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1630s in South Africa

1631 - The Khoikhoi leader Autsumao, is taken to Batavia and is later returned to the Cape to serve as an interpreter.

Adventure International

The games were written using an in-house adventure creator with text compression and a sophisticated command interpreter running on a BBC Micro and a graphics tool running on an Apricot F1.

An Lushan

It was said that An Lushan knew six non-Han Chinese languages, and, after he grew older, served as an interpreter in one of the military markets, which were set up by the Chinese government largely to obtain horses in exchange for silk through foreign trade.

An Wang

The Wang 2200 was one of the first desktop computers with a large CRT display and ran a fast hardwired BASIC interpreter.

Apuckshunubbee

The Choctaw delegation also included Talking Warrior, Red Fort, Nittahkachee, Col. Robert Cole and David Folsom, both Choctaw of mixed-race; Captain Daniel McCurtain, and Major John Pitchlynn, the U.S. Interpreter.

Arcadio Huang

He settled permanently in Paris as a "Chinese interpreter to the Sun King" and began working under the guidance and protection of abbot Jean-Paul Bignon.

Beerbohm

Elisabeth Jungmann, Lady Beerbohm (1894–1958), interpreter and the secretary, literary executor

Cecil Meares

Cecil Henry Meares (1877–1937) was the chief dog handler and Russian interpreter on the Terra Nova Expedition, the British expedition to Antarctica that took place from 1910 to 1913.

Charles Christopher Trowbridge

With this experience, and his knowledge of the Cherokee language, Trowbridge was appointed assistant secretary in the local Indian department, and soon after was also made interpreter.

Chittick

William Chittick, leading translator and interpreter of classical Islamic philosophical and mystical texts

Command prompt

Command Prompt, or cmd.exe, the command line interpreter in Windows and OS/2 operating systems

Cromemco Bytesaver

Cromemco also offered a 3K Control Basic interpreter, developed by Li-Chen Wang.

Dario Buccino

His musical activity ranges over a wide variety of fields: beside his research as experimental composer and performer, Buccino also works for the cinema and the theatre as a composer, interpreter, musical consultant, as a rock, pop and jazz composer, arranger and guitarist, and as a singer-songwriter, busker and music journalist.

David Bunnell

Bunnell was in Triumph of the Nerds, a 1996 documentary, commenting Paul Allen demonstrating their BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 and how it was significant.

Denshawai Incident

On 13 June 1906 five officers of the occupying British army, with their interpreter and a police official, visited Denshawai (AR: دنشواي) to go pigeon shooting.

Flying Hawk

Flying Hawk appealed to his interpreter to make it clear that the treaty with Napoleon was broken at the time that his country was purchased, and that the whites had, from the beginning of relations with their tribe, ignored and wholly repudiated their first and principle obligation toward the Sioux.

Folk Songs of the Hills

A seminal work in his career, it brought him fame as an interpreter of traditional American folk music, as a brilliant finger-style guitarist, and as a folk-inspired composer whose songs "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Sixteen Tons", included in all editions of this album, have become classics of folk, country and popular music.

Geoffrey Kwame Tomtania

Through his efforts, they organized two mass evangelisms in the major cities of Lome, and Kara; and became Bonnke’s interpreter before the late president of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.

Invasion of Iraq prisoner escapes

December 28, a failed escape attempt at Adala Base by sixteen prisoners left four prisoners, four guards and an interpreter dead, after the prisoners stormed the military prison's armoury and one prisoner got a hold of an AK-47 rifle and began shooting.

Iron Tail

Bee Ho Gray, the famous Wild West performer, accompanied Chief Iron Tail to act as an interpreter and guide to Washington D.C. and New York where Iron Tail modeled for sculptor James Earle Fraser as he worked on designs for the new Buffalo nickel.

Ivan Vedar

He studied in a college in Malta, where he picked up many languages, he worked as a sailor on an English ship, travelling between London and Melbourne, he was an interpreter in Turkish institutions in Tsarigrad, he taught languages in İzmir to the sons of Turkish notables (including Midhat Pasha).

James Thomas Molesworth

In the year 1818, while Molesworth was stationed in Solapur along with his fellow interpreter Thomas Candy, the two started compiling a glossary of Marathi words.

Jonathan M. Weiss

In the mid 1960s Weiss worked as an interpreter for the United States State Department during which time he interpreted for, among others, Martin Luther King, Jr. for francophone African dignitaries.

Kenitra Air Base

Although imprisoned, Craw's interpreter, Major Pierpont Hamilton, a descendant of Alexander Hamilton, negotiated the French surrender during Operation Torch and the airport was eventually secured for the Allied forces.

Kim Hoon

It stars Yesung of boy band Super Junior as villain "Jung Myung-soo", a servant-turned-interpreter.

Kim Soo-young

He was eventually released to the Geojedo Island Prisoner-of-War Camp in 1952, where worked as an interpreter for the director of the hospital, and for the U.S 8th Army.

