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Tamar Catchment
Tamar may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Tamar (album), ''Tamar'' (album), by Tamar Braxton, 2000 * Tamar (novel), ''Tamar'' (novel), by Mal Peet, 2005 * Tamar (poem), ''Tamar'' (poem), an epic poem by Robinson Jeffers * Tamar (painting), ''Tamar'' (painting), an 1847 painting by Francesco Hayez People * Tamar (name), including a list of people with the name * Tamar (Genesis), mother of Perez and Zerah, the twin sons of the biblical Judah * Tamar (daughter of David), daughter of biblical king David * Tamar, daughter of David IV of Georgia, who was married to Manuchihr III of Shirvan (c. 1112) and later became a nun. * Tamar (goddess), deity in Georgian mythology * Tamar of Georgia (1160s–1213), ruled 1184–1213 * Tamar, also known as Gürcü Hatun (fl. 1237–1286), Georgian princess * Támar (born 1980), American singer Places * Tamar, Hong Kong **Tamar station * Tamar, Mazandaran, Iran * Tamar, West Azerbaijan, Iran * Tamar, Yazd, Iran * Tamar block, Ranchi dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamar (album)
''Tamar'' is the debut solo studio album by American Contemporary R&B, R&B singer Tamar Braxton. It was released on March 21, 2000, by DreamWorks Records and RedZone Entertainment. The album features guest appearances from Missy Elliott, Jermaine Dupri and Amil (rapper), Amil, while the record production, production handled by Tim & Bob, Tricky Stewart, among others. Originally entitled ''Ridiculous'', it debuted at number 127 on the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and number 42 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Braxton later admitted in interviews for her second album ''Love and War (Tamar Braxton album), Love and War'' that she was not fond of this album due to not having any creative control. Background Before the official release, Braxton was the lead singer of The Braxtons, after her sisters Traci Braxton, Traci and Toni Braxton, Toni had to leave the group, which left them as a trio of Tamar, Trina Braxton, Trina and Towanda. After the release of their debut album, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamar Block
Tamar block is a CD block that forms an administrative division in the Bundu subdivision of Ranchi district, in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Maoist activities, dissent Jharkhand is one of the states affected by Maoist activities. , Ranchi district was among the highly affected districts in the state. "Areas of Tamar, Bundu, Sonahatu, Angarha, Sikidari Police Stations and Rahe O.P. have been widely affected by activities of CPI (Maoist) group till the end of year 2009. At the end of year 2010, The activities of CPI (Maoist) group has been minimized up to almost zero level." According to the Jharkhand Police spokesperson and Inspector General (IG) Saket Singh, as reported on 8 December 2020, "The activities of CPI-Maoist are now confined to small pockets in the state because of our efforts." Civilian fatalities, a key index of security in a region, declined from 20 in 2019, to 8 in 2020, the lowest in this category since 2000, when there were 13 such fatalities. The 28 total fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torpoint Ferry
The Torpoint Ferry is a car and pedestrian chain ferry connecting the A374 which crosses the Hamoaze, a stretch of water at the mouth of the River Tamar, between Devonport in Plymouth and Torpoint in Cornwall. The service was established in 1791 and chain ferry operations were introduced by James Meadows Rendel in 1832. Current operations The route is currently served by three ferries, built by Ferguson Shipbuilders Ltd at Port Glasgow and named after three rivers in the area: '' Tamar II'', '' Lynher II'' and '' Plym II''. Each ferry carries 73 cars and operates using its own set of slipways and parallel chains, with a vehicle weight limit of . The ferry boats are propelled across the river by pulling themselves on the chains; the chains then sink to the bottom to allow shipping movements in the river. An intensive service is provided, with service frequencies ranging from every 10 minutes (three ferries in service) at peak times, to half-hourly (one ferry in service) at ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RM Tamar
Royal Marines Tamar or more commonly RM Tamar, is a Royal Marines military installation specialising in landing craft training and operations located on the northern bank of Weston Mill Lake at the north end of HMNB Devonport at Plymouth in Devon. History Weston Mill Lake (at one time Devonport's coaling yard) was converted in the 1980s to provide frigate berths for the Type 22 fleet. After the Type 22 fleet had been decommissioned and the lake had been re-designated the base for its amphibious warfare ships, the Royal Navy decided to create a centre of excellence for landing craft, hovercraft and fast boats there: the centre, which handles both training and operations, was opened by Prince Harry on 2 August 2013. 47 Commando (Raiding Group) Royal Marines and its training unit, 10 (Landing Craft) Training Squadron, moved from RM Poole to RM Tamar at that time and 539 Assault Squadron RM, which undertakes operations for 1 Assault Group, moved from RM Turnchapel Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Tamar
Six ships and a naval station of the Royal Navy have been called HMS ''Tamar'', after the River Tamar in South West England: * was a 16-gun sloop launched at Saltash in 1758 and stationed in Newfoundland from 1763. She was renamed HMS ''Pluto'' and became a fire-ship in 1777; the French captured her in 1780. * was a store lighter launched in 1795 and purchased that year for Navy service. She was broken up in 1798. * was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1796 and broken up in 1810. * was a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1814, converted into a coal hulk in 1831 and sold in 1837. * was an iron screw troop ship launched in 1863. She became a base ship in Hong Kong in 1897 and was scuttled in 1941. * was the name for the Royal Navy's shore base in Hong Kong from 1897 to 1997, named after the initial vessel to serve as the base ship. * is a Batch 2 constructed in Govan for delivery to the Royal Navy in 2020. The was briefly renamed ''Tamar'' on her transfer to the base in Hong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamar-class Lifeboat
