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Polina (given Name)
Polina is a Grammatical gender#Personal names, feminine given name with roots in the Greek language, Greek and Latin language, Latin languages. It is most widely used in East Slavs, Eastern Slavic cultures such as Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. It is sometimes a short form of the name Apollinariya, a feminine form of the ancient Greek language, Greek name Apollinaris (other), Apollinaris, a name derived from the Greek god Apollo. In Greek mythology Apollo was the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin of Artemis. He was the god of prophecy, medicine, music, art, law, beauty, and wisdom. Later he also became the god of the sun and light. Apollinaris is the name of several ancient Christian saints. Saint Apollonia was an early Christian martyr venerated in the Catholic Church and the patron saint of dentists and those battling problems with their teeth. The Life of Saint Apolinaria involves a holy woman and ascetic living as a male monk. She is venerated especially in Eastern Ortho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Apollonia
Saint Apollonia (; , ) was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the persecution of Decius. According to church tradition, her torture included having all of her teeth violently pulled out or shattered. For this reason, she is popularly regarded as the patroness of dentistry and those suffering from toothache or other dental problems. French court painter Jehan Fouquet painted the scene of St. Apollonia's torture in ''The Martyrdom of St. Apollonia''. Martyrdom Ecclesiastical historians have claimed that in the last years of Emperor Philip the Arab (reigned 244–249), during otherwise undocumented festivities to commemorate the millennium of the founding of Rome (traditionally in 753 BC, putting the date about 248), the fury of the Alexandrian mob rose to a great height, and when one of their poets prophesied a calamity, they committed bloody outrages on the Christians, whom the authorities mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Edmunds
Polina Edmunds Bast (born May 18, 1998) is a retired American figure skater. She is the 2015 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 2015 Four Continents champion, the 2014 CS U.S. International Figure Skating Classic, 2014 CS U.S. Classic champion, and a two-time U.S. national silver medalist (2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2014, 2016 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2016). She represented the United States at the Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, finishing 9th. Earlier in her career, Edmunds won two ISU Junior Grand Prix events and the 2013 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2013 U.S. National Junior title. Edmunds was in skates by two, in lessons by four. Personal life Polina Edmunds was born on May 18, 1998, in Santa Clara, California, Santa Clara, California. Her mother, Nina, is a figure skating coach and former figure skater originally from Tver, Russia, who learned how to coach under Alexei Mishin. Her father, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Chernyshova
Polina Ilinichna Chernyshova (; born 11 October 1993) is a Russian theater and film actress. She is best known for her role in the film '' Furious'' (2017). Early life Polina Chernyshova was born in Moscow, Russia and is the daughter of photo artist Ilya Chernyshov. Since childhood, she studied choreography, modern dance, and singing. In 2014, she graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, course of V. Ivanov. In 2015, she was admitted to the First Studio of the Vakhtangov Theater. Her debut on the Vakhtangov stage had taken place a year earlier. Polina played stats-lady in the children's play "Cat in Boots", staged by her teacher, Professor Vladimir Ivanov. Career Wide popularity came to her in 2015 after the role of Aksinya in the television movie of Sergey Ursulyak ''Quiet Flows the Don''. As Polina said, she was preparing for the filming of ''Quiet Flows the Don'' for six months and tried to think through all the details to the smallest detail. Critics have ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Bayvel
Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel (; born 14 April 1966) is a British engineer and academic. She is currently Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth multiwavelength optical networking. Education and early life Bayvel was born into a Jewish family, and grew up in Kharkiv and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) until 1978. Her father is the physicist Leopold P. Bayvel, her mother Raisa (Rachel) was a textile/pattern technologist/garment engineer and later published studies in Eastern-European Jewish history. She was educated in England at Hasmonean High School for Girls and University College London where she was awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1986 followed by a PhD in 1990. In 1990, she was awarded a Royal Society Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship in the Fibre Optics Laboratory at the of the Soviet Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Astakhova
Polina Ghrighorievna Astakhova (; 30 October 1936 – 5 August 2005) was a Soviet and Ukrainian artistic gymnast. She won ten medals at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. Biography Astakhova became interested in artistic gymnastics at age 13, after she had watched the gymnastics championships in Donetsk, where their family moved a short time before. She trained in the local gymnastics sports club Shakhtyor under Vladimir Alieksandrovitch Smirnov. Astakhova earned a nickname ''The Russian Birch'' in Western countries for her exceptional grace, and at the 1960 Olympics she was even called ''Madonna'' by the Italian journalists. Between 1956 and 1966 Astakhova was on top of many international and national competitions especially on the uneven bars apparatus event. She was a member of the USSR team between 1955 and 1968. In 1954 Astakhova competed in the USSR Championships for the first time and in a year she made the USSR National team at the 1956 Summer Olympics. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Anikeeva
