The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. Following the awarding of the George Cross in 2000, its formal title became the Royal Ulster Constabulary, GC. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). At its peak the force had around 8,500 officers with a further 4,500 who were members of the RUC Reserve. During the Troubles, 319 members of the RUC were killed and almost 9,000 injured in paramilitary assassinations or attacks, mostly by the Provisional IRA, which made the RUC, by 1983, the most dangerous police force in the world in which to serve. In the same period, the RUC killed 55 people, 28 of whom were civilians.
Renmin University of China, often referred to as RUC, or colloquially Renda, is an elite research university located in Haidian District of Beijing. Founded by the Communist Party of China, RUC possesses the strongest reputation in humanities and social sciences, and is classified as a Class A university under the Double First Class University Plan.
General Eva Evelyn Burrows, AC, OF was an Australian Salvation Army Officer and was, from 1986 to 1993, the 13th General of the Salvation Army. She served as an Officer of the Salvation Army from 1951 to her retirement in 1993. In 1993 Henry Gariepy released her biography, General of God's Army the Authorized Biography of General Eva Burrows.
Susanne Holmström is a Danish sociologist, best known for her writings on organizational legitimacy based on the systems theory of Niklas Luhmann.
Eva Mozes Kor is a Holocaust survivor. Along with her twin sister Miriam, Kor was subjected to human experimentation under Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. She lost both of her parents and two older sisters to the Holocaust; only she and Miriam survived. Kor founded the organization CANDLES in 1984. Through the program, she has located 122 other survivors of Mengele.
Todd Robert Petersen was born in Moses Lake, Washington on August 17, 1969. He is a fiction writer and an academic currently based at Southern Utah University. He and his wife Alisa have three children.
Eva Watson-Schütze (1867–1935) was an American photographer and painter who was one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession.
Eva Maria Zuk was a Polish-Mexican piano concertist. She was raised in Venezuela and New York City. She began music studies with her mother at the age of 4.
Anne Marie Rafferty, CBE, is a British nurse, administrator, academic, and researcher. She is currently a professor of nursing policy, having previously been the dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She was a member of the Prime Minister's Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery 2009-10 and currently chairs The Lancet Commission on Nursing. For 2019 she was elected president of the Royal College of Nursing.
Dr. Regina Bendix is a professor of European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
Linda Maria Koldau is a German musicologist and was Chair of Musicology and Cultural History at Aarhus University in Denmark. Since 2013 she has been director of the Coastal Academy in Northern Germany, focusing on efficiency, conciseness and perfection in business language and communication.
Siphiwe Hlophe is the co-founder of Swaziland for Positive Living, an NGO that provides counselling and education, and seeks to improve the living conditions of people who are affected by or infected with HIV in the rural areas. The organisation has been described as "Swaziland's most innovative and motivated HIV/AIDS mitigation programme". She is also the President of Positive Women, a UK-based charity founded by Kathryn Llewellyn and Stephen Brown
Stina Lykke Petersen is a Danish football goalkeeper who plays for Danish club Kolding Q and the Denmark women's national football team.
Nadia Nadim is an Afghan-Danish football player who plays as a striker for Paris Saint-Germain.
X Factor is a Danish television music competition to find new singing talent. In season 9, Sofie Linde Lauridsen replaced Eva Harlou as host. Thomas Blachman and Remee returned for their respective eighth and sixth seasons as judges, joined by newcomer Mette Lindberg. Lina Rafn, after four seasons as a judge, did not return. The winners were Embrace and Remee became the winning mentor for the third time and for the first time in the Danish X Factor history a judge has won two years in a row.
Eva Garza was a noted Mexican American vocalist, film actress and interpreter of the romantic bolero who acquired international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s. She collaborated on live radio shows and films with some of the leading performers of her time including Mexico's Agustín Lara. She was nicknamed "Sweetheart of the Americas".
Estella R. Garcia was an American artist who was a part of the Federal Art Project. Garcia was a teacher at the Melrose Federal Art Center in Melrose, New Mexico where she taught colcha, a traditional form of wool embroidery, to both Hispanic and Anglo students. The facility was considered to be located in the smallest town to have such a federal art center. Several of the works that she and her students produced were for the Albuquerque Little Theatre, where they still were in 2001. Her work and that of her students was exhibited at many New Deal art exhibitions around the United States. They also produced a number of theater curtains, including ones at the Albuquerque Little Theater and Melrose High School and Carrie Tingley Hospital in Truth Or Consequences. One such curtain, made for the Albuquerque Community Playhouse was loaned for a WPA exhibition and was never returned.
Nyhavn 51, formerly known as Lammet, is a listed property overlooking the Nyhavn canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eva Anni Sofie Eklund ,later Eva Høgh-Petersen), was a Swedish-Danish dancer, singer, composer and restaurateur.
