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Anik may refer to: * Anik (satellite), satellites launched by Canadian telecommunications company Telesat * Anik, Iran, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran * Anik Mountain * Anik Bissonnette, a Canadian ballet dancer * Anik Jean (born 1977), Canadian pop and rock singer, actress and screenwriter * Anik Matern, a Canadian actress and founder of the Dynamic Theater Factory * Jon Anik, American mixed martial arts commentator {{Disambiguation, geo ...
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Anik (satellite)
The Anik satellites are a series of geostationary communications satellites launched for Telesat Canada for television, voice and data in Canada and other parts of the world, from 1972 through 2013. Some of the later satellites in the series remain operational in orbit, while others have been retired to a graveyard orbit. The naming of the satellite was determined by a national contest, and was won by Julie-Frances Czapla of Saint-Léonard, Québec. In Inuktitut, ''Anik'' means "brother". Satellites Anik A The Anik A satellites were the world's first national domestic satellites. (Prior to Anik A1's launch, all geosynchronous communications satellites were transcontinental, i.e. Intelsat I and others.) The Anik A fleet of three satellites gave CBC the ability to reach the Canadian North for the first time. Each of the satellites was equipped with 12 C-band transponders that were capable of one broadcast-quality television signal, or 960 telephone calls., and thus had ...
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Anik, Iran
Anik (, also Romanized as Ānīk; also known as Ownīk and Ūnīk) is a village in Qohestan Rural District, Qohestan District, Darmian County, South Khorasan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... At the 2006 census, its population was 525, in 136 families. References Populated places in Darmian County {{Darmian-geo-stub ...
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Anik Mountain
Anik Mountain () is the highest peak of Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the north of Primorsky Krai on the border with Khabarovsk Krai. Anik Mountain is third highest peak (after Tordoki Yani and Ko Mountain) of the Sikhote-Alin mountain system. See also * Highest points of Russian Federal subjects *List of mountains and hills of Russia This is a list of mountains and hills of Russia. List by elevation Over 5000 meters 4000 to 4999 meters 3000 to 3999 meters 2000 to 2999 meters 1000 to 1999 meters Under 1000 meters See also * Highest points of Russian Fede ... References Mountains of Primorsky Krai Sikhote-Alin Highest points of Russian federal subjects {{PrimorskyKrai-geo-stub ...
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Anik Bissonnette
Anik Bissonnette (born February 9, 1962) is a Canadian ballet dancer. She began her professional ballet career with the Ballet de Montreal Eddy Toussaint in the 1980s and became a principal dancer with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in 1990. Career Training Bissonnette began her ballet training at the age of ten at the studios of Ludmilla Chiriaeff, the founder of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. She discontinued her studies after six months. She then pursued jazz and dance at the École de Danse Eddy Toussaint. Toussaint later offered her a scholarship on the condition that she take classical ballet classes, to which she agreed. Le Ballet de Montréal Eddy Toussaint In 1979, at the age of 17, Bissonnette joined Toussaint's troupe, Le Ballet de Montréal Eddy Toussaint. She originated several leading roles in Toussaint's choreographies, including ''Rose La Tulipe'' (1979), ''Un Simple Moment'' (1981), ''Requiem de Mozart'' (1986), ''New World Symphony'' (1987), and ''Bonjou ...
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Anik Jean
Anik Jean (born April 11, 1977) is a Canadian pop and rock singer, actress, director, and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2005 album ''Le Trashy Saloon'', which was a shortlisted Juno Award finalist for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2006. Career From a young age, Anik Jean has been drawn to performing. Attending a David Bowie concert with her mother when she was 11 years old, Anik decided she wanted to be a singer-songwriter. She learned how to play guitar and piano and embarked on a trip that would take her from her native Gaspésie to Los Angeles before eventually returning to Montreal. In the spring of 2005, her first single, "Je suis partie"'','' topped the Top 5 on the radio charts in Quebec, which laid the groundwork for the release of her debut album ''Le Trashy Saloon'' in August of that same year. The song was written by Anik's mentor, Quebec rock legend, Jean Leloup, who also co-produced the album with David Strutton. Anik cowrote the foll ...
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Anik Matern
''Space Cases'' is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired on Nickelodeon for two seasons. Created by Peter David and Bill Mumy, it premiered on March 2, 1996, and ended on January 27, 1997, with reruns until 1998. ''Space Cases'' aired for a time on Nickelodeon's Saturday night block of shows known as SNICK, and on Nickelodeon UK, with reruns on Family and TVOntario in Canada. A Space Cases episode aired on TeenNick in the US as part of its '' The '90s Are All That'' block on the night of October 14, 2011, for the block's U Pick with Stick line-up, and again on December 27, 2011, for Party Like It's the '90s. Space Cases returned once again on the night of January 1, 2016, on TeenNick during the new The Splat programming block but has not aired since; the first four episodes of Season One were aired. The show's premise revolves around a group of misfit students and two adults who are stranded far from home aboard an alien ship. Their attempts at journeying bac ...
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