BolexInternational S. A. is a Swiss manufacturer of motion picture cameras based in Yverdon located in Canton of Vaud. The most notable products of which are in the 16 mm and Super 16 mm formats. Originally Bol, the company was founded by Charles Haccius and Jacques Bogopolsky in 1925. Bolex is derived from Bogopolsky′s name. In 1923 he presented the Cinégraphe Bol at the Geneva fair, a reversible apparatus for taking, printing, and projecting pictures on 35-mm. film. He later designed a camera for Alpa of Ballaigues in the late 1930s.
Music & Me is the third studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released in 1973 on the Motown label. The album was reissued in 2009 as part of the 3-disc compilation Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection.
Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857–1905) was an American business magnate, patriarch of the illustrious and prominent Rindge family, real estate developer, philanthropist, and writer, of Los Angeles, California. He was a major benefactor to his home town of Cambridge, Massachusetts and a founder of present day Malibu, California.
The coat of arms of Suriname was adopted on November 25, 1975. The motto reads Justitia – Pietas – Fides. It consists of two indigenous men carrying a shield; a trade ship on the water representing Suriname's colonial past as a source of cash crops and its present day involvement in international commerce; the royal palm represents both the rainforest that covers two-thirds of the country and the country's involvement in agribusiness; the diamond represents the mining industry; the star symbolizes the five continents from which the inhabitants of Suriname immigrated.
The Legitimist Party was a conservative Nicaraguan political party in the 19th century. The power base of the Legitimist Party was in Granada. The Legitimists were opposed to the Democrats. After several years of civil war between the Legitimists and the Democrats, a provisional government was established in June 1857 which had as its joint leaders the legitimist Tomás Martínez and the democrat Máximo Jerez.
There are numerous days throughout the year celebrated as New Year's Day in the different regions of India. Observance is determined by whether the lunar calendar is being followed or the solar calendar. Those regions which follow the Solar calendar, the new year falls on Baisakhi in North and Central India,Ugadi in Andhra Pradesh Rongali Bihu in Assam, Tamil Putthandu in Tamil Nadu, Vishu in Kerala, Bishuva Sankranti in Odisha and Poila Boishakh in Bengal in the month of the calendar, i.e., Vaishakha. Generally, this day falls during 14th or 15th of the month of April. Those following Lunar calendar consider the month of Chaitra as the first month of the year, so the new year is celebrated on the first day of this month. Similarly, few regions in India consider the period between consecutive Sankarantis as one month and few others take the period between consecutive Purnimas as a month.
Margaret Manny was a milliner in colonial Philadelphia who made flags for the United States during the American Revolution. She may have made the Grand Union Flag for the Continental Navy.
Everard Coenraad "Ducky" Endt. His date of death is currently unknown. Everard became a US citizen in October 1933.
The Bind' are a caste found in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal and Tripura. Bind are under the OBCs category of the central list. The government of India's draft defines them as a nomadic tribe in Tripura. The Assam government and MP government categorise them as a tribe. The nearest name which comes closer for them is Nishad. The Bind are originally from the Vindhya.
Charles Peter Harry Morgan was the managing director of the Morgan Motor Company, a UK car manufacturer.
The OECD Development Centre was established in 1961 as an independent platform for knowledge sharing and policy dialogue between Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries and developing economies, allowing these countries to interact on an equal footing.
Cormac Mac Duinnshléibhe was an Irish physician and scribe, fl. 15th century.
Gao Baorong (高保融) (920–960) was King of Nanping from 948 to 960, one of the Ten Kingdoms in south-central China.
The Operation Dezful was fought in early stage of the Iran–Iraq War on October 15, 1980 as Iranian tank brigades from the 16th Qazvin, 77th Khorasan, and 92nd Khuzestan armoured divisions attacked Iraqi positions. The Iranian Army's aim was to stop Iraqis progress in Iranian territories and to push them back, or stall their progress. However, Iraqi forces counterattacked from the flanks, and repulsed the Iranian forces. The Iranian retreat was blamed on poor decision making, the purge of army commanders due to their participation in Nojeh coup plot, and underestimating fire power of Iraqi forces and they were forced to retreat to the eastern shores of Karkheh River west of Dezful.
Devir (Turkish) Dawr دور (arabic). Is a concept in Alevism translated as cycle. It is the cycle to perfection. It is described by many alevi saints and poets as Devriye. This concept goes together with Tenasuh (turkish) Tanasukh التَّنَاسُخ (arabic) meaning reincarnation and Tekâmül (Turkish) takāmul تكامل (Arabic) meaning spiritual evolution. It is often described with concepts as Wahdat al-Wujud and Wahdat al-mawjud. There are two sides to creation, one from a spiritual centre to plurality, another from plurality to the spiritual centre. When somebody dies in the Alevi community the dede en people from the community say: devri daim olsun (turkish) meaning may his/her cycle be complete.
Independence Square is a square in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The identification number of the square is 2000.
Das ist die Lieber der Matrosen is a 1931 song by the legendary German a capella band Comedian Harmonists, written by Robert Gilbert and composed by Werner Richard Heymann. It was performed by the band in the 1931 musical comedy Bomben auf Monte Carlo.
Khwāja Mumshād ʿUlū Ad-Dīnawarī, also known as Karīm ad-Dīn Munʿim, was prominent Sufi of 9th century. He was born in Dinavar, Iranian Kurdistan. He was disciple of Abu Hubayra al-Basri in Chishti Order and Junayd of Baghdad as well.
Abu Muḥammad Chishti was Sufi of Chishti Order He was disciple of Abu Aḥmad Abdal Chishti and master of Abu Yusuf ibn Saman He died in 1020.
Yashwant Bhimrao Ambedkar, also known as Bhaiyasaheb Ambedkar, was an Indian socio-religious activist, newspaper editor, politician, and activist of Ambedkarite Buddhist movement. He was the first and only surviving child of Ramabai Ambedkar and Babasaheb Ambedkar, Indian polymath, human rights activist, and the father of the Constitution of India. Yashwant gave himself up for the Buddhism work after the demise of father and kept pace with the work of B. R. Ambedkar's social equality. He tried to keep the Ambedkarite community united and also took an active part in the Dalit Buddhist movement.
