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Leia (other)
Princess Leia is a fictional character of ''Star Wars''. Leia may also refer to: People * Leia Dongue (born 1991), Mozambican basketball player * Léia Scheinvar (born 1954), Brazilian-Mexican botanist * Léia Silva (born 1985), Brazilian volleyball player * Leia Meow (born 1976), professional wrestling valet *Peter de Leia (died 1198), Welsh bishop * Leia (Degrassi), fictional character from a Canadian TV series * Leia Rolando, character in the ''Tales of Xillia'' video games Other uses *LEIA Inc, a Silicon Valley startup company developing an interactive holographic display for mobile devices * ''Leia'' (fly), a genus of fungus gnats *''Eilema leia'', a moth of the family Erebidae See also * Leya (other) * Lea (other) * Lia (other) * Laia (other) * Lya (other) Lya may refer to: * LYA (airport), an airport serves Luoyang, China * Lya (DC Comics), a fictional character * Lya (given name) Lya is a feminine given name. Notable pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Leia
Princess Leia Organa is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, portrayed in films by Carrie Fisher. Introduced in the original ''Star Wars'' film in 1977, Leia is princess of the planet Alderaan, a member of the Imperial Senate and an agent of the Rebel Alliance. She thwarts the sinister Sith Lord Darth Vader and helps bring about the destruction of the Empire's cataclysmic superweapon, the Death Star. In ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980), Leia commands a Rebel base and evades Vader as she falls in love with the smuggler Han Solo. In ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983), Leia helps in the operation to rescue Han from the crime lord Jabba the Hutt and is revealed to be Vader's daughter and the twin sister of Luke Skywalker. The prequel film ''Revenge of the Sith'' (2005) establishes that the twins' mother is Senator (and former queen) Padmé Amidala of Naboo, who dies after childbirth, while their father is none other than former Jed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leia Dongue
Leia Tânia do Bastião Dongue, a.k.a. Tanucha, born May 24, 1991, in Maputo, Mozambique, is a Mozambican basketball player. She is 185 cm (6'07") and plays as a small forward The small forward (SF), also known as the three or swingman, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular c .... In May 2013, she was signed in by Primeiro de Agosto. Tanucha was voted MVP at the 2014 Angola Women's Basketball League and at the 2014 and 2015 FIBA Africa Clubs Champions Cup. References External links FIBA.com ProfileAfricaBasket ProfileScoresway Profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Dongue, Leia 1991 births Living people C.D. Primeiro de Agosto women's basketball players Mozambican women's basketball players Power forwards (basketball) Sportspeople from Maputo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léia Scheinvar
Léia Akcelrad Lerner de Scheinvar is a Brazilian-Mexican botanist. She has dedicated her work to studying and protecting Mexico's cacti. Early life and education Scheinvar was born in Brazil on 30 September 1954. She received her doctorate in biology from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences The Faculty of Sciences ( es, Facultad de Ciencias) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the entity where natural and exact science-based majors are taught. It has both undergraduate and graduate studies, some of the former in ... in 1982. Career She is responsible for the ''Laboratorio de Cactáceas'' in the botanical garden of UNAM. References External links * La extinción de los cactus' from ''México Desconocido'' Brazilian emigrants to Mexico 20th-century Brazilian botanists Mexican botanists Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexican women botanists Brazilian women botanists 1954 births Living people {{Brazil-botanist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léia Silva
Léia Henrique da Silva (born 1 March 1985) is a Brazilian volleyball player. She is a member of the Brazil women's national volleyball team and played for EC Pinheiros in 2014. She was part of the Brazilian national team at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Italy, and at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Clubs * Apiv/Piracicaba (2006) * Mackenzie/Cia. do Terno (2007–2008) * Medley Banespa (2008–2009) * Sollys/Osasco (2010–2012) * EC Pinheiros (2012–2015) * Minas Tênis Clube Minas Tênis Clube (short, just ''Minas'') is a social, recreational and sports club from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. By 2013, it has more than 73,000 members. Its patrimony comprises two urban units, the Minas I and Minas II, and two country units ... (2015–2022) * SESI Bauru (2022–) Awards Individuals * '' 2018 South American Club Championship – "Best Libero"'' * '' 2019 South American Club Championship – "Best Libero"'' * '' 2020 South American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leia Meow
Kristina Laum (born November 23, 1976) is a Korean retired professional wrestling valet and manager in Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling. She used the names Kimona Wanalaya in ECW and Leia Meow in WCW. Professional wrestling career Extreme Championship Wrestling (1996) Laum was asked by her friend Raven to go into professional wrestling while she was working as a go-go dancer at a club. She made her debut in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on January 27, 1996 as Raven's new valet under the name Kimona Wanalaya (a play-on-words for "Come on, I wanna lay ya") and she managed Raven to win the ECW World Heavyweight Championship on the same night. According to the storyline, Raven used her to replace Beulah McGillicutty, his former girlfriend and valet, who had announced that she was pregnant with Tommy Dreamer's child on January 7 at ECW's House Party event. Wanalaya left Raven at Massacre on Queens Boulevard on April 13 after he slapped her for r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter De Leia
