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4 days ago · Its name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. [12] The city has a rich Māori, Scottish, and Chinese heritage. [13] With an estimated population of 134,600 as of June 2023, Dunedin is New Zealand's seventh-most populous metropolitan and urban area. [9]
2 days ago · Bob Marley, c. 1980. In April 1981 the Jamaican government awarded Marley the Order of Merit. A month later he died of cancer. Although his songs were some of the best-liked and most critically acclaimed music in the popular canon, Marley is far more renowned in death than he had been in life.
4 days ago · Latin. Meaning. King. Other names. Related names. Regis, Reginald, Rexford, Roy, Renato. Rex is a male given name, short for Rexford or Reginald, derived from the Latin word rex, meaning "king". This is the etymological root word for king in several languages.
2 days ago · The Governing Body of Oriel College, Oxford, has appointed Cheryl Frances-Hoad as the next Visiting Fellow in Music. She succeeds keyboard player Tamar Halperin and countertenor Andreas Scholl, who have held the role jointly since 2020, and is the first composer to be elected to the role in over a decade. “Cheryl Frances-Hoad is a leading ...
6 days ago · National Dance Theatre Company (@ndtcjamaica). 5 Likes. FIRST NIGHT DOWN Tamara Noel in solo excerpt from Rex Nettleford's 'Praise Songs' (1989). Stuart Reeves Photography #62ndSeasonofDance.
2 days ago · This Sunday, July 28, 2024, the NGJ will be hosting an event, entitled Continuity: Art + Film, as part of programming for the recently opened exhibition, ‘Continuity’. The film screening will begin…
3 days ago · This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations. Due to some recipients receiving multiple ...
