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unusual facts about Ippolit Al'tani


Ippolit Al'tani

He conducted the first performance of the 1812 Overture (1882) and the first performances at the Bolshoi Theatre of his operas Mazeppa (1884), The Enchantress (1890), The Queen of Spades (1891) and Iolanta (1893).


Damu language

While Sun (1993) clearly identified Damu as a member of the Tani branch of Tibeto-Burman languages, he noted some difficulties that prevented its precise alignment within either Western Tani or Eastern Tani.

Gunjō no Tani

Gunjou no Tani by alan is a Japanese song written by Cocco specifically for the people of Sichuan after the massive earthquake in 2008.

Ikuta Atsumori

Ikuta Atsumori (生田敦盛), sometimes known simply as Ikuta, is one of many Noh plays derived from the story of Taira no Atsumori, a young Taira clan samurai who was killed in the 1184 battle of Ichi-no-Tani.

Jack Francis Needham

Needham conducted a tour of the "Abor" (Adi) area in the Siang River Valley (modern-day East Siang District in Arunachal Pradesh state) in 1884, which established British relations with a small segment of the Tani hill tribes.

Kikko Matsuoka

The couple have appeared in many Japanese television programs together, including the hit gameshow Takeshi's Castle, where Matsuoka guest starred by encouraging her husband, General Tani, not to give up.

Maria Pekli

Along with Cuba's Driulys González and Japan's Ryoko Tamura-Tani, Pekli became in 2008 the first female judoka to compete at five Olympics.

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

Yoshitsune defeated and killed his rival cousin Minamoto no Yoshinaka at the Battle of Awazu in Ōmi Province in the first month of 1184 and in the next month defeated the Taira at the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani in present day Kobe.

Minyong tribe

Minyong like other Tani group name their offspring with prefix 'Ta' for male and 'Ya' for female, e.g. Tapang for baby boy and Yaman for baby girl although this practice has been changing recently.

Mount Shirakami

After the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani in the 12th century, a legend said that one of a wife of the lost samurai of Heike, lived on the foot of the mountain and a found her husband.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

"Miss Nausicaä", a nickname for Narumi Yasuda, the singer of the film's theme song "Kaze no Tani no Naushika"

Shūkōkai

Sanshin-kan (糸東流三身館空手道), taught since 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Tamas Weber, a student of Tani, and others like Hayashi, Kuniba.

Tangam language

Most Tangam are hill tribespeople, with a material culture that is similar to that of most Tani peoples of the Siang River valley.


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