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2 unusual facts about ‘Akau‘ola


‘Akau‘ola

'Akau'ola, (June 27, 1967 - ) also known as Mapa Faletau, is the current Noble (matāpule, or "working chief") of Taunga in Tonga.

Mapa Faletau is the eldest son of the late Hononorable 'Akau'ola (Inoke Fotu Faletau, 1937-2005) who was appointed the Governor of Vavaʻu in 2002 by His late Majesty King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV after a distinguished career in the civil service, which amongst his many governmental posts, he was the Secretary to the Ministry of Fisheries, the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and the Director of the Commonwealth.


Aleksandr Filimonov

After finishing with the Burevestnik football academy in Yoshkar-Ola, he moved to his first adult football team in summer 1990—FC Stal Cheboksary, from the Soviet Second League B.

Backus–Gilbert method

In mathematics, the Backus–Gilbert method, also known as the optimally localized average (OLA) method is named for its discoverers, geophysicists George E. Backus and James Freeman Gilbert.

Bamse

In October 2006, forty years after Bamse was created, Ola Andréasson, the son of creator Rune Andréasson announced that an animated feature film will be made, featuring better animation, a full voice cast and having a budget of SEK 25 million.

Battle of Tiro

The first Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) unit was a small guerilla force that started out with twenty men (later grew exponentially) and operated in the mountains around the city of Gelemso.

Beck-Ola

The cover features a reproduction of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte's The Listening Room.

Bethesda, Gwynedd

Bethesda is the birthplace of Welsh novelist and poet Caradog Prichard, author of Un Nos Ola' Leuad, and of the singer Leila Megane.

Biffen

Biffen och Bananen (the Beef and the Banana), a comic strip by Rit-Ola, originally published in Folket i Bild, 1936–1978

Blue Obelisk

Among those who received a Blue Obelisk Award are Christoph Steinbeck (2006), Geoff Hutchinson (2006), Bob Hanson (2006), Egon Willighagen (2007), Jean-Claude Bradley (2007), Ola Spjuth (2007), Noel O'Boyle (2010), Rajarshi Guha (2010), Cameron Neylon (2010), Alex Wade (2010), Nina Jeliazkova (2010), Henry Rzepa (2011), Dan Zaharevitz (2011), and Marcus Hanwell (2011).

Brampton Excelsiors

Brampton Excelsiors Jr. A, a box lacrosse team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who compete in the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League

Choc-Ola

In the late 1970s, Pete Rose was arguably one of the most renowned sports figure of his era.

Darci Brahma

Sent to trainer Mark Walker of Te Akau Racing Stables near Matamata for his early education, Darci Brahma quickly established a reputation as a potential star in the making winning his first race (January 2005) on debut, following that up with a strong win in the Listed Ford Fairview Slipper Stakes at Matamata in February and then running 2nd to Mi Jubilee in the Group One Ellerslie Sires Produce Stakes at Ellerslie in March.

E-Bay Queen

In addition, the track "Όλα Γυρίζουν" (phonetic translation: "Ola Gyrizoun") is a partial cover of "October Love Song" by Chris & Cosey - it retains the music, but has new Greek lyrics written by Marsheaux.

Fort Mitchell National Cemetery

In 1831, a group of white settlers invaded the Indian community of Ola Ufalal (now Eufaula), evicted the Creeks, burned their houses, and built their own settlement.

J. Neaul Haynes

Bishop James Neaul Haynes (1932–present), the sixth child of the late Bishop F. L. Haynes and Mrs. Ola Mae Haynes, was born in Denton, Texas.

Janus Djurhuus

Djurhuus' parents were Óla Jákup Djurhuus (1832–1909) and Else Marie née Poulsen, from Hósvík (1847–1897).

Joël-François Durand

BBC Symphony Orchestra - London Sinfonietta - Gareth Hulse (oboe) - Paul Silverthorne (viola) - Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ)

Johan Bobäck

His latest songs as a writer and producer would be "I´m in love" and "One day" with Ola.

KARV

KARV-FM, a radio station (101.3 FM) licensed to Ola, Arkansas, United States

Kobzarska Sich

Previous camps have featured such prominent instructors as: Hryhory Kytasty, Julian Kytasty, Oleh Mahlay, Taras Lazurkevych, Oleh Sozansky, Ola Herasymenko, Alexis Kochan, Bohdan and Halyna Heryavenko, Halyna Kvitka-Kondratsky and others.

La Ola Walzer

"La Ola Walzer" (Trans: The Wave Waltzer) is a song performed and recorded by Austrian artist DJ Ötzi.