Tamar-class lifeboats are all-weather lifeboats (ALBs) operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. They have replaced the majority of the older Tyne ALBs. The prototype was built in 2000 and 27 production boats were constructed between 2006 and 2013. The class name comes from the River Tamar in south west England which flows into the English Channel The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France. It links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is the busi ..., where the hulls from SAR Composites were fitted-out by Babcock International Group. History Since 1982 the RNLI had deployed Tyne lifeboats at stations which launched their boats down slipways or needed to operate in shallow waters. The organisation desired to increase the speed and range of their operations so intr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planica
Planica () is an Alpine valley in northwestern Slovenia, extending south from the border village of Rateče, not far from another well-known ski resort, Kranjska Gora. Further south, the valley extends into the Tamar Valley, a popular hiking destination in Triglav National Park. Planica is famous for ski jumping. The first ski jumping hill was constructed before 1930 at the slope of Mount Ponca. In 1933, Ivan Rožman constructed a larger hill, known as the Bloudek Giant ('' Bloudkova velikanka'') after Stanko Bloudek, which later gave rise to ski flying Ski flying is a winter sport discipline derived from ski jumping, in which much greater distances can be achieved. It is a form of competitive individual sport, individual Nordic skiing where athletes descend at high speed along a specially de .... The venue was completed in 1934. The first ski jump over in history was achieved at the hill in 1936 by Sepp Bradl. At the time, it was the biggest jumping hill in the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamar (valley)
Tamar may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ''Tamar'' (album), by Tamar Braxton, 2000 * ''Tamar'' (novel), by Mal Peet, 2005 * ''Tamar'' (poem), an epic poem by Robinson Jeffers * ''Tamar'' (painting), an 1847 painting by Francesco Hayez People * Tamar (name), including a list of people with the name * Tamar (Genesis), mother of Perez and Zerah, the twin sons of the biblical Judah * Tamar (daughter of David), daughter of biblical king David * Tamar, daughter of David IV of Georgia, who was married to Manuchihr III of Shirvan (c. 1112) and later became a nun. * Tamar (goddess), deity in Georgian mythology * Tamar of Georgia (1160s–1213), ruled 1184–1213 * Tamar, also known as Gürcü Hatun (fl. 1237–1286), Georgian princess * Támar (born 1980), American singer Places * Tamar, Hong Kong ** Tamar station * Tamar, Mazandaran, Iran * Tamar, West Azerbaijan, Iran * Tamar, Yazd, Iran * Tamar block, Ranchi district, Jharkhand, India * Tamar, India, Ranchi d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Tamar
The Tamar (; ) is a river in south west England that forms most of the border between Devon (to the east) and Cornwall (to the west). A large part of the valley of the Tamar is protected as the Tamar Valley National Landscape (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), and some is included in the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (a World Heritage Site) due to its historic mining activities. The Tamar's source is less than from the north Cornish coast, but it flows southward across the South West Peninsula, peninsula to the south coast. The total length of the river is . At its mouth, the Tamar flows into the Hamoaze before entering Plymouth Sound, a bay in the English Channel. Tributaries of the river include the rivers River Inny, Cornwall, Inny, River Ottery, Ottery, River Kensey, Kensey and River Lynher, Lynher (or ''St Germans River'') on the Cornish side and the River Deer, Deer and River Tavy, Tavy on the Devon side. The name Tamar (or Tamare) was mentioned by Ptole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Tamar
The Electoral division of Tamar was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia. It existed from 1856 to 1997, when it was renamed Roland. Members See also *Tasmanian Legislative Council electoral divisions The Tasmanian Legislative Council has fifteen single member constituencies, called divisions. Current divisions The fifteen Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions as of the 2016-17 redistribution are:''Legislative Council Electoral Boundaries A ... ReferencesPast election results for Tamar {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamar Former electoral districts of Tasmania 1997 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamar River
The Tamar River, officially kanamaluka / River Tamar, is a estuary located in northern Tasmania, Australia. Despite being named a river, the waterway is a brackish and tidal estuary over its entire length. Etymology The Tamar River was named after the River Tamar in South West England by Colonel William Paterson in December 1804. Location and features Formed by the confluence of the North Esk and South Esk rivers at , kanamaluka / River Tamar flows generally north towards its mouth at Low Head, north of the settlement George Town and into the Bass Strait via Port Dalrymple. kanamaluka / River Tamar has several minor tributaries including the Supply River. Low Head Lighthouse is located at the tip of a peninsula on the eastern side of the river mouth. The only full crossing of the river is the Batman Bridge in the relatively remote area of Sidmouth, approximately halfway along the river. The Tamar has perennial issues with silting, contributing to its slow decline in c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamar Regional Council
The Tamar Regional Council (, ''Mo'atza Ezorit Tamar'') is a regional council in Israel's Southern District, on the south and western edges of the Dead Sea along the Arava valley. The council was established in 1955 with the opening of lodging at Sodom near the Dead Sea Works, and its jurisdiction covers an area of 1,650 km2. The first council head was Yehuda Almog (Kopelivitch), who had lived in the area from 1934. The present Mayor of the Tamar Regional Council is Mr. Nir Wanger. The council today encompasses communal villages, agriculture, factories, tourist sites, and military and civilian installations. Tamar council has a permanent population of 2,300, half of which is Jewish and lives in five communities, and half of which is Arab living in unrecognized communities.Israel Central Bureau of Statistics data: Tamar Regional Council includes five communities and the population includes 51.4% Jews and others and 48.6% Arab None of the five communities has any Arab popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
