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Pallis
Pallis ( el, Πάλλης) is a Greek surname and may refer to: * Alexandros Pallis (1851–1935), Greek educational and language reformer who translated the New Testament into Modern Greek * Chris Pallis (1923–2005), Anglo-Greek neurologist and socialist intellectual * Jani Macari Pallis Jani Macari Pallis is the founder and CEO of Cislunar Aerodynamics in San Francisco, California. She is also an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her areas of expertise are ..., American academic, engineer, and executive * Konstantinos Pallis (1871–1941), Greek Army staff officer, who served as chief of staff of the Army of Asia Minor * Marco Pallis (1895–1989), Greek-British author and mountaineer * Marietta Pallis (1882–1963), Greek-Briton ecologist and botanical artist See also *Palli (other) {{surname Greek-language surnames Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marietta Pallis
Marietta Pallis (1882–1963) was a Greeks, Greek-Briton ecology, ecologist and botany, botanical artist. She is noted for research in aquatic botany, especially the Norfolk Broads and the Danube Delta as well as her creation of devotional landscapes. Biography Pallis was born in Bombay, the daughter of the Greeks, Greek poet and language reformer Alexandros Pallis. She moved to England when she was 12 and was brought up in Liverpool. Her younger brother was Marco Pallis, an author and mountaineer who wrote about Tibet. From 1904 to 1907 she studied botany at Liverpool University and attended Newnham College, Cambridge from 1910 to 1912. Pallis rented and later owned Long Gores farm, marshland property in Hickling, Norfolk. Pallis studied the plav, floating reed systems of the Danube Delta; writing a paper for the journal of the Linnaean Society in 1916. Following her father's death in 1935, Pallis travelled the eastern Mediterranean with her partner Phyllis Clark. She purchase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Pallis
Christopher Agamemnon Pallis (2 December 1923, in Bombay – 10 March 2005, in London) was an Anglo-Greek neurologist and libertarian socialist intellectual. Under the pen-names Martin Grainger and Maurice Brinton, he wrote and translated for the British group Solidarity from 1960 until the early 1980s. As a neurologist, he produced the accepted criteria for brainstem death, and wrote the entry on death for ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Life Chris Pallis was born to a prominent Anglo-Greek family, "of whose intellectual achievements he was always extremely proud". The poet Alexandros Pallis was a great-uncle, and so the writers Marietta Pallis and Marco Pallis were also relatives. His father Alex was general manager of the family firm of merchant bankers, Ralli Brothers; when he retired, he returned from India to settle in Switzerland. Educated there, Chris Pallis became fluent in French, English and Greek. In 1940 the family managed to take the last boat out of France, and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandros Pallis
Alexandros Pallis ( el, Αλέξανδρος Πάλλης; 15 March 1851, in Piraeus – 17 March 1935, in Liverpool) was a Greek educational and language reformer who translated the New Testament into Modern Greek. The publication, in the '' Akropolis'' newspaper, caused riots in Athens in 1901 in which 8 people died. His translation was subsequently published in Liverpool. The New Testament in Modern Greek was not legalised until 1924. Pallis was an Arvanite.Pallis had lived in Manchester from 1869 to 1875, in India from 1875 to 1894, then in Liverpool until his death. He subsidized from abroad much of the literary and scholarly output in demotic Greek from 1900 until the First World War, including his own translations of Homer. Pallis considered it was "common sense" that John the Baptist was a vegetarian.James A. Kelhoffer ''The diet of John the Baptist: "Locusts and wild honey" in synoptic and patristic interpretation''. p19 (2005) The politician and historian Alexandros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantinos Pallis
Konstantinos Pallis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Πάλλης; 1871–1941) was a staff officer of the Hellenic Army, who served as chief of staff of the Army of Asia Minor in 1920–22, and as Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff during the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41. Life Born in Athens on 5 March 1871, Pallis entered the Hellenic Military Academy and graduated on 31 July 1883 as an Artillery 2nd Lieutenant. During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 he served in the expeditionary corps sent to Crete under Colonel Timoleon Vassos. In 1904 he became a lieutenant, followed by promotions to captain II class (1910) and I class (1911). During the Balkan Wars of 1912–13 he served as a staff officer in the General Headquarters of the Crown Prince, and later King, Constantine I of Greece. Pallis was promoted to major in 1913, lieutenant colonel in 1915, and colonel in 1917. In 1915–17 he was head of the Army Staff Service's 3rd Directorate, responsible for training and history. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jani Macari Pallis
Jani Macari Pallis is the founder and CEO of Cislunar Aerodynamics in San Francisco, California. She is also an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her areas of expertise are aerodynamics, biomedical engineering, and Sports science. Pallis is believed to be the first mechanical engineer to examine the Wright Brothers artifacts at the Franklin Institute. Pallis wrote a monthly column, "Tennis SET," at ''The Tennis Server''. The column featured tennis science, engineering, and technology. Education * Bachelor's and master's degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was a member of the women's fraternity Alpha Gamma Delta * Master's degree in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley * PhD in mechanical and aeronautical engineering from University of California, Davis Publications Hung and Pallis, ''Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports'' Pallis, ''the big book of air a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palli (other)
Palli or Pally may refer to: People *Angeliki Palli (1798–1875), Greek-Italian writer, translator and early feminist *Anne Marie Palli (born 1955), French golfer * Fani Palli-Petralia (born 1943), Greek lawyer and politician *Niki Palli (born 1987), Israeli athlete Places * Pälli, village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, Estonia *Palli, Hiiu County, village in Hiiumaa Parish, Hiiu County, Estonia *Palli, Võru County, village in Haanja Parish, Võru County, Estonia Other uses *''Palle, Palli or Pally'', means village in Telugu *Palli, native word for a non-Hindu shrine in south India * Palli is a Most Backward Caste caste in Tamil Nadu See also * Pali, a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent * Pallis, a Greek surname *Palle (other) Palle may refer to * Palle (given name) * Palle (surname) Palle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Palle (1916 - 2007), French writer * Mogens Palle (1934 – 2022), Danish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Pallis
Marco may refer to: People * Marco (given name), people with the given name Marco * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish composer and writer on music Places * Marco, Ceará, Brazil, a municipality * Marco, New Zealand, a locality in the Taranaki Region * Marco, Indiana, United States, an unincorporated town * Marco, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community * Marco Island, Florida, United States, a city and an island Science and technology * Mars Cube One (MarCO), a pair of small satellites which fly by Mars in 2018 * MARCO, a macrophage receptor protein that in humans is encoded by the MARCO gene * Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) * Marco, the official window manager of MATE Arts and entertainment * '' Marco: 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother'', a 1976 Japanese anime series, directed by Isao Takahata * ''Marco'' (film) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek-language Surnames
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy ( Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
