlašić
Tomislav Vlašić (born 16 January 1942) is the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Whole Universe seated in Italy. He is best known for being a former spiritual director of the alleged seers of the Mary, mother of Jesus, Marian Our Lady of Medjugorje, apparitions in Medjugorje. He also claims to receive the messages from God the Father, the Holy Spirit, the Madonna, the Apostles in the New Testament, Apostles and the archangels. He is a former Franciscans, Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, an adherer of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. He became the spiritual director of the alleged seers of the Mary, mother of Jesus, Marian Our Lady of Medjugorje, apparitions in Medjugorje in October 1981. Vlašić is the author of the chronicles of apparitions, a chronology that follows the alleged apparitions. In August 1984, Vlašić was replaced by Franciscan friar Slavko Barbarić He remained actively involved in the Medjugorje phenomenon at least until 1991. He was one of t ...
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Perica Vlašić
Perica Vlašić (2 June 1932 – 12 August 2004) was a Croatian rower who competed for Yugoslavia at the 1956 Summer Olympics and at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also competed in seven European Rowing Championships and won eight consecutive Yugoslav championships in the single scull, as well as seven double scull national championships. Biography Perica Vlašić was born in Vela Luka on the island of Korčula in Croatia. In 1947, he began rowing for VK Ošjak, a local rowing club that was founded in the same year. Racing for the club in a coxed four, he had four consecutive wins at youth level in the Croatian national championships from 1948 to 1951 although in 1950 he turned to sculling. In 1952, he went into compulsory military service in the Yugoslav Army, and served in Pula, where he was spotted by Luka Marasović the rowing coach. Marasović persuaded him to join HVK Mornar, and in 1953, he won the single scull for Mornar in the Croatian championship. He went on to win ...
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Nikolai Vlasik
Nikolai Sidorovich Vlasik (; 22 May 1896 – 18 June 1967) was a ranking Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet state security (NKVD-People's Commissariat for State Security, NKGB-Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union), MGB) officer, best known as head of Joseph Stalin's personal security from 1931 to 1952. Early life Nikolai Vlasik was born to a poor peasant family in the village of Bobynichi in the Slonimsky Uyezd of the Grodno Governorate (the present-day Grodno Region in Belarus) of the Russian Empire on 22 May 1896. Drafted into the Imperial Russian Army, Russian Army in March 1915, he earned the Cross of St. George during World War I, and by the time of the October Revolution in November 1917 had the rank of corporal. In November 1917 he began serving in the Moscow militia. In September 1919 he transferred to the Cheka. By January 1926 he had become the senior representative of the Operative branch of OGPU. Furthermore, Vlasik held supervising posts in ...
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Nikola Vlašić
Nikola Vlašić (; born 4 October 1997) is a Croatian professional Association football, footballer who plays as an Midfielder (association football)#Attacking midfielder, attacking midfielder for Italian Serie A club Torino FC, Torino and the Croatia national football team, Croatia national team. Born into a prominent Croatian sports family, Nikola is a youth product of HNK Hajduk Split, Hajduk Split HNK Hajduk Split Reserves and Academy, academy. He made his senior debut in summer 2014, making ''The Guardian'''s ''Next Generation'' list later that year. In 2017, his performances earned him a move to Everton F.C., Everton; however, after an unsuccessful 2017–18 Everton F.C. season, season, he was loaned out to PFC CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow who made the move permanent upon the end of the 2018–19 PFC CSKA Moscow season, season. Vlašić made his international debut in 2017, before becoming a regular international after Croatia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Croatia's 2018 FIFA Wo ...
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Mark Vlasic
Mark Richard Vlasic (born October 25, 1963) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL). During this time, he played for the San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Over the course of his career, he played in 15 games, completed 75 of 142 passes for 762 yards, threw four touchdowns and five interceptions, and finished his career with a passer rating of 63.2. Vlasic played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes and was selected in the fourth round of the 1987 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. He was a backup for Dan Fouts during his first season, then started two games the following year. After not seeing playing time in 1989, Vlasic started the season opener in 1990, his last year with San Diego. He played for two seasons with Kansas City and one with Tampa Bay, but was released in 1994, having not had actual playing time since 1991. Early life and college Vlasic wa ...
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Joško Vlašić
Joško Vlašić (; born 22 July 1956) is a Croatian athletics coach and a former decathlete who represented Yugoslavia. Vlašić's greatest competitive success was winning the decathlon gold medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games, but he is best known for coaching his daughter Blanka Vlašić, a world champion high jumper. Biography Joško Vlašić was born in 1956 in Split. He started with athletics in ASK Split, a local club. His coach Ante Tešija decided Vlašić would do well in decathlon, describing him as "tall and skinny". According to Tešija, Vlašić was initially very skeptical regarding his aptitude for the sport, but he was tenacious, loved to train, and the results came quickly. In the following years, Vlašić became the leading Yugoslav decathlete, winning five consecutive national championships, from 1979 to 1983. He won two decathlon medals in consecutive Mediterranean Games: bronze in 1979, and gold in 1983. His first child, Blanka Vlašić (born 1983), was name ...
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Hungarian Language
Hungarian, or Magyar (, ), is an Ugric language of the Uralic language family spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighboring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarians, Hungarian communities in southern Slovakia, western Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast, Transcarpathia), central and western Romania (Transylvania), northern Serbia (Vojvodina), northern Croatia, northeastern Slovenia (Prekmurje), and eastern Austria (Burgenland). It is also spoken by Hungarian diaspora communities worldwide, especially in North America (particularly the Hungarian Americans, United States and Canada) and Israel. With 14 million speakers, it is the Uralic family's most widely spoken language. Classification Hungarian is a member of the Uralic language family. Linguistic connections between Hungarian and other Uralic languages were noticed in the 1670s, and the family's existenc ...
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Vlasic Pickles
Vlasic is an American brand of pickles that is currently owned by Conagra Brands. Since its introduction in 1942, it has become one of the most popular pickle brands in the United States. History Franjo "Frank" Vlašić, a Bosnian Croat, emigrated from Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time part of Austria-Hungary, to Detroit, Michigan in 1912 and started a small creamery with savings from his factory job. His son Joseph acquired a milk route in 1922, which eventually grew into the state's largest dairy distributor.Uyterhoeven, Hugo E. R. (1973). ''Strategy and organization: Text and cases in general management.'' R. D. Irwin, In 1937, Vlasic was approached to distribute a home-style pickle, later marketing their fresh-packed pickle in glass jars. Its first plant was built in Imlay City, Michigan. The business rapidly expanded in the post-war years, corresponding with growth in per capita pickle consumption. A child-bearing stork was introduced as a mascot in 1974, merg ...
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