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Meda (other)
Meda may refer to: Places * Meda de Mouros, a parish in Tábua Municipality, Portugal * Medas, a parish in Gondomar Municipality, Portugal * Meda-Ela, Sri Lanka * Međa (Leskovac), village in the municipality of Leskovac, Serbia * Meda, Lombardy, city in the Province of Monza and Brianza, Italy * Mêda Municipality, Portugal * Meda, Oregon, United States * Meda River, Western Australia * Meda, Togo * Međa (Žitište), village in the municipality of Žitište, Serbia People * Alberto Meda, Italian industrial designer * Bianca Maria Meda (1665–1700), Italian composer * Giuseppe Meda (1534–1599), Italian painter, architect and hydraulics engineer * Igor Meda (born 1967), Russian footballer * Jack Meda, Canadian boxer * Meda of Odessos (fl. 336 BC), Thracian princess * Meda Chesney-Lind (born 1947), American criminologist * Meda McKenzie (born 1963), New Zealand swimmer * Meda Mládková Marie Magdalena Františka "Meda" Mládková ( Sokolová, 8 September 1919 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tábua Municipality
Tábua (), officially the Town of Tábua (, is a town and concelho, municipality of the Coimbra District, in Portugal. In 2021 it had 11,160 inhabitants, in an area of . The town of Tábua is contained within a civil parish with 3,681 inhabitants as of 2021. Toponymy Several theories exist about the toponym "Tábua". The traditional belief is that the name Tábua originated from a wooden plank bridge over the Mondego River during the formation of the County of Portugal. However, other locations across Portugal named after wooden bridges typically led to "Ponte de...", "Pontão" or "Barca", rather than "Tábua". A more recent hypothesis is that the toponym Tábua derives from the Vulgar Latin word "tabula," meaning "board" or "plank," potentially referring to a flat region. This theory is supported by the geographical context, as the municipality is located within the Planalto Beirão (Beira Plateau). Another hypothesis suggests that the name Tábua originates from the Roman god ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Meda
Jack Michael Meda (November 17, 1945 – September 22, 2019) was a boxer from British Columbia, Canada in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970, he won a bronze medal in the 1970 Commonwealth Games. He was born in New Westminster, British Columbia New Westminster (colloquially known as New West) is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver Regional District. It was founded by Major-General Richard Moody as the capita .... Boxing tournaments and teams In 1967, Meda made his initial entry into the 1967 BC Golden Gloves tournament and was defeated by Seattle boxer Wesley Craven. After that first setback, Meda, under coach Harold Mann of Prince George's Spruce Capital Boxing Club, came back to win three Golden Glove heavyweight titles in British Columbia, and Canadian titles in 1970 and 1971. Later life Meda was inducted into the Prince George Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. He died in Prince George at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda (fish)
The spikedace (''Meda fulgida'') is an endangered species of ray-finned fish in the family Leuciscidae. It is found in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States. It lives in fast-moving streams. Description The maximum length of the spikedace rarely exceeds .Rinne, J.N. and W.L. Minckley. 1991. Native fishes of arid lands: a dwindling resource of the desert southwest. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, General Technical Report RM-206. Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado. pp. 15-16. It usually has a slender body, with a somewhat compressed front, and is strongly compressed at the caudal peduncle, with a fairly pointed snout and contains a slightly subterminal mouth with large eyes. The dorsal fin origin is behind the pelvic fin origin. The scales are present only as small, deeply embedded plates. The first spinous ray of the dorsal fin is the strongest and most sharp-pointed. The spikedace has seven dorsal fin-rays and typically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda AB
Meda AB is a specialty pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Solna, Sweden. Meda imports and markets pharmaceuticals, nutritional, and health-care products, and offers services including clinical research, registration, and logistics. At the end of 2014, Meda had 5,202 employees. Meda's pharmaceuticals are currently sold in more than 150 countries. Meda was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Mylan in 2016 through a cash and stock offer valued €7.2 billion. Mergers, acquisitions and divestments In 2005, Meda bought German pharmaceutical brand Viatris GMBH from Advent International for €750million ($926 million). On 20 July 2007, Meda announced an $800 million cash-and-stock deal to buy the New Jersey–based pharmaceutical company MedPointe from a group of U.S. investors. MedPointe bought the diagnostics and drug businesses of Carter-Wallace in 2001, with the consumer product line going to Church & Dwight Church & Dwight Co., Inc. is an A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MEDA
Meda may refer to: Places * Meda de Mouros, a parish in Tábua Municipality, Portugal * Medas, a parish in Gondomar Municipality, Portugal * Meda-Ela, Sri Lanka * Međa (Leskovac), village in the municipality of Leskovac, Serbia * Meda, Lombardy, city in the Province of Monza and Brianza, Italy * Mêda Municipality, Portugal * Meda, Oregon, United States * Meda River, Western Australia * Meda, Togo * Međa (Žitište), village in the municipality of Žitište, Serbia People * Alberto Meda, Italian industrial designer * Bianca Maria Meda (1665–1700), Italian composer * Giuseppe Meda (1534–1599), Italian painter, architect and hydraulics engineer * Igor Meda (born 1967), Russian footballer * Jack Meda, Canadian boxer * Meda of Odessos (fl. 336 BC), Thracian princess * Meda Chesney-Lind (born 1947), American criminologist * Meda McKenzie (born 1963), New Zealand swimmer * Meda Mládková (1919–2022), Czech art collector * Meda Ryan, Irish historian * Meda Valentov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Meda
