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6 unusual facts about Nationality


1576 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Anglo-French

Nationality – a person with one English parent and one French parent may be said to be Anglo-French

Meadowcreek High School

Meadowcreek High School is the most diverse secondary institution in the state of Georgia with a student body representing over 90 different nationalities.

Nationality

Spanish law recognises the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Catalonia, Valencia, Galicia and the Basque Country as "nationalities" (nacionalidades).

This meaning of nationality is not defined by political borders or passport ownership and includes nations that lack an independent state (such as the Scots, Welsh, English, Basques, Kurds, Tamils, Hmong, Inuit and Māori).

Umuanigo

Today the new generation of Umuanigo has children born of mix culture, Nationality and race.


Afghanistani

Afghanistani refers to someone possessing the nationality of the country Afghanistan.

Augustinian Recollect Province of Saint Ezequiél Moreno

Today, with more than 400 members scattered all over the archipelago, the Philippines Tertiaries are the second most numerous both in terms of nationality and provincial affinity.

Best Driver ESPY Award

The Best Driver ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Best Auto Racing Driver ESPY Award, has been presented annually since 1993 to the motorsports driver, irrespective of racing series or sort or nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year.

Best MLS Player ESPY Award

The Best MLS Player ESPY Award has been presented annually to the player, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in Major League Soccer in a given calendar year.

Canadian Art Club

The Club, modelled on Whistler's International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, encouraged achievement of individuals and was nationalist in persuading expatriates to exhibit at home, but defined nationality in only the broadest terms.

Carl Cohen

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings on June 23, 2003, Cohen, Gratz, Grutter, and others were among those who invited Ward Connerly to Michigan, where he appeared in a July 8, 2003 speech on the Michigan campus announcing the formation of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), to forbid preference by race or nationality in the state.

Certificate of Loss of Nationality

The Certificate of Loss of Nationality of the United States (CLN) is a form of the Bureau of Consular Affairs of the United States Department of State which is completed by a consular official of the United States documenting renunciation or relinquishment of United States citizenship.

Constantine Paparrigopoulos

He was reappointed as a teacher when he obtained the Greek nationality (as a "Gortynian").

Convention on the Nationality of Married Women

The Conference for the Codification of International Law, held at The Hague in 1930, drew protests from international women's rights groups, yet the League declined to include legislation enforcing married women's nationality rights.

Dan Twardzik

Despite being of Czech origin, Twardzik also claims German nationality.

Daniel Soares Neves

Daniel Baroni Soares Neves (born 3 June 1980 at Minas Gerais, Brazil), simply known as Daniel Baroni, is a Brazilian footballer with Brazilian and Spanish dual nationality.

Dikshit

Avinash Dixit, Indian-American economist originally of Indian nationality

Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann

When the revolution of 1848 broke out, the "father of German nationality," as the provisional government at Milan called him, found himself the centre of universal interest.

Greeks in Syria

Today there is a Greek community of about 4,500 in Syria, most of whom have Syrian nationality and who live mainly in Aleppo, the country's main trading and financial center, and Damascus, the capital.

History of British nationality law

An example of the latter is the granting of English nationality to the Electress Sophia of Hanover, the heir to the throne under the Act of Settlement 1701.

History of the Jews in Slovakia

After World War I and the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, Jews earned the right to declare themselves a separate nationality, and prospered in industry and cultural life, holding more than one-third of all industrial investments.

Hristofor Zhefarovich

In his testament, he explicitly noted that his relatives were "of Bulgarian nationality" ("булгарской нации", bulgarskoy natsii) and from Dojran.

Hugo Markus Ganz

This German newspaper had stationed him in Budapest in the Austro Hungarian Empire in the 1890s for which he had taken on the Austro Hungarian nationality.

Ibra Agbo

Agbo is from Douala in Cameroon and was elegible to play for the Cameroon national football team but chose to play for Equatorial Guinea after a nationality transfer.

James Abegglen

Critics like Eamonn Fingleton argue, however, that he "regarded his principal function as doing public relations on behalf of the Japanese establishment," that he misled Western leaders and the Western public about the openness of Japanese markets, and that he kept his change of nationality secret.

Joan Ryan

From 5 May 2006 to 29 June 2007, Ryan was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for nationality, citizenship and immigration at the Home Office, succeeding Andy Burnham.

Johanneson

Albert Johanneson (born 1940), one of the first high-profile black players, of any nationality, to play top-flight football in England

José María Figueres

His mother, Karen Olsen Beck, born in the United States to Danish immigrants, later adopted Costa Rican nationality.