Peter de Leia, O.S.B. (died 16 July 1198), was Bishop of St David's from 1176 until his death. Before his appointment, he had been prior of the Cluniac house at Wenlock. De Leia was appointed by King Henry II of England as bishop, despite the preference of the cathedral chapter for Gerald de Barri, better known as Giraldus Cambrensis, and was consecrated at Canterbury on 7 November 1176. Besides his rivalry with Gerald, de Leia had a stormy relationship with Rhys ap Gruffydd, Prince of Deheubarth, whose body he initially refused burial in 1197 on the grounds that he had earlier excommunicated the prince following a dispute over stolen horses. It was during his episcopacy that the construction of the present St David's Cathedral was begun, and it is there that the Lord Rhys was eventually buried, after the corpse had been subjected to a ritual scourging as posthumous penance Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of Repentance (theology), repentance for Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leia (Degrassi)
'' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian teen drama television series created by Linda Schuyler and Yan Moore. The series is now considered the first incarnation and premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and then ended on MTV Canada and TeenNick on August 2, 2015. It is the fourth series set in the fictional ''Degrassi'' universe created by Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Like its predecessors, ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' follows a group of students from Degrassi Community School, a fictional school in Toronto, Ontario, and depicts some of the typical issues and challenges common to a teenager's life. The following is a list of characters who have appeared in the television series. Cast and characters Main characters The following actors have all received star billing and appeared in the opening credits of '' Degrassi: The Next Generation''. *A regular is an actor who appeared in the opening credits of the show in any given season. In season 6, three actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leia Rolando
is an action role-playing game released exclusively for the PlayStation 3. It is the thirteenth main installment of the ''Tales'' series and is developed by Namco Tales Studio with Namco Bandai Games as the publisher. The game was released in Japan on September 7, 2011, and was localized in North America and PAL region in August 2013. The game takes place in a fictional world called Rieze Maxia where humans and ethereal spirits live in harmony. It follows Jude Mathis and Milla Maxwell who elude government officials after sabotaging a weapon of mass destruction known as the Lance of Kresnik. The plot's central theme is . ''Tales of Xillia''s reception in Japan was highly positive. At the time of its release in Japan, it was the most preordered ''Tales'' game in the series and sold half a million copies in a week, before eventually shipping over copies worldwide. The game also won awards from Sony and ''Famitsu''. The English localization received positive reception for its batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LEIA Inc
Leia Inc. is an American company producing 3D Lightfield products and software applications. Leia is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with a nano-fabrication center in Palo Alto, a content team in Los Angeles and Auckland, New Zealand, and industrialization center in Suzhou, China. History The company was founded in 2014 as a spin-off from HP Labs. Its research into the holographic display concept under HP was published by ''Nature'' in 2013. CEO David Fattal explained that its diffraction system would address shortcomings with other mobile 3D display systems, such as being able to be seen by multiple viewers at once, using the display in its original 2D mode with no loss of resolution and not requiring CPU-intensive eye tracking. The company foresaw uses of its technology in mobile devices, automobiles, and medical applications. In May 2016, Leia announced a partnership with Altice to market a smartphone featuring its technology. In 2017, Red Digital Cinema announc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leia (fly)
''Leia'' is a genus of fungus gnats in the family Mycetophilidae The Mycetophilidae are a family of small flies, forming the bulk of those species known as fungus gnats. About 3000 described species are placed in 150 genera, but the true number of species is undoubtedly much higher. They are generally found .... There are more than 170 described species in ''Leia''. See also * List of Leia species References External links Diptera.infoNCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Leia'' {{Use dmy dates, date=February 2018 Mycetophilidae Bibionomorpha genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eilema Leia
''Eilema leia'' is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by George Hampson in 1901. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. References leia Moths described in 1901 Moths of Africa {{Eilema-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leya (other)
Leya may refer to: * Grupo Leya, a Portuguese publishing company * Leya language, a language of Zambia and Zimbabwe * Ella Leya, Azerbaijani American composer, singer, and writer * Leya Buchanan (born 1996), Canadian athlete * Leya Evelyn (born 1937), Canadian artist * Leya (musicians), New York-based musicians See also * Prémio Leya, a Portuguese literary award * Leia (other) * Laya (other) * Lea (other) Lea or LEA may refer to: Places Australia * Lea River, Tasmania, Australia * Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows * RAAF Base Learmonth, IATA airport code "LEA" England * Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish * Lea, Derbyshire, a set ... * Leya (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
