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He was runner-up in the boys' singles event to Donald Young and was also a singles semi-finalist at the 2005 US Open juniors. |
A right-handed player, Kim featured in three Davis Cup ties for South Korea. |
In 2005 he won both of his singles matches against Pacific Oceania, then played a dead rubber in the Group II final against New Zealand, which he lost to Jose Statham. |
His only other appearance came in 2007, when he won in the singles against Dmitriy Makeyev of Kazakhstan. |
NGC 880 |
NGC 880 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus about 554 million light years from the Milky Way. |
It was discovered by the American astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886. |
Reginaldus de Combe |
Reginaldus de Combe (fl. |
1300/1301), was an English Member of Parliament. |
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lewes in 1300/1301. |
Tomás Borrás |
Tomás Borrás y Bermejo (10 February 1891, Madrid - 26 August 1976, Madrid) was a Spanish journalist, novelist and playwright. |
He attended the Instituto San Isidro, leading to a degree in law, but he practiced for only a short time before deciding to change careers; having been a writer since his youth. |
As a member of the tertulia at the , he appears in a famous group portrait by José Gutiérrez Solana. |
He was married to the tonadillera and cupletista, Aurora Jaufrett, who performed under the name "". |
Eventually, he became a journalist, beginning as a collaborator at the informal daily journal, , during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, then took a position with the daily "ABC" and its associated magazine, "Blanco y Negro". |
Later, he was a participant in the Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista (JONS), which became the Falange. |
During the Francoist dictatorship, he worked for publications such as ', subsequently becoming the Editor of the dailies, ' from Seville and "", from Tangiers. |
He also held several minor political positions. |
In 1953, he was named the Cronista Oficial de la Villa de Madrid (Official Chronicler of Madrid). |
He was also awarded the Premio Nacional de Periodismo and the . |
Shortly after his death, the street where he had lived for much of his life was renamed for him. |
The Círculo de Bellas Artes placed a commemorative plaque at the corner. |
He was very prolific; producing numerous novels and plays in addition to his journalistic work. |
He also had a fondness for verses and biographies. |
Most of his work is in the Modernismo style and he was deeply involved in one of the most innovative theatrical companies of the time, the , under the direction of Gregorio Martínez Sierra. |
Of particular note was "El sapo enamorado" (The Frog in Love), which preimiered in 1916, with music by Pablo Luna and decorations by . |
His literary works include a collection of 203 very short stories (what would now be called "flash fiction") entitled "Cuentos gnómicos" (Gnomic Tales), which were published in thirteen volumes between 1940 and 1969. |
Sixty-four of the tales were selected for a later edition, published in 2013. |
His radio drama, "Todos los ruidos de aquel día" (All the Noises of that Day), was broadcast on on April 24, 1931, ten days after the proclamation of the Second Republic. |
It is considered to be one of the first radio plays in which sound effects served as a fundamental presence. |
Rogerus Coppyng |
Rogerus Coppyng (fl.1300/1301), was an English Member of Parliament. |
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lewes in 1300/1301. |
Lilin Baba |
Shu’aibu Ahmed Abbas (born 2 January 1992), known professionally as Lilin Baba, is a Nigerian singer, song writer, record executive, film actor and entrepreneur. |
Lilin Baba is best known in Kannywood film industry for the role he played in his debut movie titled "Hauwa Kulu". |
He was nominated at City People Entertainment Awards for 2018 Arewa Most Promising Music Act of the Year. |
He won the 2019 Arewa Best RnB Music Act of the Year at the City People Entertainment Awards. |
3Peace Lovers |
3Peace Lovers (stylized 3Peace☆Lovers) was a Japanese project group formed by Happinet in 2012. |
The group consists of 3 members: actor Yoshihide Sasaki, visual-kei band member Hayato Nikaido, and member Ha Min-woo. |
The group was put together as a crossover between J-pop, visual-kei rock, and K-pop, which each member represents respectively. |
Xie Youfa |
Xie Youfa (; 16 April 1917 - 9 January 1995) was a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA). |
Xie was born in Xingguo County, Jiangxi on April 16, 1917. |
He joined the Communist Youth League of China in January 1932 and joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in the following year. |
In 1934 he took part in the Long March. |
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in Shandong. |
After the founding of the Communist State, he was present at the Second Phase Offensive and Chinese Spring Offensive between 1950 and 1951 during the Korean War. |
In 1955, at the age of 38, he was awarded the military rank of lieutenant general ("zhongjiang") by President Mao Zedong. |