Kham Magar

Kham are descriptive terms invented by academic linguists and anthropologists for a nationality in the Middle Hills of mid-western Nepal inhabiting highlands extending through eastern Rukum and northern Salyan, Rolpa and Pyuthan Districts in Rapti Zone as well as adjacent parts of Dhaulagiri and Bheri Zones.

Kingsley Kuku

Kingsley Kuku was born in Arogbo, the traditional headquarters of the Ijaw ethnic nationality in Ondo State, Nigeria.

Lalo language

Speakers are officially part of the Yi nationality, and Chinese linguists refer to it as "Western Yi" due to its distribution in western Yunnan.

Luise Brunner

From July 2 to 21, 1948, in the Seventh Ravensbrück Trial, Brunner was tried on charges of mistreatment of inmates of Allied nationality and participation in the selection of inmates for the gas chamber.

Macao Special Administrative Region passport

According to the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China and the Explanations of some questions by the Standing Committee of the PRC National People's Congress concerning the implementation of the Nationality Law in the Macau SAR, any Macau SAR permanent resident holding Chinese nationality can apply for the Macau SAR passport.

Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Awards

The Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Award is awarded to people who have made the most remarkable contribution to the development and the raising awareness of the creativity of haiku regardless of nationality or language.

Matija Šestak

He is married to a Serbian triple jumper, Marija Šestak, who switched her nationality to Slovenian after marriage.

Moni Kumar Subba

In 2007, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court of India that Subba's nationality was in doubt, and that existing citizenship proofs were forged.

Muczne

In 1944 toops of Ukrainian Insurgent Army raided the village and murdered 70 people of Polish nationality in the Muczne massacre.

Oleh Tyahnybok

Tyahnybok wants to introduce a “nationality” section into Ukrainian passport, a visa regime with Russia, and for Ukrainians to pass a Ukrainian language test to work in the civil service.

Primera Divisió

They play in the Spanish league system, because they are registered with the Royal Spanish Football Federation, but the team is mostly composed of players with Andorran nationality.

Prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni

The prisoners were also separated by nationality, as there were special camps reserved for those from Indochina, and the Arabs often became guards.

Rector Major of the Salesians

Between 1888 and 2010 there have been nine successors of Don Bosco, seven of them of Italian nationality, one Argentine and one Mexican.

Riadh Sidaoui

Riadh Sidaoui (رياض الصيداوي) (born in Bou Hajla, 14 May 1967) is a Tunisian writer and political scientist who has a Swiss nationality.

Sahrawi nationality law

In March 2013, Hassan Serghouchni, an old Moroccan political prisoner in the 1980s residing in Oujda, sent a letter to the Sahrawi Republic embassy in Algiers asking for the concession of the Sahrawi nationality, being the first Moroccan to demand it.

Samogitian Party

The Samogitian Party wants Samogitia to become an area where the Samogitian language would have official status and where Samogitians would have the right to declare their ethnic nationality.

Sarah Attar

She has Saudi Arabian and American dual nationality and is currently a student at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles County, California.

Section sign

The section symbol is used in the 2012 computer game XCOM: Enemy Unknown as a nationality-neutral currency symbol.

Timeline of women in mathematics worldwide

1964: Mary Cartwright became the first woman to win the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society of London, which is given every three years since 1901 for the encouragement of mathematical research, without regard to nationality.

Vikingligr Veldi

Despite Enslaved's nationality, the lyrics on this album are mainly in Icelandic, perhaps due to its resemblance to Old Norse.

Vladimir Liberzon

Having transferred nationality, he continued to score well in international competitions, finishing first at Venice 1974, first at Lone Pine 1975, second equal at Netanya 1975, second equal at Reykjavík 1975, first equal at Beer-Sheva 1976, first equal at Netanya 1977, 3rd at Amsterdam 1977, first equal at Lone Pine 1979, and fourth equal at Beer-Sheva 1984.

Womango

The content on the back cover of the book describes it as: "Part poet, part lollipop punk. And all woman. Grace Chia's post-modern, pop culture influenced poetry merges themes of consumption, race, nationality, sexuality with femininity. Helping to fan the flames of her fiery imagination are female figures such as Sylvia Plath, Tori Amos, the late Bonny Hicks, Little Red Riding Hood, Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Mother Nature and Eve."

Wyndham Halswelle

Born in London to London-born, Edinburgh-trained artist Keeley Halswelle and Helen Marianna Elizabeth Gordon, he is nonetheless usually referred to as being Scottish, the nationality of his maternal grandfather, General Nathaniel J. Gordon.


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