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Vera Michaelsen
Vera may refer to: Names *Vera (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Vera (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) **Vera (), archbishop of the archdiocese of Tarragona Places Spain *Vera, Almería, a municipality in the province of Almería, Andalusia *Vera de Bidasoa, a municipality in the autonomous community of Navarra *La Vera, a comarca in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura United States * Vera, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Vera, Kansas, a ghost town * Vera, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Vera, Oklahoma, a town *Vera, Texas, an unincorporated community * Vera, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Veradale, Washington, originally known as Vera, CDP Elsewhere * Vera, Santa Fe, a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina * Vera Department, an administrative subdivision (departamento) of the province of Santa Fe * Vera, Mato Grosso, Brazil, a municipality *Cape Vera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (surname)
Vera is an Italian and Spanish surname. Notable persons with that surname include: * Alejo Vera (1834–1923), Spanish painter * Alfredo Vera Vera (1910–1999), Ecuadorian politician * Alfonso Vera (born 1974), Mexican radio and television host * America Vera Zavala (born 1976), Romanian-born Swedish politician and political writer * Anastacio Vera (born 1985), Paraguayan footballer * Ángel Herrera Vera (born 1957), Cuban boxer * Antonio Vera (born 1986), Spanish footballer * Arturo Vera (born 1946), Argentine politician * Augusto Vera (1813–1885), Italian philosopher * Bernard Vera (born 1950), French politician * Billy Vera (born 1944), American singer, actor, writer and music historian * Brandon Vera (born 1977), Filipino-American professional mixed martial artist * Brian Vera (born 1981), Mexican-American boxer * Carlos Vera (born 1976), Ecuadorian football referee * Carolina Vera (born 1962), Argentine meteorologist * Cris de Vera (1924–1975), Filipino actor * Cristobal de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera, Croatia
Vera ( sr-Cyrl, Вера) is a village in Trpinja Municipality in eastern Croatia. The village is the northernmost settlement of the Vukovar-Syrmia County. Name The villages of Trpinja, Bobota and Vera share a common legend about the origin of their names. According to the legend, the ancestors of today's inhabitants of villages, who settled at the time of the Great Serb Migrations under Arsenije III Čarnojević, were called Bobe. They were fleeing from the Ottoman Empire conquests of Balkan as they wanted to preserve their religious freedom. This legendary religious commitment and orthodoxy was coined in the local phrase ''Bobe endured for the faith'' or originally in Serbian ''Bobe trpiše za veru''. The family name of 'Bobe' was used as the basis for the name of Bobota, the word 'endured' ( the name of Trpinja was created and from the word of faith (Serbian: ) the name of Vera was coined.http://www.trpinja.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=26&lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus
Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus (VERA) was an early analog recording videotape format developed from 1952 by the BBC under project manager Dr Peter Axon. History In order to record high frequencies, a tape must move rapidly with respect to the recording or playback head. The frequencies used by video signals are so high that the tape/head speed is on the order of several meters per second (tens of feet per second), an order of magnitude faster than professional analog audio tape recording. The BBC solved the problem by using reels of magnetic tape that passed static heads at a speed of . VERA was capable of recording about 15 minutes (e.g. 4,572 meters) of 405-line black-and-white video per reel, and the picture tended to wobble because of some jitter (uneven speed) of the tape transport. Later video recorders used a time base corrector to remove this jitter and make synchronization with the studio house possible. In order to cope with 625-line PAL or SECAM colour t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avro Lancaster FM213
FM213 is an Avro Lancaster, one of only two airworthy examples in the world. It was built in Malton, Mississauga, Malton, Ontario, at Victory Aircraft as construction number 3414 and rolled out in July 1945. Built as a Mark X bomber, it was no longer needed in Europe and transferred directly to storage at CFB Trenton. It was later modified for Maritime patrol aircraft, maritime reconnaissance but damaged during delivery and underwent repairs in 1953. FM213 spent the next ten years as a search and rescue aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean. She retired in November 1963 and was sold to the Royal Canadian Legion as a Gate guardian, gate guard in Goderich, Ontario. In 1977 she was donated to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum and was airlifted to Hamilton in 1979 by a Boeing CH-47 Chinook, Chinook helicopter. She underwent lengthy restoration before taking flight once again in September 1988, and has been flying about 50 hours a year since. Officially registered with the civilian tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (song)
"Vera" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd which appears on their 1979 double album, '' The Wall''. Title The title is a reference to Vera Lynn, a British singer who came to prominence during World War II with her popular song " We'll Meet Again". The song's intro features a collage of superimposed audio excerpts from the 1969 film ''Battle of Britain''. Among the used clips are a piece of dialogue ("Where the hell are you, Simon?"), a BBC broadcast and battle sound effects. Personnel *Roger Waters – vocals, acoustic guitar * David Gilmour – acoustic guitar, bass guitar * Richard Wright – Prophet-5 The Prophet-5 is an analog synthesizer manufactured by the American company Sequential (company), Sequential. It was designed by Dave Smith (engineer), Dave Smith and John S. Bowen (sound designer), John Bowen in 1977. It was the first Polyphony ... synthesiser with: * New York Symphony Orchestra Personnel per Fitch and Mahon.Fitch, Vernon and Mahon, Richard, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crooked Colours
