honour the French naturalist and collector Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour who had brought Vieillot's specimen to France. Three subspecies are recognised:...

civilization during Majapahit's downfall. The book Suma Oriental by Tomé Pires written in 1515 records that Java (Majapahit) ruled as far as the Moluccas on the...

of Java and of the Adjacent Isles: Taken under the immediate Inspection & Direction of Lieutenant Colonel Colin Mackenzie in the course of a Tour & of...

include the Oriental pied hornbill, the double-banded courser, the black-collared starling and the black-headed munia. After three years in Java Jean-Baptiste...

entered the film industry, working as a distributor for Oriental Film and assistant director for Java Industrial Film. He returned to the theatre during the...

Oriental later merged into the Dutch-owned Multi Film and ceased producing works of fiction. Suska left the company and joined The Teng Chun's Java Industrial...

The Bewitched Tour (known as Bewitched: The Goddess Tour for the 2024 dates) was the second concert tour by Icelandic musician Laufey. In September 2023...

new harbour kingdoms formed on the northern coast of Java. Tomé Pires, author of the Suma Oriental, writing not long after 1511, stresses the obscure ethnic...

local, tour took place in 1981. Mistakenly nicknamed "Rapid.Eye.Movement.Tour.1981" by the band's manager at the time, Jefferson Holt, the tour was arranged...

Blossom Time in Japan (1936) Oriental Paradise (1936) Picturesque South Africa (1937) India on Parade (1937) Glimpses of Java and Ceylon (1937) Colorful...

de Manila University Press, 1994, page 194. Pires, Tomé; Rodrigues, Francisco; Cortesão, Armando (1978). A suma oriental de Tomé Pires e o livro de Francisco...

Indonesian island of Java. It is the only coastal city of West Java, located about 40 km west of the provincial border with Central Java, approximately 297 km...

stands in the foremost rank of the old Oriental travellers. In Arabia and in the Indian archipelago east of Java he is (for Europe and Christendom) a real...

Flight 009, a Boeing 747-200, flies through a cloud of volcanic ash south of Java; all engines fail in flight, forcing the plane to glide; the crew is able...

projects in Java. Between 200,000 and 500,000 were sent away from Java to the outer islands, and as far as Burma and Siam. Of those taken off Java, not more...

led by trusted António de Abreu with deputy commander Francisco Serrão. Malay sailors were recruited to guide them through Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands...

pp. 40–46. Jimmy Dunn, "Khasekhem/Khasekhemwy of Egypt's 2nd Dynasty", Tour Egypt Finegan, Jack (2019). Archaeological History Of The Ancient Middle...

Baroque Organ from the 18th century, it is the oldest church in Central Java, Indonesia. Christ Church Melaka, built in 1753 as a Dutch Reformed church...

free-form center combinations. St. Denis then took over with instruction in Oriental and yoga techniques. Author and former Denishawn pupil Jane Sherman recalls...

killed and dozens more injured after a tour bus carrying factory workers to a beach holiday crashed on Indonesia's Java island "Indian Canadian community mourns...

site for $44 million. Trump International Hotel & Tower Lido Lake, West Java, Indonesia. Trump Hotels will be involved with the 700-hectare Lido Lake...

(Portuguese: Guerra de Independência de Angola; 1961–1974), known as the Armed Struggle of National Liberation (Portuguese: Luta Armada de Libertação Nacional)...

enclave surrounded by West Java and Java Sea until 2000, when the neighbouring Banten became a new province. Bandung city in West Java was an enclave surrounded...

(Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertação), and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War...

1927, Tagore and two companions began a four-month tour of Southeast Asia. They visited Bali, Java, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Penang, Siam, and Singapore...

first sailed for 21 days to a place called "Mul Jawa" (island of Java or Majapahit Java) which was a center of a Hindu empire. The empire spanned 2 months...

Following Germany's Sinking of the SS Automedon in 1940, London: Brill/Global Oriental, ISBN 978-1-905246-28-1. Stille, Mark E. (2011), Tora! Tora! Tora!: Pearl...

reign learning and observing. Chulalongkorn visited Singapore and Dutch Java in 1871 and British India in 1872 where he learned about Western colonial...

churches in the country. Javanese architecture reminiscent of Borobudur of Java can also be seen on the church walls and façade. The most striking feature...

service, and the army reported that half of them remained after their first tour. This is conceivable, despite the absence of statistics, because the troops...