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Tomtarnas julnatt, also known as Midnatt råder or Tipp tapp, is a Christmas song with lyrics by Alfred Smedberg (under the pseudonyme "Tippu Tipp"), and music by Vilhelm Sefve-Svensson (under the pseudonym "Vilh. Sefve"). The song was originally published in the children’s magazine Jultomten in 1898, and has then been re-published several times.
Tippu Tip, or Tippu Tib (c. 1832 – June 14, 1905), real name Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī ( Arabic: حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي ), was an Afro-Omani ivory and slave owner and trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner. He ...
Occupation. Singer. Years active. 1998–present. Spouse. Hariini. Children. 2. Ekambaresh Lakshmi Narayanan (born 1 November 1978), better known by his stage name Tippu, is an Indian playback singer who has performed several songs in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, languages.
The Umayyads continued the Muslim conquests, conquering Ifriqiya, Transoxiana, Sind, the Maghreb and Hispania ( al-Andalus ). At its greatest extent, the Umayyad Caliphate covered 11,100,000 km 2 (4,300,000 sq mi), [1] making it one of the largest empires in history in terms of area. The dynasty was toppled by the Abbasids in 750.
Harini (singer) Harini (born 30 April 1979) is an Indian film playback and classical singer born and raised in Chennai. [1] She sings predominantly in Tamil films, besides other language films such as Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. She was first noticed by music director A. R. Rahman at a school competition where she was one among ...
Naturalist. James Sligo Jameson (17 August 1856 – 17 August 1888) was a Scottish naturalist and traveller in Africa. He identified the black honey-buzzard in 1877. Jameson's antpecker, Jameson's firefinch, and Jameson's wattle-eye are named after him. However, he is most remembered for his role in causing a slave girl to be killed and eaten ...
The Sultanate of Utetera [1] (1860–1887), [2] also referred as Tippu Tip's state, [3] was one of the Arab sultanates established in eastern Africa. It was a 19th century short-lived state ruled by the infamous Swahili slave trader Tippu Tip (Hamad al Murjebi) and his son Sefu. The capital of the state was the town of Kasongo, located in ...
Tippu Tip based his source of slaves here. Also, Livingstone had witnessed a massacre of Africans here and did not succeed in getting any further. Nor had Vernon Cameron in 1874. However Stanley reached a contract with Tippu Tip, in which they agreed to accompany each other for "sixty marches-each march of four hours' duration."