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unusual facts about Roman Catholic Diocese of Hvar-Brač-Vis


Zaccaria Delfino

On May 5, 1553, he was elected as Bishop of Hvar.


130th Airlift Wing

On June 13, 2005, members of the BRAC commission came to Charleston to evaluate the base and talk to General Tackett, Governor Joe Manchin, Senator Robert Byrd, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and Col. Bill Peters, Jr, former commander of the 130th and chair for Keep 'Em Flying.

Acid Survivors Foundation

ASF provides legal support for survivors by referring them to its legal partners including BRAC, Aino Salish Kendro (ASK), the Bangladesh National Women Lawyer’s Association (BNWLA), and the Bangladesh Legal Aid Services and Trust (BLAST).

Andrónico Luksic

Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa (great-grandchild of Bolivian War of the Pacific hero Eduardo Abaroa), and a Croatian immigrant father, Policarpo, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.

Baron von Raschke

Upon retirement, Raschke purchased and managed a bric-a-brac shop called The Wigwam in Lake George, Minnesota.

Blaca

Blaca hermitage, a hermitage on Brač island, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia

Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities

The Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities (Buró de Represión de Actividades Comunistas, or BRAC) was the secret police agency that Fulgencio Batista maintained in the 1950s, which gained a reputation for brutality in its fight against pro-Castro rebels.

Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City

However, its colors were retired soon after on November 15, 1996, and the facility ceased operations concurrent with the closure of NAS Glenview due to BRAC action.

Croatia rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što – baštinski dani

He is also the author of the Wall of Poetry (Zid od versi) at the central square in Selca, onto which plates of the wreathed poets (poetae oliveati) are mounted, with engraved year of the wreathing, name of the poet and a few verses carved into the Bračian marble.

Croatian Bol Ladies Open

Croatian Bol Ladies Open was the annual women's tennis tournament on the WTA Tour, on the Croatian island of Brač, in the small town of Bol.

Donji Humac

Donji Humac is one of the oldest settlements on the Croatian island of Brač, about 2 kilometers from Nerežišća, the previous capital of the island and home of Brač's aristocracy.

Dražen Mužinić

In his 2002 updated edition of Canary Citizens, Mike Davage reported that Mužinić has been running a restaurant in Brač.

Ena Begović

On August 15, 2000, on the island of Brač, a few months after marrying the Croatian businessman Josip Radeljak and a month and a half after giving birth to their daughter, Lana, she was involved (as a passenger) in another traffic accident, a rollover, which claimed her life.

Enzo Bettiza

His mother stemmed from a family of the Croatian isle of Brač.

Fishing and Fishermen's Talk

Ribanje is a pastoral and philosophic narrative poem in three parts in which Hektorović describes in a letter to his cousin, his three-day boat trip from Hvar to Brač and Šolta, accompanied by a pair of Hvar fishermen, Paskoje Debelja and Nikola Zet.

Fort Bliss

When the BRAC commission recommendations were released Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s spokesman reported that El Paso was the only area that came out with a major gain of forces.

Fort Myer

As a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) initiative to create more efficiency of efforts, the Army’s Fort Myer and the Marines’ Henderson Hall became the first Joint Base in the Department of Defense.

Giant Malleefowl

It was described from Plio-Pleistocene deposits at the Darling Downs and Chinchilla in south-east Queensland by Charles De Vis, who erected the genus Progura for it.

Governorate of Dalmatia

After the autumn of 1941 also the Dalmatian islands of Pag (Pago), Brač (Brazza) and Hvar (Lesina), initially given to the Independent State of Croatia, were annexed.

HaMoked

HaMoked also operates an Emergency Human Rights Hotline in order to attempt to offer real time solutions by working vis-a-vis relevant authorities in the field.

Incitrio

Prior to Incitrio, Ms. Hill’s national clients included: Hallmark, Williams-Sonoma, Mars Candy, Energizer, Ford Motor Co., Sun Microsystems, Intel, Maersk: Shipping and Energy, Pacific Gas & Electric, Merrill Lynch and Vis.

Jeff Blackard

Adriatica takes its inspiration from the Croatian fishing village of Supetar on the island of Brač.

Liburnians

In light of this strategy, he established a few Syracusan colonies on the coasts of the Adriatic Sea: Adria at the mouth of Po river and Ancona at the western Adriatic coast, Issa on the outermost island of the central Adriatic archipelago (island of Vis) and others.