Polina Olegovna Anikeeva (born 1982) is a Russian-born American materials scientist who is a Professor of Material Science & Engineering as well as Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also holds faculty appointments in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Her research is centered on developing tools for studying the underlying molecular and cellular bases of behavior and neurological diseases. She was awarded the 2018 Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, the 2020 MacVicar Faculty Fellowship at MIT, and in 2015 was named a MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35. Early life and education Anikeeva was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (then Leningrad, Soviet Union), the daughter of mechanical engineers. At 12, Anikeeva was admitted to the Physical-Technical High School. She studied biophysics at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow, Russia
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in Moscow metropolitan area, its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's List of largest cities, largest cities, being the List of European cities by population within city limits, most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest List of urban areas in Europe, urban and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulus (other)
Paulus is the original Latin form of the English name Paul. It may refer to: Ancient Romans * Julius Paulus (fl. 222–235 AD), Roman jurist * Paulus (consul 496), politician of the Eastern Roman Empire * Paulus (consul 512), Roman politician * Paulus Catena (fl. 353–362 AD), Roman notary * Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus (229–160 BC), Roman general Christianity Popes * Pope Paul I (Pope from 757–767) * Pope Paul II (Pope from 1464–1471) * Pope Paul III (Pope from 1534–1549) * Pope Paul IV (Pope from 1555–1559) * Pope Paul V (Pope from 1605–1621) * Pope Paul VI (Pope from 1963–1978) Other Christians * Paul the Apostle (5–67 AD) * Paulus (bishop of Alexandretta) (fl. 518), Bishop of Alexandria Minor * Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (ca. 720 – 800 AD), Italian Benedictine monk * Paulus Jovius (1483–1552), Italian bishop * ''Paulus'' (oratorio), 1836 oratorio by Mendelssohn Various * Paulus (surname), includes a list of people with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul (name)
Paul is a common Latin Language, Latin masculine given name in countries and ethnicities with a Christian heritage (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Protestantism) and, beyond Europe, in Christian religious communities throughout the world. Paul – or its variations – can be a given name or surname. Origin and diffusion The name has existed since Roman times. It derives from the Roman family name ''Paulus'' or ''Paullus'', from the Latin adjective meaning "small", "humble", "least" or "little". During the Classical antiquity, Classical Age it was used to distinguish the minor of two people of the same family bearing the same name. The Patrician (ancient Rome), Roman patrician family of the Aemilia (gens), Gens Aemilia included such prominent persons as Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219 BC), Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, Aemilia Tertia, Tertia Aemilia Paulla (the wife of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina (name)
Paulina is a female given name. It is a female version of ''Paulinus'', a variant of Paulus meaning ''the little''. The Greek language. In Greek it means: Pavlina. Paula and Pauline are variants on this name. Notable people * Paulina, the name of several Roman women related to Emperor Hadrian * Lollia Paulina (15–49), third wife of Emperor Caligula * Caecilia Paulina (died 236), wife of Emperor Maximinus Thrax, posthumously deified as ''diva Paulina'' * Aurelia Paulina, daughter of the Emperor Carus * Aurelia Paulina, a Roman noblewoman from Anatolia * Saint Paulina (1865–1942), of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus * Paulina Aulestia (born 1967), Ecuadorian mountaineer * Paulina Gałązka (born 1989), Polish actresses * Paulina Peled, nee Peisachov (born 1950), Israeli tennis player * Paulina Porizkova (born 1965), Czech-born model and author * Paulina Robot (1938–2000), Indonesian actress * Paulina Rubio (born 1971), Mexican singer and actress * Paulina Vega (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Orthodox
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main Branches of Christianity, branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholic Church, Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "Canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church, canonical") Eastern Orthodox Church is Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church, organised into autocephalous churches independent from each other. In the 21st century, the Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church#Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, number of mainstream autocephalous churches is seventeen; there also exist Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church#Unrecognised churches, autocephalous churches unrecognized by those mainstream ones. Autocephalous churches choose their own Primate (bishop), primate. Autocephalous churches can have Ecclesiastical jurisdiction, jurisdiction (authority) over other churches, som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
