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Taja (plant)
Taja may refer to: * Taja, Teverga, a parish in Asturias, Spain * Khaled Taja (1939–2012), Syrian actor * Taja Čajko (born 1993), Slovenian handball player * Taja Kramberger (born 1970), Slovenian writer and historian * Taja Mohorčič (born 1989), Slovenian tennis player * Taja Sevelle Taja Sevelle (born Nancy Richardson) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her 1987 single, "Love Is Contagious" and for the non-profit organization Urban Farming, which she founded in 2005. Biography Sevelle signed a recording co ... (born Nancy Richardson in 1962), American singer * a character in the television series '' Mortal Kombat: Conquest'' See also * * Tajae (other) {{disambiguation, surname, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taja, Teverga
Taja (''Taxa'') is one of thirteen parishes (administrative divisions) in Teverga, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It is situated within the outskirts of the Natural Park of Fuentes del Narcea, Degaña, and Ibias. It is in size, with a population of 65 (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de Estadística (other) * Instituto Nacional de Estatística (other) * Instituto Nacional Ele ... 2006). The postal code is 33111. Parishes in Teverga {{asturias-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaled Taja
Khaled Omar Taja ( ar, خالد عمر تاجا; November 6, 1939 – April 4, 2012) was a Syrian- Kurdish actor born in Rukneddine district in the city of Damascus. The poet Mahmoud Darwish called him "''Anthony Quinn of the Arabs''", he was ranked among the fifty best actors in the world according to the American ''Time'' magazine. He's credited for working alongside Salah Zulfikar in ''Memory of a Night of Love'' (1973). Taja worked in over 62 different TV series. He died at the age of 73 on April 4, 2012. Career and Filmography Cinema * 1973 – ''Memory of a Night of Love'' Theater TV series * 2000 – '' Al-Zeer Salem'' * 2001 – '' Salah Al-deen Al-Ayyobi'' * 2004 – '' Al-Taghriba Al-Filistinia'' Awards * Khaled Taja won the ''Best Actor Award for a Second Role'' for his performance in the Palestinian TV series ''Al-Taghreba al-Falastenya'', at the Cairo Festival for Radio and Television, 2005. See also * Jay Abdo * Maxim Khalil * Ghassan Massoud Ghassan Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taja Čajko
Taja Čajko (born 27 July 1993) is a Slovenian female handball player for ŽRK Mlinotest Ajdovščina and the Slovenian national team. She participated at the 2018 European Women's Handball Championship. Achievements *Slovenian First League The Slovenian PrvaLiga ( sl, Prva slovenska nogometna liga, ), currently named Prva liga Telemach due to sponsorship reasons, also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the top level of the Slovenian football league system. Contested by ten club ...: **''Bronze Medalist'': 2016 References 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Trbovlje Slovenian female handball players {{Slovenia-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taja Kramberger
Taja Kramberger (born 11 September 1970) is a Slovenian poet, translator, essayist and historical anthropologist from Slovenia. She lives in France. Biography Early life and education Kramberger was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Kramberger spent her childhood (between the ages of four and eleven) at the seaside – in the bilingual old-Venetian town of Koper-Capodistria near Trieste. She finished four years of primary school there ( Pinko Tomažič), and then moved with family to Ljubljana. There she completed primary and secondary school at Gimnazija Bežigrad. Kramberger completed undergraduate studies in history at the University of Ljubljana, where she also studied archaeology, abandoning this latter when she became engaged in the literary field (1995). She enrolled postgraduate history studies in 1997 and was from then on until 2010 (when a university purge of critical intellectuals was executed at the University of Primorska) a steady and active member of the unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taja Mohorčič
Taja Mohorčič (born 24 April 1989) is a retired Slovenian tennis player. On 25 February 2008, Mohorčič reached her best singles ranking of world number 957. On 26 November 2007, she peaked at world number 733 in the doubles rankings. Mohorčič made her WTA tour debut at the 2007 Banka Koper Slovenia Open, partnering Petra Pajalič Petra Pajalič (born 1 June 1988) is a retired professional Slovenian tennis player, who specialises in doubles. Pajalič has career-high WTA rankings of 532 in singles, achieved on 8 September 2008, and 393 in doubles, set on 21 April 2008. She ... in doubles. The pair lost their first round match against Sybille Bammer and Polona Hercog. ITF finals (0–2) Doubles (0–2) References External links * * 1989 births Living people Slovenian female tennis players {{Slovenia-tennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taja Sevelle
Taja Sevelle (born Nancy Richardson) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for her 1987 single, "Love Is Contagious" and for the non-profit organization Urban Farming, which she founded in 2005. Biography Sevelle signed a recording contract with Prince's Paisley Park Records in 1987. She also released her self-titled debut album that year, and would go on to release two more studio albums on other labels, 1991's ''Fountains Free'' and 1997's ''Toys of Vanity''. Only two of the songs she recorded were written or co-written by Prince: "Wouldn't You Love to Love Me?" and "If I Could Get Your Attention", both from her debut album. She was first featured on Prince and the Revolution's 1985 album '' Around the World in a Day'', singing backing vocals on the song "The Ladder". During the 1990s, Sevelle wrote several songs for Warner Music. Debut album The eponymous album ''Taja Sevelle'' was produced by Minneapolis musician Chico Bennett. She mainly worked with Warner Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conquest
Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms. Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Gaul, the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and various Arab conquests, all of which were successful in bringing foreign states under the conquerors' control. These conquests provided great wealth, power and prestige for the conquerors, a key motivation in the expenditure of resources required to conquer in the first place. Conquest was a key component of colonialism, as various European powers sought to expand their influence by conquering various territories of other continents and thereby gaining access to their resources and population. Military conquest is no longer prevalent in the world, as global unity increased with the formation of the United Nations, so too did global disapproval of military conquest and expansionism. Methods of conques ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