That same year, he became Deputy Director of Organization Division of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department. |
In 1956 he was accepted to the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China. |
After graduation, he was appointed Political Commissar of PLA Military Institute of Engineering and Director of the Political Department of State Infrastructure Commission in 1958. |
In 1966 he was transferred to Shenyang Military Region and appointed Deputy Political Commissar. |
He was Political Commissar of PLA Political College in August 1980, and held that office until 1983, then he was its consultant, serving in the post until he retirement in 1986. |
On January 19, 1995, he died of an illness in Beijing, aged 77. |
He had a son and a daughter. |
2000–01 West Midlands (Regional) League |
The 2000–01 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 101st in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire. |
The Premier Division featured 20 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs: |
Also, Smethwick Rangers changed name to Warley Rangers. |
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Niju Ram |
Niju Ram (died 25 December 2019) was an Indian politician from Himachal Pradesh belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. |
He was a legislator of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly. |
Ram was elected as a legislator of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Rampur in 1977 as a Janata Party candidate. |
Later, he joined Bharatiya Janata Party. |
Ram died on 25 December 2019. |
Márta V. Naszályi |
Márta Váradiné Naszályi, commonly known as Márta V. Naszályi (born 1970), is a Hungarian landscape architect, horticulturist and politician, who has been the Mayor of Budavár (1st district of Budapest) since 2019. |
She is a member of the Dialogue for Hungary (PM). |
Naszályi was born into a middle-class family in 1970 in Budapest. |
She lives in the 1st district since childhood. |
Her father Gábor Naszályi is a former electric engineer and typographer, who was imprisoned for his participation in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. |
Her mother Mária Naszályi (née Bajusz) served as chief notary of the 1st district until her death. |
Naszályi finished her secondary studies at the Franciscan Gymnasium at Szentendre. |
She earned a degree of landscape architect engineer at the University of Horticulture and Food Industry (present-day a faculty within the Szent István University). |
She worked as a landscape architect and project manager for Metropolitan Horticultural Nonprofit Co. Ltd. (Főkert), then for various construction companies since 1993. |
Naszályi joined Politics Can Be Different (LMP) in early 2010. |
Her name appeared in the party's Budapest Regional List, but did not secure a mandate during the 2010 parliamentary election. |
She was elected into the local representative body of Budavár (1st district) during the 2010 local elections. |
She also functioned as professional coordinator for the caucus of LMP in the General Assembly of Budapest. |
When the party's “Dialogue for Hungary” platform decided to split from LMP in February 2013, Naszályi was among the founding members of the new party, Dialogue for Hungary (PM). |
She retained her position in the local representative body of Budavár. |
She was re-elected as representative during the 2014 local elections. |
She worked as an environment councilor within the local government for the next five years. |
She was a member of the presidency of her party from 2016 to 2018. |
Initially, she was a candidate of the MSZP–PM electoral alliance for the position of MP for Budapest Constituency I during the 2018 parliamentary election, but, alongside other opposition politicians, withdrew her candidacy in favor of LMP politician Antal Csárdi. |
She became a member of the General Assembly of Budapest in June 2018, replacing Sándor Székely, who was elected Member of Parliament two months before. |
In accordance with their agreement on 6 April 2019, Naszályi was the joint candidate of opposition parties MSZP, PM, DK and Momentum for the position of mayor of Budavár during the 2019 Hungarian local elections; she defeated incumbent mayor Gábor Tamás Nagy (Fidesz), who administered the district since 1998. |
Norbert Jers |
Norbert Jers (born 1947) is a German musicologist. |
Born in Aachen, Jers completed a practical musical education in piano and choir conducting. |
He then studied musicology, pedagogy and archaeology at the University of Cologne. |
He gained his first professional experience at the WDR and the Arno Volk publishing house in Cologne. |
In addition, he worked as a freelancer in high schools, at the adult education centre and in the record industry and church choir direction. |
From 1980 to 1983 Jers was a lecturer at the Episcopal Academy of the Diocese of Aachen. |
This was followed by a professorship for music pedagogy at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences of North Rhine-Westphalia. |
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