Two vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Meda'': * was a survey schooner launched in 1880 at Barnstaple and purchased that year by the Navy. She was sold in 1887 to the Government of Western Australia. * was a Harbour Defence Motor Launch launched in 1943 at Bideford Bideford ( ) is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, South West England. It is the main town of the Torridge District, Torridge Districts of England, local government district. Toponymy In ancient records Bi ... and previously known as '' SDML 3552'', ''SDML 1301'' and ''HDML 1301''. The boat acted as a navigation marker during the invasion Elba in June 1944. After the Second World War she was used for survey work in the Mediterranean and English Channel, and renamed HMS ''Meda'' in 1949. The vessel was sold to a private individual in 1966. References * Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Meda, Hms Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda Valentová
Meda Valentová (24 May 1898 – 12 December 1973) was a Czech stage and film actress. She appeared at a number of Czech theatres as well as in cabaret. After making her screen debut in the silent era, she starred in or appeared in supporting roles in comedy films of the 1940s. Selected filmography * '' The Eleventh Commandment'' (1925) * '' Business Under Distress'' (1931) * '' Baron Prášil'' (1940) * ''Ladies in Waiting'' (1940) * ''The Respectable Ladies of Pardubice'' (1944) * '' Just Getting Started'' (1946) * ''Řeka čaruje'' (1946) * ''The Last of the Mohicans ''The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757'' is an 1826 historical romance novel by James Fenimore Cooper. It is the second book of the '' Leatherstocking Tales'' pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. '' The Pathfinder'', ...'' (1947) * '' No Surgery Hours Today'' (1948) Bibliography * Bartošek, Luboš. ''Náš film: kapitoly z dějin, 1896-1945''. Mladá fronta, 1985. p. 87. * Goble, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda Ryan
Meda Ryan is an Irish historian. She has written extensively on the Irish revolution of 1916–23. Among her books are ''The Tom Barry Story'' (1982)- later updated and revised as ''Tom Barry, IRA Freedom Fighter'' in 2003 - ''The Day Michael Collins was Shot'' (1998), ''Michael Collins and the Women in his Life'' (1998), ''Liam Lynch the Real Chief'' (2005) and ''Michael Collins and the Women who Spied for Ireland'' (2006). She was involved in a dispute with historian Peter Hart over questions he raised in his book ''The IRA and its Enemies'' over the Kilmichael Ambush in 1920 and the Dunmanway killings in 1922. Ryan in her book ''Tom Barry, IRA Freedom Fighter'' disputed Hart's claims that at Kilmichael British Auxiliaries Auxiliaries are combat support, support personnel that assist the military or police but are organised differently from regular army, regular forces. Auxiliary may be military volunteers undertaking support functions or performing certain duties ... wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda Mládková
Marie Magdalena Františka "Meda" Mládková ( Sokolová, 8 September 1919 – 3 May 2022) was a Czech art collector. Her husband, (1911–1989), was an economist and a governor of the IMF. Having spent several years in exile, she returned to Czechoslovakia after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. Early life Marie Magdalena Františka Sokolová was born on 8 September 1919 within the premises of the Zákupy castle, where her father was working as a brewer. Her family later decided to move to Brandýs nad Labem. She moved to Switzerland in 1946 to study Economics in Geneva, where she earned her Ph.D. Together with other exiles from Czechoslovakia, she published a magazine called (). By February 1948, she decided not to return to Czechoslovakia. She consequently went to Paris, where she studied Art History at the Sorbonne and at L'Ecole du Louvre between 1955 and 1960. Exile During her time in Paris, Mládková founded the first Czechoslovak exile publishing company called Editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda McKenzie
Meda-Therese McKenzie (born 1963), generally known as Meda McKenzie, is a former New Zealand long-distance swimmer, who was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 1996. At fifteen she swam Cook Strait, and later (in 1978) swam it in the opposite direction. She also swam Foveaux Strait; and in England the English Channel and a double crossing of the Bristol Channel. After retiring to raise two children, she returned after five years to swim across Lake Erie in Canada, and two firsts: the first double crossing of Cook Strait by a woman and a circumnavigation of Rarotonga. In the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours, McKenzie was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ..., for being the first New Zealand woman t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda Chesney-Lind
Meda Chesney-Lind is a US feminist, criminologist, and an advocate for girls and women who come in contact with the criminal justice system in Hawaii. Overview Chesney-Lind works to find alternatives to women's incarceration and is an advocate for humanitarian solutions within the Hawaiian criminal justice system. She focuses on teaching courses on girls' delinquency and women's crime, issues of girls' programming and women's imprisonment, youth gangs, the sociology of gender, and the victimization of women and girls. Over much of the past two decades, her focus has been on improvement of the Hawaiian correctional system through producing articles for newspapers, books, and journals, as well as working with community-based agencies and giving talks to local organizations and legislators. She has also been credited with helping to direct national attention to services for delinquent girls. Early life Meda Chesney was born in Woodward, Oklahoma, in 1947 and was the oldest of four ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meda Of Odessos
Meda of Odessos (), died 336 BC, was a Thracian princess, daughter of the king Cothelas a Getan, and wife of king Philip II of Macedon. Philip married her after Olympias. According to N. G. L. Hammond, when Philip died, Meda committed suicide so that she would follow Philip to Hades. The people of Macedonia, who were not used to such honours to their kings by their consorts, buried her with him at the Great Tumuli of Vergina, in a separate room. The second larnax found in the tomb might belong to her as well as the gold myrtle wreath. Honours Meda Nunatak in Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ... is named after Meda of Odessos. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
