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"Oriens, the Latin word for "the East", may refer to: * the Praetorian prefecture of Oriens or of the East * the Diocese of Oriens, part of the prefecture * Oriens Christianus, an academic journal * Oriens (butterfly), a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae * The Morning Star "
"José Moura Gonçalves (1914–1995), Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist, biochemist and educator, one of the pioneers of biochemistry in the country. Moura Gonçalves studied medicine in Belo Horizonte. While a student, he began to work as an assistant in the laboratory of physiological chemistry of Professor José Baeta Vianna. After graduation, he accepted an invitation to work on the chemistry of proteins and enzymes at the Instituto de Biofísica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, under noted scientist Carlos Chagas Filho. His post-doctoral work was carried out at University of Wisconsin–Madison, in the United States, where he produced what was his most important work, the isolation of a new toxic protein from the venom of rattlesnakes, which he named crotamine. Returning to Brazil in the first years of the 1950s, he was invited by Dr. Zeferino Vaz to join the new and ambitious project of a research medical school at the hinterland city of Ribeirão Preto, the Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto of the Universidade de São Paulo, where he became the chairman of the department of biochemistry, and, after Vaz's departure, the new dean of the medical school, in 1964. References External links * Interview with José Moura Gonçalves, Canal Ciência, IBICT (in Portuguese) * Leite, FV: O Professor Moura Gonçalves. Revista USP Ribeirão Preto, 2002. * Nóbrega, FG: José Moura Gonçalves. Revista ADUSP, 1998. Category:Brazilian biochemists Category:1914 births Category:1995 deaths Category:Recipients of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil) Category:Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences Category:University of São Paulo faculty Category:People associated with Federal University of Rio de Janeiro "
"Alexander Vasilyev with Splean Alexander Georgievich Vasilyev (; born July 15, 1969) is a singer, songwriter, and frontman of the Russian rock group "Splean". Vasilyev also released one solo album, and sometimes assisted other groups and artists. Life and career Vasilyev was born in Leningrad. His father was an engineer and his mother taught Russian literature. He spent a few years of his childhood in Sierra Leone and Lithuania, where his father was sent on work assignments, before returning to Leningrad in 1980. Two years later, Vasilyev's parents transferred him to a mathematics-oriented school, where his previously outstanding academic performance started to slip and he learnd to play guitar. In the late '80s, while attending the Leningrad Avionics Institute, he met Alexander "Morris" Morozov, who would become Splean's first bass player. The two started recording at Morozov's rudimentary home studio as a band called Mitra. After serving in the Soviet army from 1988 to 1990, where he composed some songs that ended up on the first Splean record, "Dusty Tale," Vasilyev entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theater Arts, Cinema and Music (now the St. Petersburg Theater Arts Academy) to study theater business management. He worked at theaters as a stagehand to make ends meet. Looking back at those years, Vasilyev said he was struggling to find himself and to figure out what he really wanted to do in life. "It was the ordinary flailing around of a young man," he said. "I didn't set out to be a musician." In 1993, Vasilyev met keyboardist Nikolai Rostovsky. Vasilyev, Morozov and Rostovsky formed Splean the following year. The band took its name from an archaic, literary meaning of the word "spleen," with one letter changed when rendered in Latin letters. "In due course, the Beatles changed one letter in the word 'beetle.' As you know, it turned out well," Vasilyev said. "The word 'spleen' is flat. 'Splean' seems to me to be multi- dimensional." Over the years, Splean have experimented with changing musical genres and adjusting their playing styles from album to album. They have also undergone a few slight lineup changes. Their newer albums sound almost nothing like the first ones, an evolution that Vasilyev described as "searching, searching, searching." References * Article by Kirill Galetski for 'The Moscow Times', Published: March 23, 2007 * Link to original article Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Russian rock singers Category:Russian male singers Category:20th-century Russian singers Category:21st-century Russian singers Category:Singers from Saint Petersburg Category:20th-century male singers Category:21st-century male singers "