Mina Shum ( 沈小艾 ; pinyin: Shěn Xiǎoyì ) ( born 1966 in Hong Kong ) is an award-winning independent Canadian filmmaker.

* Interview with Mina Shum: The Director's Question

* Rusty Talk with Mina Shum

It was called Casa da Guiné, Casa da Guiné e Mina from 1482 to 1483 and Casa da Índia e da Guiné in 1499.

Titles of games were translated into Portuguese, sometimes creating a new story, like Pick-axe Pete, that became Didi na Mina Encantada ( Didi in the Enchanted Mine ) referring to the Renato Aragão's comedy character, and was one of the most famous Odyssey games in Brazil.

At Mina, for example, the Texas Ranger unit was divided so that half would protect the civilian evacuation and the remainder would serve as the rear guard and scouts (" spies " they were called ) during the military retreat.

In that year the Portuguese built a fort, São de Mina ( modern day Elmina ), on the Gold Coast, and their king, John II, was permitted by the Pope II or Innocent VIII to style himself Lord of Guinea, a title that survived until the recent extinction of the monarchy.

Eleven years later in 1482, the fortress of São Jorge da Mina in the town of Elmina on the Gold Coast in the Gulf of Guinea was built.

Under John II ( 1481 – 1495 ) the fortress of São Jorge da Mina, the modern Elmina, was founded for the protection of the Guinea trade.

In her biography of Bizet, Mina Curtiss surmises that he either resigned or refused to take up the position as a protest against what he thought was the director's unjustified closing of Ernest Reyer's opera Erostrate after only two performances.

In 1821, a division of Clymer was made to form the new Town of Mina and again in 1829 to form the Town of French Creek.

The Town of Mina was formed in 1824 from a partition of the Town of Clymer.

In 1915, the population of Mina was 1, 021.

In 1973, a French version of the Italian song " Paroles Paroles ", originally performed by Mina, was recorded by Dalida and her close friend Alain Delon.

In John III's time, trade between the Portuguese and Africans was extremely intense in the feitorias like Arguim, Mina, Mombasa, Sofala or Mozambique.

These included the London-Welsh poet and painter David Jones, whose first book, In Parenthesis, was one of the very few experimental poems to come out of World War I, the Scot Hugh MacDiarmid, Mina Loy and Basil Bunting.

In 1986 Frida was in the choir for the recording of her former husband Benny Andersson's song " Klinga Mina Klockor ".

Despite the fact that Djupa andetag was officially only released in Scandinavia and the songs were entirely sung in Swedish, a remix album of the single tracks " Även En Blomma ", " Alla Mina Bästa År " ( a duet with Roxette's Marie Fredriksson ) and " Ögonen " was released in Germany in 1998, entitled Frida-The Mixes.

Denise Mina was unknown in comics when she took over the title in 2006, but had three acclaimed crime novels to her name, the Garnetthill trilogy, the first of which won the CWA award for best debut crime novel.

She was married to actor Vic Morrow – with whom she had two daughters, actress Jennifer Jason Leigh and Carrie Ann Morrow – from 1957 to 1964, and to Iranian television director Reza Badiyi – with whom she had another daughter, actress Mina Badie, from 1968 to 1985.

Charles Edison ( August 3, 1890 – July 31, 1969 ) was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller.

Son of a Mordovian peasant farmer named Mina, he was born on 7 May 1605 in the village of Valmanovo, 90 versts ( 96 km or 60 miles ) from Nizhny Novgorod.

Menas or Mennas or Minas or Mina, a Christian saint was appointed by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as Patriarch of Constantinople in 536.

The town of Sherman was formed in 1924 from a region of the town of Mina.

The film was shot in 19 days on digital video, and co-starred the pair's real-life Hollywood friends including Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Beals, John C. Reilly and Parker Posey and also featured Leigh's sister Mina Badie.

Her first film since she was blacklisted was Mina, viento de libertad ( Mina, Wind of Freedom ).

Lys Assia ( born Rosa Mina Schärer, 3 March 1926, Rupperswil, Aargau, Switzerland ) is a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

Mina Anwar ( born 20 September 1969 in Church, near Accrington, Lancashire, England ) is an English actress.

Mina Loy, born Mina Gertrude Löwry ( December 27, 1882 – September 25, 1966 ), was an artist, poet, playwright, novelist, Futurist, actress, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps, and bohemian.

Mina Loy was born Mina Gertrude Löwry in London, England.

Born as Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago, he was the youngest of four known sons, only two of whom survived to adulthood, born to Marie Émilie Odile Lebeau ( stage name: Mina Gennell ) and Vincent Charles Minnelli.

Bell was born in London, England, the daughter of Mina, a personal assistant and nurse, and Peter Bell, an architect.

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Brees was born in Austin, Texas, the son of Mina ( née Akins ), an attorney, and Eugene Wilson Brees II, a medical malpractice attorney.

Their first child, Mina, was born on April 9, 2008.

Mina, an Italian pop star was born in Busto Arsizio.

Depressed, Mina went to the church to seek for spiritual help, after she went to the Christian orphanage where they were born.

Guido Mina di Sospiro is a novelist and journalist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina but raised in Italy who lives in the United States.

He was born in El Mina, Texas and played in seven NBA All-Star Games.

Shinwari was born in the Haska Mina village of Shinwar in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

He was born in Otao, Navarre, to Juan Mina, a wealthy farmer, and Maria Lerrea.