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Regina (given Name)
Regina is a Late Latin feminine name meaning "queen" from the Latin, Italian language, Italian and Romanian language, Romanian word meaning the same. Regina (martyr), Regina was the name of an early Christian saint. Variant forms include: * Queenie (English language, English) * Raina, Rayna, Raya (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian) * Régine (French language, French) * Ρήγαινα (Rigena, Regena), Ρεγγίνα (Regina) (Greek language, Greek) * Regine (German language, German/Norwegian language, Norwegian) * Ríona, Ríonach (Irish language, Irish) * Reina (Spanish language, Spanish) Notable people *Regina Askia-Williams (born 1967), Nigerian actress and model *Régina Badet (1876–1949), French actress and dancer *Regina Belle (born 1963), American singer-songwriter *Regina Benjamin (born 1956), American physician *Regina de Jesús Betancourt Ramírez (born 1936), known to her followers as Regina 11, Colombian self-described mystic, faith healer, mentalist and psychic *Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Late Latin
Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity.Roberts (1996), p. 537. English dictionary definitions of Late Latin date this period from the 3rd to 6th centuries CE, and continuing into the 7th century in the Iberian Peninsula. This somewhat ambiguously defined version of Latin was used between the eras of Classical Latin and Medieval Latin. Scholars do not agree exactly when Classical Latin should end or Medieval Latin should begin. Being a written language, Late Latin is not the same as Vulgar Latin, or more specifically, the spoken Latin of the post-Imperial period. The latter served as the ancestor of the Romance languages. Although Late Latin reflects an upsurge in the use of Vulgar Latin vocabulary and constructs, it remains largely classical in its overall features, depending on the author who uses it. Some Late Latin writings are more literary and classical, but others are more inclined to the vernacular. As such it is an important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous language, indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the majority of the population's first language until the 19th century, when English (language), English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century, in what is sometimes characterised as a result of linguistic imperialism. Today, Irish is still commonly spoken as a first language in Ireland's Gaeltacht regions, in which 2% of Ireland's population lived in 2022. The total number of people (aged 3 and over) in Ireland who declared they could speak Irish in April 2022 was 1,873,997, representing 40% of respondents, but of these, 472,887 said they never spoke it and a further 551,993 said they only spoke it within the education system. Linguistic analyses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina George (sprinter)
Regina George Grause (born 17 February 1991 in Chicago, United States) is an American-born Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. She represented Nigeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was the silver medallist at the African Championships in 2012. Personal Her father Phillips is Nigerian, and moved to the US on an athletic scholarship. Her paternal grandfather was from Onitsha while her grandmother is from Rivers State, Nigeria. Her mother is a former Venezuelan 400 m athlete, Florencia Chilberry. George's parents were both scholarship track and field athletes at Wichita State University. George competed in Chicago Park District meets as a child and ran a mile in 6:13 when she was nine years old. She has one older sibling and three younger siblings. In 2014, she and Inika McPherson announced on social media that they are in a relationship. Career As a junior athlete, George represented the United States at the 2010 World Junior Championships. She placed sevent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Chistyakova
Regina Chistyakova (née Nyderytė; born 7 November 1961) is a Lithuanian former distance runner, who competed at distances from 1500 metres up to 10,000 metres. Her highest individual honours were three bronze medals in the 3000 metres at the 1986 Goodwill Games, 1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships, and the 1989 Summer Universiade. She helped the Soviet women's team to three straight titles at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships between 1988 and 1990, teaming with Yelena Romanova, Marina Rodchenkova, Olga Bondarenko, Nadezhda Stepanova, and Natalya Sorokivskaya among others. She also helped the Soviets win the Yokohama International Women's Ekiden in 1988 and 1990. At national level, she was the Soviet national champion in the 3000 m in 1986. She later went on to win four distance running titles at the Lithuanian Athletics Championships and was twice 3000 m champion at the Lithuanian Indoor Athletics Championships. She competed internationally for Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Fryxell
Regina Fryxell, born Regina Holmén (November 24, 1899 – September 19, 1993) was an American educator and musician. She was most known as a popular and influential composer of Lutheran choir anthems, hymns and liturgical pieces. Biography Regina Holmén was the daughter of Swedish born, Lutheran pastor, Johannes Algott Holmén (1859–1948) and his second wife, Amelia. She obtained two degrees simultaneously in 1922 at Augustana College, in Rock Island, Illinois, in music and English, and studied at Juilliard graduating in 1927 with a diploma in organ. She was a teacher in the music department at Augustana College, where she taught piano, organ, music theory, and French. She also taught piano and organ at Black Hawk College in Moline, and Knox College in Galesburg. Her work was distinguished by her research into Scandinavian and German musical sources (particularly J. S. Bach) for Lutheran hymnody and liturgy, and the success with which she incorporated these sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regīna Ezera
Regīna Ezera, the pen name of Regīna Šamreto (20 December 1930 – 11 June 2002), was a successful Latvian author of Polish origin who wrote more than 20 novels. A recipient of the Order of the Three Stars, she suffered financially as a result of the end of communism, living in some poverty at the end of her life. Biography Born in Riga, Ezera was the daughter of a carpenter and a nurse. She was brought up in a small residence where her grandmother and aunt also lived. Her Catholic family spoke Polish and she did not learn Latvian until she was six and at school. In 1944, the family was deported to Germany but returned to Latvia in 1945. After matriculating from high school, Ezera studied journalism at the Latvian State University in Riga, graduating in 1955. The same year, her short story ''Pat īkšķis nelīdzēja'' (Even My Thumb Did Not Help) was published in the children's journal ''Bērnība'' under her pen name Ezera. "Ezera" means "lake" and it was chosen to reflect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina (American Singer)
