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GLAS Publishers
Glas or GLAS may refer to: Organisations * Hans Glas GmbH, a former German automotive company * Glas (political party), Croatian acronym of ''Građansko-liberalni savez'', Civic Liberal Alliance * ''Glas'' (publisher), a Russian publishing house Arts and media * ''Glas'', former name of ''Glas Srpske The ''Glas Srpske'' (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrilic: Глас Српске, ) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska daily newspaper published in Banja Luka. Together with Bosniaks, Bosniak-oriented ''Dnevni avaz'' from Saraje ...'', a Bosnian-Herzegovinian newspaper * Glas (album), an album by Nina Chuba * ''Glas'' (book), a 1974 book by Jacques Derrida * ''Glas'' (film), a 1958 Dutch documentary film * Glas (TV channel), Ukrainian satellite channel People * Glas (surname), including a list of people with the name * Eochaid Faebar Glas, a mythical High King of Ireland See also * List of islands called Eilean Glas * '' Doktor Glas'', a 1905 novel by H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Glas GmbH
Hans Glas GmbH is a former German automotive company, which was based in Dingolfing. Originally a maker of farm machinery, Glas evolved first into a producer of motor scooters, then automobiles. It was purchased by BMW in 1966, mainly to gain access to Glas's patents; they were the first to use a timing belt with an overhead camshaft in an automotive application. Its limited model range was shortly phased out by its new parent. History Mechanic Andreas Glas (born 1857, son of Maurus who founded the first agricultural machinery factory in Bavaria in Freising in 1860) founded his own repair company for agricultural machines in 1883 in Pilsting. He named the company ''Andreas Glas, Reparaturwerkstätte für landwirtschaftliche Maschinen mit Dampfbetrieb'' (in English: Andreas Glas, repair-shop for steam-powered agricultural machines). During the summer periods about 16 people worked for him. In 1905 Andreas Glas' company built their first crop sowing machines (seed drill). He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glas (political Party)
The Civic Liberal Alliance (, abbr. GLAS – ) is a liberal list of political parties in Croatia, political party in Croatia. The party was founded by four former Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats, Croatian People's Party (HNS) MPs led by Anka Mrak Taritaš who were dissatisfied with HNS entering a coalition with the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and supporting the cabinet of Andrej Plenković since June 2017. History The Party's founding congress was held on 9 July 2017, while it was officially registered with the Ministry of Public Administration (Croatia), Ministry of Public Administration on 26 July 2017. Glas automatically became a parliamentary party with four MPs, making it the fifth largest party in the country in terms of parliamentary representation. In addition, Jozo Radoš also left HNS and joined Glas, so the party also had one Member of the European Parliament, MEP. Radoš sat with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. Another nota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glas (publisher)
Glas was a Russian publishing house. It was established by Natasha Perova in 1991, and was instrumental in translating the works of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Victor Pelevin, and Vladimir Sorokin and introducing them to the West. "Glas has published 75 titles over 24 years, but, since half of them are Anthology, anthologies, these volumes contain 170 different authors “representing various trends and types” of Russian literature." Glas books twice won the Rossica Prize, and were praised by George Steiner, Isaiah Berlin and Tibor Fischer. It suspended activity in 2014. Reception Tibor Fischer, writing in ''The Guardian'', said: "It is a tribute to the material in Glas 40: War and Peace that it reads almost as if no one has written about war before. Glas magazine, which launches Russian writing into the English-speaking world, has quietly championed some forgotten, some unrecognised and some new writers, and it has hit the jackpot with this collection." Writers * Arkady Babchenk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glas Srpske
The ''Glas Srpske'' (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrilic: Глас Српске, ) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska daily newspaper published in Banja Luka. Together with Bosniaks, Bosniak-oriented ''Dnevni avaz'' from Sarajevo and Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croat-oriented ''Večernji list'' from Mostar, ''Glas Srpske'' is Serb-oriented and one of three main Ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ethnic newspapers in Bosnia and Herzegovina addressing various issues primarily from the mainstream or elite perspective among Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbs of Republika Srpska. ''Glas Srpske'' is together with ''Nezavisne novine'' one of the two newspapers in widest circulation in the entity of Republika Srpska. The newspaper is described as being politically close to the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats. It is alongside ''Oslobođenje'' one of the oldest newspapers in Bosnia and Herzegovina still in circulation. History It was first issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glas (album)
Glas (, Glass) is the debut studio album by German singer Nina Chuba. It was released on 24 February by Sony Music Entertainment Germany. Background The first single from ''Glas'', "Neben mir", was Chuba's first German-language release, following a series of English-language songs released from 2019 to 2021, and the first to be released under Jive Records. The fifth single from the album, "Wildberry Lillet", was released in August 2022, and brought Chuba to mainstream success, being certified 2× Platinum, 4× Platinum and 2× Platinum in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, respectively. Eight of the eighteen tracks on ''Glas'' were pre-released, although "Molly Moon" and "Nicht allein", two singles released before the album, were not featured on it. The release of ''Glas'' was announced in November 2022. Track listing Charts ''Glas'' was Chuba's first number one on the German albums chart The GfK Entertainment charts are the official charts for music, home video, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glas (book)