Miguel Mateos

Outside of Argentina, he is considered one of the most important exponents of Rock en Español, specially in the 1980s when he along with Charly Garcia, Soda Stereo, Enanitos Verdes, Virus, Sumo, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Rata Blanca, and many more bands became international stars in the so-called "Argentine Invasion" ("La Ola Argentina") of rock music that swept Latin America and parts of North America and Europe.

North Carolina judicial elections, 2014

North Carolina Superior Court Judge Ola Lewis is also an announced candidate for the seat.

Ola Cohn

In 2002 the Centre for Adult Education considered selling Ola's studio to raise money for new buildings.

Ola Hanson

Ola Hanson (born June 25, 1864 in Åhus, Sweden - died October 17, 1927) was a Swedish-American missionary who worked for the Kachin people in Burma.

Ola Kimrin

Ola Fredrik Andreas Kimrin (born February 29, 1972 in Malmö, Sweden) is a former American football placekicker who most recently played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League.

Ola Nilsson

From day one of his spell at HIF, he was a first team regular and in 1992, when the club was re-promoted to Allsvenskan after 24 years in lower divisions, Ola Nilsson formed the backbone of the team together with other HIF stars, such as Mats Magnusson and Henrik Larsson.

Ola Obarska

In the late 1930s, Ola Obarska left Poland to perform in Vienna and Berlin.

Ola Salo

Salo and the other members of the band had an international breakthrough in 2000 with the album We Are The Ark, containing the signature song "It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane" (for which Ola won a Grammis for "Song of the Year"), a song Salo wrote after watching the Danish film Idioterne (The Idiots).

Ola Sto Fos

Ola Sto Fos (Everything Brought to Light) is an album by popular Greek artist Eleftheria Arvanitaki that was released in 2004.

Philip Mitchell

Born in Manchester, England he is an established author with BBC Radio Drama and was a question-setter on the UK game show Bacha Hi O'Ma! (the Welsh equivalent of Blind Date) but is perhaps best known for his acclaimed translation of Caradog Prichard's Welsh language novel Un Nos Ola Leuad, as One Moonlit Night (ISBN 0-8112-1342-0).

QB-3

QB-3 is a color vector arcade game from Rock-Ola that was produced in 1982.

Rock-Ola

Rock-Ola became a prime contractor for production of the M1 carbine for the US Military during World War II.

Rock-Ola machined receivers, barrels, bolts, firing pins, extractors, triggers, trigger housings, sears, operating slides, gas cylinders, and recoil plates.

During the 1920s, Rockola was linked with Chicago organized crime and escaped a jail sentence by turning State's Evidence.

Roy Kurban

Roy Kurban began martial arts training in 1965, studying Karate under Allen Steen, Larry Caster, Skipper Mullins, Jerry Wiseman, Phillip Ola, and Dennis Dorris.

Slaughter Joe

In 2003, he put out Zé Do Caixão which is a compilation of his past work on Rev-Ola featuring Dave Musker (ex-Television Personalities and The Jasmine Minks), Tony Barber (ex-Buzzcocks) and Francis Sweeney (from The June Brides).

Supo Shasore

Olasupo Shasore, Senior Advocate of Nigeria Commercial Dispute and Litigation Partner at Ajumogobia & Okeke ; has served as Attorney General& Commissioner for Justice Lagos State he was appointed in 2007 when Governor Fashola announced his cabinet in July 2007 .

Talofa

Another Samoan salutation To life, live long! properly translated Ia ola! also echoes in places such as Aotearoa (New Zealand), where the formal greeting in Māori is Kia ora and in Tahiti (French Polynesia) where it is 'Ia orana.

The Listening Room

The 1958 reproduction of the painting was used for the album cover of Beck-Ola by The Jeff Beck Group.

Ubetoo

Operational partners by StagePool and Ubetoo include Kristofer Arwin (Pricerunner) and Ola Lauritzson (GI Viktkoll) but also Björn Ulvaeus and Joop van den Ende.

Un Nos Ola Leuad

Un Nos Ola Leuad (One Moonlit Night) is the only novel written by Welsh writer Caradog Prichard.

Under the Crescent

The story is biographical; it was based on the real life of its lead actress, Ola Humphrey, who in 1911 married Egyptian Prince Ibrahim Hassan, cousin of the Khedive.

Warren Schatz

In 1965 the Swedish garage pop group Ola & the Janglers recorded a Warren Schatz composition, Tomorrow's On Your Side, only available on two EPs, GEP-66 (Ola & the Janglers EP) and JSEP-5547 (various artists EP) in Sweden.


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