Taal, officially the Municipality of Taal,, is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 56,327 people.
Magalang, officially the Municipality of Magalang, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 113,147 people.
Michael Haussman is an award-winning, American director, writer, and artist, living in Rome, Italy.
Alton is a hamlet in the Town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York, United States. It is located 6 miles (10 km) southeast of the Village of Sodus and 5 miles (8 km) south of the Village of Sodus Point, at an elevation of 377 feet. The primary intersection in the hamlet is at N.Y. Route 14 and Ridge Road. N.Y. Route 104 passes just south of Alton.
Alxa may refer to several places in Inner Mongolia, China:
Laulasi island is an artificial island in the Langa Langa Lagoon, South of Auki on the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands. It is believed that hostilities among the inlanders of Malaita forced some people into the lagoon where over time they built their islands on sandbars after diving for coral. The religion of the island was based on prayers and offerings to the ghosts of dead ancestors, mediated by priests who kept their skulls and relics in tabu houses. Some ancestors were incarnated as sharks which protected their descendants. Langalanga is also the main source of the shell money now made in Solomon Islands.
Langa Langa Lagoon or Akwalaafu is a natural lagoon on the West coast of Malaita near the provincial capital Auki within the Solomon Islands. The lagoon is 21 km in length and just under 1 km wide. The "lagoon people" or "salt water people" live on small artificial islands built up on sand bars over time where they were forced to flee from the headhunters of mainland Malaita.
The Nias language is an Austronesian language spoken on Nias Island and the Batu Islands off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is known as Li Niha by its native speakers. It belongs to the Northwest Sumatran subgroup which also includes Mentawai and the Batak languages. It had about 770,000 speakers in 2000. There are three main dialects: northern, central and southern.
The province of North Sumatra in Indonesia is divided into regencies which is turn are divided administratively into sub-districts.
Alasha ; Mongolian script ᠠᠯᠠᠱᠠAlaša, Chinese: 阿拉善; pinyin: Ālāshàn), or Alaša-Eǰen-e, is a Mongolic variety with features of both Oirat and Mongolian that historically used to belong to Oirat but has come under the influence of Mongolian proper. It has more than 40,000 speakers in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China and consists of two sub-dialects, Alasha proper and Eǰene.
Alxa Left Banner is a banner in the southwest of Inner Mongolia, China. The town of Bayanhot, situated in the banner, is the seat of government of the greater Alxa League, of which Alxa Left Banner is a part.
Alxa Right Banner is a banner in the southwest of Inner Mongolia, China, bordering Gansu province to the south and southwest. It is under the administration of Alxa League.
Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa Senior Secondary School is in the city of Malout in the Punjab state of India.
Alasa Farms, also known as the Sodus Bay Shaker Tract and Sodus Bay Phalanx, is a historic farm complex located near Alton in Wayne County, New York. The farm complex was originally built and occupied by the Sodus Bay Shakers, an official branch of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, from 1826 to 1838. It was then briefly occupied by a local lawyer Alexander Duncan and his family. Between 1844 and 1846, the property was home to the Sodus Bay Phalanx of the Fourier Society; a group devoted to establishing utopian communities based on communal living. After 1846, the property lay vacant until 1868. It became a large scale, "model farm" in the early-20th century, being named Alasa Farms in 1924, by its owner Alvah Griffin Strong, grandson of Henry A. Strong.
Ventions, LLC is a launch vehicle company based in San Francisco, California, that develops pump-fed, liquid bipropellant propulsion engines for DARPA and NASA. Ventions is a technology provider for DARPA's Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) program, and as of 2014 was working on the Small Air Launch Vehicle to Orbit (SALVO) program, a pathfinder air-launched vehicle for placement of cubesat sized payloads into low Earth orbit.
Airborne Launch Assist Space Access, or DARPA ALASA is a canceled program of the US defense technology agency DARPA "designed to produce a rocket capable of launching a 100-pound satellite into low Earth orbit for less than $1 million." The program was conceived, then announced in 2011, and funded development work began in 2012. The project was terminated in late 2015.
The Early chronology of Shakers is a list of important events. It mainly focuses on the period from 1774 when the Shakers emigrated from England to colonial America.
Vasily-Alasa is a rural locality, and one of three settlements in Ozhulunsky Rural Okrug of Churapchinsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in addition to Dyabyla, the administrative center of the Rural Okrug, and Yuryakh-Kyuyore. It is located 36 kilometers (22 mi) from Churapcha, the administrative center of the district and 21 kilometers (13 mi) from Dyabyla. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 0; the same as recorded in the 2002 Census.
