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3 unusual facts about Loa


Azaka

Azaka are a family of Loa in Haitian mythology.

Loa

There are many families or "nanchons" (nations) of Loa: Rada (also Radha), Petro (also Pethro, Petwo), Nago, Kongo, and Ghede (also Guede, or Gede) to name but a few.

The Rada loa are generally the older, more beneficent spirits, and are associated with the gods of Africa.


Aegean Yacht

AEGEAN YACHT owns 15.000 m2 of a seaside boatyard and builds steel vessels up to 80m LOA with MCA class, working on a custom line principle to give its clients practically unlimited possibilities in realizing their ideas.

Akuji the Heartless

Upon traveling through the first level of the Underworld and consulting loa Baron Samedi Akuji discovers he has a chance for redemption: if he traverses hell and collects the souls of his ancestors, which the Baron despises for their evil, then he will grant Akuji safe passage out of the underworld.

Battle of Callao

Also, Peru had two locally built ironclads: The Confederate-style casemated ram ironclad Loa and the monitor Victoria, as well as infantry and cavalry.

Bío Bío River

The river is Chile's second-longest river (the longest being Loa River) and Biobío basin is Chile's third largest watershed, after Loa and Baker basins.

Loa loa filariasis

Humans contract this disease through the bite of a Deer fly or Mango fly (Chrysops spp), the vectors for Loa loa.

Loa to Divine Narcissus

This loa is a commentary on historical events involving indigenous Aztec inhabitants and Spanish colonists.

Mama Lola

Ogou: A Nago loa originating from Yoruba Religion as a primordial spirit named Ogun, of whom aided in the search for a suitable habitat for human life as well as defending it.

Nicola Guarino

Nicola Guarino (born Messina, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist and researcher in the area of Formal Ontology for Information Systems, and the head of the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), part of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Trento.

Ola Lindholm

He currently lives in Lidingö outside of Stockholm with his wife Lotta Bäcker and their son Loa Lindholm.

Port of Dahej

As the port is a direct berthing port, there is a restriction with respect to LOA, beam or draft based on the size of berth.

Samedi

Baron Samedi, a major loa (spirit) in the vodun/voodoo mythology

Scream Blacula Scream

After a dying Voodoo queen, Mama Loa, chooses an adopted apprentice, Lisa Fortier (Pam Grier) as her successor, her arrogant son and true heir, Willis, (Richard Lawson) is outraged.

Slack-key guitar

A third significant group is Mauna Loa tunings, in which the highest pair of strings are a fifth apart: Gabby Pahinui often played in C Mauna Loa, CGEGAE.

Spathiphyllum wallisii

A number of cultivars, many of hybrid origin, are commercially available, such as the larger hybrids "Mauna Loa”, named after the Hawaiian volcano, and the even larger “Sensation”, which are both popular indoor plants. "Domino" is a finely variegated variety of intermediate size.

The Divine Horsemen

They took their name from a voodoo term; a worshiper who is possessed by loa during a ceremony is said to be being ridden by The Divine Horsemen.

Thousand Lake Mountain

Thousand Lake Mountain is surrounded by several small towns (Loa, Lyman, Fremont, Bicknell, Teasdale, and Torrey).


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