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Russell Wong (Chinese: 王盛德; Jyutping: Wong4 Sing6 Dak1) is an American actor and martial artist best known for his roles in various films and television series. Born in New York, Wong attended Santa Monica City College while training to become a dancer. With the desire of becoming an actor, he moved to Hong Kong in 1983, where he learned ...
It was among the most popular names for newborn girls in Germany from the 1920s to the 1950s. [2] Ulla, Ursel, and Uschi are German short forms of the name. Ursula is a villain in the 1989 Disney animated film The Little Mermaid and its 2023 live-action remake The Little Mermaid. [3] [4] Other forms of the name include: Orsolya in Hungarian
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Ursule is conspicuously virtuous, and Balzac was acutely aware of the difficulty of presenting a virtuous heroine in a novel. “Goodness has just one form, evil has a thousand”, he believed: [2] “to be able to portray many virgins, you need to be like Raphael” [3] He hoped that Ursule Mirouët would win the annual Prix Montyon for the book which had rendered the greatest service to ...
On October 25, 1910, Wong was born as Wong Gen Yeo, in Toisan, Kwangtung, China.Wong's father was "Ben" Sy Po Wong (1871-1935). Wong's mother was Lee See. [1]On December 30, 1919, Wong and his father boarded the ship S.S. China and sailed to California, U.S. [2] In 1920, when he was nine years old, Wong and his father immigrated to the United States, and never again came into contact with his ...
Wong is the Jyutping, Yale and Hong Kong romanization of the Chinese surnames Huang (traditional Chinese: 黃; simplified Chinese: 黄) and Wang (Chinese: 王), two ubiquitous Chinese surnames; Wang (Chinese: 汪), another common Chinese surname; and a host of other rare Chinese surnames, including Heng (traditional Chinese: 橫; simplified Chinese: 横), Hong (Chinese: 弘), Hong (traditional ...
Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie (20 February 1808 – 24 November 1838) was a French Catholic missionary priest and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society. He is a Catholic saint , canonized in 1988 along with other Vietnamese Martyrs .