Crooked Colours is the alternative dance project of Australian singer, songwriter and music producer Philip Leonard Slabber (born 14 February 1991) . Based in Fremantle, Western Australia, the project is signed to record label Sweat It Out. Slabber originally conceived the project with fellow producer Leon Debaughn in Perth in 2013. Later joined by drummer Liam Merrett-Park. The project's first album ''Vera'' was released in June 2017. Their sophomore album ''Langata'' was released in 2019. Touring Crooked Colours has performed at many festivals and events including: Groovin The Moo, Spilt Milk, Beyond The Valley, Falls Festival, Bonnaroo, and Splendour In The Grass. Discography Studio albums Extended plays Singles Awards and nominations AIR Awards The Australian Independent Record Awards (known informally as the AIR Awards) are an annual series of awards which recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's independent music sector. In 2018, Crooked Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American essayist. Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of '' The Little Prince'', Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's fellow Founding Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts. Early life and career Schiff was born in Adams, Massachusetts, to Morton Schiff, the president of Schiff Clothing, a store founded by Schiff's great-grandfather in 1897, and Ellen, a professor of French literature at North Adams State college (now called Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts). Schiff graduated from Phillips Academy (Andover) preparatory school, and subsequently earned her B.A. degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (Edgarian Novel)
''Vera'' is the third novel by writer, editor, and publisher Carol Edgarian. Plot Summary Set in San Francisco in 1906, ''Vera'' tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl, the daughter of the town’s leading madam, coming of age in the aftermath of the city’s devastating earthquake and fire and centers on themes of displacement, societal upheaval, and reinvention with a cinematic cast of well known as well as fictional characters. Critical Reception Edgarian’s third novel ''Vera'' (2021) was an O Magazine Most Anticipated Read, an Indiebound Pick of the Month, and was described in a Booklist Starred Review as “Brilliantly conceived and beautifully realized,” and the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote about ''Vera'': “If there’s a book that speaks urgently to a time of grief, resilience, wounding loneliness, and collective hope in one of the deadliest pandemics in history, it is ''Vera'' — a work to be cherished for what it uncovers in the pages and, possibly, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (von Arnim Novel)
''Vera'' by Elizabeth von Arnim is a 1921 novel based on the author's experiences during her disastrous second marriage, to Frank Russell. It is a frightening analysis of the naivety of a young woman, as she falls into the power of a pathologically narcissistic husband. In outline, this utterly unromantic novel anticipates Daphne du Maurier's ''Rebecca''. Naive Lucy Entwhistle is swept into marriage by a widower, Everard Wemyss. His mansion, "The Willows", is pervaded by the spectre of his dead wife Vera, who Lucy gradually comes to suspect committed suicide rather than endure being married to Wemyss. The story is a black vision of a young wife who gradually begins to understand that her husband will accept nothing less than total intellectual and emotional servitude. Many of von Arnim's other books, including the ''Enchanted April'', are written with verve, humour and a delight in the romantic: ''Vera'' is closer to a nightmare. When '' The Times Literary Supplement'' publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera; Or, The Nihilists
''Vera; or, The Nihilists'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. A draft of the script was completed in 1880 and the following year arrangements were made for a one-off staging in London with Mrs. Bernard-Beere in the title role, but the production was cancelled. The first performance was in 1883 at New York’s Union Square Theatre, and was based on revisions made by Wilde while lecturing in America in 1882. The play, which starred Marie Prescott as Vera, was not a success and folded after only one week. It is rarely revived. Production history At the time of writing, the reform-minded Tsar Alexander II was involved in a struggle with revolutionaries who sought to assassinate him (and eventually succeeded). Though none of Wilde's characters correspond to actual Russian people of the time, the above situation was well-known both to Wilde and to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (TV Series)
''Vera'' is a British crime drama television series based on the Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves. It ran on ITV for 14 years from 1 May 2011 to 2 January 2025 and starred Brenda Blethyn as the principal character, Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope. Premise Vera is a nearly retired detective chief inspector of the fictional Northumberland & City Police, who is obsessive about her work. She plods along in a dishevelled state but has a calculating mind and despite her irascible personality, she cares deeply about her work and colleagues. She often proves her superior skills by picking up small errors in her team members' thought processes. Vera forms a close relationship with sergeants Joe Ashworth and Aiden Healy. Production The series is filmed in Newcastle upon Tyne and throughout Northumberland, County Durham and North Yorkshire in North East England. Locations include Gateshead, South Shields, North Shields, Whitley Bay, Amble, Warkworth, Alnmouth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera (2022 Film)
''Vera'' is a 2022 Austrian-Italian docudrama film directed and produced by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel. It stars Vera Gemma playing a semi-fictionalized version of herself. The film was selected in the Horizons section at the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival, winning the awards for Best Director and Best Actress. It was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Plot Vera, the daughter of Spaghetti Western The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's filmmaking style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most o ... star Giuliano Gemma, spends a lavish and superficial life in the shadow of her father. Her life has an unexpected turning point after injuring a child in a car accident. Cast * Vera Gemma as Vera * Giuliana Gemma as Giuli * Asia Argento as Asia * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
