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Robyn Lamsam
Robyn Claire Lamsam (Chinese: 伍劭斌; born 4 August 1977) is a swimmer who represented Hong Kong at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Lamsam started swimming when she was seven years old at the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, and would go on to break 21 Hong Kong National Swimming records. Lamsam was still just 14 years old when she competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics, she was the youngest of the 38 athletes and only female swimmer who represented Hong Kong at those Games, she competed in four swimming events, first up was the 100 metre freestyle where she swam in 59.26 seconds and finished in 37th place out of 48 swimmers. The next day she swam in the 200 metre freestyle and ended the race in 30th place out of 37, Lamsam also went on to finish in 30th place in the 400 metre freestyle, then four days before her fifteenth birthday she swam in the 50 metre freestyle and finished with a time of 27.40 seconds and ended in 36th place out of the 50 swimmers. Two years at her Olympic appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. Hiroshima was founded in 1589 as a castle town on the Ōta River delta. Following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Hiroshima rapidly transformed into a major urban center and industrial hub. In 1889, Hiroshima officially gained city status. The city was a center of military activities during the imperial era, playing significant roles such as in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the two world wars. Hiroshima was the first military target of a nuclear weapon in human history. This occurred on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped the atomic bomb " Little Boy" on the city. Most of Hiroshima was destroyed, and by the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Female Freestyle Swimmers
Hong may refer to: Places *Høng, a town in Denmark * Hong Kong, a city and a special administrative region in China *Hong, Nigeria *Hong River in China and Vietnam *Lake Hong in China Surnames *Hong (Chinese name) *Hong (Korean name) Organizations *Hong (business), general term for a 19th–20th century trading company based in Hong Kong, Macau or Canton *Hongmen (洪門), a Chinese fraternal organization Creatures *Hamsa (bird), a mythical bird also known was hong *Hong (rainbow-dragon) ''Hong'' or ''jiang'' () is a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology, comparable with rainbow serpent legends in various cultures and mythologies. Chinese "rainbow" names Chinese has three "rainbow" words, regular ''hong'' , literary ''didong'' , ..., a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology * ''Hong'' (genus), a genus of ladybird {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown Bacteria, bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst Granville rail disaster, railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207 Azor, CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, Valencia, Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Kotewall
Sir Robert Hormus Kotewall (羅旭龢; 1880–1949) was a British Hong Kong businessman, civil servant and legislator. Early life Kotewall was born in 1880. He was the son of Hormusjee Rustomjee Kotewall, an Indian Parsi, and Cheung A-cheung. Career In 1913, Kotewall was named Clerk to the Magistracy and JP. By 1919, he was in trade as the manager of the Hong Kong Mercantile Company. In 1923, he was invited to join the Legislative Council as an unofficial member, a position he held until 1935. In 1936, he joined the Executive Council. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Kotewall served as the chairman of the Japanese military government's Chinese Representative Council and assisted the Japanese Army in governing Hong Kong. After Sir Mark Young was restored as the governor of Hong Kong, Kotewall submitted a 66-page report explaining the causes and consequences of his actions as a Chinese representative during the Japanese occupation period, but it was not accepted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Minghella
Max Giorgio Choa Minghella (born 16 September 1985) is an English actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is known for his roles in the films ''Syriana'' (2005), '' Art School Confidential'' (2006), '' Elvis and Anabelle'' (2007), ''The Social Network'' (2010), '' The Ides of March'' (2011), '' The Internship'' (2013), '' Horns'' (2013), and ''Spiral'' (2021), as well as his role as Nick Blaine in the television series ''The Handmaid's Tale'' (2017–present), which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2021. Early life and education Minghella was born in Hampstead, London, the son of director Anthony Minghella (1954–2008) and dancer and choreographer Carolyn Jane Chao. His father was born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, and was of Italian descent, and his mother was born in Hong Kong. While Minghella was growing up he spent time on his father's film sets. He has said that he has "fond memories" of them and that he felt "no pressure" from his father to succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenton (name)
