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Valene may refer to: * Valene Kane, Northern Irish actress * Valene Maharaj (born 1986) was the Miss Trinidad and Tobago World 2007 title holder, and Miss World of the Caribbean for 2007 * Valene Ewing, fictional character in the CBS primetime soap operas ''Knots Landing'' and ''Dallas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...
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Knots Landing
''Knots Landing'' is an American primetime television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of ''Dallas (TV series), Dallas'', it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially centered on the lives of four married couples living on a Dead end (street), cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle. Throughout its 14-year run, storylines included marital strife, rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, politics, addictions, environmental issues, corporate intrigue, and criminal investigations. By the time of its conclusion, it had become the third-longest-running primetime drama on American television after ''Gunsmoke'' and ''Bonanza'' ''Bonanza'' and ''Knots Landing'' were surpassed by ''Law & Order'' in 2004. and the last scripted primetime drama show that debuted in the 1970s to leave the air.''Dallas'', which ended in 1991, was the only other scripted primetime show from the 1970s that lasted past 1986. ''Saturday Ni ...
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Valene Ewing
Valene "Val" Ewing (maiden name Clements, formerly Gibson, Waleska), portrayed by Joan Van Ark, is a fictional character in the CBS primetime soap opera ''Knots Landing'', a spin-off from the long-running series ''Dallas'', in which she also appeared. The character originated on ''Dallas'' in 1978 as the mother of Lucy Ewing and ex-wife of Gary Ewing (the second son of oil baron Jock and Miss Ellie Ewing). Van Ark made several guest appearances on ''Dallas'' before becoming one of the main stars of the spin-off ''Knots Landing'' in December 1979, though she continued to make small appearances in ''Dallas'' for the next several years. Van Ark played Valene in ''Knots Landing'' for thirteen of its fourteen seasons, which made her one of the show's longest running stars. The character made her last ''Knots Landing'' appearance in 1997, when she appeared in the reunion miniseries '' Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac''. In 2013, Van Ark reprised her character for the sequel versi ...
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Valene Kane
Valene Kane is a Northern Irish actress. On television, she gained prominence through her role as Rose Stagg in the BBC Two series '' The Fall'' (2013–2016). She has since appeared in the BBC dramas '' Blue Lights'' (2023–24) and ''Thirteen'' (2016), the Stan series '' The Other Guy'' (2017–2019), the Sky Atlantic series '' Gangs of London'' (2020–2022) and the ITVX series '' The Winter King'' (2023). Her films include '' The Fading Light'' (2010), '' Nowhere Special'' (2021), ''Rogue One'' (2016) and ''Profile'' (2018). Early life Kane was born and raised in Newry, County Down. She is the daughter of former Gaelic footballer and coach Val Kane. From the age of 15, she was part of the National Youth Theatre, most notably starring in their production of '' 20 Cigarettes''. She left Northern Ireland for London at 18 and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Early career Kane was cast in '' The Fading Light'' by the director Ivan Kavanagh after he spotted ...
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Valene Maharaj
Valene Maharaj (born April 25, 1986) is a Trinidadian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Trinidad and Tobago 2007 title holder, and Miss World of the Caribbean for 2007. She has been active in the fashion business since she was sixteen years old. Her modelling career started when she won the Caribbean Model Search, which took her to Jamaica in 2003 for Jamaica's Fashion Week. Since then she's done advertising campaigns for Micles, modelled in shows for local designers like Peter Elias and Meiling. Maharaj won the Miss Trinidad and Tobago 2007 title;
retrieved 13th Dec 2010 she succeeded over six other contestants.


Early life and education

Maharaj grew up in a small village in the southern part of Trinidad & Tobago called St. Margaret's in Claxton Bay.


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Roman Naming Conventions
Over the course of some fourteen centuries, the Ancient Rome, Romans and other peoples of Italy employed a system of nomenclature that differed from that used by other cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, consisting of a combination of given name, personal and surname, family names. Although conventionally referred to as the , the combination of praenomen, Nomen (Roman name), nomen, and cognomen that have come to be regarded as the basic elements of the Roman name in fact represent a continuous process of development, from at least the seventh century BC to the end of the seventh century AD. The names that developed as part of this system became a defining characteristic of Roman civilization, and although the system itself vanished during the Early Middle Ages, the names themselves exerted a profound influence on the development of European naming practices, and many continue to survive in modern languages. Overview The distinguishing feature of Roman nomenclature was t ...
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Valentinus (other)
Valentinus is a Roman masculine given name derived from the Latin word "valens" meaning "healthy, strong". It may refer to: People Churchmen *Pope Valentine (died 827) *Saint Valentine, 3rd century Christian saint *Valentinus (Gnostic) (died c. 150), early Christian gnostic theologian * Valentinus Paquay (1828–1905), Friar Minor * Valentinus Smalcius (1572–1622), German Socinian theologian Emperors and pretenders *Valentinus (rebel), 4th-century Roman exile who attempted a conspiracy in Roman Britain *Valentinus (usurper) (died 644), Byzantine general and usurper, father of empress Fausta Scholars *Basilius Valentinus, 15th century monk from Erfurt who may have described bismuth *Valentinus Lublinus (16th-century–16th-century), 16th-century Polish physician and editor *Valentinus Otho (died 1603), German mathematician and astronomer *Valentinus Nabodus (1523–1593), German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Biology *''Anacyclus valentinus'', a species of aster *''Is ...
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Male
Male (Planet symbols, symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or Egg cell, ovum, in the process of fertilisation. A male organism cannot sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually without access to at least one ovum from a female, but some organisms can reproduce both sexually and Asexual reproduction, asexually. Most male mammals, including male humans, have a Y chromosome, which codes for the production of larger amounts of testosterone to develop male reproductive organs. In humans, the word ''male'' can also be used to refer to gender, in the social sense of gender role or gender identity. Overview The existence of separate sexes has evolved independently at different times and in different lineage (evolution), lineages, an example of convergent evolution. The repeated pattern is sexual reproduction in isogamy, isogamous species with two or more mating types with gametes of identic ...
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ...
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