Kuzma's mother

Viktor Sukhodrev (Виктор Суходрев), a personal interpreter of Khrushchev and later Alexei Kosygin, in his interview says that Khrushchev first used this expression in public when addressing Richard Nixon in 1959, who was attending the opening of the American National Exhibition in Sokolniki Park exposition centre, Moscow.

Marius Barbeau

Beginning in December of that year, Barbeau carried out three months' fieldwork in Lax Kw'alaams (Port Simpson), British Columbia, the largest Tsimshian village in Canada, in collaboration with his interpreter, William Beynon, a Tsimshian hereditary chief.

Maxim Mikhailov

In addition to Susanin, Mikhailov was a renowned interpreter of other bass and basso profundo roles in Russian opera: Pimen in Boris Godunov, the miller in Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka, Khan Konchak in Prince Igor, the Viking merchant in Sadko, Gremin in Eugene Onegin.

MBASIC

MBASIC is also the name of a commercial BASIC compiler for the Microchip Technology PIC microcontroller family developed by Basic Micro, Inc., unrelated to the CP/M interpreter.

Meche Marchand

She lived in Orlando, Florida where she worked as a Court Interpreter, Hebrew teacher and recording talent for several studios.

Mount Lolo

Mount Lolo is named for Jean Baptiste Lolo, also known as Chief Lolo or Chief St. Paul, an Iroquois-French Canadian Métis who served in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company as an interpreter and right-hand man to Chief Trader John Tod at Fort Fraser and Fort Kamloops.

Nataliya Dmytruk

She was a barely known sign language interpreter at the Ukrainian state-run channel UT1 but became instantly famous during the live news broadcast on November 24, 2004, when she refused to translate the official script that announced Viktor Yanukovych as the winner of the presidential election.

Pat Hoed

Asesino - Corridos de Muerte (2002) - Narrator/Interpreter of Brujeria newspiece video (computer-expanded bonus feature)

Paul Dilascia

In the 1980s he worked for Infocom as a programmer, first on a Zork interpreter for the Commodore 64, and later on the ill-fated Cornerstone database product.

Pavel Palazhchenko

After becoming a long-time associate and aide to Mikhail Gorbachev for several years, Palazhchenko eventually became the head of the International Department of the International Non-governmental Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (or The Gorbachev Foundation), where he also functioned as an analyst, spokesperson, interpreter and translator.

Pictish language

Bede states that Columba, a Gael, used an interpreter during his mission to the Picts.

Rachael Scdoris

On March 5 she started the 2005 Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska, with "visual interpreter" Paul Ellering, who warned her of trail conditions by radio or shouting.

Rasul Makasharipov

In 1997 his father expelled him from the house and he moved to Chechnya, where he became an Avar interpreter of Arab warlord Khattab and the rogue Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev during their abortive Invasion of Dagestan in 1999.

Robert Darr

A U.S. citizen and resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Darr is a translator and interpreter of classic Islamic mystical texts.

Robert McGill Loughridge

The books prepared and published by Loughridge, with the assistance of his interpreter, were a hymn book, a catechism, translation of the Gospel of Matthew, a treatise on baptism, and a dictionary in two parts, Creek and English, and English and Creek.

Tenshō embassy

They were accompanied by two servants, their tutor and interpreter Diego de Mesquita, and their mentor Valignano, who only accompanied them as far as Goa in Portuguese India, where he was to take up new responsibilities.

Thanadelthur

At this time, James Knight, a director of the Hudson's Bay Company, was seeking a native interpreter to help convince the Cree to allow other northern Indians to reach bay side trading posts in order to trade furs with his company.

The Enclave

While working as an interpreter at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Ibro is confronted with Darko Bokan, who Ibro thinks is the man who murdered his family during the fall of Srebrenica.

Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America

Common spoof interpreter strips include English, Klingon, Brooklyneese and Southern Drawl, and spoof epaulets include a red, white and blue one for Eagle Scouts and a tiger paw for Tiger Cubs.

Vilhelm Herold

Herold was a prominent interpreter of Pedro in Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland during the years following its premiere, with the composer himself pronouncing him as ideal in the role.

William Whittingham

He went to France, where he spent his time chiefly at the University of Orleans, but he also visited Lyon and studied at Paris, where his services as interpreter were used by the English ambassador, Sir John Mason or Sir William Pickering.

With Kitchener in the Soudan, A Story of Atbara and Omdurman

Gregory obtains a position as interpreter in the expedition under Lord Kitchener which is advancing into the Soudan to attack the Dervish forces.

Yu Dafu

Later he was forced to help the Japanese military police as an interpreter when it was discovered that he was one of the few "locals" in the area who could speak Japanese.

Yurin

Olexiy Yurin (born 1982), Ukrainian poet, pedagogue, and interpreter


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