Fenton is both a surname and a male given-name originating, literally-meaning "fen/marsh town", is the name of several English places, popular in the United States and New Zealand. It is also a name of Irish-Gaelic origin; ''Ó Fionnachta'' (see Finnerty) or ''Ó Fiachna'' 'descendant of Fiachna', an old personal name Anglicized as ''Feighney'' and sometimes mistranslated as 'Hunt' (see Fee). Notable people with the name include: People with the surname Fenton Actors and actresses * Lavinia Fenton (1708-1760) * Leonard Fenton (1926-2022) * Simon Fenton Fictional characters * Fenton, a 'young gentleman' in Shakespeare's ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' * Harry Fenton, character in ''Peaky Blinders'' * Lord Fenton, character in '' Scarlett'' * Fenton Crackshell, aka GizmoDuck from ''DuckTales'' * Fenton, the Death Sheep from Hell, the subject of the song "Sheep Marketing Ploy" by Tom Smith * Fenton Mewley, character from the animated TV show ''Home Movies'' * Fenton Hardy f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kotewall
Sir Robert Hormus Kotewall (羅旭龢; 1880–1949) was a British Hong Kong businessman, civil servant and legislator. Early life Kotewall was born in 1880. He was the son of Hormusjee Rustomjee Kotewall, an Parsees, Indian Parsi, and Cheung A-cheung. Career In 1913, Kotewall was named Clerk to the Magistracy and JP. By 1919, he was in trade as the manager of the Hong Kong Mercantile Company. In 1923, he was invited to join the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Legislative Council as an unofficial member, a position he held until 1935. In 1936, he joined the Executive Council of Hong Kong, Executive Council. During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Kotewall served as the chairman of the Japanese military government's Chinese Representative Council and assisted the Japanese Army in governing Hong Kong. After Sir Mark Young was restored as the governor of Hong Kong, Kotewall submitted a 66-page report explaining the causes and consequences of his actions as a Chinese repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamsam Family
The Lamsam family ( th, ล่ำซำ) is a Thai family of Chinese descent. Notable as the founders of Kasikornbank, the extended family owns businesses in the banking and insurance industries. The family's current head, Banthoon Lamsam, together with his family, is listed by ''Forbes'' as the 27th richest in Thailand in 2017. The Lamsam family traces its roots to Ung Miao Ngian ( zh, c=伍淼源, of the Ng () clan), a Hakka immigrant from Guangdong who moved to Thailand (then known as Siam) during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V, 1868–1910). He established himself in the timber industry, setting up shop in 1901 and later expanding into rice milling. He married two wives and had six children. His third son, Ung Yuk Long, inherited the business and led the family's most dominant branch. Yuk Long had three wives, with six sons and six daughters. His second wife Thongyu, a daughter of the Wanglee family, was the mother of the three of his sons— Choti, Chulin and Kasem L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakka People
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan, Guizhou in China, as well as in Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, Pingtung County, and Kaohsiung City in Taiwan. The Chinese characters for ''Hakka'' () literally mean "guest families". Unlike other Han Chinese subgroups, the Hakkas are not named after a geographical region, e.g. a province, county or city, in China. The word ''Hakka'' or "guest families" is Cantonese in origin and originally refers to the Northern Chinese refugees fleeing social unrest, upheaval and invasions in northern parts of China (such as Gansu and Henan) during the Qin dynasty who then seek refuge in the Cantonese provinces such as Guangdong and Guangxi, thus the original meaning of the word implies that they are guests living in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Lamsam
John Patrick Roy Lamsam (born 15 May 1980) is a Hong Kong cricketer who has played 8 One Day Internationals and four ICC Trophy matches between 1997 and 2008. He is a specialist batsman who has batted between five and eight in the batting order for Hong Kong, scoring 15 ICC Trophy runs and 24 One Day International runs. In his debut match in the ICC Trophy, he was the seventh-choice bowler for Hong Kong, bowling the final over against Canada. However, he first bowled two wides (one of which was run for three), and then got injured. Because of the runs off wides counting against the bowler, but the wide not counting as a ball bowled, Lamsam ended with no balls bowled - and four runs conceded. As that was his only bowling in the ICC Trophy, this is still his career record. Lamsam was selected to play for Hong Kong in the 2004 Asia Cup, scoring eight runs and taking zero wickets against Bangladesh. He played a second ODI against India at the 2008 Asia Cup, scoring 16 before being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
