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Feliksas
Feliksas is a Lithuanian male given name, which is derived from the Latin name Felix, meaning "lucky".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Felix" Retrieved on 23 January 2016. *Feliksas Daukantas (1915–1995), Lithuanian artist *Feliksas Jakubauskas (born 1949), Lithuanian textile artist *Feliksas Kriaučiūnas (1911–1977), Lithuanian basketball player and coach *Feliksas Vaitkus Feliksas Vaitkus (1907–1956), also known as Felix Waitkus, was an American-born Lithuanian pilot and the sixth pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic. Biography His parents came from Lithuania in 1904, settling in the old "Lithuanian Downto ... (1907–1956), American pilot References {{given name Lithuanian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliksas Kriaučiūnas
Feliksas Kriaučiūnas (Americanized his name as Phil Krause; August 18, 1911 – October 28, 1977) was a Lithuanian Americans, Lithuanian American basketball player and coach. He won two gold medals with Lithuania men's national basketball team, Lithuania national basketball team and silver medal with Lithuania women's national basketball team. Biography Feliksas studied and played for University of Notre Dame team, along with his brother Moose Krause. Later he moved to DePaul University and played for their university team. In 1935, along with other Lithuanian Americans, he started teaching Lithuanians how to play basketball. He was Lithuania men's national basketball team, Lithuania national basketball team Player-coach#Player-coaches in basketball, player-coach and team captain during EuroBasket 1937 and EuroBasket 1939. As soon as World War II begun in 1939, Kriaučiūnas and his brother traveled back to the United States. Kriaučiūnas played a total of 19 games, scoring 65 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliksas Vaitkus
Feliksas Vaitkus (1907–1956), also known as Felix Waitkus, was an American-born Lithuanian pilot and the sixth pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic. Biography His parents came from Lithuania in 1904, settling in the old "Lithuanian Downtown" in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood where Vaitkus was born three years later. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1928, and after graduating from advanced pilot’s training school, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Corps. In 1931, he was placed in the reserves with the rank of first lieutenant and returned to civilian life to work with his father-in-law who operated a flying school in Kohler, Wisconsin. Lituanica II A few months after the ''Lituanica'' tragedy, some prominent members of the Chicago Lithuanian community discussed the possibility of financing another transatlantic flight. This idea was greeted with much enthusiasm, and enough funds were raised during this difficult period, the Great Depression. A much fas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliksas Daukantas
Feliksas Daukantas (6 February 1915 in Cicero, Illinois – 12 August 1995 in Vilnius, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian jeweller, designer, pioneer of design specialty in Lithuania. Daukantas developed a methodological framework for design particularity; always cared for Lithuanian design achievements dissemination in the press. Daukantas made an invaluable contribution to Lithuania's jewelry culture: he changed the concept of amber jewelry. Because of the artist changed attitudes towards amber jewelry design and the conception of substance. Biography In 1947, he gained the specialty in sculpture at Vilnius Art Institute and turned into other fields of creativity that had come into contact with the plasticity of sculpture and creation of form. In 1949–1961, he worked at Vilnius Art Factory DAILĖ. Daukantas made original amber jewellery, worked in the fields of industrial graphics, visual communication, created sculptures, wood and metal ware, leather samplers (standards) for mass p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliksas Jakubauskas
Feliksas Jakubauskas (born 14 October 1949 in Šoliškės) is a Lithuanian textile artist. Biography In 1974–1976, he studied textiles at the Lithuanian Institute of Art, 1976–1980, and at The Budapest Academy of Applied Arts. In 1981–1989, he worked as an artist of individual designers clothing factory, "daisy" in Vilnius. Major works * Glass beads game, 1985 * Above the valley of my black cloud, 1987 * Old cloth, 1987 * Butterfly mm fan, the World Bank, Washington, 1992 * Rain in a sunny meadow, 1995 * Touch the gray cloud, 1997 * Day night, 2004 * Raw nocturne, Triptych, 2000 * The sky is black - green sky, Triptych, 2002 * Golden Baroque Vilnius, Diptych, 2003–2004, * The two worlds of Matthew, diptych, 2004 Since 1980, he has shown in more than 170 exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. Individual exhibitions * Bergen - 1991 * Vilnius - 1992, 1995–1997, 1999, 2001, 2005 * Kaunas - 1998, 1999, 2003, 2010 * Nida, Moscow - 1999 * Lodz, Poland - 2001 * Kedainiai - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix (name)
Felix is a masculine given name that originates from the Latin word (genitive ), meaning "happy" or "lucky". The feminine forms are Felicia or Felicity (given name), Felicity. The name was popularized by early Christian saints and Roman emperors. In modern usage, Felix has maintained its popularity in various cultures, especially in English, German, and Scandinavian-speaking countries. In Romance languages such as French, Portuguese, and Spanish, the acute accent form "Félix" is commonly used. The Italian form of the name is "Felice", and its Polish and Serbian form is "Feliks". The name has continued to hold its positive connotations and is found across different regions and periods. Notable people with the name include: Romans *Antonius Felix, procurator of Judea * A part of many Roman emperors' titles, starting with Commodus *Flavius Felix (died 430), Roman consul *Felix (son of Entoria), son of Saturn and Entoria and brother of Janus in Roman mythology *Lucius Cornelius ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luck
Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The Naturalism (philosophy), naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time, both due to random and non-random natural and artificial processes, and that even improbable events can happen by random chance. In this view, the epithet "lucky" or "unlucky" is a descriptive label that refers to an event's positivity, negativity, or improbability. Supernatural interpretations of luck consider it to be an attribute of a person or object, or the result of a favorable or unfavorable view of a deity upon a person. These interpretations often ''prescribe'' how luckiness or unluckiness can be obtained, such as by carrying a lucky charm or offering sacrifices or prayers to a deity. Saying someone is "born lucky" may hold different meanings, depending on the interpretation: it could simply mean that they have been bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Language
Lithuanian (, ) is an East Baltic languages, East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic languages, Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are approximately 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 1 million speakers elsewhere. Around half a million inhabitants of Lithuania of non-Lithuanian background speak Lithuanian daily as a second language. Lithuanian is closely related to neighbouring Latvian language, Latvian, though the two languages are not mutually intelligible. It is written in a Latin script. In some respects, some linguists consider it to be the most conservative (language), conservative of the existing Indo-European languages, retaining features of the Proto-Indo-European language that had disappeared through development from other descendant languages. History Among Indo-European languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliks
Feliks is a variant spelling of the given name Felix, used in Poland and the Baltic states, as well as in the transliteration of the name Felix from Russian. Feliks may refer to: *Feliks Ankerstein (1897–1955), Polish Army major and intelligence officer * Feliks Asłanowicz (1903–1941), Polish footballer * Feliks Gromov (1937–2021), former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy * Feliks Kark (born 1933), Estonian actor and caricaturist * Feliks Kibbermann, Estonian chess master *Feliks Kon (1864–1941), Polish communist activist * Feliks Konarski (1907–1991), Polish poet, songwriter and cabaret performer *Feliks Koneczny (1862–1949), Polish historian and social philosopher *Feliks Kazimierz Potocki (1630–1702), Polish noble, magnate and military leader *Feliks Stamm (1901–1976), Polish boxing coach *Feliks Topolski (1907–1989), Polish-born British expressionist painter *Feliks Undusk (born 1948), Estonian journalist and politician. *Feliks Villard (1908–?), Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Language
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