''Glas'' (also translated as ''Clang'') is a 1974 book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It combines a reading of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's philosophical works and of Jean Genet's autobiographical writing. "One of Derrida's more inscrutable books," its form and content invite a reflection on the nature of literary genre and of writing. Structure and content Columns Following the structure of Jean Genet's ''Ce qui est resté d'un Rembrandt déchiré en petits carrés bien réguliers, et foutu aux chiottes'' What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet" the book is written in two columns in different type sizes. The left column is about Hegel, the right column is about Genet. Each column weaves its way around quotations of all kinds, both from the works discussed and from dictionaries—Derrida's "side notes", described as "marginalia, supplementary comments, lengthy quotations, and dictionary definitions." Sometimes words ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glas (film)
''Glass'' () is a 1958 Dutch short documentary film by director and producer Bert Haanstra. The film won the Oscar for Documentary Short Subject in 1959. The film is about the glass industry in the Netherlands. It contrasts the handmade crystal from the Royal Leerdam Glass Factory with automated bottle making machines. Short segments of artisans making various glass goods by hand are joined with those of mass production. It is often acclaimed to be the perfect short documentary. References External links * *, posted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision *Watc''Glas''at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands *Glas'' on Aeon The word aeon , also spelled eon (in American and Australian English), originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time", though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timele ... 1958 films Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners 1950s Dutch-language fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glas (TV Channel)
Glas () was a Ukrainian satellite TV channel. Glas broadcast humanistic, creative, educative programs, based on high ethical principles. Glas was aimed at an audience of all ages. Most viewers are active, independent people, interested in the history of culture, world and national heritage. The channel exclusively broadcasts original programs of its own production, and stays out of politics. There was no advertisement on the channel. Launched on 26 March 2005 and closed on 1 June 2022. Slogan Colors of Your World Broadcasting Glas broadcast its programs via satellite «Sirius 4», which covers the territory of Europe, Middle East and Russia — to Novosibirsk, Nizhnevartovsk and Vorkuta with total audience 1.2 billion people. Satellite broadcasting of 2-hour blocs also provided via satellite «HELLAS SAT 4» (Europe and Asia) and satellite «Intelsat 3R» (North America) with total audience 980 million people by state company «International branch of Ukrainian Television and Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glas (surname)
Glas is a Lowland Scottish, Dutch or Low German metonymic surname meaning "glass". It is also an Irish and Highland Scottish surname meaning "green". Notable people with the surname include: * Arend Glas (born 1968), Dutch bobsledder * Erich Glas (1897–1973), German-Israeli artist *George Glas (1725–1765), Scottish mariner * Gerrit Glas (born 1954), Dutch professor *Gotthard Glas, birth name of Uziel Gal (1923–2002), German-born Israeli gun-designer * Hanna Glas (born 1992), Swedish footballer * Hans Glas (1890–1969), German entrepreneur who built cars with the brand Glas, which was bought by BMW. *Imke Glas (born 1994), Dutch artistic gymnast *John Glas (1695–1773), Scottish clergyman *Jorge Glas (born 1969), Ecuadorian Vice President * Jürgen Glas (born 1956), German swimmer * Konrad Glas (born 1940), German sailor * Rich Glas, American basketball coach * Stéphane Glas (born 1973), French rugby player *Tyko Gabriel Glas, fictional character in the Swedish novel '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eochaid Faebar Glas
Eochaid Faebar Glas, son of Conmáel, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland. His epithet means "blue-green sharp edge". According to the ''Lebor Gabála Érenn'', Geoffrey Keating's ''Foras Feasa ar Éirinn'' and the ''Annals of the Four Masters'', he came to power after killing the joint High King, Cermna Finn, in battle at Dún Cermna (Downmacpatrick in Kinsale, County Cork), and Cermna's brother and colleague Sobairce was killed by Eochaid Menn of the Fomorians (another version of the ''Lebor Gabála'' says he came to power at the end of a seven-year interregnum following the death of Tigernmas). He killed Smirgoll, grandson of Tigernmas, in the battle of Druimm Liatháin. He ruled for twenty years, until he was killed by Smirgoll's son Fiacha Labrainne in the battle of Carman. The ''Lebor Gabála'' synchronises his reign with that of Piritiades in Assyria. Keating's chronology dates his reign to 1115–1095 BC, that of the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Islands Called Eilean Glas
Eilean Glas means ''Green Island'' in Gaelic. There are many islands in Scotland called Eilean Glas. They include: *Eilean Glas, Scalpay in the Outer Hebrides. *Eilean Glas within Loch Crinan *Eilean Glas within Loch Dunvegan *Eilean Glas within Loch Fyne *Eilean Glas within Loch Scavaig There are also a number of islands named 'Glas Eilean' such as: * Glas Eilean in Loch Alsh Loch Alsh (, "foaming lake") is a sea inlet between the isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides and the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The name is also used to describe the surrounding country and the feudal holdings around the loch. The area i ... * Glas Eilean within Loch Sunart (outer) * Glas Eilean within Loch Sunart (inner) {{Set index article Scottish Island set index articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doktor Glas
''Doctor Glas'' is a 1905 epistolary novel by Hjalmar Söderberg which tells the story of a physician in 19th-century Sweden who deals with moral and love issues. Synopsis The novel is about Dr. Tyko Gabriel Glas who is a respected physician in Stockholm. The story is told in the form of a diary and follows Doctor Glas as he struggles with depression. The antagonist is Reverend Gregorius, a morally corrupt clergyman. Gregorius' beautiful young wife confides in Dr. Glas that her sex life is making her miserable and asks for his help. Glas falls in love with her and agrees to help even though she already has another lover. He attempts to intervene, but the Reverend refuses to give up his "marital rights" – she must have sex with him whether she likes it or not. So, in order to make his love happy, he begins to plot her husband's murder. The novel also deals with issues such as abortion, women's rights, suicide, euthanasia, and eugenics. Not surprisingly, the book triggered a vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