Lollobrigida Girls

Lollobrigida girls, also known as VIS Lollobrigida (VIS is a Croatian language acronym for 'band', used often in the 1970s) or Lollobrigida is originally a Croatian, Zagreb–based, female electro-pop/synthpop band.

Marine Aerial Navigator insignia

The Marine Aerial Navigation School was stationed at Mather AFB, until that base was closed under the BRAC, upon which time it was moved to Randolph AFB.

Mario O'Hara

O'Hara, in turn, wrote the screenplay for Brocka's You Were Judged and Found Wanting (Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang, 1974), about life in a small provincial town; in the movie, he also played the role of Bertong Ketongin (Berto the Leper) vis-a-vis Lolita Rodriguez, who played Berto's love interest Koala.

Maritzburg F.C.

First, qualifying for the 1963 promotion play-offs only to miss promotion by a single point vis-a-vis Hellenic, and again in 1966, losing the southern play-off final against Westview Apollon from Port Elizabeth.

Marlene Kratz

Marlene was an elderly lady who owned a bric-a-brac store and was obsessed with Elvis Presley.

MCEM 2 submachine gun

The MCEM-2 was developed by Jerzy Podsedkowski, a Polish constructor involved in work on Vis and Mors, who fled from occupied Poland to Britain.

Microfranchising

Examples of microfranchises include BRAC's community promoters (in health, agriculture, legal services and other areas), Nuru Energy Entrepreneurs (East Africa and India), Village Phone Program by Grameenphone, CFW -The Healthstore Foundation (Kenya), VisionSpring (reading glasses, formerly Scojo Foundation), Drishtee ICT Kiosks (India), Reach India, Living Goods (Uganda), Healthkeepers (Ghana), and Fan Milk Limited (Ghana).

Milna

Milna is a village and municipality on the western side of the island of Brač, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia.

Rafiath Rashid Mithila

She then worked as a Research Assistant for BRAC, before moving to the USA to work as an intern for the Minnesota International Center.

Rehavam Amir

Once back in Bari, in late December, he boarded an Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) that took him to the isle of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler

On September 29, 2012, it was announced by the diocese's website, and by the Holy See - on the Vatican's Holy See Press Office Vatican Information Service (VIS) site – that Monsignor Joseph E. Strickland had been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to serve as the fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Tyler.

Sultans of Sylhet

BRAC Bank is the last organization to have received a commercial banking license from Bangladesh Bank, making it the youngest private commercial bank in Bangladesh.

The 4th Dimension

However, co-directors Tom Mattera and Dave Mazzoni are just as concerned with establishing Jack's reality in the present (in a bric-a-brac stuffed antique shop where he fixes clocks and other contraptions) and the past (where a dazzling single-shot scene dramatizes in capsule form the boy's sad life with his ill mom).

Torbay Express

From 2003, Past-Time Rail revived the Torbay Express as a passenger charter steam locomotive service, to run on certain summer Sundays and some Saturdays, from: Bristol Temple Meads via stops at Weston-Super-Mare and Taunton; to Paignton and onwards vis the Dartmouth Steam Railway to Kingswear.

Trench railways

Former British trench railway equipment was put to civilian use rebuilding Vis-en-Artois between Arras and Cambrai.

Unholy Wars

The book presents a systematic account of U.S. policies and alliances, during the period 1979-89 vis-à-vis the Middle East, the flaws and the lacunae inherent in US handling of the affairs, and their contribution into the emergence of a form of terrorism which continues to affect several regions of the World.

Vav

Vis-à-vis, a French expression, used as an alternative to "re" and meaning "in relation to".

Vis and Rāmin

The story is about Vis, the daughter of Shāhrū and Kāren, the ruling family of Māh (Media) in western Iran, and Ramin (Rāmīn), the brother to Mobed Monikan, the King of Marv in northeastern Iran.

Vis pistol

However, underground production of Vis barrels was started in Warsaw and Kielce-based Huta Ludwików, and several hundred Vis pistols were assembled of parts smuggled from the factory, delivered to the Home Army and used extensively during the Warsaw Uprising, among others.

Visa Information System

The bodies having access to VIS are: Consulates, police authorities from member states and Europol.

West Virginia Air National Guard

On June 13, 2005, members of the BRAC commission came to Charleston to evaluate the base and talk to General Tackett, Governor Joe Manchin, Senator Robert Byrd, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and Col. Bill Peters, Jr., former commander of the 130th and chair for Keep 'Em Flying.


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