Regina Marie Cuttita, also known as Regina Richards or simply Regina, is an American singer born in Brooklyn, New York. She began her career in the late 1970s as the frontwoman of the new wave band Regina Richards and Red Hot. She is perhaps best known for the hit single "Baby Love", which reached number 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1986. "Baby Love" was her only song to chart on the Hot 100, making her a one-hit wonder. The song also reached number 50 on the UK Singles Chart that same year. Career Regina, who majored in theater at Marymount Manhattan College, began her music career in the late 1970s, recording and performing with the new wave band Regina Richards and Red Hot. The band regularly played New York City music venues such as CBGB, Max's Kansas City, and Irving Plaza. With the help of Richard Gottehrer, the band signed with A&M Records. The first single released was titled "Tyger", with "Tug of War" as the B-side. The second single "Don't Want You Back", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Casé
Regina Maria Barreto Casé OMC (born 25 February 1954) is a Brazilian actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and television presenter. Career In 1974, Casé, together with Hamilton Vaz Pereira, Jorge Alberto Soares, Luiz Arthur Peixoto e Daniel Dantas, founded a theater company called Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone ("Asdrúbal brought the trombone") in Rio de Janeiro. The group was influential in the cultural scene of Rio in the late 1970s. The group's debut production was an adaptation of '' The Inspector General'' by Nikolai Gogol. For her performance in that production, Casé won the Governor's Prize for breakout actress. Another important production was ''Trate-me Leão'' in 1977, which won the Molière Prize. Casé also began appearing in films in the 1970s, including ''Chuvas de Verão'' ("Summer Rains") (1978) directed by Cacá Diegues. Her film career included some of the classics of Brazilian cinema in the 1980s, including ''Eu Te Amo'' ("I Love You") (1981) by Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Bianchi
Regina Bianchi (1 January 1921 – 5 April 2013) was an Italian stage and film actress. Life and career Born in Lecce as Regina D'Antigny, she was the daughter of two theater actors. Forced by the fascist phobia of foreign cultures to change her surname, she adopted the surname of her paternal grandmother. At age 16, she entered the stage company of Raffaele Viviani and, that year, debuted in the comedy play ''Campagna napoletana'', in the leading role of Reginella. In 1939, she starred in the drama film ''Il ponte di vetro''; on the film set she became engaged to the director Goffredo Alessandrini, who remained her partner for over 20 years. After having announced her retirement in 1944, she came back in 1959 with the title role in Eduardo De Filippo's ''Filumena Marturano''. She won two Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress, in 1963 for Nanni Loy's '' The Four Days of Naples'', and in 1996 for Leone Pompucci's '' Camerieri'', and she appeared as Anna, the mother of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina 11
Regina de Jesús Betancourt Ramírez (born 16 December 1936) is a Colombian self-described mentalist, psychic, mystic, and faith healer who is better known to her followers as Regina 11. A now retired politician, she founded and led the Metapolitical Unitary Movement, a political party that carried her to be Councilwoman for the City Councils of Bogotá, Medellín, San Rafael, Une, Vetas, and California, as well as Deputy to the Departamental Assembly of Cundinamarca, and finally Senator of Colombia. In addition, she ran as a candidate for President of Colombia in the Colombian presidential elections of 1986, 1990, and 1994. Personal life Regina de Jesús was born on 16 December 1936 in Concordia, Antioquia to Juan de Dios Betancourt and Ermilia Ramírez, the youngest of 18 children. When she was 17 years old she married Luis Restrepo, a merchant from Antioquia with whom she had four daughters, but who died when she was only 22. On 29 February 1968 she met Daniel Jay Liska T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Benjamin
Regina Marcia Benjamin (born October 26, 1956) is an American physician and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, and served on the board of trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine. Early life and education Benjamin was born in Mobile, Alabama on October 26, 1956. She graduated from Fairhope High School in Fairhope, Alabama, and then attended college at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, where she was initiated into the Gamma Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She is also a member of the second graduating class of Morehouse School of Medicine, then a two year program at Morehouse College. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed her residency in family medicine at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. About her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regina Belle
Regina Belle (born July 17, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter who started her career in the mid-1980s. Known for her singles "Baby Come to Me (Regina Belle song), Baby Come to Me" (1989) and "Make It Like It Was" (1990), Belle is most notable for three hit duets, all with Peabo Bryson: "Without You (Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle song), Without You", the love theme from the comedy film ''Leonard Part 6'', recorded in 1987; "A Whole New World", the main theme of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney's animated feature film Aladdin (1992 Disney film), ''Aladdin'' recorded in 1992, with which Belle and Bryson won a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award; and "I Just Can't Imagine" (Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle song), I Just Can't Imagine". The theme song "Far Longer than Forever" from the animated movie ''The Swan Princess'', performed with Jeffrey Osborne, was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1995 for Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, Best Original Song. Biography Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
